Monday, September 05, 2016

Mom please forgive me haha! 

This is going to be the most useless email ever!  This week has been so crazy!  The reason I am emailing so late today is because we had to move out of our flat today.  Elder Saurey and I are really sad that we have to move out of our flat.  The reason we are so sad is because we probably have the nicest flat in the mission!  One of the perks of our flat is that we have 2 showers.  Having two showers has been so nice because it makes getting ready in the morning really easy!  This week we spent half of a day cleaning on Friday and Saturday.  We were super stressed about having our flat clean by Monday because we knew that we would be moving out.  We had spent the entire week using our lunch and dinner breaks to clean, but we still had lots to do.  Our flat wasn't even dirty, but in order to have it deep cleaned (according to momma Brunson standards) it takes a long time!  There were heaps of marks on the walls, and lots of random crevices that we had to clean.  Anyway, so we called President Cummings and asked him for permission to have some time to clean the flat.  He said that was no problem so we went hard on the cleaning both Friday and Saturday.  On Sunday both Elder Saurey and I had really sore bodies.  It is amazing how much effort it takes to completely clean a little flat.  After we finished cleaning we were really sad to have to turn the flat in.  This morning Elder and Sister Templeton came and helped us load all of our furniture and belongings into a trailer.  Unfortunately we can't move in to our new flat until Wednesday, so we are staying two nights with Elder Osborne and Elder Ellsworth, which should be lots of fun!  The good news about getting a new flat is that we will still probably have the nicest flat in the mission.  We are moving to a new housing complex, so our house will only be like one year old.  Hopefully it will be really clean and nice!

The miracle of the week (besides getting our flat cleaned) was setting Mary for Baptism!!!!!!!  Mary is set October 1st for baptism!!!!!!!  We had a really awesome lesson with Jay and Mary on Saturday.  We talked to them about Eternal marriage and taught them the law of chastity!  It was such an awesome lesson. Mary wants to be able to go to the temple to be sealed to Jay and their daughter Marissa!  And she has been telling us how she wants to join the church because everything makes so much sense.  Mary grew up going to the Catholic Church and she says that nothing really ever made sense to her.  She said that since meeting with us everything makes sense and she really feels God has a plan for her and her family.  We were not sure how well Mary was going to take the invitation to be baptized on a specific date.  We knew Mary wanted to be baptized, but we weren't sure if she would be willing to commit to get married in a month.  However, we invited her to be baptized on October 1st and we anxiously waited for her response.  She paused and thought about it for quite some time, and then she replied that she wanted to be baptized that day!  We were so excited that I can't even put it into words.  Elder Saurey and I got out of the lesson and were so pumped!  We also had a really awesome FHE with their family on Monday night.  Jay made us the biggest plates of spaghetti that I have ever seen! We had no clue how we were going to eat it all.  It was literally a mountain of spaghetti.  Their food is in short supply in their home though, so we both knew that we didn't want to waste any of it.  Somehow we were both able to finish the mountain of spaghetti.  After Elder Saurey and I gave the lesson we played charades.  It was super fun!!!!  I have come to love this family so much!  They are seriously the best family ever!  I love being a missionary so much!  It is so worth it!  I hope everyone has a stellar week!

Love,

Elder Brunson