Well this week will be a very large milestone for me and
my mission and my family as well! So Thursday, I think, it will be will
my one year mark in this two year mission that I have been doing. To
hear that for me, is beyond crazy!!. In most ways, it does not feel like
I have been doing this for a year. But after thinking about it for a
while it started to set in... of all the things that have happened over
the last year.... I can kind of get the feeling of what all has
happened. But its okay because everyone says that the second year goes
by a ton faster and I 100% believe that. Ever since I was in Arica
training elder Jimenez, time has been flying by like crazy. I have very
mixed feelings because I am enjoying that the weeks are going by quick
and I can watch the progress of all of these awesome people in my old
areas, as well as my current area. But at the same time, I know that I
need to cherish the time I have left because its all going to be passing
by quicker than ever now. On the bright side to all this is that I
think that I will be staying in Tierra Amarilla through Christmas and
New Years, and possibly a month or two after that!
Two
weeks ago in our sector I think that I said something about going to
the back side of our area to find some new people and look for some old
ones too. Also that we found a guy named Oscar that came up to us and
invited us to come back. So what happened was this family was talking to
other missionaries years ago and just kind of stopped for no particular
reason. They were so excited to have the missionaries back in their
house after so much time. The first time we went over there they told us
that they want their two sons baptized and so me and Elder Gali were
just as happy as we could have been. Even though this family lives over
an hour away from the church building, they came!! Even more is that
they showed up before us!! Because they had been the church in the past,
everyone already knows who they are and remembers them from way back
when. We have already been by twice this week and are planning to head
back out there Tuesday. We have talked to the mission president about
being able to use bikes if we can borrow some from a family, and he gave
us the okay as long as we have helmets and something reflective like a
vest or something. So that will save us a ton of time for when we go out
there again and will also help us go to the other town that is in our
sector!
In our poor district this week, just
about everyone ended up with some kind of sickness or infirmity, myself
included. I got off pretty easy with some super crazy allergies. Right
now this is still the spring season down here and summer vacation will
start for the kids here in a couple of weeks. That also means is that
there is some crazy pollen flying around in our area and that has gotten
to me, but now I am all better and back to full energy!! Some of the
other Elders have it way worse than me. I feel bad for them because they
are all workaholics and can´t stand having down time. Of the four of
them three of them are sick... One with a bad cough, another with
pneumonia, and the last with a herniated disk. Nobody is sure what the
last person did but he is in a good bit of pain and on a lot of meds
right now. Just as a district in general we are falling apart. But
everyone is getting better and hopefully everyone will be better by
Christmas.
That is all for now.
Love,
Elder Brayton
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