Pray in Faith

Hey Mommy and everyone else!

I'm going to try to send my update email first, so I can hopefully get everything done before my time runs out.

So, how was the birthday???? I was thinking about you all day Mommy!!!!

So, this week has been AWESOME!!! Wow!!! You know, I've been having a little bit of a hard time here in Indonesia (though I'm really not sure why haha)./ I don''t know if you could tell that in my emails haah. But, on Tuesday we read a section of Preach My Gospel(which is like the Missionary guidebook for becoming a better missionary and person - it's awesome- check it out!) and the section was entitled "PRay with Faith" and I realized that while I am trying to pray for good things, I have not been praying as sincerely or with as much faith as I should. So I did. And as I prayed to my Father in Heaven, I was talking about how I didn't think that I could do this mission thing alone. And oh my goodness, I have been humbled, I have realized that I NEED to rely on my GOD and on his son Jesus Christ!! And wow, I felt so close to my God. In my prayer, I asked him "Please lift me up today, because I can't do this alone." And WOW, he did. He has lifted me up this entire week!! And I testify that there truly is a God in Heaven and he is truly the Father of our Spirits. He is aware of every single one of us and he loves us!!!! And I know that he sent his son, though I can't imagine how difficult that sacrifice was, but he sent his son Jesus Christ to atone for our sins, because he LOVES us. And through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, ALL things(no exceptions) can be fixed, can be healed - even if it's something as small as Elder Brown's bad mood haha. 

I invite everyone, try praying to God our Father, and I promise that he will answer and manifest to you that he is there and that he loves you, because He does!!!

He has lifted me so much- he is blessing me to love these people and the country of Indonesia!! 

I thought maybe I would update you on our simpatisan(investigators), although soon, when Elder Sukarlis gets his new companion(hopefully tomorrow) half of these won't be my investigators anymore:

Pak gained faith in Christ back in high school but now he is an older man. Yesterday, I had the opportunity to extend a baptismal invitation to him, and he accepted!! I'm so excited, because I know this Gospel can and will bless him and his family SO much!!

Andre and his wife and daughter - we'll be visiting them tonight. Tee other day at a family night at Elder and Sister Jeffrey's the parents told us that Ezra wants to baptized in "Our Church" - so exciting!! We hope that once the parents understand that they too need to be baptised through the true Priesthood Authority of God, they will also want to be baptized. Such a blessing for this branch to get another strong family!

Jum- she's a newish member with a pretty cool story- she heard a voice speaking in English and she wrote down the words in English (even though she doesn't know English) and when she met the missionaries they translated the words for her. One thing that was said "Did you hear about Smith?" and Jum was sure this was a reference to Joseph Smith, so she was taught and baptized. Yesterday, she showed me some new things that she wrote from the voice, and it's strange because it's very mundane, just like a normal simple conversation. It was talking about the Internet and web pages hah and I told here that maybe it's trying to tell her about using the internet for family history. Haha I don't know exactly what's happening with that, but she's definitely not crazy and I do believe it is possible for us to hear things from the Spirit world.

There's some others too, but I'm running out of time!!

I killed a really big "spider". Looks more like a scorpion to me.  

I have gotten one Postcard from you from the USA.  Did you get any from me yet?  No package yet?

Also, I'll be getting a new bike that the mission will pay for(that's kind of nice).

ANd I had my first ZTM (Zone Training Meeting) which was really great!!!!

I love you all so so much!!!

Maybe more to come!!!

Elder Brown