Hermana Carolyn Brown's Mission Blog

So this week was pretty good. We went to Santa Ana and visited a friend of a member (well it´s the member’s son´s girlfriend). That went really well. We taught about the restoration and then we went back and visited her again and taught the Book of Mormon. She is really receptive and said that she will read the Book of Mormon but she couldn´t come to church because she is working on Sundays.

We also went and taught N. We had previously talked with her mom and she said that she wasn´t going to give her permission to be baptized because the grandma said she would disown them if she did (even though she already has other family that are members and she talks to them). So we went and taught N and she said she REALLY wants to be baptized and everything but she´s been having problems with her grandma, friends and teachers. The school said they would take away her support if she got baptized. She´s been faced with lots of difficulties but at the end she prayed and asked God to help her be strong even if her friends and teachers stop talking to her and helping her. Now we just need the permission from the mom.

We also went and taught H. He is still asking tons of questions and everything. He is having lots of problems with the Word of Wisdom still. He likes to do drugs...now it’s only marijuana but before it was a ot of other stuff. We were really direct with him and told him he needed to stop. He said he knows it’s bad for him and that God doesn’t want him to do it but he said he wasn’t going to stop. So then we kept talking and finally he said a prayer for like 30 minutes asking for help with his problems and that he really wants to change and he started crying during it but then he didn’t come to church on Sunday. He said he was going to visit his brother who is in jail (MJ´s not husband but father of her children). Basically he was put in jail by a crooked cop and so their family is suffering a lot for that. MJ wants to marry him and so we´re trying to get that figured out so she can be baptized too.

MA and his family are on the right track! They are so awesome! C their daughter was going to start taking English on Sundays but they switched it to Saturdays so they could keep the Sabbath day holy :) That was awesome to hear! They are loving church and everything and they accepted the challenge to be baptized 26th of August! They are so happy that they can have an eternal family someday! We taught them the plan of salvation (well finished teaching them) and then after church we watched the Restoration with them. They also came to the noche de hermanamiento. They´re such a golden family and I am so excited for them!

Making Pizza with the other missionaries. Looks good, huh?

On Friday we had interviews which was really awesome! Man I love President Brough he is the best! He has such a great love for all of us. One of the things he talked about at the end was D&C 93. That we have the ability to see Christ in this life in the Temple so keep going! English or Spanish haha. He said that some of our grandparents have seen him and it’s the reason they have such a great reverence for the Temple.

Yesterday we made pizzas for pday and that was awesome!

No I didn´t see Cameron (a friend from SUU who is down there right now) but he ran into some other missionaries in Chimaltenango and they brought my stuff! THANK YOU! and THANK YOU FOR THE PACKAGE WITH THE GAINORS! haha I´m sure I said thank you for the other. The CD you just sent is REALLY good! As for my towel...it´s drying pretty decently but I think it would be nice to have the other kind for Christmas...as well as some caramel corn :) haha. Also I would like some of the other skirts but it can wait til Christmas too I don´t need them now. I´m good on packages for a little while but thank you so much for sending them!

Hna Alvarado wants a little preach my gospel too if that´s ok.