Wow pops, I am glad to hear that all is well and that you weren't
injured in the accident. That is so crazy. For some reason when I got on
to do email today and saw that no one had written I had a feeling that
something happened, then, as I was writing president I got an email from
you and of course something had happened. I am very glad to hear that
all is well though. I haven't got anything from Mom this morning yet, so
she will probably mad when she gets this before she is able to write.
This week has been a crazy and a tuff one but as well very good. Just
pretty much a lot of emotions packed into one week. I will tell you more
about it later.
Well, from what Dad told me it sounds like the week was a really
busy one, and to finish off with that crash I am sure you have seen
better weeks ha, but hey, if we never had bad weeks we would never know
what good weeks are. As well, we would not be able to develop
Christ-like attributes like diligence, patience, faith or hope. This is
something that I have been slowly learning here in the mission is to
look at all trials, afflictions, infirmites and even accidents with an
attitude of "If ........... (something negative) never happened, we
would never learn ...........(something positive)" This has really
helped me to keep a better attitude and as well to really search for
ways to learn and grow from the hard things that often confront us in
our lives. So my example for you today is "If there was never black ice
on the street we would never appreciate a good nice dry road." I have
also found that a little bit of humor never hurts in a difficult
situation.
My following example is to kinda explain to you all how this last
week was. "If we were never tired, worn out, and exhausted, we would
never learn how to be diligent." That is the phrase of this last week.
Wow I was tired at the end of this last week. I will start from the
beginning. Tuesday we had intercambios with the zone leaders, so me and
Elder Renshaw in the morning went on a 2 and a half hour bus ride to
Lanco, the zone leaders sector, and then Elder Walker and I took another
2 and a half hour bus ride right back to Pangi to start working. Elder
Walker is one awesome Elder. I learned a ton from him and we are very
similar in a lot of ways, one of the biggest being the fact that we both
love fishing. Although he is much more experienced than me on the
subject of catching big fish haha. It was a great intercambio though.
Thursday the four of us Elders from Pangi woke up at 5 in the morning to
be able to take a bus down to Valdivia and be there before ten for a
Zone Conference. It was an awesome conference and also I was able to see
many of my great friends there, namely my kid Elder Jensen, Rytting,
Carmen, and last but for sure not least my mtc comp Elder Cowley. I love
that guy. The conference was great and we talked about a lot, but one
of my favorite parts was talking about how we can use our agency to
become the 4th missionary. Lacee can explain what that is. It was
awesome. Then to finish the week off we found out the new transfers and
Elder Renshaw is headen south to Punta Arenas and to my suprise I will
be training again!!!!! I am so excited to get another new one. We are
going to tear things up out here in Pangi. I don't know who he is yet,
but I am going to get him Thursday. I am excited. Pres called me Sat.
night to tell me. It was funny he didn't tell me before because I saw
him so much this week because he was here in Pangi looking at the house
for the couple missionaries.
Well, I better end so I can put on some pics. I love you all and I
thank you for your prayers and support I need them. I love the mission
with all my heart and I am so thankful for my Savior and for what he has
done for me so I can become better. Love you all.
Elder Brown
Ps I love the 12 days of Christmas I am opening them everyday and the stories are awesome.
1. Pangui!!!!
2. Elder Cowley and I at zone conference - they gave us Christmas hats and we sang some carols
3. The pigs at the house of Luis and Vitalia. Haha I love chile!
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