Monday, February 6, 2017

I'm officially a killer :(  It's sad to say, but I officially killed Elder Fellingham this morning at 7:30.  It was sad to see Elder Fellingham go!  I still can't believe that I got the chance to be companions with him.  It was so nice not having to adjust to someone who I didn't know.  Elder Fellingam and I got along so great and already had such a good relationship even before we became companions.  I don't know what I'm going to do without that guy in the mission.  He was a really good missionary, and I learned so much from him.  This last week went by really fast!  It was a really awesome week because neither Elder Fellingham nor I were trunky.  For all of you who haven't served a mission, being trunky is when you talk about going home!  President Cummings really discourages talking about home and something we do in our mission is when someone asks us how long we have been out we say a little under a year or a little over a year.  So I tell people I have been out a little over a year.  It was really cool to see how well we were able to stay focused on our purpose as missionaries.  Elder Fellingham is a great example and I'm thankful to have been able to be his companion.  I am now companion-less.  It's going to be weird to live in the flat by myself for the next couple of days.... jokes!!!  Just kidding I have a companion; I'm currently with Elder Talinoa and Mahina in a three sum.  They are both Tongan so it should be a pretty interesting couple of days.  I'm probably going to be pretty stressed haha.  However, to go along with last week’s email, I'm going to put my trust in God, and know that everything will work out!  I will stay with these Elders until transfer day on Thursday!  I really just want to know who my new companion is going to be!  I should get a call Tuesday night which will let me know who my companion will be, and who will be moving from our zone.  Until then we are just going to keep working hard!

Before I write anything else I want to make sure I talk about the most important event that happened this week and that was Shelby Brunsons baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I wish I could explain in words how happy it has made me to hear about the miracle in the Brunson family.  Even being so far away it has made me feel great joy to hear the steps that Shelby and Roger have been making.  I wish I could have been there so that you could have felt more of my support, but I want you to know how much I love you, Roger and Shelby.  Thanks for being such a great example!  I can't wait to attend your sealing in a year from now.  That will be an even more special day for your family!  I know that you have made such a great step and a step which will enable you to return to live back with Heavenly Father!

This week I had an awesome exchange on Tuesday with Elder Fesolai.  Elder Fesolai served in Manurewa when I was there and it was our third exchange together.  We always see heaps of miracles when we go on exchanges which are super cool. We had some of the coolest lessons of my mission on Tuesday! One was to a group of 20 year old guys.  We really had no idea what to teach them, but we ended up getting them to open up to us and we ended up teaching the plan of salvation!  It was such a cool lesson, and they asked us heaps of questions!  They thought that the plan of salvation made heaps of sense!  We also had a really good lesson with one of our potential investigator’s partner!  We taught her the entire restoration outside of her house.  The coolest part was when she asked us about the "Holy Trinity."  She told us that her biggest problem with church is that she doesn’t believe that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ is one person.  She said that it just didn't make sense to her.  It was so cool to be able to teach her that we believe that they are three separate beings with one purpose.  She was really amazed and said she had never heard of any church having the belief that they were separate beings.  We are really excited to keep working with her and hopefully we can see lots of progress this next transfer.

On a non-spiritual note, I had the best feed of my life this week!  One of the members bought us food from a Thai restaurant and it was seriously the best food I have ever had!  Man I can't even describe how good it was!  Well I love you all heaps and hope you have a terrifically stupendous week!  

Love,

Elder Brunson