So I am here! The holy land (not).
But it is the center of the mission - we're close to the
mission home and to President and the Assistants - it's a lot of fun!
This place is SO different than any other place I've been -
Malang and Magelang are two of the smallest cities in the mission and
relatively cool - Jakarta is GINORMOUS and not relatively cool haha!
And the work is WAY different here! Because we don't have
bikes it takes a LONG time to get anywhere - so macet (traffic)! Wow! And
that's also how we contact in general we just ride busses around - you pay 3.5
thousand to get on(about 25 cents) and then you can ride for as long as you
want to wherever you want without paying as long as you stay in the system -
it's really cool! But it can also get
really tiring and hard! A lot of the time you have to stand and sometimes its
so crowded you can barely move! My first day here all of our appointments fell
through and we rode on buses contacting for about 5 hours straight! Wooh!! So
it can be hard but it is also way fun!!
My companion Elder Subagio is awesome - he is so cool and
funny!!! Man he's a great guy - he's from Bogor hes my age and he goes home in
September! It was also super fun because we got new missionaries and so we're
in a threesome with Elder Nordwald fro Missouri until he gets his papers and
stuff- he visa waited in my cousin Alex's mission in Logan Utah and now he's
going to be trained by Elder Ostermiller!! He's way cool!!
Tomorrow we have MLC (Mission Leadership Council) with all
the Zone Leaders and President and the Assistants! I'm way excited to see all
the things that I will learn and I also get to see my Surabaya Zone Leaders and
some other friends! Sweet!!
Life he is good! We cover the English ward and it was way
weird to have church in English and then with Indonesian makes for a lot of
church! Also it means that we take all English investigators (well us and the
other missionaries that live with us) so yesterday we went to Bogor to teach
someone who is a refugee from Afghanistan! It was WAY hard to teach in English
but way fun!!
Life is good! I'm happy and I'm pumped to share the
gospel!!! I just know that it is the truth and I know the truth truly does set
us free... and make us happy and bring us peace and bring us closer to the
source of ALL truth - our Father in Heaven!!! ANd I know that this Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is lead in truth by Jesus Christ through a
living prophet!!
I love you all and hope you have an AWESOME WEEK!!!!
Elder Brown
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