Date: Monday, May 24, 2010 12:05 PM
Subject: WHAT A WEEK!
HOLA FAM!
Well its been a great week and very busy as your week has been too. Its just been crazy with everything and well alot with this new guy Alfredo that we found last Saturday. So we went back on Tuesday and well… He had read all of Moroni, 1st and 2nd Nephi and 8 chapters in the principles of the gospel book. Just a chosen man to teach. He loves to read and said that normally when he reads he can feel his brain like working and can feel it in his head…. well with the Book of Mormon he felt that except it moved from his head to his heart and he just knew it must be important. So we put a Baptismal date with him for June 5. Well we went back to him on Thursday and well hes just flying. We left him with a pamphlet of the second lesson to read and he did…. then saw that it had a study thing at the back so he started doing the study stuff and was reading in Alma 40 where he saw in a verse that it had a little a so he went to the bottom and saw that same a which said too go to the GEE of the scriptures which in spanish means to go to the back index thing so he wanted to know where that was so he just flipped through the Book of Mormon and found the “El Guia de Estudio de las Escrituras” and just figured that was GEE and he was right. So he started reading back there and just read and got to a point that he was reading in physical death and he had a weird feeling that was like it was litterally trying to stop him from reading and he had to like fight with it when he came upon the scripture of Alma 36:18 randomly and its when Alma is having his like struggle with his sins and he just started doing what Alma did and just asked for help and he got it…. was weird he said but he just knew that something was trying to keep him from this important thing in his life. He then said something that i really will never forget that Ive heard before but when he said it it just stuck he said “this is a book like non other and it must be important”. Its so true the Book of Mormon is so important in our lives and sometimes i think we dont really realize it. But yah we went on Saturday again with the Familia Barrios and well Alfredo basically taught them. It was interesting and we went over the faith, repentance, baptism, holy ghost, and endure to the end and it was going good and we got to baptism and i asked him what he thought baptism was and well he started about how what he had read was that in 3 Nephi 11 we need someone with authority and that they need to say the baptismal prayer and then he recited it perfectly in his own words and was like thats how i need to be baptized…. So we were like uhhh… yah and so he wanted to get baptized the next day but we decided we were gonna stick with his baptismal date of the 5 of June and hes just so prepared. Then Sunday came around and the van that passes out by his house cuz he lives far away got here and they all got out…. and Alfredo wasnt there… oh man my heart just dropped. I couldnt believe it cuz we had just had this amazing lesson the day before and then this…. he didnt come to church…. so we decide to go call him after about 30 mins and as we go to call we see a guy walking up with a camping backpack (he lives in a really crazy neighborhood in like a fort so he takes all his important stuff with him) and a torn up suit and of course its good old Alfredo. He missed the van so he grabbed his backpack and started the like 45 min walk to the church and got there a little late but was happy as ever. He is just awesome.
We also have this family of Mabel and Agustina who are doing great but Mabel is still recooperating from her surgery so they havent been able to go to church yet but in like a week she should be good. Agustina is reading and praying a ton and is just awesome. Then the other family of Lilian and her grandkids whos mom passed away a few months ago… well we got in contact with them again. Its been hard to talk to Lilian cuz she is always running with the kids but we are teaching english classes and the two little ones go. Well we went and picked them up on Friday and they miss their mom a ton and its been tough and they just need the gospel so much and we got back after the english classes with them and Lilian was just so grateful for all the church does for them and we asked to come by the next day for sure and she said she needed it and so we went back again with our bishops wife Karla who teaches the English classes… shes awesome… but she went and it was just an awesome lesson with them. It went really well and she was able to talk to Lilian about the family and just was AWESOME…. A good week.
Oh and Ines is doing good. She went to church yesterday and loves it but its hard for her with her kids not being members and always pulling her to different things. She has a testimony but its hard for her…. but we never told her it would be easy… but she knows its right.
Just an awesome week. Today we went to “El Aguila”. We were gonna go with a few other comps but it rained so noone went and we decided we were gonna go anyways so we went and had a blast. It was way fun and we just kinda chilled out there. Its a pretty cool looking thing. Thats what these pictures are at with the big eagle head.
Well that was this week. And yes mom i got the card and ties and loved it all. Thanks a ton! Im still trying to find something to do with the beanies.
LOVE YOU ALL A TON!!
Con amor.
Elder Brown
