Well hello from nowhere!

Actually to be honest I’m right now in the city of Limerick and Limerick is pretty large, the population is smaller then Dublin but the city size is about the same. And the reason I’m here is because I’m on exchanges with my District Leader Elder Newman. I knew him from Bangor he was my really good buddy from there, but since then he has changed loads and I would say not for the better. It’s better for the work but now he has no personality he is too robotic. But it’s okay because my companion is way sweet, we are mates now, I like him a lot. His name is Elder Frye from Napa California. Frye has been out for six months, he is from the same group as Elder Johnson the one I trained. He is way chilled and laid back like me, is very quiet but will hold a conversation with you if you start it. He is a super teacher the second best teacher I have served with since Headington, also he is a good worker.

The area is amazing it has so much potential I can just feel it. The area just has a way good feeling to it unlike my last area. I feel safe and just happier. We have a good number of investigators and since I have been here have even seen the progress; I love to see an area that is just moving forward. Like I said we are far away to get to district meetings, we either get a lift with the senior couple here the Mulholland’s or we take a two hour bus ride. The only real disadvantage to being so far away is on pday we have nobody to be with, so we will have to spend it in the flat with nothing really to do except play risk the board game that is in the flat. By the way the flat is really nice it’s big with lots of room but messy so I have been cleaning this up for a good while now. I have to get rid of all the crap that has been kept from all the other elders who don't throw things away. Elders are horrible pack rats, it’s gross! So with each new flat I move into I have been throwing all the junk away. Like I said I’m very clean and organized. To think mom all it took was 10,000 US dollars and then I would learn how to clean up after myself. I even take out the trash and clean the dishes without being asked. Amazing huh?

But now that I’m in a good area I have some good spiritual stories again. We are teaching this girl named Linda. She is 20 years old and has a little boy named Jason. Well I have now taught her twice and you can see the improvement and that she is seriously considering joining. She reads and prays and she has really opened up to us now that she knows we are normal people as well. We had a very good discussion with her; she promised us that she would be to church this Sunday without us even asking her so that was way exciting. We also work with a man named Patrick who has always been kind and willing to have us around only if we called or asked him. He would never set an appointment without us asking first. Well we met him the other day just outside our flat and we got talking with him and he started asking us when we would be back. He started asking us if we could see him that night, we said sorry we were busy then he said Tuesday we were in Limerick, so then he said okay Wednesday, we said OK that would fit us, he said good see you then, so I will see him tonight I’m way excited for it. He is way nice hard to understand right now but cool.

The members in the branch are way sweet, I like them tons especially the branch presidents and his kids. The boys are way cool and funny they want to get to know me and be my friend which is way cool. So I like all of them and the little kids like me as well especially the ones in nursery. I like play games with the kids in sacrament meeting; games like Simon says and funny faces. This makes the branch president laugh on the stage cuz he can see me when no one else is looking. Ha-ha its good fun I love branches cuz they are all so close nit together. Also it’s a lot less names to remember at least all of their first names are either brother or sister. That makes it a bit easier.

With the packages I don't get charged I have never even heard of the charge thing before so no worries about that. Keep the packages coming I love them. I will get my birthday package probably around March 21 which is zone conference. I will then be 20 but happy belated birthday is okay to. With St. Patty's day I don't know what it’s like yet other than it’s a drinking holiday. So yeah that’s it.

I love you all so very much and miss you. Mom don’t worry about me I’m happy and strong.

Much love and kisses

Brady

Well hello from nowhere!



Actually to be honest I’m right now in the city of Limerick and Limerick is pretty large, the population is smaller then Dublin but the city size is about the same. And the reason I’m here is because I’m on exchanges with my District Leader Elder Newman. I knew him from Bangor he was my really good buddy from there, but since then he has changed loads and I would say not for the better. It’s better for the work but now he has no personality he is too robotic. But it’s okay because my companion is way sweet, we are mates now, I like him a lot. His name is Elder Frye from Napa California. Frye has been out for six months, he is from the same group as Elder Johnson the one I trained. He is way chilled and laid back like me, is very quiet but will hold a conversation with you if you start it. He is a super teacher the second best teacher I have served with since Headington, also he is a good worker.



The area is amazing it has so much potential I can just feel it. The area just has a way good feeling to it unlike my last area. I feel safe and just happier. We have a good number of investigators and since I have been here have even seen the progress; I love to see an area that is just moving forward. Like I said we are far away to get to district meetings, we either get a lift with the senior couple here the Mulholland’s or we take a two hour bus ride. The only real disadvantage to being so far away is on pday we have nobody to be with, so we will have to spend it in the flat with nothing really to do except play risk the board game that is in the flat. By the way the flat is really nice it’s big with lots of room but messy so I have been cleaning this up for a good while now. I have to get rid of all the crap that has been kept from all the other elders who don't throw things away. Elders are horrible pack rats, it’s gross! So with each new flat I move into I have been throwing all the junk away. Like I said I’m very clean and organized. To think mom all it took was 10,000 US dollars and then I would learn how to clean up after myself. I even take out the trash and clean the dishes without being asked. Amazing huh?



But now that I’m in a good area I have some good spiritual stories again. We are teaching this girl named Linda. She is 20 years old and has a little boy named Jason. Well I have now taught her twice and you can see the improvement and that she is seriously considering joining. She reads and prays and she has really opened up to us now that she knows we are normal people as well. We had a very good discussion with her; she promised us that she would be to church this Sunday without us even asking her so that was way exciting. We also work with a man named Patrick who has always been kind and willing to have us around only if we called or asked him. He would never set an appointment without us asking first. Well we met him the other day just outside our flat and we got talking with him and he started asking us when we would be back. He started asking us if we could see him that night, we said sorry we were busy then he said Tuesday we were in Limerick, so then he said okay Wednesday, we said OK that would fit us, he said good see you then, so I will see him tonight I’m way excited for it. He is way nice hard to understand right now but cool.



The members in the branch are way sweet, I like them tons especially the branch presidents and his kids. The boys are way cool and funny they want to get to know me and be my friend which is way cool. So I like all of them and the little kids like me as well especially the ones in nursery. I like play games with the kids in sacrament meeting; games like Simon says and funny faces. This makes the branch president laugh on the stage cuz he can see me when no one else is looking. Ha-ha its good fun I love branches cuz they are all so close nit together. Also it’s a lot less names to remember at least all of their first names are either brother or sister. That makes it a bit easier.



With the packages I don't get charged I have never even heard of the charge thing before so no worries about that. Keep the packages coming I love them. I will get my birthday package probably around March 21 which is zone conference. I will then be 20 but happy belated birthday is okay to. With St. Patty's day I don't know what it’s like yet other than it’s a drinking holiday. So yeah that’s it.

I love you all so very much and miss you. Mom don’t worry about me I’m happy and strong.



Much love and kisses

Brady

Well right now I need to apologize for lying to you all last week; I messed up dates in my head. I just now got my moves call and guess what I’m moving; not too surprising. But I’m now moving to the far south of the island in the middle of nowhere called Tralee. That is pretty close to where they filmed the movie brave heart. By the way that movie filmed right here in Ireland not Scotland funny huh? Anyways to explain how in the middle of nowhere it is, I have to take a bus to district meetings which takes two hours to get to Limerick where we meet. I will also be serving in my first branch ever and there is supposed to be a really cute girl in it named Ruda. The only other thing I know about the area is there is a very gay man that lives their named Tony who has some fetish with the missionaries. I will be serving with a new Elder named Elder Frye who was trained by Elder Redder who right now is one of my zone leaders. So the work should go well there. Also lately there have been a lot of baptisms in the area so keep your fingers crossed. Other than that, that is really all I know.

Now when it comes to mission work this week we had a pretty good week. We got to teach a lot of less active lessons this week and the main ones the Jordan’s who we were working with came to church. They said they are going to make a much greater effort now to make it to church because they know that’s what they need to do. So that has been really good. On Sunday I bore my testimony to tell the ward thanks for the help and to just bare it. It was a really great experience for me. I got up with nothing to say other then I knew I needed to bare it, and as I did words really just filled my mouth and it all just came out. Everything I wanted to say and how I felt came to me; it was such a cool experience how it all happened. Afterwards all the members said they did not want to see me go or told me I needed to stay within the ward. The funny thing is that most of those people I had not talked to really ever.

I’m really excited to move out; this has been a really tough area, not physically but emotionally. I’m really glad to leave it behind. They have a new younger missionary Elder Hildabrand coming in from New York, who is a really good solid missionary to take my place, so it will be left in good hands.

Well the weather for us has been getting warmer; usually morning it’s sunny, by afternoon it’s cloudy but still warm, at night time it starts to rain a bit, and then it does it again all over the next day. I’m nervous for April showers though because I don't think it needs to rain anymore than it already does here. Because of the sun never shining here I’m already very pasty white. I’m soon going to look like Edward from twilight. He is very grossly white in all of his posters I see all over town. Once I get home I plan to get in a tanning bed, and get some highlights for my hair-which has gotten darker.

I email at around 10:00 am-12:00. I would not mind emailing back and forth but I think that’s around 3:00 am for you guys; we are about a 7 hour difference, but I will leave the math up to you because I’m out of practice.

I have a package sent off for you with all me photos in it and some treats that you will like, but mom and dad it might be too many points for you. Anyway love you and leave you.

Brady