Dude I'm so sorry

I never realized I never wrote you back. Well, let me tell you whats up. Right not I'm in an area called Ballyfermont and its one of the most run down areas you can have in the mission. My greeny’s name is Elder Johnson he is from Kaysville, Utah, and went to Davis High. He is super athletic and way cool. We get along really well, plus, he wants to work really hard which is good. Sometimes I feel myself being dragged along by him. He is what we call a forever finder.

My district is an all American district, which is super cool and does not happen to often. In the last four years it’s only happened three times. In the mission it’s about half British Isle’s and half American, and half of those Americans are from Utah. Of course, then you have the random Canadians.

Well this week I really don't have any cool stories just because we have not been able to work as much since I am opening an area. I have no investigators and I don't have a flat (or a place to stay) right now. I take a half hour bus drive to my area, and then have to figure out what buses take me to the area I want. Then I have to walk around from there. But once I go back home (to Utah) and go to New Jersey to see you I will be able to find my way around, because I have learned here in Dublin how to do that kind of stuff (trains, buses, you name it I've done it...except boats because they don't allow those).

But that’s enough; my area is really cool though. I have these few places in my area, and each one was about the size of my last area in Bangor. I get to travel through them all. The buses I have found are a good way to figure out your area and to talk to people. When my companion and I have to split up on the bus, I talk to whomever I'm sitting next to. But if we are together I pull out the map and study out the area in my heed (that’s head in Scottish which there are a few here), but it has been good fun here. Well I need to email mom now. Love you Jer and tell Ames ‘hi’ for me, and give Ozzy a big kiss. I will see you in a few years

Love Boo

Well hello Mommy and Papa

Well I'm glad to hear you had such a good time at Lake Powell but I would not count that as camping that is just staying at a hotel. Hotel Christensen's yeah that's the name of it. But it still sounds like a lot of fun. I would have to say the wave runner thing sounds nice. But then I would not be able to get my amazing beaner skin.

Well I'm sure you are dying to hear about the changes. My area is called Ballyfermont. Which is part of the Clondalkin ward so when Jer looks for my area just put the pin in Clondalkin or Dublin. My area is a lot of really run down places and can be dangerous so if you are going to pray for me please pray for our safety. But don't be scared it's not that bad just so long as I stick to the rules and be smart. Like I said my area is close to Dublin which makes it really busy also it's about 3-4 Bangor's big. This means buses. Let me tell you I use a lot of buses and trains and everything. No boats because we are not allowed and also there are none.

My greenies name is Elder Johnson; he is from Kaysville Utah not too far away. He went to Davis High and is really athletic. He is a super cool guy and I really like him. We get along really well. He is a super hard worker and I find myself getting dragged around by him. He just wants to talk to everyone. The only problem he has is he is still awkward when he speaks, which he will get over soon. A good story is we were walking in a park and a runner was coming our way, he turned and ran with him told him about Joseph Smith and prophets then gave him a card it was brilliant, I was so shocked with what was happening I got left in the dust of them.

Right now I'm homeless looking for a place to live. Right now we live with Elders but we need a place to stay in our own area this has been a problem for us right now but hopefully will get sorted soon. I say more about it in Jers email get him to send his to you and send this to him. But that is the crack with me (in Dublin crack means anything you want it to be, I can't really explain it).

I love you much and wish you could see me now

Love Brady

Well Hello Family

This has been a wonderful week full of good stories and good times. Last week was a tough one like I said but don't you think for a minute I let that get me down. You know how I am! Honestly what happened last week I had just come back from an exchange with the zone leaders and it was stressful and my mind was so confused so I could not write a decent letter.

Well to start off the week we had church on Sunday and we had the new Newtownards people there. They were not too happy about being in our ward and a few people have decided to go less active because of it. Super lame if you ask me. But they came and at the end of church they all seemed to enjoy it and were talking so that was super good. Then we had a dinner appointment with our stake president, President Nobal (super cool nice guy love him to death even if he scares me a bit). At the dinner he had a family reunion with all his kids and grand kids, which is about 1/4 of the ward. Wow was that busy, the oldest grandchild just turned 8 last week talk about crazy. I think there were about 30 of them but I could not count them all because they would not stop moving long enough for me to count them.

Then we taught two lessons one with William and Colleen who are getting married in the church on the 26th I'm super excited for them. They have a little baby named Luise who is at church each week and they are now active in the church so that's way cool. We then had a lesson with Thomas who is a member but on the verge of being less active. His wife, who is from the Philippines, attends church. She served a mission in the Philippines and works in the nursery and loves it so much she is really cute with the kids.

On Monday we had exchanges again with Elder Barber and his greenie Elder Elis. This time I was in Bangor two area with Elder Barber, way fun exchange we walked around a lot because unfortunately two appointments fell through but we had some good stuff come out of it; we set up two more appointments for a later date. And then we talked a lot about moves and what we think would happen. The next day Elder Bruce and I had two appointment first was with Mary Booth who is an old lady we have to teach her very simply because she cannot understand everything we teach, but it was a good lesson and she understood it, then we raced off to teach Elizabeth. We got in touch with her again and she is doing great we taught her the third lesson an amazing lesson soo good. We got to the bottom of her concerns and resolved a lot of them told her to pray and read her scriptures and that it will help her loads.

Then we really raced home this time to get our moves call here is the big news. I'm moving; I am moving to Clondalkin a city near Dublin. So now I will be in Ireland. So you think that's good but wait there is more (I feel like a sales person) I'm going to be opening that area which means missionaries have not been there for a long time and nobody knows the area. But wait there is still more I will be training a new missionary yes that's right I have gone trainer. And I am not lying about any of it. So basically I'm starting fresh, a new area with a brand new missionary. Way freaky! So be praying for me! Because I'm really going to need it.

By the way I get my new mission credit card today so finally I will not have to use my personal funds luckily I get to reimburse myself so the next while I will not have to use my personal funds.

Well I love you tons and hope all is going well. I can't wait to get mail again from my friends they all stopped writing. So if you see them rebuke them from me.

Much love from me

Brady

Hello family

Well here is your answers mom. Yes I wear my retainers. Yes I brush and floss my teeth. I floss two or three times a day. I brush after each meal, and whenever my breath goes rank. My towel is never on the ground I make my bed every day otherwise it's cold when I get in it. I clip my finger nail all the time. My eczema got worse so I called Sister Creer, she got me medicine. My finger nail has gotten a little better but it still has problems. My skin is clearer. My feet are gross with dead skin from walking all over and blisters but athlete foot wise it's still their so my feet are in bad shape but I put my eczema stuff on it and it helps it. But over all I'm in good health and better off than a lot of missionaries.

This week has been a tougher week but still good. We have not been able to get hold of some of our investigators. So sorry this week this letter will not be as fun to read as the last one. One good thing is I have had many answers to prayers we had a day with really bad weather that night I asked for the weather to be better and it worked that day we had sun even though it was supposed to be even worse than the day before. In the morning I have had troubles staying awake during my studies so I have been praying to help me stay awake and it worked I stay awake during my studies now. I have been praying for your audit to end soon and it did so now it's all better. See prayer works

The big news about Bangor is the stake president decided to change the ward boundaries in a few of the places mainly to dissolve some of the small branches that have been struggling and they did that in our area. There was a branch called Newtownards in our area or district they dissolved it and split it in two gave one area to Bangor 1 (which is my area/ward) and the other half went to Bangor 2 (which is not my area/ward) it's been really hard on the people of Newtownards some people when they heard got up and left the meeting. The thing I'm worried about is their travel on Sundays the public transportation is really bad and does not match up with the ward times. And the Newtownards people will now have to travel 15-30 minutes depending how far down the peninsula they live. Also some of them do not have cars so that means they will have to car pool/ some of our members in Bangor will have to travel and pick them up. All I know is it's not going to be easy going around here for the next while.

With the ward changes comes rumors/new ideas and one of them which has some truth behind it because the idea was brought up by president is the elders in Newtownards will be taken out and Bangor might get a car which means I could possibly have to drive which would be scary but cool at the same time. We will see though it's just an idea still being formed.

I'm sorry this is a lame letter it's been a hard week and I just got back with exchanges with the zone leaders an hour ago and I still don't have my bearings right with my area so my head is all wreaked.

A cool thing that happened I told you that I work at a charity shop on Mondays and sometimes on Fridays I believe. If not well I do for service. But we were working and we had a substitute manger this day and she was from Dublin and she had the coolest accent ever I hope if I come home with an accent it's that one because it was way fun. It's funny because all the things she said were way cool and funny. Example instead of saying what's up you say in Dublin what's the crack. You just use crack for weird things it's their favorite word down there.

Anyways sorry this is lame and I will try to make up for it next time.

Much Love Brady

Hello

This has been a very exciting week with lots of stuff happening. To start off we have gotten two new investigators which are way sweet. Our first one is a man by the name of Joe Talmney. We taught him and he was super prepared to the fact that he was asking questions that would lead into the next part of the lesson. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he is excited to read it and he is going to get it on the computer. It's awesome. Also with Joe when we got there he had sandwiches and juice and all this waiting for us. So he was excited for it all, way way cool experience.

The next one is a lady by the name of Sarah. Sarah was a lady that Elder Headington found while I was serving with him, but he found him on an exchange. We had been trying to set up an appointment with her for a long time but she always had something going on. We thought she was always dodging us. Well Elder Bruce sets up an appointment with her and we got to teach her and that went really well, she also had been really prepared. Come to find out she had been worked on by the Bowens our bishops family and it payed off because she wants to know some more and she says she is going to do everything read, pray, the whole shebang.

It's raining a lot lately, but luckily not to hard, harder then back home but light for here. The really nice thing is the wind has not been blowing it sideways. I don't know if you remember but in the movie Braveheart there is a part where William Wallace is riding a horse in the rain, it shows what the rain is like here, but ours is colder because we get it first and then it moves to Scotland.

Well here is some exciting stuff that happened yesterday; my credit card for my mission got eaten because the machine powered off while I was using it. We go in to the shop and try to figure out what's going on and they tell us we are the third person that had happened to, so because the people were too stupid to put up an out of order sign the first time, my card was eaten. So sorry mom but I have to buy groceries today with my personal funds.

And one last crazy thing that happened on Monday was the Jehovah witnesses blitzed our area. Another wards about 20 of their missionaries tracted all the houses by our flat which is going to slow down the work right close by us. Not only that they tracted our door and we caught them in the act and told them nobody was in that house and they said how do we know and we told them because that's the house we live in. They said oh, then we talked for a while, they were nice but obviously still not too interested in what we do. Oh well I guess I won't be baptizing any J dogs any time soon.

I'm doing well, the work is getting a lot more rewarding now that we have a large teaching pool. I love to teach it's what makes all the walking in the cold rain worth it. I love you all dearly and miss you. Tell Dusty and Cody thanks for their emails and I will try to get to them next time. This time I didn't have enough time because I had so many emails to read. But love you all

Brady Boo Who

Well hello family

Life here in the emerald Isle is wet but all good. We don't have too much going on which is too bad but we are still working hard. Basically all that has been going on is we do a lot of walking around and talking to people. Elizabeth has been kind of dodging us but we will keep persisting and trying to talk to her. This last week she said she would come to church and didn't. Also she hardly ever answers the phone and when they do it's her daughter and her daughter usually says she can't come to the phone. Which is too bad but we keep praying about it and keep trying. Apparently the MacTaggertes did the same thing when they were being taught so I think of them when she dodges us.

But on the good news of people we have been teaching. A less active in our ward William Close and his fiancée Colleen (Cole-lean) (that is an Irish name) have been coming out to church and we are going to see them tonight. The problem is we have to be very careful with how we teach them because they are a bit scared of the church. Basically the reason William went less active was because as a kid he was bullied at church, so to him church is just a place of bad memories so they have been to church twice now. It's really good because no other missionary has been able to get this far with them, so keep them in your prayers.

Well today for pday we are going to the Bangor fair again because it's the last day open and we are going to go have fun. Half of the elders have not been yet and some have not been on a rollercoaster close to a year, I'm excited it's really fun. (Now if I can only approve a swim trip.) I will life guard and then Elder Furlong can life guard me while I swim. I think it's a very fair deal.

Well I have become somewhat of a legend in the Newtownards branch and it's really unfair. I think I said last week that the girls there find me very hot stuff. Well now when I go on exchanges there they just use me to get dinner appointments. All I can say if I was to move there I would be getting dinner every night. Elder Byrne's calls me his man whore, I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing usually a whore is a bad thing but I am helping out their area. So I think when president comes up for interviews I'm going to ask if I can serve in Newtownards.

Well anyways I'm out of stuff to say love you all

Brady Boo