Flame of Faith

Hello Everyone!!!

SO in case you are unaware, I am no longer in Bandung but have moved to SOLO to serve here for my last three weeks in Indonesia!

SO Elder Fradella and I are whitewashing again in Solo! We've been here this whole last week and it has been really good! We actually started the week stuck in the house but luckily we were able to go out on Wednesday and start lighting up SOlO. It's been difficult because we have literally started from null. And the people in Solo are a lot different from the people in Jakarta haha

But it has been an adventure and we have seen miracles! It's been hard to keep the flame of faith burning, but as we have done our best, the Lord has shown His hand. It is always very humbling. We've been singing a lot with people. We've decided that if people reject us, we will ask them if we can sing a song for them first. We want to leave a good spirit with them.

So Elder Fradella and I are happy and working hard and I really enjoy working with him. He is always positive and really funny!!

Anyways, we met this man and he is really cool and he wants to be baptized!! Please pray that he will have the faith to come to church and that he will understand the things we are teaching him!

I love you all!!

I do know that this is the Lord's work and I am so grateful that I had this chance to be part of it!!

One more time, I love you all!!

Elder Brown

Have I Done Any Good

Hey Everyone! Sorry this won;t be too long!

But I hope everyone knows that Bandung rocks and so does Elder Fradella!!!

We've had so many wonderful experiences. Whitewashing is hard, but a great experience! We have seen many miracles! 

One great experience - 

We went down to this area that was a little far to look for some addresses that we had and we ended up in this hue neighborhood where we were pretty lost and it was hot and dusty and I said to Elder Fradella that there had to be a reason we had gone down there. We ended up finding a former investigator that we weren't looking for, but afterwards I still didn't feel like that was the reason we had gone down there. So we decided to check one more street to find if that was the address we were looking for. And it was! But right as we came up to the house of the investigator, we saw a 89-year old lady walking or trying to walk down the street with a cane in one hand and the other trying to hold a wall. So we offered to help. I held her hand and helped her along. And then, because we live in Indonesia, it just started pouring out of nowhere. Like torrential rain haha and so we took her under a random porch. and the person inside was yelling at us through the window to take her to a different house, but they wouldn't even open the door. SO we just kind of ignored that haha. But then we realized that our investigator had a car, so we decided to go ask him for help (though we hadn't actually met this man before). So we knocked and we asked and he just didn't want to help. He walked back inside and his family member invited us in, and he was just on the phone and everything was just super weird and awkward. Eventually he got off the phone and we asked for help again and this time he grudgingly agreed. So we got her in the car and took her home. The miracle was that after that the Investigator was much happier and much more open with us. We sang "Have I done any good?" with him.

And after that we realized why we had gone down there and why the Lord needed us there at that specific time.

We've seen so many miracles like that!

Another great thing was we had the opportunity to go see the BYU Singers when they came and performed in Bandung. They sang two songs in Slovenian which was a real treat!!!

Zone conference this coming week. That will be fun!!!

Love you all so much! I do know that God lives and this is His work.

Elder Brown