September 17, 2008 - Letter
Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 4:13 AM
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
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
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