May 27, 2011

this week was really good. our investigator got baptized. it only took two times, which i was surprised i was worried it was going to be like 4 or 5, because he is a really big guy. we got a member to do it and he did a great job. since he is so big i was in the water as well, to try to lift him up. it was funny because the first time his feet floated up so i reached over and tried to push them under and then his head came up so the member pushed him under again and then his stomach came up, it was like that game wack a mole where just different parts of his body float up. but the second time was great. after he got confirmed he was crying a little bit, it was really cool. he is a really nice guy. this is the last week of the cambio, i think i am going to stay and my companion is going to leave but you can never be sure. cambios are always crazy because you never knows whats going to happen or who your going to be with but whatever happens will be good. we had interviews with the President this week, i think these are going to be the last ones, which is really sad. today we went to playa blanca which is the half way point in chile, which was fun. we are going to eat too bbq´s today. one of another companionships investigators got married today and invited us all to her party afterwards and gave us steak, and later today the ward mission leader invited us over to eat a bbq as well. i am so impressed about lota and some of the members. we have this lady who feeds all six us us every sunday rain or shine and she gives us so much good food, but the thing is is that she is poor and only works one day a week. she makes her two kids wait until she feeds us and we are done eating, she is awesome, such a good lady, and our convert she gives us such good lunches she feeds us every week. it was a really good week, we found some really good people that we are going to work with and see what happens. i hope i stay in lota but we will see what happens. love you and thanks so much for your letters.

Love

Elder Brimhall

May 23, 2011

This week was really good. This week if everything goes right we are going to baptize a 400 hundred pound 72 year old guy. the story how we found him is kind of interesting. we were knocking doors looking for this teenager that we had contacted early in the week. so knocked on his door and he answered. he cant really walk very good and has to use crutches. so we asked him if he knew where he lived and he told us not really. i wasnt even thinking about teaching him because he was so old and i didnt think he would be able to come to church because he cant walk hardly at all and lives at the bottom of this huge hill, that is so steep. so we were about to leave and then he asked us if we wanted to talk to him, and i looked at my companion and we said sure for a minute. anyway we went in and taught him a little bit and he was really cool, we put a fecha with him the first lesson, and has gone to church the last 3 sundays, he has to use a taxi but it works and he makes it to church. it just really made me think how much the Lord really does bless us, and how some times we dont even realize it. Hermana Swenson talked about that the last conference that when we are with the Savior and look back on our life we are going to fall down at his feet when we see really how much he has blessed us. So keep your eyes open there are blessings all around. the guy who is going to be baptized made us sopipeas (no idea how to spell that) it is pretty much like fried bread, that is fried in animal fat and oil. yummy!!!!jk they were so big, we should a picture to a member and she said they were the biggest she had every seen. we helped one of our converts paint her house this week. she made us steak with french fries and the fried bread with this mexican salsa stuff it was so good. so this week i think i gained like 10 pounds, everyone just kept giving us food, but it was really good. my companion is really good we have 2 more weeks together but we are getting a long really good. our president only has 2 more months left, and then he is leaving. it is kind of sad. but i have heard that the new one is really cool as well. he has kids of the ages 11,6, and 3 at least from what i have heard. Well thanks for everything love you all

Love

Elder Brimhall

May 16, 2011

Ya this year really has flew by. That would be cool if you guys ended up going on a mission. Just dont go foreign, we have a senior couple and the husband cant speak spanish so they have to work in the office, and he hates it. i had to work with him everyday, and i dont think there was one day that he didnt complain. so ya i would say that navoo would be a pretty cool mission, if you get to pick, but i dont think that you can, but i really have no idea. thats retarded about the goat, i really would report that to the police, because that really is ridiculous. But that is good that everything is going well, and that there are lots of marriages. i am surprised by haley because i think that she is pretty young and i think his son just got back off his mission a little bit ago, but as long as they get married in the temple you cant complain to much. well love you lots mom, thanks as always for your letters, and your love.

love,

Elder Brimhall

May 2, 2011

i am going to hope that g mail works because the other way seems really complicated jk. i am going to try to call at 5 or 6 here maybe 7 latest, but this saturday we are changing our time. i hate day light savings time lol. maybe you can look it up on the internet to find out for sure what time that will be. its great to hear from you, and that madelyn gave you the opportunity to babysit here. jk. thats crazy that jon is going to get married in one month that is insane. youll have to send me some photos. that is kind of crazy that dennis stopped by but hopefullly he had a good time. the stake presidency i have no idea who any of those people are, but i was only in the single ward so you really dont have taht many activities with other wards. i am glad that you are doing well, and am really excited to hear from you and get to hear your voice love you lots mom.
Elder Brimhall

April 25, 2011

this week was really good. it was really stressful preparing for the baptisms. saturday i was really stressed out. we had to go down early and feel out the font. so we started filling it and started to clean the church which took a while, because it has been raining a lot lately so there was a lot of mud. so we cleaned it all up, and then my companion realized that he had forgotten the pants for one of the people that were going to get baptized. so we had to take a bus back home get the pants and come back. when we got back the water was green in the font, because all the rain we have been having. so the mom of the kid didnt want to baptize him in that water, so we had to empty the font and refill it which took a way long time. the baptism was suppose to start at 6 but since we had all those crazy things happen it started at like 7 30. luckily our ward mission leader had a bunch of movies about the church so we were able to watch some as we waited. so then the baptisms happened, it was really good. the water was still green and kind of cold but we did them anyway. the first two went well without any problems, the the third one was crazy. it was the evangelical pastor. her son who just got the priesthood a week before baptized her. but i think he got a little nervous because he mixed up the words a few times, and she was kind of hard to baptize because she is shorter and her belly kept floating up. the first time was kind of funny he dunked her and she came up saying all this evangelical stuff like blessed be the name of Jesus and stuff like that and then we had to tell her that they had to do it again. i think she ended up getting dunked like 7 times it was crazy. we ended up just using a chair, which we should have done in the first place, but they all got baptized and confirmed on sunday so it was a really good weekend. we got cambios this week and i am staying in Lota with the same companion for 6 more weeks. i am happy, the sector is really good, and my companion is a nice guy and we get a long pretty well. so all is well lota is amazing, i am really happy i get to stay here again. thanks for all your letters and everything i really do appreciate everything.

Love

Elder Brimhall

April 18, 2011

This week was good. our investigators right now are kind of funny. We have this one lady named Juanita Campos who was a pastor for the Evangelical church, which is like the same as a Baptist Pastor. Her son just got the priesthood a week ago, and is going to baptize his mom this weekend, which should be really awesome. Her son is awesome he was baptized like 3 months ago but he completely changed when he started to meet with the missionaries. That is what drew her interest in our church, and started going and now is going to get baptized. She still gets a lot of pressure from her church, for example they will tell her that she cant leave they need her and stuff like that, but we are just going to keep visiting her and make sure that she is ready to go this week. she is very evangelical though which is really funny. She will say really loudly AMEN like a million times in sacrament meeting. But she is getting a lot better. Evangelicals when someone prays they pray to, but its really weird they will be mumbling to themselves really loud while your trying to pray. she used to do that all the time but now doesnt so she is getting a lot better. its really funny too because she went to the investigators class and kept answering all the questions it was really funny, she would always quote some scripture in Psalms or Isaiah. She is really cool, and signed up in relief society to feed us on Friday so she is awesome. we have this other person named Christian Saez. He is like 44, his wife and daughter got baptized like a month ago. He is a nice guy, but he hates my companion. last night he told me that i can come to his house if i come with someone else but if i come with my companion he wont accept us. my companion is a nice guy but they always argue and he just does dumb stuff sometimes, so this is going to be really hard because we are going to have to find members to come with us so we can do intercambios. so i will let you know how it goes, but hopefully we will have 3 people this week, if everything works out, but the week of the baptism is always the hardest for the investigators so we will just have to keep working hard and visiting them. so thats a little about the people we are teaching they are all really cool, and have their own personalities. Lota is awesome it is a really good place, i love it alot. Well thanks for everything love you all.

Elder Brimhall

April 11, 2011

this week was good. we just got done playing soccer as a zone it was a lot of fun. we went to arauco and played on this huge field. our zone is pretty cool there is an elder from thatcher named elder lewis, who i guess was pretty good at football he redshirted at ea, but he is pretty cool, and we have a zone leader from New Zealand who is pretty cool as well. this week was good our investigators are all doing well, we just have to find more people this week we didnt really find anyone. that the thing so far in my mission, i go through dry spells where there is no one and then when we start finding people we get tons of awesome people. so we are just going to keep working and hope that we find lots of good people this week. we visited a lot of inactive members this week, and got a lot of references from members, but none of them really worked out. we will just have to keep doing our part and the Lord will do the rest. I was sick on Tuesday but we worked anyway, but it was pretty rough, i was so tired that night i woke up like 5 times. i feel a lot better now though. its turning into autumn here now and all the leaves are turning yellow and falling off. its going to start to get really cold. i guess during the winter it rains like every day, so that will be a good experience. from may to july it is pure rain, which is good because i will probably never experience that in my life living in arizona. so ya everything is good, my companion is nice he is a good guy he is from utah. we have two weeks left in this cambio so we are just going to keep working hard and everything will work our for the best. thanks for everything love you all.

Atte.

Elder Brimhall