January 17, 2010 - Letter
Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 9:16 AM
Hey Mum and Pops,
I'm glad to have one fish again in the house, but I still need a lot more than the one. I taught a guy this week that had 100 gallon fresh water tank and he had a reef in his tank and a huge angel fish. It was a really cool aquarium. It just made me think, "Hum, maybe when I get home I will get one that size it would be real cool." Then I can put Sydney the fish in it and an angel fish and some reefs and maybe even a beta fish. All I need is a lot of mean fish and they will take care of their own.
I’m so proud of Cody and his swimming feat, that's great to hear he is doing well. I would get stuck to sometimes and it always felt so great to get a good race like that one and get a PR. It was like the time I was swimming the butterfly and you put in everything and you come out good it feels so nice. Man I miss swimming!!
This week has been crazy nuts too. We are teaching loads. We are doing very well this week and taught 19 lessons. The week before we taught 20. We come home and are so knackered (tired) that we plan, play a quick game, call people, and go to sleep. Before we know it the alarm is going off, it’s so hard to roll out of the bed we need more sleep! I sometimes take naps during our breaks for a few minutes, but it’s still not enough. Then we are off to teach more lessons. We had a few people who dropped us this week but we replaced them real quick with some more. Our teaching pool is around 10-12 people. I love it! I have never had that many people to teach ever before. And the people we are teaching are good. They all are progressing even the new people and the old ones are working towards baptism. I’m so happy with this area.
So I will talk about some of the people I’m working with. Our main person is Janice Dixon she is a sweet heart love her to death. She is about 45 and has a good number of children. I talked about her a bit last week. Well she right now is going through some hard times. Her partner is a less active member of the church. We found her through him. Well they have been living together for about 10 years or something like that. They act like a married couple and we thought they were for ages. But Bob, her partner, walked out on her the other day because he is an idiot and gets in these moods. So when he does this, he leaves her for a few weeks and won’t talk to her at all. To make it worse, they just got engaged this December and had a vacation booked out for them so Janice had to leave the family take her friend and go on vacation this past Friday, because Bob would not talk to her. Well of all the people Janice wanted to talk to was us when Bob left. So we prayed and asked God for help what we could do to best help her out. A member's name came to our mind, Sister Cathy Grayson, we called her up for help. She came immediately and when she arrived she actually knew Janice. Their kids used to play together. So we sat and talked and listened to Janice for awhile. Then we left to find Bob and try to talk with him while Cathy stayed with Janice. Cathy helped her out so much and we were able to help Janice out and give her a blessing. We talked to Bob but he was still a butt and did nothing, and now Janice is on vacation. This Saturday when she comes home we will be able to teach her again. This experience was amazing and it was a real answer to a prayer. It really helps me have more trust in the members.
The members her in Londonderry are just something else. They love missionaries so much and feed us all the time. This past week I have had 4-5 dinner appointments here. And then if they can’t feed you they bring food for you at church. This Sunday we received 3 bags of food for our flat. Because of it we don’t even need to shop this week. In fact, we have not had a normal shopping week yet. We just buy milk and cereal because that’s basically the only food we use. We either don’t have time for a meal or we have so many dinner appointments we eat at the member’s home. It’s been great.
Tell Tyler Robinson hi from me. I know who he is, he is a really nice guy. We never hung out but we always said hi to each other in the halls. Tyler was one of those kids all the girls loved because he was such a good looking guy.
Well mom, I love you so much and family too. Miss you tons. The time is short and I will be home very soon.
Hugs and kisses from me,
Brady
I'm glad to have one fish again in the house, but I still need a lot more than the one. I taught a guy this week that had 100 gallon fresh water tank and he had a reef in his tank and a huge angel fish. It was a really cool aquarium. It just made me think, "Hum, maybe when I get home I will get one that size it would be real cool." Then I can put Sydney the fish in it and an angel fish and some reefs and maybe even a beta fish. All I need is a lot of mean fish and they will take care of their own.
I’m so proud of Cody and his swimming feat, that's great to hear he is doing well. I would get stuck to sometimes and it always felt so great to get a good race like that one and get a PR. It was like the time I was swimming the butterfly and you put in everything and you come out good it feels so nice. Man I miss swimming!!
This week has been crazy nuts too. We are teaching loads. We are doing very well this week and taught 19 lessons. The week before we taught 20. We come home and are so knackered (tired) that we plan, play a quick game, call people, and go to sleep. Before we know it the alarm is going off, it’s so hard to roll out of the bed we need more sleep! I sometimes take naps during our breaks for a few minutes, but it’s still not enough. Then we are off to teach more lessons. We had a few people who dropped us this week but we replaced them real quick with some more. Our teaching pool is around 10-12 people. I love it! I have never had that many people to teach ever before. And the people we are teaching are good. They all are progressing even the new people and the old ones are working towards baptism. I’m so happy with this area.
So I will talk about some of the people I’m working with. Our main person is Janice Dixon she is a sweet heart love her to death. She is about 45 and has a good number of children. I talked about her a bit last week. Well she right now is going through some hard times. Her partner is a less active member of the church. We found her through him. Well they have been living together for about 10 years or something like that. They act like a married couple and we thought they were for ages. But Bob, her partner, walked out on her the other day because he is an idiot and gets in these moods. So when he does this, he leaves her for a few weeks and won’t talk to her at all. To make it worse, they just got engaged this December and had a vacation booked out for them so Janice had to leave the family take her friend and go on vacation this past Friday, because Bob would not talk to her. Well of all the people Janice wanted to talk to was us when Bob left. So we prayed and asked God for help what we could do to best help her out. A member's name came to our mind, Sister Cathy Grayson, we called her up for help. She came immediately and when she arrived she actually knew Janice. Their kids used to play together. So we sat and talked and listened to Janice for awhile. Then we left to find Bob and try to talk with him while Cathy stayed with Janice. Cathy helped her out so much and we were able to help Janice out and give her a blessing. We talked to Bob but he was still a butt and did nothing, and now Janice is on vacation. This Saturday when she comes home we will be able to teach her again. This experience was amazing and it was a real answer to a prayer. It really helps me have more trust in the members.
The members her in Londonderry are just something else. They love missionaries so much and feed us all the time. This past week I have had 4-5 dinner appointments here. And then if they can’t feed you they bring food for you at church. This Sunday we received 3 bags of food for our flat. Because of it we don’t even need to shop this week. In fact, we have not had a normal shopping week yet. We just buy milk and cereal because that’s basically the only food we use. We either don’t have time for a meal or we have so many dinner appointments we eat at the member’s home. It’s been great.
Tell Tyler Robinson hi from me. I know who he is, he is a really nice guy. We never hung out but we always said hi to each other in the halls. Tyler was one of those kids all the girls loved because he was such a good looking guy.
Well mom, I love you so much and family too. Miss you tons. The time is short and I will be home very soon.
Hugs and kisses from me,
Brady
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