Reading Alton's letter today made me feel like I just entered the MTC cause he's almost home. I still have a short time left on my mission but not as short as him. Shoutout to Oko and Rachel and also Lance and his wife! Everything goes by so fast when you're on a mission. I love what Alton shared about testimony. It's very true, you will almost always just here story time about my mission. I'll never forget my trainer's departing testimony. Nor will anyone present in our zone at the training will either. Elder Lee-Lo is the self-proclaimed "king of pasaway." (king of disobedience) And also many other things that were funny but very questionable haha.
This week we assisted in running the branch activity here on Batan. It was on this nice little island that's wonderful only if you're not a missionary cause you can't swim haha. It was a lot of fun and better than expected. On Thursday we helped one of the counselors with lifting thin sized logs or "kahoy" as they say here. We hiked up a mountain and into the forest about 1 kilo and we had to grab and tie 2 or 3 logs and then carry them down to where he needed them. That was quite a long walk also and the logs weren't too heavy. Maybe 60-75 lbs. Felt good to do some farmer carries and fireman carries with them. Afterwards we sat down and tatay Frank (counselor) climbed up a coconut tree and cut some coconuts down. We enjoyed the shade as we chopped open some coconuts, drank the coconut, and ate the coconut with a side of gamote. Kind of like kumala and taro and that one yellow stuff that I can't remember the name. WIth a side of brown sugar. Definitely living the islander life.
This week's work is also good. We challenge families to do a personal study of the Book of Mormon and they have been very good with it. We also taught a new investigator who is the son of a mom that's a member and his dad is someone we've just started teaching also. He said after the lesson that he decided he wanted to be taught too because he overheard our lesson to his dad and thought to himself that our message about our loving Heavenly Father and Families are very interesting and drew his attention. He felt good about it. We've committed him to be baptized on the 4th of July. The spirit was definitely there in that lesson when he explained that he enjoyed our message and when we added testimony. I love the work!
In memory of the passing of Elder L. Tom Perry I just wanna share something I wrote down from his last talk:
"Only we have the eternal perspective of the restored gospel. Let our voice be heard that families are the center of life and key to happiness when centered in Christ."
Love,
Elder Brown
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