Well how is life? Sounds like you are all having lots of fun. It's cool that you are staying in touch with my friends. That was cool to get an email from them. (Some of Brady's friends were at the house while I was sending Brady an email so I let them add to it-obviously he liked that.) I was wondering when you guys would be going to Lake Powell, that's way cool that you had nice weather for it. Did you get seasick from being on the buoy? I hope not if you did I'm sure you would have told me.

Well the rain has begun let me tell you this rain is ridicules! You walk out into it and I might as well have jumped into a pool. The roads turn into massive rivers with fast moving cars. Anywhere you go with stairs out side you walk through mini waterfalls. The wind blows the rain sideways so you hold the umbrella in front of you instead of above your head. But the really stupid thing is these will only last about 20 minutes then the sun comes out and it gets too hot so you want to take your coats off but you can't cuz in 10 minutes it will rain again. People in cars love to soak missionaries with puddles; we are their favorite targets of all time.

Well I have been out one move (transfer) now pretty crazy huh. I'm still stationed in Bangor and I'm still with Elder Headington. Which is very good cuz Elder Headington is awesome. We get along very well. Well because its moves (transfer time) we lost our dear district leader he is going back home to Salt Lake City. His name was Elder Powell. Our new district leader is me, crazy huh! Just kidding no Elder Headington is the new district leader. So I'm jr. assistant district leader. I get all the perks of being the district leader without all the responsibility. I'm very excited about it.

Because it was Elder Powell's last day we went to China China to eat. China China is an all you can eat Chinese buffet. It was really good and we ate a lot, I'm sure the owners could not wait for us to leave because we ate out the place. Elder Headington got really sick afterwards because he went back so many times to get food. It was bad just let me tell you.

Matt Call wrote me a letter so that was really cool we all are going to stay in touch with each other through letters, at least that's the plan. But hey we will see. It sounds like he is doing well. I know he is having more success then we are but that's because Ireland is one of the toughest missions in the church. Found out that one while here.

Our pday has now changed to Wednesday so expect emails now on Wednesday.

Well I have run out of stuff to say, love you all and miss you much. I'm hoping to be able to send some pictures soon we will see how much time we have today in Belfast.

Love, Elder Brady

Whats Up, Ferame-

Well, I have now been out one month. Pretty crazy huh? I'm still stationed in Bangor, so, you don't need to move the pin for my blog. Time seems to be moving really fast; some days move really fast and others really slow. I'm sure you feel the same way with school and life in busy New Jersey. Mission life is getting easier, the only time its hard is when we have nothing to do…which luckily, is not to often.

We were out street contacting the other day, and we spoke to this lady from Russia. She could not speak English (or she pretended not to be able to). Right then I was really wishing I could speak some Russian. After I left her, it made me think about you while you where out on your mission. Thanks for being a good example, and going on a mission. It helps to follow after someone’s footsteps.

So Amy is going to Florida huh? That’s a famous place for the people here to go on vacation. I think I have talked to at least 20 people who are going to Florida from Bangor.

Well the rain has been similar here as it has been in New York, off and on, but it just soaks you here. All the streets turn into rivers, and the stairs turn into waterfalls. It’s not fun. I talk more about it in my letter to Mom. You will have to get it from her.

Well, my time is up on the comp. Love you Jer
Brady

Well hello family,

Well it sounds like you are doing well. Life here is pretty crazy. This past week was a pretty slow week. We did not have very many appointments so we had to do a lot of finding. I will be flat out honest I don't like to tract very much, and that's just about all we did. I'm good at tracting but I don't like to do it. Here in Bangor everyone has heard of or has a copy of the Book of Mormon and said they had a witness that it's not true. Whatever! Oh well I know its true and I know tracting is the most effective way to find people so I plug along and do it. Elder Headington likes to tract and has made a personal goal that by the time he leaves Bangor area he will have knocked on every door. And as of right now he is not very far from it. He has knocked 2/3 of our area, which is a lot of doors!

This week we had some cool stuff happen. There is a big fair going on; it's just like Summer Fest back home. This happens every year and they have these really old ships come over and you can have a tour on them. But they are only here on Saturday and Sunday. We had to work so I could not go on them. They are the old pirate type so masts and things run them its cool. It was really weird one of them had a really big tri color flag on it I was surprised that it did not get burnt down or something. The tri color flag is the orange white and green flag. In Northern Ireland because its a different country its an Ulster flag, if you want to see it look it up online. It's white with a red cross, red hand, a crown and a Jewish star. It looks really cool I have one that I bought, its way big.

Well mom I have bought a few things with my card so you will have to look at it and do the stuff you do. Thanks you are the best!!

There are a few things I would love for you to send me if you can:
-An American flag; this one is important we all fly our home colors in the flat
-If you can I would like my black skater shoes but only if you can
-One more long sleeve shirt for pday I use these in the morning cuz its cold
-A picture of Cody and Dusty I don't have any good ones of them
-More candy skittles, starbursts, and Swedish fish.
-And anything you feel I could use

Daddy happy fathers day and happy birthday, to be honest I'm not sure which day is your birthday but I know it's soon. I have a card that I have sent you but it's going to be late cuz I only sent it a few days ago. It takes about a week to receive anything. You are the best dad ever. Since I have been out here I have seen some really sad things with dads. The average dad here goes and gets wasted with his buddies. I'm very blessed to have you who help and teach me what to do. Thank you for raising me up to know the gospel and always being such a good example for all of us. I miss you but I know what I'm doing out here will bless you and the family. And it will bless the people here.

Well I love you all- you make me proud. I'm so happy that all is going well back home. Keep up the good work. Tell Deana its okay to email me tell her I might not be able to write too much back but I will do my best. Tell Alli congrats from me that's awesome to hear.

Love Boo Boo

Well hello how are you all doing? Life here is busy like always. Lets see what to talk about. Well my talk on Sunday went really well, they gave me a subject so I had to write my own talk. It was on Matthew 11:28 and the theme for the meeting was "Concern for the One," Joseph B Wirthlin's talk from conference. It went well like I said, but the worst part was I didn't find out my subject until two days before I gave it. The bishopric here is not as organized as back home. I wrote down all the things I wanted to say, some stories and got up and let the spirit say what it wanted me to say. It must have gone really well because everyone said I did really well and people were taking notes and all that stuff. And I cried, I'm such a baby! But I started off my talk by saying "I have a confession to make, this will be the first talk I have ever written without my moms help, so if it goes really bad I blame the fact I could not pack my mom in my suit case," they laughed pretty good at that, but not as much as the home crowd back home would have. Home court advantage is something I'm missing, but its alright, they are really nice to me and tease and joke with me here all the time. The Napires love us to death and take really good care of us. Bishop Bowen always asks if we are being fed on Sunday, and if not he will feed us.

All right mom my mission is two different countries right now. I'm in Great Britain and the people are very proud of that fact so up here no Gaelic; that is only in the south and Gaelic is kind of like cursive writing back home, they learn it in school but never use it. Once they are out of school they forget it. Also there is no English accent to catch on to, just the Irish which changes from the north to the south and from city to city. Where I serve in Bangor the accent is different from someone who lives in Belfast, which is deeper, louder, faster, and harder to understand. Right now I'm so use to the accent in Bangor that I can't really describe how it sounds, it's just Irish.

That's so awesome that Dusty got the job. I have been praying for him to get it. He wrote me an email telling me about it. Tell him congrats from me and he rocks. I'm still praying for him every night I know he will do awesome.

So is Cody loving working? I never loved working but I had fun. Once he starts to hate it tell him he just needs to have fun with it. Make a game of it and find ways to be able to laugh. While I have been here I always find a way to leave laughing especially after I'm being told I'm from the devil, to draw them away from the Lord. That's always a funny one.

My High School is being destroyed! That's so sad; try to get me a brick from it. That's my school I miss it.

All right so here is the run down with packages; you send them and I only get them when the president comes up north; he will bring them with him, so I have only got the one package from you, but they forward all mail to my apartment.

My first companion's first name was Matthew Edward Cochrin. He was from Southport England. He was born in Liverpool but he moved to Southport. He is a cool guy I wish I could get hold of him some how, but I don't know any of that stuff.

How is your audit going I pray for you every night that it will all go well.

I love you tons and miss you. I think about you everyday. Say hi to the family

Love Brady

Well Hello Family and Mom because I know she will be the first one to look at this. I now have 6 letters from you all. I got you letter from last week with your explanation of it on the top. I want to make it known to everyone I hate ldsmail.com I really think they should abandon it because its so lame. Well this was not the best week for us. We did have a few exciting things happen. We have a new investigator and that is very cool it's a single lady named Jillian, we taught her the first lesson and that went well. We have an appointment set up with her to come back; hopefully all goes well. Then we had fast Sunday, we fasted for an area to go tracking, and have some success in. We went to a cul-de-sac and got two potential investigators, which is awesome. Other then that we had a lot of appointments that fell through, so we did a lot of walking around.

Lets see the weather here has been fantastic I have only had one day of rain and believe me when it rain's here it rains. But really the weather has been too hot here and uncomfortable because of the humidity. I'm so glad I don't lifeguard in humidity. I have a very funny tan line where my collar goes and where my short sleeves end.

Funny story of the week: all right here it is we where up in area called Belmont, closer to Belfast, but is in our area. We walk by a group of girls who all say hi and you could tell wanted to stop and talk to us. But right then we where to wired about a lady who was just baptized and moved into our area and we could not get a hold of her to make sure the appointment was still on, so we really didn't care about the girls. We get to the corner of the road and we stopped to call Sister Tracey. (She is a member in the stake who really just knows everything. I don't know what it is, but she is the center of gossip/everything. I honestly believe she knows more about the stake then the stake president.) So Elder Headington is on the phone and I can hear these girls talking about us and giggling, and saying all sorts of girl talk. Well we walk off and we return to Belmont to finish tracking the area we started the day before. We see Zeek, a boy in our ward from South Africa. He is a white African; we stop and talk to him and his friend. I got talking to the friend because he is not a member and that's what I'm trained to do. We get done talking to them and those girls come back and walk right over to us and are trying to flirt with us. Zeek and his friend come over and tell them to leave us alone. (One of the girls is the friend's older sister) We finish up talking to them real quick and leave. On Sunday Zeek came over to me and said you know those girls you where talking to on Friday, I said yeah and he said well they fancy you. I just laughed and said thanks for telling me bud and gave him some candy, that I keep on me, and told him not to eat it till he breaks his fast.

Well the comp just told me I'm low on time, sorry I wanted to make this a much better letter. Love you all and will talk to you later.

Love Brady