Monday, May 15, 2017

Happy Mother’s Day!!!

It is a proven fact that I have the best mom in the whole wide world!!!!!!! I can tell you all with 100% confidence that I wouldn't be on a mission without the influence my mom has played on my life.  No, she did not force me to come out on a mission.  No her evil side did not scare me into coming on a mission either.  It is the pure love of Christ that she has for those around her and especially her children.  I'm so thankful to have been raised by such a wonderful woman.  I can't describe in words how much I love my momma.  I don't care if people call me a momma’s boy because it's true haha.  Mom I hope you have a great day!  I have two other sweet women in my life who are known to me by the same name.  Grandma!!!  I have two grandmas who did a wonderful job of raising their children and I know without the way they raised their children I wouldn't have the parents which I have.  I wish I could take more time to write about how much I love you all, hopefully you can feel the love that I have for you though!  

Ham town!!!

Yes!!!  I'm already starting to love my new area!!!!!!  As you all know Elder Brunson gets a little stressed out with change!!! But the Lord helps me to get settled in really quick and I'm very thankful for that.  The first little while is really stressful, but once I get comfortable I'm away!!  The best thing about Hamilton is that you can knock on doors at 8 o'clock at night and not get a hiding!!!  The other great part is that I'm serving where the University of Waikato is so I'm serving on a college campus!!!  It is really mean because we get to meet heaps of different people from all over the world!!!! I love it so much!!!! I also really love talking with people that go to Uni because they are usually really open minded and cool as.  This past week we met some really solid people that have heaps of potential.  The most recent baptisms have been YSA as well, so Elder Barcinas and I are going to try and get the YSA pumping!!! Another really awesome thing is the visitor center for the temple is not too far away so we get heaps of referrals that are usually pretty solid!!!!  Another plus is the mission office is in our area so we get to see the office staff pretty frequently, which is the best.  The negative about that is sister McGregor’s cookies are the best in New Zealand (notice mom I said NZ) so I'm going to gain heaps of weight haha!!!!  That is the worst part about H Town as well.  We are getting fed again so I'm gunna get real fat.  Also another plus, we have a Subway in our area that is owned by a member and he gives us half off so it is seriously so cheap to eat there so we eat there all the time!!!!!!  So another negative haha I'm still getting fat.   

Funniest thing of my life!!!!!!!!!!!

You all would have died laughing and I'm literally almost laughing out loud as I type this.  Elder Barcinas and I had to sing prelude in sacrament meeting with the sister missionaries in our ward.  Guess how the lady who leads the music wanted us to start out??!!!!  With Elder Barcinas and I singing by ourselves haha.  I no joke sang with my companion in front of our whole ward haha.  It was probably the saddest thing anyone has ever heard haha.  Like it was so bad.  We both have never sung in front of people like that and I was so nervous!!!!!!  I know I suck at singing so we were pretty much being set up to fail haha.  We sang, “I'll go where you want me to go” haha, which was quite fitting because I did not want to sing one bit, but somehow I couldn't say no haha.  I can honestly say it was probably the most embarrassing thing ever.  The best news was that it was so bad nobody even made fun of us haha.  Like if it would have been decently bad I'm sure people would have given us crap, but because it was probably the worst song they ever heard they didn't say anything to us haha.  On a serious note though, our ward is so awesome!  The people are pretty different, but they are so wonderful!!  Like if it would have been me, I would have been busting up laughing, but everyone listened to us and didn't even laugh haha.  I'm officially never going to laugh and someone who is singing ever again haha.  Unless it is on American Idol.  I'm not even sure if they still do that show haha. 

I love you guys heaps!  If you are feeling sad this week just picture Elder Brunson up on a stage singing at church.  I know it will bring a smile to your face haha.

Love,

Elder Brunson   

PS. The best part of the whole singing experience was that it made me feel comfortable to sing way louder when we sang as a group.  The opening hymn of church I sang loud as because I was thrilled not to be singing with just one other person haha.  I can now move past my fear of being a terrible singer and just belt out the hymns with the voice that I have.