August 5, 2009 - Letter
Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 7:14 PM
Hey well that does explain the not so personal letter that I received and to that you got two emails, how lucky are you?
Well this past week has been a really good one but very tiring. Yesterday we had to go blitz the sister’s area in Bray, cuz the area is a hole, it has not done very well since they opened it. They can’t close Bray, because it has its own little branch that is really good and tries really hard. A good portion of the area we tracted reminded me of the good old glory days of Ballyfermot. I actually don’t feel comfortable having sisters in the area. The place we were tracking was really bad; I was walking on glass and broken bottles everywhere, I was just hoping the glass would not cut through my shoes. After we got done doing the blitz a very sad and hard thing for us happened Elder Sheppard lost his wallet. So again I have to support him through the moves. It had a brand new bus pass in it and his personal and church funds so he has about 6 euro in change to his name. Luckily the office couple was a big help and has given us some money to help us through this.
Well on a lighter note Sunday was a day of miracles. I was on exchanges in the other elder’s area. I was with an Elder Jason Palmer from Orem, Utah. We were on our way for an appointment when a lost sheep walked up to us and said; “Hey I used to go to the church in Ohio, but I moved here and have not bothered, but I miss the church and would like to go again can you give me the address.” I said yes and can we come by sometime, he said yes please do, and was giving us every number and address he could. We then got to out appointment with a lady in the church who smokes and is not fully active but comes to church- long story, but we taught her a great lesson with a member- her home teacher, it helped out. Then we had another appointment with a lost sheep that got his entire house wanting to know about the church. So we went in thinking a less active lesson and taught 3 new investigators in a member’s home. The three are very interested in the church and had loads of really good questions and could not wait for a return date. Sunday was really cool; after all that we still had an hour of finding time so we did some Book of Mormon drop off stuff and it all went really smooth. Sunday was one of the best days in my mission.
Well I’m short for time but I love you all so much.
Take care,
Brady
Well this past week has been a really good one but very tiring. Yesterday we had to go blitz the sister’s area in Bray, cuz the area is a hole, it has not done very well since they opened it. They can’t close Bray, because it has its own little branch that is really good and tries really hard. A good portion of the area we tracted reminded me of the good old glory days of Ballyfermot. I actually don’t feel comfortable having sisters in the area. The place we were tracking was really bad; I was walking on glass and broken bottles everywhere, I was just hoping the glass would not cut through my shoes. After we got done doing the blitz a very sad and hard thing for us happened Elder Sheppard lost his wallet. So again I have to support him through the moves. It had a brand new bus pass in it and his personal and church funds so he has about 6 euro in change to his name. Luckily the office couple was a big help and has given us some money to help us through this.
Well on a lighter note Sunday was a day of miracles. I was on exchanges in the other elder’s area. I was with an Elder Jason Palmer from Orem, Utah. We were on our way for an appointment when a lost sheep walked up to us and said; “Hey I used to go to the church in Ohio, but I moved here and have not bothered, but I miss the church and would like to go again can you give me the address.” I said yes and can we come by sometime, he said yes please do, and was giving us every number and address he could. We then got to out appointment with a lady in the church who smokes and is not fully active but comes to church- long story, but we taught her a great lesson with a member- her home teacher, it helped out. Then we had another appointment with a lost sheep that got his entire house wanting to know about the church. So we went in thinking a less active lesson and taught 3 new investigators in a member’s home. The three are very interested in the church and had loads of really good questions and could not wait for a return date. Sunday was really cool; after all that we still had an hour of finding time so we did some Book of Mormon drop off stuff and it all went really smooth. Sunday was one of the best days in my mission.
Well I’m short for time but I love you all so much.
Take care,
Brady
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