September 2, 2009 - Letter
Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 1:12 PM
Hello family!
Dusty is now a married man. Cool, I have been thinking about that all week long. It’s great. Well, Dusty sent me a text saying he wanted to use my sword, but I got it today a bit late. I wrote him back saying, “Yes, only if he wants to”. He should be getting it at about 3 am, where ever he is…ha ha. Thank you very much for all the photos they are great. The table with the pictures looked great with the rose pedals and all. Jule’s dress was super pretty, absolute gorgeous.
I'm glad to hear that you have so many memories from it. I think memories are the most important thing about these big ceremonies, and all of the weather problems will just prove to make them funnier down the line. The barbeque balloon situation will just add to it all. Dad’s short cut, that made me laugh. Good as missionaries are, we are always looking for short cuts to use. Sometimes in the end we find a few good ones, but lose lots of time finding them out. Sometimes we just end up finding longer ways. All you can do is just laugh. In each area we try and find the short cuts, and the good ones get passed down to each missionary. But as for the long ones, well, they keep getting explored…oh well.
Yesterday was a really good day. Let me tell you about it cuz it was the most “missionary stuff” that has happened this week. We started by visiting Paul and Robby, they are some guys we found. Nice guys, but very mixed up in life (been in and out of prison). They seem to have taken a liking to me and Shep, so, we go and chat with them, answer questions, and teach them a few things. While we were doing some finding one of our members called and wanted to change a dinner appointment from tomorrow to tonight. So we said it will be hard but possible, however, we couldn’t give them a definite time when we stop by their place. They said that’s fine. So we then rushed off to teach Dez, a great investigator who is making loads of progress. We are teaching him the smoker’s clinic, because he wants to quit. He is really liking it and is starting that on Thursday. We will be there for him again on Thursday. Then we rushed off for dinner to eat and gave a lesson in 30 min, super fast. It was a lot of food to eat so fast. We then went and taught Andre and Cicilia; who, by the way, we still get to teach thanks to President Creer and his heart of gold. It was a wonderful lesson about the Sabbath day. They also decided to feed us a dessert; I was already stuffed full, but forced down this as well. It was an apple cherry strudel, which was really good, but I felt sick after it all but that’s what I do as a missionary. You know that feeling where the food is still in your throat just cuz your stomach is to full. Well I had that feeling and it hurt. We then came home and where very tired. We only had time to play one game of Rummikub cuz we wanted to sleep. By the way, you talking about Lake Powell inspired me to buy Rummikub so I can keep my skill sharp for my return on April 9th.
So with Carlie, my only suggestions I have for you is to invite her to the house of a member’s home which has a special spirit. Not only will she feel very good in our home, she will get to see the way it’s supposed to be. The other thing is to invite her to our church and have her sit with you. If things continue to do well, then you can invite the Elders over to our house to teach her. Less-actives are scared of Elders because they know their purpose is to bring them back to church, and they are afraid it will be at a pace they do not feel comfortable. This is true, we want them to go faster but it’s more important to let them do it the best way. Some Elders try to rush things too fast. If she wants, she can write to me if she wants. I will write her back and answer her questions. Mom, I'm super proud of you for doing some good member missionary work. You are awesome. So, what you can do is invites her to church and then dinner at the home after to answer her questions. Keep me updated on Carlie, that’s really cool of you to be working with her.
Well, I love you all so very much, and miss you. I’m sad I missed the wedding.
Much love,
Brady
Dusty is now a married man. Cool, I have been thinking about that all week long. It’s great. Well, Dusty sent me a text saying he wanted to use my sword, but I got it today a bit late. I wrote him back saying, “Yes, only if he wants to”. He should be getting it at about 3 am, where ever he is…ha ha. Thank you very much for all the photos they are great. The table with the pictures looked great with the rose pedals and all. Jule’s dress was super pretty, absolute gorgeous.
I'm glad to hear that you have so many memories from it. I think memories are the most important thing about these big ceremonies, and all of the weather problems will just prove to make them funnier down the line. The barbeque balloon situation will just add to it all. Dad’s short cut, that made me laugh. Good as missionaries are, we are always looking for short cuts to use. Sometimes in the end we find a few good ones, but lose lots of time finding them out. Sometimes we just end up finding longer ways. All you can do is just laugh. In each area we try and find the short cuts, and the good ones get passed down to each missionary. But as for the long ones, well, they keep getting explored…oh well.
Yesterday was a really good day. Let me tell you about it cuz it was the most “missionary stuff” that has happened this week. We started by visiting Paul and Robby, they are some guys we found. Nice guys, but very mixed up in life (been in and out of prison). They seem to have taken a liking to me and Shep, so, we go and chat with them, answer questions, and teach them a few things. While we were doing some finding one of our members called and wanted to change a dinner appointment from tomorrow to tonight. So we said it will be hard but possible, however, we couldn’t give them a definite time when we stop by their place. They said that’s fine. So we then rushed off to teach Dez, a great investigator who is making loads of progress. We are teaching him the smoker’s clinic, because he wants to quit. He is really liking it and is starting that on Thursday. We will be there for him again on Thursday. Then we rushed off for dinner to eat and gave a lesson in 30 min, super fast. It was a lot of food to eat so fast. We then went and taught Andre and Cicilia; who, by the way, we still get to teach thanks to President Creer and his heart of gold. It was a wonderful lesson about the Sabbath day. They also decided to feed us a dessert; I was already stuffed full, but forced down this as well. It was an apple cherry strudel, which was really good, but I felt sick after it all but that’s what I do as a missionary. You know that feeling where the food is still in your throat just cuz your stomach is to full. Well I had that feeling and it hurt. We then came home and where very tired. We only had time to play one game of Rummikub cuz we wanted to sleep. By the way, you talking about Lake Powell inspired me to buy Rummikub so I can keep my skill sharp for my return on April 9th.
So with Carlie, my only suggestions I have for you is to invite her to the house of a member’s home which has a special spirit. Not only will she feel very good in our home, she will get to see the way it’s supposed to be. The other thing is to invite her to our church and have her sit with you. If things continue to do well, then you can invite the Elders over to our house to teach her. Less-actives are scared of Elders because they know their purpose is to bring them back to church, and they are afraid it will be at a pace they do not feel comfortable. This is true, we want them to go faster but it’s more important to let them do it the best way. Some Elders try to rush things too fast. If she wants, she can write to me if she wants. I will write her back and answer her questions. Mom, I'm super proud of you for doing some good member missionary work. You are awesome. So, what you can do is invites her to church and then dinner at the home after to answer her questions. Keep me updated on Carlie, that’s really cool of you to be working with her.
Well, I love you all so very much, and miss you. I’m sad I missed the wedding.
Much love,
Brady
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