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Monday, November 24, 2014

Almost thanksgiving


Hey there momma! this week was great, we had a lot of fun and... Well all I can say is that we are now in a threesom so to say hahah. Yeah thats right my old comp went home and its really sad... It was a Little rough being with him... His heart just wasnt in it... He never really wanted to do much and even our investigaors could tell that his heart just wasnt in it... I hope he stays active.... President put me in Charge of being his missionary when I go home so we will see how that works. I am really frustrtated with elder him though... He just kinda gave up and didnt really try... I was just a Little mad but... What can you do... He emailed me and asked how I was doing and just told me all about his girlfriend and stupid stuff. I think thats why he went home though was becasue of the Girl... I looked over his shoulder while he was writing his girl and she was like begging him to come home and he kept telling her that he is gonna come home and stuff...

Well the week besides that was really good we had a lot of success and had a crap load of lessons this week becaue we had to put two programs together now our appointments are like all over the place and its really hard but fun at the same time and super busy... We dont even have that much time for for p day... We have a bunch of appointments today and only have 2 hours to do pday stuff... Really lame but we cant really avoid it.... Oh and this last week was soo crazy that we had 20 lessons... I know that Cali is different that Germany so tell stephen not to judge hahah

But im doing good im gonna be honest im working really hard and giving it my all when im out and teaching People but when im at home all I can think about is home and heading back home... Im starting to get a Little trunky... I dont think it a bad Thing because i have to start thinking about home eventually. Im super excited to see everyone! Oh and is it bad that I have started to Count down the days till I go home? I hope not... hahah. I just cant wait to start Training again and getting ready for Football!!! Its gonna be sick!

Yeah so i just looked at this email and i have been kinda rambleing on and I dont know really what else to say! Its kida funny right now because one our invesigitors is with me right now. Marcella is with and says Hi!

Well it Sound like everyone is doing good! 

 Sorry I dont have much to say! Just Chat wiht me!! ;)  

Alyssa is having chickens

Well im not sure how to start off this week it was a bit of a crazy week... Ill just start off with the good stuff then ill come the the other surff... Well this week was good because we worked really really hard and we saw our work pay off! This week we now have an investigator on baptismal date... YAY!! Her name is Falisha and she is awesome and she loves the church! She is getting really into the book of mormon and is praying and she has come to church now 2 times! We are getting excited for her! She is a fun but a little frustraiting to teach hahah it keeps me on my toes because she tests my bible knowlage hahah everytime I teach a pricaple she has to question it and tell me a verse in the bible and then she has to tell my why im wrong but I have proved her wrong enough times with the bible that she started to accept the message and then she started to read in the book of mormon and said that she believes that the book of mormon is from god and that it contains his word!!! :) So after she prayed and got the answer that she was looking for and that was which church she should join ( kinda like Joseph smith hahah) we put her on baptismal date!!!  
Oh and M and S... Well... We had a bit of a set back with them this week but then church came in and saved the day!! :) IT was great! Well, at the begining of the week M said that she wasnt sure if there was a god... That was a little bit of a set back and I started to get a little worried and was not sure what to do... But then she came to church again and she said that every time that she comes to the church she just feells this spiritual strength and just wants to keep coming back... I told her that, is the spirit talking to her telling her what she is doing is the right thing!! :) She is doing really good but taking a little but of time but thats okay.. some people just need a litle bit of time before they make a big decession .. But sonny.. Im not sure what to do with her?? She kinda just gets in the way of M progress..? But we are working our best with her and we still stay in contact!! :) So I guess we have had a pretty good week this week and we are seeing the blessing of hard work!!! 

Oh and one cool thing that happened yesterday also.. The Piano Guys came to our mission and visited us in Hamburg!! It was really good and they are some pretty amazing dudes... They are really really good but not only that but they are also really really stong in the gospel... What they said was pretty amazing... When they came and visited it was kinda like a fireside thing. It was just cool to see how normal some of these guys were and at the same time sooo strong in the Gospel... I thought it was just a missionary thing to be such a spiritual person but... These guys were pretty amazing...

Now ill get to the other stuff... Well my Companion is now going home... He is flying home on tuesday... Im a little frustrated... but there is nothing I can do now but just love him for he is... Im beating myself up a little but becasue I feel like I failed President... I dont know what to do?? I tried to do the same thing that helped me when I was going through a hard time and all that I needed to do to stay was start seeing success and to feel that this work really is Christs work... So we went out and worked hard and put an investigator on baptismal date and gave it my best to do my job and hoped that would also help him... But .... I dont know what else I could have done... Im also really sad for him because I know how much the mission can help him... I have seen this gospel change me in ways that I didnt even know were possible... I have always had the gospel but nothing has ever opened up my eyes untill I came out here and really put the gospel into action... I have changed soooo much and Im soooo glad that I made these changes... 

Well Ethan wrote me a good uplifting email.... I know he can be a little frustraiting but... He is a pretty amazing kid, and for the most part I am proud of him! :) I am super proud to hear that he steped up to the plate and helped out kade... That was a really big and bold move for Ethan... Way to flippin go! That is a little scary though... With all these kids killing them selfs... flip.... Oh and tell Ethan that we are playing football today as a zone for our turkey bowl... The members here dont like football... So its a little hard to get something like that going here.. 

Oh tell dad that im still ready to take him down and tell Ethan that he might be a little bit bigger but.. Dont mean that I still cant kick his butt... I have big brother power playing aginst him :) 

YAHOOO!!! Steve has got a date planned!!!! :) Heck yeah!!!! Im stoked for him!!! :) 

Oh and now the biggetst news.... What?????????????? You have got to be kidding me... She is having twins..... Oh and she is gonna need my help to raise them hahaha and I will have to teach them all the tricks to piss off alyssa!! :) HAHAHAH Im soooo excited for her!!! This is gonna be awesome!!! :) Im gonna be honest though... In the picture... One of the babies looks like a chicken.... I think that she might be having chickens.... Tell her to watch out... ;) 

Well I love youall soooo much and tell dad if he wants any Ideas then I would love to help him out!!! :) 
 LOve you 
BRADY!!! 

nov is about being thankful


ey mom... Well this week... Well im not sure where to start... One of the harder ones for me....You know me I dont like to show people what im going through sometimes so I kinda hold it back but i just need some one to vent too... Well it all starts about not last friday but the friday before... Well we had our district meeting that friday and our district leader decided that we all dress up for Halloween for District meeting... Well it was also the first day for one of the missionarires and Elder perkins Decided to dress up like a sister... In his derfence it was super funny and also one of the elders in the district dressed up like a sister, I wore my lieder hosen. Well President found out about it and tore me apart... He was most mad at me becasue I was once a Zone leader and should have known better and put an end end to it but he called me and threatened to Blitz me which means that he would just send me to a different city that same day he said that he would call us and tell us the next day if he was gonna blitz us... Well the next day he called and sent Elder Perkins away and that was a hard one becasue he was my fav comp... But President said that  he didnt send him away becasue of the halloween thing but becasue i have to help out a missionary that wants to go home and that I have to help him stay out on his mission... So I have now a new comp that is probably gomma go home within the next week... Pres put him wiht me because I had the same problems that I did when I was home but, his problem is not the same as mine.. I wanted to stay but was just going through a hard time... But i looked for a reason to stay... I dont get that feeling from him he is just looking for a reason to go... He has already told pres that he is going home.. The biggest problem is... I feel like I have failed president... I just dont have a good feeling right now and im just not... Yeah.. I dont know.. Im trying to do my best but its hard to give my all to the work and work with him at the sametime... He is also just not humble enogh to do anything or to listen... I just am reall mad at myself right now...
Well besides that the week has been okay our investigators are doing really good and they are all making really good progress and want to get more and more involved in the church! That im excited about but... I just feel like im putting too much focus on the invesiagators and not enought focus on my companion... I just really hate to be going through this right now...
Oh and side note... Elder perkins called me the day after he got transfered and I just felt soo bad for him... He feels soo bad for what he did and he thinks its all his fault that he got Blitz but, its kinda mine.. I should have known better than to let that happen... Im just not in a good place right now... 
Well tell ellie that all i need from her is a good letter form her for Christmas and that will help me and that will make me happpy!! :) 
Im super stoked that you passed your exam momma!!! WAy to go! That is awesome! I knew you would do it! This is gonna be awesome for you! You seemed sooo excited and im just really happy for you right now!! 
Well i havent had a chance to look at dads talk but ill do that right now. Tell him that he dont have time to eating monkey rolls when im comin home to pound on him.... HAHAH just kidding... 
OH and tell Ethan that im gonna pound on him tooo when i get home It sounds like he is getting a little big... Im prouud of him.. I didnt wehight that much till my second year of high school....
Well momma.... I need your prayers... Love you all soo much!! 
 BRADY! :

nov 11


Hey mom... Well this week... Well im not sure where to start... One of the harder ones for me....You know me I dont like to show people what im going through sometimes so I kinda hold it back but i just need some one to vent too... Well it all starts about not last friday but the friday before... Well we had our district meeting that friday and our district leader decided that we all dress up for Halloween for District meeting... Well it was also the first day for one of the missionarires and Elder perkins Decided to dress up like a sister... In his derfence it was super funny and also one of the elders in the district dressed up like a sister, I wore my lieder hosen. Well President found out about it and tore me apart... He was most mad at me becasue I was once a Zone leader and should have known better and put an end end to it but he called me and threatened to Blitz me which means that he would just send me to a different city that same day he said that he would call us and tell us the next day if he was gonna blitz us... Well the next day he called and sent Elder Perkins away and that was a hard one becasue he was my fav comp... But President said that  he didnt send him away becasue of the halloween thing but becasue i have to help out a missionary that wants to go home and that I have to help him stay out on his mission... So I have now a new comp that is probably gomma go home within the next week... Pres put him wiht me because I had the same problems that I did when I was home but, his problem is not the same as mine.. I wanted to stay but was just going through a hard time... But i looked for a reason to stay... I dont get that feeling from him he is just looking for a reason to go... He has already told pres that he is going home.. The biggest problem is... I feel like I have failed president... I just dont have a good feeling right now and im just not... Yeah.. I dont know.. Im trying to do my best but its hard to give my all to the work and work with him at the sametime... He is also just not humble enogh to do anything or to listen... I just am reall mad at myself right now...
Well besides that the week has been okay our investigators are doing really good and they are all making really good progress and want to get more and more involved in the church! That im excited about but... I just feel like im putting too much focus on the invesiagators and not enought focus on my companion... I just really hate to be going through this right now...
Oh and side note... Elder perkins called me the day after he got transfered and I just felt soo bad for him... He feels soo bad for what he did and he thinks its all his fault that he got Blitz but, its kinda mine.. I should have known better than to let that happen... Im just not in a good place right now... 
Well tell ellie that all i need from her is a good letter form her for Christmas and that will help me and that will make me happpy!! :) 
Im super stoked that you passed your exam momma!!! WAy to go! That is awesome! I knew you would do it! This is gonna be awesome for you! You seemed sooo excited and im just really happy for you right now!! 
Well i havent had a chance to look at dads talk but ill do that right now. Tell him that he dont have time to eating monkey rolls when im comin home to pound on him.... HAHAH just kidding... 
OH and tell Ethan that im gonna pound on him tooo when i get home It sounds like he is getting a little big... Im prouud of him.. I didnt wehight that much till my second year of high school....
Well momma.... I need your prayers... Love you all soo much!! 
 BRADY! :) 

nov


Hey there momma!!! Well this week was a good one actually! We found a bunch of invesitgators.... WE found 7 this last week, if you dont know thats a lot for Germany hahah most of the time we are lucky to get one a week. But I dont know what happened this week, Elder Perkins and I just decided to put on the big boy pants and go to work. We have been going a little slowly up till now and Im not sure why, I think that I have been getting a little burnt out or something but this last week I just had a big burst of energy and was ready to do some work? But it was really good from what it looks like we gound some pretty good one too not just some weirdos that wont make progress or anything hahah, we are petty excited to see our program grow!:
Oh well I got a pretty sad phone call this week... WEll I got the phone call that elder hardy and elder ames are leaving.... They called me their last night in Germany to say good bye.. It is soooo weird that they are gona now but its also a littl hard becaue I feel like im missing out on something hahahah. Im starting to feel a little alone in the mission like im an old fart or something hahaha. But elder hardy says that I might have to come and stay a couple of nights at his place when I get up at weber haha. He is great, I hope he and I can chill when I get home! He alos said that he was chilling with Chase's uncle or something? I dont know hahah But Elder Ames said the same thing becasue he lives right in the area too! 
Oh and im a little dissapointed though... This Halloween was lame... we didnt get anyone come to our door for trick or treating... It was a little lame! But november is looking good. Im not Zone leader anymore but Im still getting a turkey bowl thing set up for the zone hahaha! The zone leaders said it was fine if they are on my team hahaha! Oh and thats a little weird... The ZL here are not the most expeirenced so they call me sometimes and ask me what I would do if I were sill Zone leader hahah its a little funny but I kinda enjoy it!! :) 
Well it sound like everything at home is going good still except for the roof  in the office... I hope dad can get it repaired... That really sucks... I would gladly help if I were home... hahahah..... Well tell here is my biggest question for steve.... Did he ask for this girls numbert that he talked to at the door?.... If he did he just became im hero... hahah`!!! Oh and I loved your costume momma hahaha! IT was great! You really looked like a cow girl! Oh and I loved dads Frankie hahaha 
Oh well momma I fasted this week too... Well my answer wasnt much different than what you got.. I just felt that I need to keep going and to stay strong hahaha... I feel like thats just the whole misssion goes hahaha Im gonna give it my best like I said earlier, Elder perkins and I went to work this week and are gtonna keep going! We are working really good together and are having a blast! 
Well sorry this lettert is short, I dont have too much time this week sorry! 
 Love you all!!! :) 
Oh P.S If you want to resend the package I would love it!!! :)

Halloween

Hey there momma! Well this week was a good one! It was really good for Elder Perkins and I, we taught some people like a boss today hahah! It was actualy really cool of me becasue we were teaching an investigator named Marcella and we watched the cheesy Restoration film with her from our chruch becasue we wanted that she gets a better idea from what Joseph smith did and what he went through and everything. It was a really good moment for me becasue Elder Perkins gave really good testimony during our lesson and it was one of those high spiritual moments, it was one of those proud moments as a trainer hahah! But Marcella is doing really really good now, she is reading and coming to chruch! She is awesome, its also good for Elder Perkins because Marcella can speak English so that helps him out a lot hahah. We did run into a little problem with her this week though.... So, Marcellas daughter Sonny is 17 and is a typical 17 year old girl.... Well she is getting Jelious becasue we like to talk to her mom more than her... Its really funny but at the some time a little annoying hahah. This last week she had to sit Elder Perkins and I down and talk to us about her problem that we talk to her mom more than her hahaha, the problem is, Marcella makes progress and Sonny likes her church and doesnt want to change hahahah, so we are probably gonna just stick with Marcella. The problem is now, if I talk or text Marcella I have to call or text Sonny too or else she gets mad and Marcellla told us that Sonny gets mad when we dont talk to her...  So if you have any tips for 17 year old girls that would be great hahah! Oh and one of our other investigators is also doing great, his name is Camassa, he is from Portugal but he speaks English so we can talk hahah. But he loves the book or mormon, we gave him the book or mormon last week and he is already in Alma 32! :) He is doing awesome! We are seeing some pretty amazing things here right now, its slow but the things we are seeing are really awesome. The only sad thing is we still havent been able to get a hold of max.... I still have my goal to baptize him but at this rate... We will see.. 
Oh and this week I had one of the worst days of my life... This last tuesday I got super super sick... I threw up like the whole day... I counted and I threw up 11 times.... It was terriable.. I dont know what it was but its gone now, I thik I got a little food poisining or something. It was one of the most painful things of my life... I think I spent the whole day just crawling around on the floor becasue it hurt too bad to stand up hahahahah. I did get a little mad because the German way of getting better is drinking tea and sleeping... There is really no medication here that they can give you and like no pain killers or anything... They like to do things here natural or something? 
Well let me start with Ellies Question.... I think that I will be a Mission President hahaha that is soooo funny that she said that to you.... Well I almost agree with her hahaha.... She is sooo funny, it sounds like she is growing up a little bit hahah. Wait, when is she getting interviewed for her baptism? 
Oh and tell Ethan way to flippin go with the Grades, I know he can do better but that is still good :) Well tell him to get ready for wrestling too becasue he is also my target when I get home, I have to show him that I can still pound on him hahah ;) 
With steve, I know he needs to get a date but ya know the more we push the more he willl just push back and it wont go anywhere, I dont know how to help him? I know what he needs to do, he just needs to do it :/
Does this mean that alyssa is gonna have to go to the Hospital? im worried about her now hahahah but you said that this is normal so I think that she will be fine! Im soooo stoked to be an uncle!!! Tell her I need to babysit her kidos so I can teach them how to tick her off and to tease her, because its an important skill to have in life... 
Oh and tell dad my trainin for this week was a little lame becasue i have been recovering from being sick but by the time I get home ill be ready to kick his trash still hahaha... Im a man now... Im 21.... I dont think that he understands this... 

Momma, Im sorry life is all over the place right now hahaha I know you and I know your gonna kick butt at this new thing! Oh and im totaly down as usual to fast! I know that I need to endure to the end here, I have been thinking a lot about home lately and its been killing me a little but I still know in the back of my head that this is where I need to be and that the lord isnt threw with me yet and needs me  to stay strong here and to give it all got here and im trying my best to do just that for him, its getting harder every day to not think about football and school and home but, its not bad to think about it but when I start to get home sick then its a problem and I havent had that yet so good thing :) 
Oh and about my card.... Well I have some good news and bad news.... Well, I know where it is but I cant get it... So i left it in the ATM machine but when you leave a card in there for too long then it just sucks it in and keeps it and its impossable to get it out... I have asked to people to get it out for me and they said that they are not allowed to do that and they also wont send it back to america becasue it costs too much... 
Oh and the package... I went to the only post office I know of here and they said that they wouldnt give me the package becasue I didnt have the shipping number?? They were being real big jerks about it, let me give you my adress again maybe I gave it to you wrong last time... 
Sankt Jürgen Str. 144
Bremen, HB 28203
DEU