I hope you are happy healthy and terrific (as my Mission
President, President Rowley often says). Hopefully everyone's lives are just
swell this week. I hope you had the chance to share a smile and a lot of love
this week :)
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| The Instagram Account is MormonIndonesia. Not Quite as exciting as "TrevorBrownDoingThings" yet, but give it time I guess. |
Elder Johnson and I had a great week, though really busy! We
were given another task to oversee some of the immigration processes for the
missionaries. President almost called a set of Office Elders to oversee it, but
we decided that for now, we would handle that. So that definitely put some
greater demands on our time. But it's great, because it allows us opportunity
to see the Lord's hand doing the work for us!
Church was great! We were bummed because at the start of the
meeting, only two of the investigators we wanted to come had showed up. But as
the meeting began, five more of them came in - that was a tender mercy for
sure. And then two people we had contacted wanted to meet, along with all of
our other appointments that Sunday - we had the opportunity to go give a
blessing to one of our investigators Mom in the hospital. It is amazing to be
able to use our Priesthood to help others. He was very touched by the blessing
and right after it, his Mom opened her eyes more fully than he said she had in
a while. So Sunday turned into a really busy, but very rewarding day! That was
awesome!
Besides Sunday, everything was great! Elder Johnson and are
just pressing forward (maju terus!). Two friends are doing well and still progressing!
One other, we gave to the Tangerang Elders and it sounds like he is doing well!
One is preparing to be baptized for this coming week. Please pray that he
will feel truly prepared and understand the sanctity of the covenants he will
make.
I think I forgot to tell you, but Elder Johnson got a
smartphone last week. The first one in our mission! His other phone broke and
President said "Okay, lets try a smartphone", so that's been pretty
crazy! But really helpful. We even have an Instagram account :)
Speaking of technology, we've started teaching some people
through Skype. There's one guy in Makassar that is really prepared to receive
the restored gospel, so that's pretty cool! It's amazing to see how the Lord is
preparing people everywhere to receive our message.
Next week will be MLC, so that will be a lot of fun! We're
excited! It was supposed to be this week, but thank goodness it was pushed
back, because I don't know where we would have found the time to prepare for it
haha!
Anyways, it's been a great week. Elder Johnson and I have
tons of fun - I feel bad because I never seem to tell you about funny things
that happen, but it is a lot of FUN. Who knew that 11 hour "work"
days would be super totally awesome? :)
I love you all!! Have a fantastic week. And just remember
the things that truly matter. In bahasa indonesia there are two words
"senang" and "bahagia". they both mean happy. But
"senang" is like pleased, a more temporary fleeting happiness,
whereas "bahagia" is like true deeper happiness. There's a lot of
things in life that make us "senang" (like for me - eating delicious
food - or any food really!:) but what really is important are the things that
make us "bahagia". Like serving the Lord, like serving and lifting
others - making them smile and making them "bahagia" - those are the
things that bring true "kebahagiaan" (happiness). Go search out those
things that truly "berarti" (have meaning) and the things that really
matter and will make you "berbahagia" (be happy).
I know that is what our loving father in heaven wants for us
all!!
Love you all!!
Elder Brown
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