Pictures!

This is my trainer, Hermana Wilcox the day we met-May 1st!

 

 

 

This is our group that came in when I came to the mission on April 31.

Here we are at the mission president's home. Hermana Moleli is standing right in front of me. President and Sister Riggs are on the left in the front. Sister Riggs broke her foot on a tree root one day while she was running, hence the cast. She has to keep it up for 6 weeks and then they'll x-ray it again before she can put weight on it. Please pray for her!

 

 

 

Happiness is talking to my mama on Mother's Day. :)

 

Yes, we do teach the "after baptism" lessons, too. We wouldn't, but we have no ward missionaries for our little Spanish group, so we get to do that, too. After baptism, we teach all the missionary lessons to them again and the member lessons.

 

Oh! and there is something delicious I encountered out here. When I first put it on my plate, I thought they were rings of red beet, so I took one to be polite ('cause I don't like beets), but when I cut a piece off and ate it, I thought, "They taste just like spiced apples." And they were! They were red spiced apple rings and they are absolutely delicious. The member who introduced us to them said she buys them off of Amazon, so I encourage you to go find and try them. :) They're very yummy!

 

Love, Hermana Brown

We have a TON of...people we are teaching!

Mirella Jr. is pretty much ready to be baptized. She just needs a little...something, a little push to get her there. Mirella Sr. needs a little more work. The baptisms were great because Mirella Jr.'s less active brother, Jose, was there at the baptism and he told us he was able to get every Sunday off from work, except Mother's Day (cause that's their busiest day), he's coming back to church, and he wants to baptize his sister when she's ready, but he has to get the Melquizedek priesthood first. So, yep. Starting out the mission with a golden contact. That's great.

 

We have a TON of other people we're teaching. Just to name a few: Alejandra, Victor, Vicky and her daughter Jacklyn, Juana and Juana (we have two different Juanas, they're not related, as far as I know), Yolanda, Miguel and Bryan. Those are all our progressing investigators. Much of the Spanish group (It's not quite a branch, yet. We're working toward that) here is less-active, so we go out to try and find the lost sheep and bring them back into the fold. Yup. Good stuff. I don't know all the names of the members in our group yet. 

 

We're also the sister missionaries for the English ward that our Spanish group is in because they don't have Sister missionaries. So, it's a big job in a little area. Both Spanish and English. We did teach one lesson in English over Skype. That was interesting. It was a guy named Matt. He is Hermana Wilcox's friend from back home in Layton Utah. So, yup. Those are, more or less, considerably less than more than more or less, the people we're teaching. You look in the area book, though, with all the potential investigators and the investigators we're to be teaching right now, and there's a LOT. 

President Riggs wants us to type up all the information from the book area book into our area books on our ipads and it takes quite a bit of time. So we do it when we have a spare moment. Our mornings are jam-packed with studies right now (1 hour personal, 1 hour companion, 1 hour training, and 1 hour language), and evenings are what we call "Prime proselyting time" because everybody's home. And, yeah. Life is good. Busy, but that's why it's good. 

Haven't seen any roaches here yet, but it is bedbug season, so we are taking precautions to protect ourselves. 

Hermana Brown

Compañera: Hermana Wilcox

Current Address: Hermana Naomi E. Brown

94 Heritage Way apt #306

Leesburg, VA 20176-3363

Next possible transfer: 12 Junio

Dinner at Stephanie G's home

Hermana Brown and Hermana Wilcox

 

"We had the pleasure of having your daughters in our home for dinner tonight. They gave me the sweetest thank you card. They are wonderful.  Thanks for sharing them with us! Stephanie G."

 

Pictures!

 

At the temple in Mexico City

 

Missionaries in Naomi's District at the MTC

 

More missionaries from the MTC

 

Two baptisms tonight

We had transfers yesterday. I'm in Leesburg in the Patomic Crossing Group, Spanish zone. Mi compañera es Hermana Wilcox. She is from Mesa Arizona and is the sweetest thing on the planet. She was in Color Guard, just like me and she is very loving and kind.

Our address is:
94 Heritage Way NE apt 306
Leesburg VA 20176-3363

I get to have an I-pad. We're one of the 30 test missions who have them. So, there was a lot of talk about things to do and not do on them. Good stuff.

We have two baptisms tonight. I know! Second day in the field and there are two baptisms. I understand, however, that this normally doesn't happen, so I'm very thankful for this opportunity. Their names are Sebastian and Camila. They're uncle and niece. Sebastian is 11 and Camila is 12. We're praying that their mom and aunt, Mirella and Mirella, will feel the Spirit tonight so we can teach them more. Life's good.

You'll hear more from me on Monday! Love ya!

Hermana Brown