January 28, 2009 - Letter
Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 6:48 PM
So this is the second email I have written you because the computer logged me off just as I was seriously sending it. But hello family
Well it's so cool to hear how the swim team is doing. I seriously love hearing about it and miss the water very much. In fact it's really funny because President Creer seems to think I'm going to go swimming on my mission. In our last interview the first thing he asked me was if I had gone swimming. I told him no, I'm not allowed to swim but I really miss it. Afterwards we talked for 5-10 minutes about how much we both miss the water. The way President was talking it sounds like he has done his fair share of swimming; something I really don't want to imagine is him in his swimming trunks at my pool. Gross! Anyways I'm so excited to hear we took seconds it sounds like both teams are doing awesome. I'm way excited that is a real accomplishment seriously. Dan always talked about how competitive our region was with Springville and us. And those two teams have always been thorns in each other's sides as we know. And Timpview has always had one good team then we have Mountain View, Provo. Not to mention the huge Lehi team our region is the most competitive region that's why the newspaper is always talking about us. So I'm so excited to hear about the team doing so well.
Well to talk about me right now. Things are going well I seem to be feeling a lot better now, I'm also doing things to try to keep me better like buying orange juice taking vitamin c and staying warmer those kinds of things and it so far seems to be working. Me and Byrnes are super good friends now, we love to talk to each other and really enjoy each other's company. We work hard and like I said the work is tough with all our investigators dropping us and stuff but we are replacing them. The cool spiritual story this week unfortunately I was not involved with, but on exchanges our DL and Elder Byrnes went to our new investigator Anu's home and her husband was in, who usually has nothing to do with us decided to sit in this time and listen, he was very touched by the first lesson and about Joseph Smith. He then said we were welcome to come by anytime and talk to them more about it all so that's really going well. So we are now working with a young couple I love to work with them, one cuz they are closer to my age and two because they are what we need - they are the kingdom builders, they help the church grow here in Ireland.
Well now for a really funny story. But heads up know that everything is fine. Well like I said we were on exchanges well when Elder Dinning (the DL) and Elder Bowman (DL's comp) where at our flat we were talking and the conversation turned to fighting. Not unusual because Elder Dinning is a UFC fighter and Byrnes was in a lot of street fights back home. Well they started to talk to me and I said I had never really been in any proper fight and had never punched anyone before. At that Byrnes said I had to punch him in the face, I said no but he continued to badger me saying some of his last comps did it and that all his best friends back home had punched each other. At this point the other two started in saying I had to do it. At this point I was cornered and they would not leave me alone until I did it. So we got the cameras and I punched my companion in the face. Only after he put a pillow to cover himself. Its super funny and I have it on camera so once I finally send you my stuff you can see it. By the way like I said Elder Byrnes and I are still super good friends he just has a sore jaw and knows I can throw a really good punch.
Well I don't know what else to say I love you all so much and miss you
Take care
Brades
Well it's so cool to hear how the swim team is doing. I seriously love hearing about it and miss the water very much. In fact it's really funny because President Creer seems to think I'm going to go swimming on my mission. In our last interview the first thing he asked me was if I had gone swimming. I told him no, I'm not allowed to swim but I really miss it. Afterwards we talked for 5-10 minutes about how much we both miss the water. The way President was talking it sounds like he has done his fair share of swimming; something I really don't want to imagine is him in his swimming trunks at my pool. Gross! Anyways I'm so excited to hear we took seconds it sounds like both teams are doing awesome. I'm way excited that is a real accomplishment seriously. Dan always talked about how competitive our region was with Springville and us. And those two teams have always been thorns in each other's sides as we know. And Timpview has always had one good team then we have Mountain View, Provo. Not to mention the huge Lehi team our region is the most competitive region that's why the newspaper is always talking about us. So I'm so excited to hear about the team doing so well.
Well to talk about me right now. Things are going well I seem to be feeling a lot better now, I'm also doing things to try to keep me better like buying orange juice taking vitamin c and staying warmer those kinds of things and it so far seems to be working. Me and Byrnes are super good friends now, we love to talk to each other and really enjoy each other's company. We work hard and like I said the work is tough with all our investigators dropping us and stuff but we are replacing them. The cool spiritual story this week unfortunately I was not involved with, but on exchanges our DL and Elder Byrnes went to our new investigator Anu's home and her husband was in, who usually has nothing to do with us decided to sit in this time and listen, he was very touched by the first lesson and about Joseph Smith. He then said we were welcome to come by anytime and talk to them more about it all so that's really going well. So we are now working with a young couple I love to work with them, one cuz they are closer to my age and two because they are what we need - they are the kingdom builders, they help the church grow here in Ireland.
Well now for a really funny story. But heads up know that everything is fine. Well like I said we were on exchanges well when Elder Dinning (the DL) and Elder Bowman (DL's comp) where at our flat we were talking and the conversation turned to fighting. Not unusual because Elder Dinning is a UFC fighter and Byrnes was in a lot of street fights back home. Well they started to talk to me and I said I had never really been in any proper fight and had never punched anyone before. At that Byrnes said I had to punch him in the face, I said no but he continued to badger me saying some of his last comps did it and that all his best friends back home had punched each other. At this point the other two started in saying I had to do it. At this point I was cornered and they would not leave me alone until I did it. So we got the cameras and I punched my companion in the face. Only after he put a pillow to cover himself. Its super funny and I have it on camera so once I finally send you my stuff you can see it. By the way like I said Elder Byrnes and I are still super good friends he just has a sore jaw and knows I can throw a really good punch.
Well I don't know what else to say I love you all so much and miss you
Take care
Brades
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