The Final Strect

The Final Strect
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Good Job!!

Ok, here we go about what is going on down here in chiguayante. :) I got here and they told me that I am going to be getting this sector going again. BUT, what they didnt tell me until last night well pres himself when I went to his house is that I am going to be opening this sector up and be training at the same time.!!! haha so yeah I get a new missionary. Straight from the mtc. Pretty cool right?! So yeah I am going to be a dad and my dad is going to have a son! WOOT WOOT! I called Pulver to tell him that his son is going to have a son so he is going to be a grandpa and he was like are you freaking kidding me that is so cool! It was really good to talk to him. I still dont know who my comp is going to be. I will find out tomorrow sometime. But yeah that is the low down on what is going on with me. I am going to be a father. haha so this week was really tough. Mostly because my comp was really really trunky and just didnt wanna be completely obedient. haha He just was kinda relaxing. I whipped him into shape though haha it was really fun. I got to know my sector and the members really well this week. I hope that I am going to be ready for my kid when he comes tomorrow. Oh that is IF he comes tomorrow. I dont know when he is going to get here because of all of this ash that is everywhere. I am not kidding last night we couldnt really see anything. It was like a really thick fog. It was nuts. This ash from that volcano has gone all the way around the world and now it is back here in conce. The good thing is that it is really high in  the air. It is not so bad today, but last night it was nuts. It destroyed my contacts I had in haha. Good thing I have more!!! WOOT! Oh and I still havent gotten that package. haha So yeah I am a little sad about that but hopefully next monday! I will be warm then eh!? ;)  But you are going to hate me but I have to go right now. I got to go back to chiguayante with a missionary who is dying and wants to see some people. I love you all so very much and just know that everything is going great I am super excited! I am glad to hear about your trip and all of that jazz. It makes me really happy. So I will try to get on later and write you again and a little better because I want to tell you about this new training program that we are doing and that is really cool and going to help these next coming missionaries alot. :) I am sorry that this is so short if I dont get on I am really sorry I will write really good next week. I love you mom! I know that this is especially tough for you, it is just hard right now with all of these changes and what not I am going at a million miles an hour haha sorry I will have alot more time next week and write you a good letter. You too dad! I LOVE YOU BOTH!!! Send my love to the family! Talk to you soon bye!

Love,
Elder Brown

Big Change!

So wanna know something that was pretty much the craziest thing that has happened to me so far on the mission!? Well on thursday night we are getting all of the numbers together and also we are finishing up our planning for the next day. Well all of a sudden we get a call, and as a joke I always say ¨Zone Leaders¨ haha because they used to call us all of the time. Well Elder Demann went over to answer it looked at the name and as he looked at it his face went white. He looked at me and was like, ¨Its the president¨. I was like what the crap?! What did we do now??? haha Well he answers it and starts talking to president and gets through about a minute of small talk when(oh and I am close listening to everything by the way) he says, ¨Elder, I am moving your comp.¨ Well big surprise to freaking me! I was like what the crap!?!?!?!? It was an emergency transfer. I dont know why the heck he chose me to go, but I had to get all of my stuff ready and leave on saturday. It was thursday night. haha So that next day we worked half of the day and the said good bye the other half. haha Oh and saturday, I waited untill we finished with the baptism that we had and then after that I went to my new sector called. Chiguayante. It is a really good sector. The ward I am in is like a ward in the states. It is presidents favorite ward. It is really nice. haha They are really strong and do not depend on  the missionaries to do all of the work. It was nuts the first real day here was on sunday. It rained all day! Crappy. When I got to the church the ward mission leader came up to me and was like elder brown listen. The image of the missionaries is a very big deal here. Everyone is watching you so you need to go up to each one of the main counselors and leaders and greet them by name and introduce yourself. It was interesting because he walked me to each of them giving commentary of who they were and the low down on them the whole way over. It was alot to take in at once. The reason I am here is because the missionaries who were here before all got sick and they had to go home early. Or they are ending their missions. Like the comp I have now, Elder Thomas ends his mission next tuesday. haha so I am here this week early mainly to learn the area so when I get my new comp I know what I am doing, I know the members and the bishop and we can just get right to work. Yeah it is going to be really interesting haha I was really shocked that president sent me here. I figure that there are 2 reasons that are or could logically be correct. 1, He really trusts me and knows that I can have success here and so he is putting me here to get things going again. Or 2, He knows that this ward is so good that he can put crappy missionaries here and they will not kill it. haha So he put me here as a last result because he had no where else to put me. haha I hope that it is option 1. So yeah right now I am killing a missionary. That means that I am his last comp and then I will be pretty much be opening a sector again. Because before the missionaries didnt really work because they had all been really sick. 4 Missionaries will have ended their missions here in the past 6 weeks next week haha. Crazy huh. So yeah that is how things are going here. As you can see I am writing really late. This is because we went to chillan. It is about 2 hours away from where we live. At least. So we were there saying goodbye to all of elder Thomas´ converts. haha Yeah we got back and sprinted to write pres before 6:00. Now we are just getting time to write you guys. My comp is really trunky. It is funny because I am having to animate him to do things. well that is all the time I have for this week sorry so short and crappy. Enjoy your trip! :) I LOVE YOU ALL!! Oh and I dont need to talk to pres about the zone leaders anymore because they are not my zone leaders anymore hahaha oh that is just to bad... ;( haha Thanks for everything. Love.

Love,
Elder Brown