Hello family and friends!
Thanks again for all the birthday wishes! They mean a lot :)
Well, this week was amazing! So many great things happened and so many great things are happening in this mission! Our zone is the highest baptising and doing confirmations in the whole mission right now! Let's just say two of those baptisms and confirmations were ours Saturday night! We have an older lady in our ward who joined the church four years ago, her granddaughters came to live with her and my comp, Sister Bianchini has been working with them for the past few weeks! Their names are Khoriah and Kamrenea! They are 13 and 10 years old and they were just so excited to be baptized and confirmed, they have such sweet, simple testimonies.
We watched conference this weekend mostly at the church, but we did watch it at a less actives house with a non member and a recent convert, it was seriously a miracle! They all really enjoyed it and we are hoping to go back and teach the non member! It is amazing to me how appointments will cancel throughout the day, but we always manage to end up finding someone to teach a lesson! The Lord is so merciful and always gives us the blessing of a lesson almost every day!
We are working with a lot of less active families that we are trying to reactivate, we also are working with a lot of part member families and the non members are our investigators right now. They are such solid investigators, they are really striving to learn for themselves! Honestly, member missionary work is SO IMPORTANT! That is how people are truly converted!
I truly did love conference this weekend, it was super inspiring! I loved Elder Oaks talk and President Monson's about his, I just cried through the whole thing. We get fed like four times a week here in Victoria and seriously the ward members have been so kind and welcoming to me! I feel right at home and I have only been here for two weeks! We eat seriously delicious meals and it is going to be a problem... good thing Sister Bianchini and I are running every morning for our work outs! Also, it is super hot here! I cannot believe that it's October and like 90 degrees out! North Dakota is the complete opposite and everyone is always shocked when they hear where I am from. I do absolutely love the weather though because it is so nice!
I did cut my hair to just about my shoulders :) Long hair is just too hard to deal with when you are in the heat all the time! Let's see here are some neat experiences from this last week! We were asked to teach seminary Wednesday morning on 2 Nephi 4:17 which was awesome! Reading Nephi's thoughts about himself as a servant of the Lord really touched my heart. We were able to find two new investigators last week, when we went to teach other investigators and instead found random family members at their house! We were able to teach the Restoration to both of them and they invited us to come back! We went to a lady's house last night out in the country and she seriously had 50 kittens running around her front yard, I guess that's common?
We were also totally doged this week. We went to teach a lesson with an investigator and she drove away right as we pulled up! We went to the door, her daughter answered, and then we saw our investigator drive pass us five times for the next twenty minutes while we started to teach her daughter. It was kind of unfortunate that she was wanting us to leave, but it was super funny once we got into the car!
This week, Elder Golden, of the Seventy is coming to speak to us at a huge mission conference! I am super excited to hear him speak to us and to get special training, it will be AMAZING! Also, this week we got a call from our district leader and he told us that we ARE OPENING THE CHAPELS! We are one of fifty missions in the US to be starting this and we had two days to come up with a plan for the classes and activities that would be available to the public! We are so EXCITED! This is an amazing way to get people into the gospel and to find out who is truly interested! They will be presenting out plan to the Stake President and other Bishops this week, pray that all goes well!
I love you all and thanks again for all of your support :)
Love, Sister Brotherson
ps. no word on the visa yet!
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