August 22nd - Last transfer/new companion - Elder Montemayor

That sounds awesome all of the stuff that Alton has been doing. It's just a different form of missionary work and it's the best work ever. I love meeting new people and talking with them or in other words OYM-ing (Open Your Mouth). For that reason I've been thinking about doing that but I don't know too much about that kinda stuff. But it would be cool to learn.

Man I can't believe that it's finally here. My last transfer in the mission. I will be having a new companion for my last transfer, Elder Montemayor. He will be coming out of the office finally after serving for a while as finance. We have a new couple that will fill in. Elder Egbert will be transferring to Guinobatan. One of my former areas.

Something bittersweet that happened this week was when on exchanges we tracted a golden family. They were set on coming to church and baptism. But then 2 days later they text us and tell us that they don't wanna listen anymore because there's too many religions at their house (only 2; born again and catholic) and they get confused when we come over. It's weird cause she knows a lot about the Mormon church and said that she likes our church out of all the churches out there. Our reason for this rejection is that her daughter (born again) told her mom not to listen to us. Her daughter wasn't very friendly the first and second time we went by. All she could tell us was that she's born again and her family is too and that they have no time for us. But lets go to the brighter side.

Another awesome miracle occured this week. We have been trying to teach the siblings of one of our recent converts but they always deny or don't talk to us, or just leave the house. So we kept bugging them anyways. Then finally his youngest sister, 15 years old, finally gave in (when we thought she wouldn't) and listened to us. She was pretty quiet and shy in that lesson. She accepted a baptismal date for the 17th of September and agreed to come to church and pray about our message. So the next day was Sunday and our other recent convert, who is also one of her good friends picks her up as we invited her to do so. She hesitated cause she's shy and it was gonna be her first time. Finally she gets the courage to do so and she comes to church. And also the farewell branch activity for the elders that were transferred. I wish you guys could have seen the change in this young woman cause it was unbelievable! To be short in words, she was not who she was when we invited her all the time and tried to talk to her. She was super happy and acting like she was my best friend or something haha. No exaggeration added. We have decided to call it the "Aguilando Effect" because just like her older brother, she changed after attending church.

This work is awesome and I can't wait to see you guys. But at the same time I'm not. This last transfer will be the best one! 

Love,

Elder Brown