March 4, 2009 - Letter
Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 9:42 PM
Well right now I need to apologize for lying to you all last week; I messed up dates in my head. I just now got my moves call and guess what I’m moving; not too surprising. But I’m now moving to the far south of the island in the middle of nowhere called Tralee. That is pretty close to where they filmed the movie brave heart. By the way that movie filmed right here in Ireland not Scotland funny huh? Anyways to explain how in the middle of nowhere it is, I have to take a bus to district meetings which takes two hours to get to Limerick where we meet. I will also be serving in my first branch ever and there is supposed to be a really cute girl in it named Ruda. The only other thing I know about the area is there is a very gay man that lives their named Tony who has some fetish with the missionaries. I will be serving with a new Elder named Elder Frye who was trained by Elder Redder who right now is one of my zone leaders. So the work should go well there. Also lately there have been a lot of baptisms in the area so keep your fingers crossed. Other than that, that is really all I know.
Now when it comes to mission work this week we had a pretty good week. We got to teach a lot of less active lessons this week and the main ones the Jordan’s who we were working with came to church. They said they are going to make a much greater effort now to make it to church because they know that’s what they need to do. So that has been really good. On Sunday I bore my testimony to tell the ward thanks for the help and to just bare it. It was a really great experience for me. I got up with nothing to say other then I knew I needed to bare it, and as I did words really just filled my mouth and it all just came out. Everything I wanted to say and how I felt came to me; it was such a cool experience how it all happened. Afterwards all the members said they did not want to see me go or told me I needed to stay within the ward. The funny thing is that most of those people I had not talked to really ever.
I’m really excited to move out; this has been a really tough area, not physically but emotionally. I’m really glad to leave it behind. They have a new younger missionary Elder Hildabrand coming in from New York, who is a really good solid missionary to take my place, so it will be left in good hands.
Well the weather for us has been getting warmer; usually morning it’s sunny, by afternoon it’s cloudy but still warm, at night time it starts to rain a bit, and then it does it again all over the next day. I’m nervous for April showers though because I don't think it needs to rain anymore than it already does here. Because of the sun never shining here I’m already very pasty white. I’m soon going to look like Edward from twilight. He is very grossly white in all of his posters I see all over town. Once I get home I plan to get in a tanning bed, and get some highlights for my hair-which has gotten darker.
I email at around 10:00 am-12:00. I would not mind emailing back and forth but I think that’s around 3:00 am for you guys; we are about a 7 hour difference, but I will leave the math up to you because I’m out of practice.
I have a package sent off for you with all me photos in it and some treats that you will like, but mom and dad it might be too many points for you. Anyway love you and leave you.
Brady
Now when it comes to mission work this week we had a pretty good week. We got to teach a lot of less active lessons this week and the main ones the Jordan’s who we were working with came to church. They said they are going to make a much greater effort now to make it to church because they know that’s what they need to do. So that has been really good. On Sunday I bore my testimony to tell the ward thanks for the help and to just bare it. It was a really great experience for me. I got up with nothing to say other then I knew I needed to bare it, and as I did words really just filled my mouth and it all just came out. Everything I wanted to say and how I felt came to me; it was such a cool experience how it all happened. Afterwards all the members said they did not want to see me go or told me I needed to stay within the ward. The funny thing is that most of those people I had not talked to really ever.
I’m really excited to move out; this has been a really tough area, not physically but emotionally. I’m really glad to leave it behind. They have a new younger missionary Elder Hildabrand coming in from New York, who is a really good solid missionary to take my place, so it will be left in good hands.
Well the weather for us has been getting warmer; usually morning it’s sunny, by afternoon it’s cloudy but still warm, at night time it starts to rain a bit, and then it does it again all over the next day. I’m nervous for April showers though because I don't think it needs to rain anymore than it already does here. Because of the sun never shining here I’m already very pasty white. I’m soon going to look like Edward from twilight. He is very grossly white in all of his posters I see all over town. Once I get home I plan to get in a tanning bed, and get some highlights for my hair-which has gotten darker.
I email at around 10:00 am-12:00. I would not mind emailing back and forth but I think that’s around 3:00 am for you guys; we are about a 7 hour difference, but I will leave the math up to you because I’m out of practice.
I have a package sent off for you with all me photos in it and some treats that you will like, but mom and dad it might be too many points for you. Anyway love you and leave you.
Brady
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