MOUNTAIN DEW AND LUAU

October 1, 2012


Well Monday we had a free P day. Because no one in the zone has money ha-ha everything is so much more expensive here and our area is humongous so we have to take motto taxi everywhere so we lose our money in like a week. But I found a Mountain Dew. And let’s just say I enjoyed it a little too much ha-ha I almost started to tear up a bit. I bought 3 and drank two and I’m sending the other to elder brown in the jungle ha-ha hopefully he gets it. Any who Tuesday was just a normal day not much. This week went by super fast and not much happened. But what was really fun is we had an activity in the church to try and get investigators and less active members to the chapel. We had a luau, it was an idea from my companion, he had done this activity in all of his areas and they were all a success. The party went well but we didn’t have much support from our branch president and not much organization from the leaders. It was all done last minute and could have been better, but nonetheless we had a good group of people. It’s just hard to grow as a branch when the president doesn’t support us in anything and is negative. Yesterday we did divisions as I got to go with the second counselor of the branch presidency. Who is maybe the only person who helps us ha-ha anyways we talked a lot about missions and how he wants to go on a mission with his wife this next year. And I was just thinking how cool it’s going to be once Bain graduates and dad gets called as mission president in Scotland ha-ha. Because dad would be a great mission president. But other than that we talked a lot about how we can get more united as a branch so we can start getting more families baptized and not just fill the chairs in the primary. Because if the branch is united and the presidency supports it that is when the real missionary work begins. Like Gordon B. Hinckley says. So we will have to see what happens these next few weeks. But we are moving today we are moving in with the zone leaders in a new house because we have been having problems with people stealing our electricity. So we are going to live in their area. Farther away ha-ha I don’t know how we are going to survive we barely have enough money living in our area. I’m going to write the president to hopefully raise our funds. Because living in the center of a huge city is expensive. So let’s just hope that everything goes off without a hitch. Conference is coming up this week and we are all exited here. My branch and the zone leader’s branch are watching conference together the other two branches father away are watching together. And Elder Anderson is watching in his new little branch because they are so far away. I’m sure I will be able to go to the other room and watch conference in English. Well I hope, but we will have to see. But not much happened this week just working our butts off to try and get someone to come to church let’s just hope that we either see the success from our labors or we learn the lessons we need to from this time of difficulty.