can drunk people feel the spirit?

Hello friends and family!!!

como estan? My companion Hermana McDonald is awesome! she came already trained and it feels like she is training me! She teaches so clearly and shares personal experiences.
We're still teaching Guadalupe... she finally has a marriage date for march 22 and then will be baptized the next day! She was the one who came up to us and told us she was ready to be baptized. She said ever since she's started coming to church she's seen a difference in her teenage daughter's life. Guadalupe knows it's true and cant wait to get baptized.


Lately we've been trying to contact 20 people everyday because one of the apostles told us if we contacted 10 people each, every day we would double our baptisms.... so yesterday i told Hermana McDonald that id follow her for the next contact. and she led us to a group of drunk guys bbq ing and she did so well! they gave us fajita tacos (mmmm) and then we sang "i know my redeemer lives" i dont know if drunk people can feel the spirit but atleast they have our card to remember us. We meet a lot of interesting people, i love it.


We're also started a new service program in this mission called JustServe where we are supposed to do 10 hours of service hours- whether it be cleaning the street, or singing in the nursing home... and hna mcDonald and i are putting our talents to use! im tutoring math and my comp will teach guitar (in spanish! eek) we're so excited and know that people will come unto Christ with this service project.


I am so grateful for the plan of Salvation because I know why I am here and where I am going. I know what i need to do in this life. Jesus Christ is the center of God's plan for us and through Him we can overcome any addiction. I am so grateful for my Savior and I know that He lives.


love
Hermana Brown

transfer calls!!

Hello familia!! como estan??!

guess what? im training again! hna lebaron is going to another area and im picking up a new greenie. i was so surprised because i just got done with the training program with hna lebaron! but im excited, i know im supposed to be here for a reason. 

 

This week was really great because we had 2 great conferences. Elder Aiducautis from the 70 came to talk to us about networking. it's a good finding idea with our investigators who have a baptismal date. you just write down everyone they know and then they say a prayer and then whoever comes to their mind you invite them to their baptism. we'll try it some time and letcha know how it goes ;)

also we had a neat stake conference broadcasted from Utah to all of the stakes in OK and TX (mitch/nikki prolly saw it too!)

 

i really liked the talk from Elder Richard G. Scott about the worth of women and couples need to respect eachother. after watching that anyone living in sin with their espovia would want to get married. too bad more of our investigators didnt go to church that day.

We also knocked into a family this week who have heard the missionaries before and have a lot of potential. I love missionary work and helping people coming unto Christ. 

todo esta bien! thanks for all your love and support! happy presidents day.

love

hermana Brown

cruise ship

Helloooo!!!

I love serving in the Casa Linda ward here in Dallas. I've been here 4 transfers... hopefully i stay another! Our ward is so big they have to open the overflow area! There are 6 missionaries in our ward, with an older couple, the Goldings, who focus just on the inactives. It's so amazing how missionary work is such a ward effort. The ward im in now is really good at involving our investigators, and I think for that we've been so successful. Even the people we've dropped, the members are still asking us about. 

One investigator that we were teaching, Juan, a single old janitor we met playing racketball we had dropped for a while came to church yesterday. we had dropped him because he was just going to every church he was invited to, to look for a woman. and so we mentioned that in our coordination meeting and Elder Golding, the senior couple missionary said he'd go visit him. Well he went with another elderly gentleman and apparently hit it off pretty good because Juan came back to church! Missionary work is such a group effort... one couple of missionaries can't do everything. 

These past two weeks we've been visiting a lot of less actives... it's really interesting because all of them know exactly what they need to do. (and some of them were just waiting for an invitation back to church). Going to church is really a habit that is easy to get out of. And then our scripture reading and praying falls short... and then we just feel down and wonder why? Hna LeBaron and I love sharing this quote with less actives:

"When our commitment is diminished for any reason, part of the solution is repentance" - Quentin L. Cook ("Can you feel so now" oct '12 general conf)

It's so true. When we feel down or feel overwhelmed with life we need to take a step back and repent. maybe we havent been reading or praying like we should. the little things like going to church, reading our scriptures, and praying, make all the difference. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the best solution, it uplifts us and gives us hope. We are so blessed to be members of the true church of Jesus Christ. Sometimes we take advantage of the grand blessing and privilege it is to always have the Spirit with us. We should live so close to the Spirit so that we can recognize when it leaves.

I love you all! have a great week!

love 

Hermana Cafe

ps watch the mormon message "your potential your privileges"!!!! it's about the cruise ship metaphor. love it.

hopscotch

Hola familia y amigos!!!

This week went by so fast and there are only 2 more weeks in this transfer! The weather has been really nice and yesterday we did a fun lesson with chalk. We visited a family who recently got baptized and we decided to go outside for the lesson. We explained the gospel of Jesus Christ with hopscotch! We put a picture of Jesus a few feet away and then drew the squares to get there. faith, repentance, baptism/gift of the holy ghost (as two squares). and then they have to have more faith and more repentance, take the sacrament.... the kids loved it! 

 

I love teaching the gospel and sharing my testimony of it. 

love ya lots!

 

Hermana Brown

ps sry for the short email...we're going to go check out downtown dallas today! :)