Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 11:36 AM
Subject: BUCEO

Hola Fam!
Well its been an amazing week this week. We had the baptism of Laura on Saturday and it went awesome. It was in the morning cuz of her work so we had to go to the church at 5 in the morning to fill the font. We got there and well…. turned out we had no gas at the church so the water was freezing cold…. oops. I joked around with her all week that it would be cold and well turned out that it was and she wanted to kill me haha. But it went amazing and really was a great experience. Laura is a 30 year old widow with 2 little kids and the gospel has helped her so much. She is just so happy! So this week we have 2 more baptisms and 3 in the ward but one is of the other 2 missionaries in our ward.

The ward is just flying and its just amazing the miracles were seeing here. Me and my comp actually are leading the mission with lessons with member is what the assistants have said which has made us pretty excited but really its just the amazing members we got here. We can use them in anything and thats really what helps the work. Its so different than being in the campo. Its kinda like its easy but hard at same time. Its completely different. Its alot easier to get stuff planned out and stuff and people are really intelligent and all but man we are running around a ton… ITS AWESOME!

So interesting experience this morning that Elder Cuevas and I had….. We went out to do some contacts and talk with some people and a drunk man walked up to us with a split open head and started yelling at us in front of populated streets in our Area. I was not too happy but we just took it and i could just feel me getting angrier and then the guy took my comps plaque… this did not make me happier and i could just feel myself boiling as i talked to him and then he grabbed my plaque…. ewwww even worse…. All we said was Sir please give those back and just tried to be nice to him but he continued calling us bad things and yelling and then took our plaques to the middle of the street and with a lighter tried to burn them…. drunk people i dont think realize that plastic doesnt burn like that haha. He realized it wasnt working and started to walk off with our plaques so we started to follow him. We followed him for awhile and then i just got this feeling that we shouldnt go on and my comp i could see had the same thing hit him. We went a different way and the guy was booking it down the streets with our plaques but we just left him. Now I look back at it and am grateful for that feeling. I have no idea what would have happened if we hadnt followed the spirit and followed this guy. He went into a rough part of our area and very well coulda had friends waiting for us and i had my camera and had just taking all my money out of the atm for the month and coulda lost all that or even been hurt or maybe i woulda caught him and i dont know what i woulda done with him and might not be here now…. all for a plaque. I just wished i had not gotten angry at first and been able to listen to the spirit earlier instead of wasting time walking and following this drunk down the streets. Was interesting though haha. I learn something like that everyday here in the mission…. its incredible.

Well i dont know much to say about the schooling stuff cuz i dont remember my account info and i dont know whats going on with all of that stuff. Ive talked to a few people about rooming and stuff but nothing for sure yet. Talked with Elder Smith…. Drew… the other day. He was on an intercambio with the assistants in my house so we talked a little bit about it and i talked to others a little to but i dont know still. Heres a pic though from when Elder Smith came over and thats on our balcony. Theres also the photos from the baptism. I dont really need anything here mom in the package but thanks. Just know that all is going good here and I miss you and Love you ALL!!!
Con Amor
Elder Brown