Dublin Ireland Missionaries

Dublin Ireland Missionaries

Elder Hafen's Areas Served

Elder Hafen's Areas Served

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Letter from Mission President

Letter from Mission President

February 15, 2010 - Letter

Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 1:12 PM
Hey mom thanks for the email and answering my questions.

Well it’s good to hear that Cody was the craziest of all the boys when it came to drugs. That's funny to see how he reacted; and he is pretty swollen. Tell him its okay he can play in the next batman with that kind of a jaw. Elder Austin Johnson told me about when he got his taken out; he kept getting angry with the nurse because he thought they had broke his jaw, and that he was then going to use it to kill a 1000 philistines like Samson from the bible, that's pretty nutty. How is he on the medicines does he need as many as me? Just keep me up to date on him.

So I have been telling everyone about the cruise and the catch tied to it with me. (We are booking a family cruise for next January 2011 before Cody leaves on his mission. Brady better not have a wife or something because we are booking the dates and paying for it now) Everyone just laughs; you two are funny.

Well our church was fun this week or yesterday. We had a “linger longer” after which was a lot of fun. It was absolutely perfect for investigators; Grone and I were very excited for it. But none of our investigators showed up to church. Yaw we were very upset to say the least. We were expecting 4 all confirmed to be coming; and none showed. We had a better week then last, but not by much because we lost two investigators last week so we are trying to regain some. We have started to teach Janice’s kids Jason and Richard are her 2 and 3 oldest kids. Jason plays the piano and is very talented musically which is very good we can always use them in the church. Richard is a builder and fixer upper kind of a guy; very handy man. He is really cool, we gave him the Book of Mormon and he started to flip through the pages and stopped listening to us which was sort of cool. So hopefully he will read from it. Bob Taylor, Janice’s partner the less active is now back. Hopefully he will not bring her down. She is so great and we know she would join the church but Bob is the main problem.

Well the story with Karrie is she and Tim have broken up and she wants nothing to do with him because her mom does not like him. Her parents have a really strong hold on her life and they don't treat her very well. The doctors, Tim, and her uncle and aunt have told her she needs to be away from them. We have tried by her house just down the street from us; but no success yet. We went to Tim’s and he is not doing so well either. Apparently he struggles with depression also and took an overdoses after she broke up with him; but luckily he failed. Karrie gave Tim back the Book of Mormon we gave her and said she only took an interest in us to help Tim out; which is not true she was always wanting us to visit her in the hospital so that's her parents speaking through her.

Peter is doing really well, I think I have said before he will be baptized it’s only a matter of when. He knows what he needs to do so once he decides the time is right he will do it. He was not at church this week cuz he had some meeting he had to attend to. He lives in a very strong Protestant area and was a big hot shot during the troubles; so he works to make sure the troubles don't happen again; he attends meetings and other things. Peter is a really cool old guy; I could just sit and listen to his stories forever.

The other investigators we are working on hard are Christina and Charlene a mother daughter. Christina the mom wants to be baptized and has asked me to do it. Which is cool but she has so much work to do. She struggles with depression, panic attacks, large groups of people, and smoking. Due to all of this she does not come out to church as much as she should so she can’t get baptized. We get on her case and tell her all this but she just does not seem to be able to do it. I don't know what to do with it all so keep her in your prayers.

Well I got to get heading I love you all so very much. Thanks mom for a good email and all the updates.

Much love hugs and kisses. Happy Birthday to Dusty!

Brady

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