From: Thomas Michael Brown
Date: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 1:32 PM
Subject: HOLA

HOLA FAMILIA!
Well Trey finally got there? Thats awesome! CONGRATULATIONS KT AND WILL its gonna be fun haha. So yah people told me i was crazy too mom when i told them i was happy that the states lost. I was all for them till i saw that we would play Uruguay and it all changed. Its crazy here in Uruguay with the World Cup. Its been so long since they got this far and its such a small country that everything just shuts down on the game days. No one goes to work or school and after the games everyone goes crazy. If they win all day people are driving around yelling and honking their horns. So about the temple mom… no i wont get to go to any converts. There are a few that will be going but the mission here now doesnt go to the temple with converts. Dont know why but its a new rule with President DaSilva because he wants us more focused in our Areas now than in past converts and areas which is good but it is kinda a bummer too.

Well the work is going great here. We had Chola’s baptism on Saturday and it went great. She was just sooo happy. We had it with the other ward in our chapel and they had 2 primary kids get baptised. Elder Cuevas and I were the witnesses and i felt so bad cuz one of the kids had to get baptized like 3 times cuz the Hermano wouldnt dunk him far enough. But it all came out good in the end. So Laura and her brother Adolfo are doing great. Dont know if ive told you bout them but they have baptismal dates for the 17th of July. They are just doing amazing. Laura is trying to get in to knitt with the Relief Society on a big project they are doing and is really excited about it.

So a cool little experience… We did splits with Enzo, got baptized 2 weeks ago, and Bryan, Chola’s nephew who was inactive for years, and it went great! My comp went with Bryan to some lessons and I went with Enzo to…. well go talk with the people haha. Enzo is a recent convert and hes already ready to leave on a mission. Him and Bryan and both 15 and Enzo just blew me away. Bryan was with my comp but he told me he did great too. Enzo was so excited to just talk to people about the gospel. We started and I went and knocked a door and told Enzo we wanna share the gospel and when I turned around he had ran into the middle of the street and started talking to a lady in the middle of the street trying to get the direction to her house and he didnt really know what to say after so i ran to go help him in the middle of the road and i start talking to the lady and out of nowhere the guy from the house answers the door and Enzo runs over to him and starts sharing his testimony with him and I was just sooo amazed with the excitement he had to share the gospel. He is so awesome.

It was kinda a bummer on Sunday because Elder Baker who lives with us got sick so after church I had to stay with him all day and Elder Cuevas went out with Enzo all day. I really wanted to go out with Enzo again but…i had to stay in. It seems like it would be cool cuz its like a day off…. but its not. It was horrible and I just wanted to leave the whole time and just go work. I realized how much the work really means to me and how much Im gonna miss it. Just gotta live it to the most right now but really it was a big eye opener….

But yah its been going really well. Oh we had another lesson with Ana and Juan and they are just amazing! We shared the Book of Mormon with Juan and they both said that they feel that its true just from the little that we read from it. Ana has been reading for awhile but it was the first time for Juan and he already knows its true. They couldnt go to church cuz of sick kids but I called them and they wanted to go soooo bad and are reading and were Ana said that Juan has been talking about the lesson we had with them on the Book of Mormon since the day we left. We have another lesson with them tomorrow which im really excited about.

Well thats about it for here. There is alot going on but not enough time to write it all. I wanna send some pics but the computer isnt working and dont know why. Hope you liked the pics from last week. Love you all!

Con Amor.
Elder Brown