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

March 29, 2010 - Letter

Published by Elder Brady Lee Hafen under on 11:37 AM
Hey what's up mom? It’s sooooo good to hear from you this week!

I forgive you for forgetting and in fact I had to come to the library during the week to make a calendar and I thought hum maybe I will see if my mom wrote to me. I got to read it, so thanks for the early email, it really helped during the week to know what was going on.

Well for taking things home; it will be very little for what I'm taking home. I told them both; very small stuff. I'm sure the church will pay for my luggage home like they paid for it out. I really don't think the church would force me to have to abandon loads of stuff even though I plan to do just that. I will only be coming back with a few church things, some of my books, suits, and all my good tie's. I have some really sweet tie's, Jake is really lucky because he gets to take all my stuff that he wants because I will be leaving it here. His only problem is I'm so skinny and he is so tall so most of the clothing is out of the picture.

So you have been getting a lot of calls as of recently about me. Jakes mom has been trying to get a hold of you also. She had to talk to Bruce C Hafen's wife to try and get a little information about me. If you have not talked to them yet give them a call @ (801)691-0707. Then you had Stephen Smyth and Aaron Reeder. Reeder is a class kid. I like him a lot and you all would too. He was my district leader while I was in Tralee and my zone leader while I was in Ballyfermot. I look forward to hanging out with all those guys. If there are a few people at the airport or at my church welcome home it would probably be Shane Williams and Milo Myerhopher. They were all good friends who were very good to me here.

So the members seem to have made it some kind of goal to fatten me up before I go. They are trying to get me over to their homes and feed me before I go. It’s great I eat like a king. Jake is also a good cook; we have a real proper meal almost every day sometimes twice a day. It’s so good and yet even though I eat all of it I still am only 140 pounds and cannot put on any more weight. Is that crazy or what? Jake is looking at me as if something is wrong with me. A member once said I must have worms because all the members say I eat a lot for such a little guy, it’s funny.

Well for the bulk of the email now. Janice has been doing good and bad. She has continued to be strong through all of this hard stuff with Bob. But one of her sons is not making life any easier. She has a son named Hayden who is about 14-15 years old and he got caught smoking and possibly doing pot and a legal drug named Methadrom. Basically they take an illegal drug change a few chemicals, add some grass or herb of some sort and it has the same effect but is sellable in stores. I think it’s super messed up but the police can’t do anything about it right now. Well Hayden has not been caught doing pot or this Methadrom but his friends have. His name was mentioned by one of his friends who was caught doing both. So of course Janice has been worried sick about him and as a result he is on a short leash. She asked us what we think she should do. I said interview him in a very serious way and ask him straight. I said that’s what you both did to me and I couldn’t lie to you when you did that to me. So she did; he says he is not doing pot or Methadrom so I said just trust him but be watchful also. Flo is good but he is crazy as ever. We called him on Monday last week and he was in the mountains; no warning to anyone just got up with a friend and left. He spent two nights out there and came back so we got to see him later in the week. We made him a scripture reading calendar as I said before. He really likes it so hopefully this will get him more excited to read from the Book of Mormon. He says he prays sometimes but I don't know how serious he takes it and how he does it. We have shown him before how to pray, but I think this needs to be the next lesson. He should get a positive result due to reading and now praying more.

Janice came to church yesterday; it was really good fast Sunday all the testimonies where different. You know how on average one person gets up and they talk about one subject and then following everyone will talk on the same subject. Well I decided to throw a wrench in that system. I think everyone should talk about whatever they want. So it started about fasting and then I got up and talked about facing trials and getting help from God. Afterwards nobody could get back on to one subject so those who got up talked about what they felt like and it was very good. Everybody’s testimony came to them as the spirit directed them and talked about what they felt inspired about. We only had one weirdo get up and talk. She is not all there in the head; she got up and talked about her visions and other weird things. But she ended on a very good note and I took some good stuff out of it. Janice afterwards ended up talking to Robert Smyth, Stephen’s father. Robert and Janice talked together about Bob and what is going on in her life. He gave her some council and things and it really helped Janice a lot. Robert likes Janice a lot and said she is a great girl. They actually talked all through our lesson so Jake and I actually never ended up teaching gospel principals class-she was the only investigator so we just talked in the hall and left Robert to it. We will be teaching Janice again tonight, I look forward to it.

Mom I don't have a frequent fliers card, and if I do I don't know about it and must not have used it to get over to Ireland and England. So if I have it, tell me what it looks like, and if I don't have one get me one. I really don't know anything about it. Also I have gotten my birthday package and thank you very much for it all. I loved the Hot Tamales, they were gone the very next day, I ate them all and we are out of sugar to make Kool-aid so we are going to restock on that today.

Well I love you very much and miss you all. Can’t wait to see you-it’s soon. Conference is going to be fun; we have some people who have said they will be their which is exciting. Janice is really looking forward to it.

Talk to you soon, much love!

Brady

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