Letter #24 - McKinney, Texas

Hello Everyone!

I have been transferred to McKinney, Texas! I cover an English Ward, and a half of a Spanish Branch. My new companion is Elder Huggins! He is from Lehi, Utah. He has been out for 23 months... so i am his last companion. 

My new address is: 3601 St. Croix Ave. McKinney, TX 75071  

I live with a member family from the Spanish Branch.

Monday - My last day with Elder Callister. He is a great guy! We found out I was leaving, and that he would be training! He was super excited. I was super nervous because I have not been transferred before! And to make things worse, we were going to be doubled in! So Elder Huggins and I are fresh and new in an area neither of us know haha. We share a car with the other Spanish Missionaries, so every other day we are on bike.

Tuesday - transfer day. We had to be in Dallas at 8:45, so we left Longview at 6. I sat around and talked to other missionaries until noon when Elders from McKinney came and picked me up with Elder Huggins. After we got back to our house, we unpacked and then Elder Hansen came and talked to us a little about the area. We found out that our bishop AND ward mission leader were out of town... Then we went to dinner. Afterwards, we tried calling all of the members of the ward council to get some direction. It helped. We then had a face time with two of the investigators in the area, Jessica and Cambrie. They are sisters and have been taking the lessons. They are super nice.

Wednesday - we had our first district meeting! There are ten of us. 6 elders and 4 sisters. It was fun getting to know each other. That night, we mostly just did member stop bys to meet the ward.

Thursday - we had two lessons! One with a girl named Claudia. She is investigating, but moving this week, so we are about to transfer her record. She will be baptized soon. Our second lesson was with Jessica and Cambrie. They are in a very complicated family situation... too much sensitive information to talk about.... super sad.

Friday - we had lunch with Brother Hiatt (his son is in the Seven Hills Ward in Colorado). We had Chinese food. We then went and did a lot of member stop bys again. We had Dinner with Brother Hiatt as well. We taught his grandson the Restoration. It was a good lesson and dinner. After dinner, we went to Brother Meyer's house for a meeting. He is the Elders quorum president. We talked about members in the ward who could use visits.

Saturday - we helped this hoarder clean his garage out. Super gross and sad... but we were glad to help. We even went to his sons soccer game. We mostly just visited names that Brother Meyers gave us with little success :/

Sunday - wow. Crazy Sundays here. We went to ward council at 8:15 in the morning. That went until 10. Then we had a meeting with sister Miller, the Relief Society President and got more names and direction. Church started at 12:30. We were there for the first two hours. Then we had to book it to a different church building 15 minutes away for our 3 o'clock church in the Spanish branch. We were there until 6. Then we went to dinner with the Garcias and had an awesome lesson and dinner with them. Then we went back to the apartment to do numbers. Elder Huggins is District Leader.

That was my week! It has been a new adventure, that is for sure. I know that this gospel is true. I work my tail off every single day because I do know it. I love it more than anything.

Love,

Brandon

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Letter #25 - La Mision Rapida

¡Buenas Tardes a Todos!

Estoy muy agradecido por la oportunidad que tengo para servir el señor en su obra. He sentido la mano de Él en mi misión. Sé que los milagros y bendiciones son reales. Los milagros existen. Espero que mi Padre Celestial esta muy orgulloso de la obra que he estado haciendo.

I hope you all have had a great week! Mine was really good! I love it here in McKinney, Texas. The people here are so nice. It is kind of like mini Utah. There are a ton of members here.

Here is my crazy week!

Monday - we did some less active stop-bys and saw little success.

Tuesday - We had a really good district meeting in the morning. Later, we stopped by this former investigator named Frank. He started telling us all these pranks he pulled on past missionaries. Everything from split personalities to dead bodies buried in the backyard. Some of them were funny, but i would be horrified if i was the missionary involved haha. Later that night we had a lesson with our top investigators Jessica and Cambrie. They are in a very tough family situation. We will find out August 2nd if they can be baptized or not. They are both super sweet though. They keep and eye on each other.

Wednesday - we helped this lady named Brenda paint her trailer for 5 and a half hours. We had four Elders and 2 sisters there. We still didn't finish, so we are going back next Wednesday with 2 more additional sisters there. It should go well.

Thursday - we had a really good correlation meeting with Hermano Carrasquillo from the Spanish branch. He is a really good mission leader. We then did some weekly planning. That night we did some less active bishop names and actually talked to one! Her name is Sabrena. She has 3 unbaptized teenage girls and wants them to be taught so they can be baptized! So we will start working with them.

Friday - Elder Huggins got sick, so we were home most of the day. We had a meeting with Bishop from the English ward and that was it. Bishop is super cool. He is an assistant principal. Super young, funny guy.

Saturday - We helped Hermano Ortega clean out his garage some more. He has so much stuff haha. It is crazy how much we have thrown away and how much is still there. We then went to a baptism in Allen! Elder Huggins helped teach a girl named Taylore last transfer and she got baptized! She asked Elder Huggins to give the talk on the Holy Ghost. There were TONS of people there to support her. President Dalton even showed up. It was awesome seeing him. He even gave a short talk at the end. We them went to dinner with Brother Harper. He is the English ward mission leader. He is also really awesome! For all my family members, he kind of reminds me of Braden and Ronnie Hurst combined. He and his wife had 3 nonmember families there at dinner with us. We shares a really great lesson about Jesus Christ and Repentance. They all loved it. To finish the night, we visited a recent convert from the Spanish branch. He is getting ready to move to Costa Rica.

Sunday - we had our crazy Sunday again. Do our studies, go to 12:30 church until 2:30. We then book it to a different building for Spanish branch at 3 to 6. Then we went to dinner and visited one less active. Then we went home.

Well, that was my week! I am loving my mission more and more each day. Today marks my 6 month mark since i stepped onto the plane. It is hard for me to believe that i have already been here for a fourth of my time. I am loving it so much, that the time is passing too quickly. I love my Savior. I know he lives. I know that he loves me. And I know he loves all of you. Have a good week!

Love,

Brandon.

I am sending pictures through a Google

drive link this week!

Letter #23 - Farewell Longview

Hello Everyone!

Yup, that's correct, I am being transferred!  This is my first time being transferred in my mission! Crazy to think about. I am excited for the change!

My week seemed to fly by. Here is what I did!

Monday - After P-Day, we went up to go and visit this family again that lives outside of our boundaries. No answer again. We drove back and stopped by a less actives house to talk to him. That ended the night

Tuesday - Happy Fourth of July! the Gilmer, Tyler, and Longview zones all met up at the Tyler stake center for a devotional with our new Mission President! President Dalton is great. He has an awesome family as well. He introduced himself and his family and then had all of us do a very quick introduction. I cannot wait ro work more with them. Once we got back to Longview, we helped Brother Angus in his yard. We trimmed a lot of trees and moved some stumps. It was really hot that day. I was sweating really hard. We ate dinner with mynor Ovalle at Taco Bell. Latinos don't celebrate the Fourth. That night, we drove down to Henderson to visit our investigator Eduardo down there. Once again, he would not stop talking for two seconds haha. He just has so much to say and comment on. He isn't even super interested sadly.

Wednesday - we did lots and lots of service. We started by helping Brother Rossow move a ton of things from one of his stores to another. He owns two Gadget repair shops. We then went and did our weekly lawn care for The Cadenas Family. That lawn is so big.... later when we went to go visit a less active, he didn't answer the door. So we went to a member across the street and she asked if we could trim her bush for her. That was fun. By the time we finished, the less active had gotten home! So we went and had a good visit with him.

Thursday - we drove out to Marshall for a two day exchange with the Zone Leaders. They both are going home this transfer, so they wanted to get Elder Callister in there to know the area a little bit so that he could help the new missionaries in marshall next transfer. Thursday was fun. I was with Elder Wankier. He is such a great guy. We visited some awesome members and did anlot of finding work.

Friday - our second day of the exchanges in Marshall. This time I was with Elder Turnsplenty. He is also a really great guy. We talked with some investigators and had a great time together. There are lots of good things happening out in Marshall.

Saturday - we started the day by helping unload the food trucks for the bishops storehouse. It was really fun. We did weekly planning on saturday because we were in Marshall on Thursday when we were supposed to do it. We did a lot of online finding.

Sunday - Elder Callister and I both gave talks in church. They went well. I compared modern day sacrament to the pre Christ sacrifices. A member from a different ward was attending and asked for a copy of my talk. We had dinner with President Johnston and the Rossows. Afterwards, we visited some families i wanted to see because I knew i would probably be leaving.

I have really enjoyed my time here in Longview, but I am super excited for what lies ahead. Everyone thinks I will be heading downtown somewhere. I am looking forward to it.

Love you all!

Elder Bullough

New Address: 3601 St. Croix Ave. McKinney, TX 75071  

Pictures!

1. Elder White and Elder Toone at zone conferences. They are both going home this week.

2. Mynor Ovalle in my branch.

3. Manuel, Guadalupe, and Adeine Alba from my branch.

4. Francisco Rossow

5. The Rossow Family from our branch

6. A giant Longhorn in Marshall 

7. President and Sister Johnston from our branch





 

Letter #22 - Goodbye President Taylor

Hello World!

This week ended an era... The President Taylor Era. He is an incredible man. I will miss him lots. I would be lying if I didn't say that this letter was titled the same as an episode of The Office: Goodbye Michael.

Let's jump right in to my week!

Monday - We went and visited an Inactive family. We talked about the Book of Mormon and the importance of it. They had never read it... That is usually the case with people who are inactive here. We had a good talk and shared the Restoration lesson with them. They committed to study and to pray about it.

Tuesday - We had a good stop by lesson with Lucero and her sister Yaneth. We shared the Mountains to Climb video with them. It hit them pretty hard. It was a nice short, simple, powerful lesson on their doorstep.

Wednesday - The last Zone Conference with President and Sister Taylor. It was a really good Zone Conference. He talked to us all about how if we wanted to honor them, we need to not talk about them anymore. He told us we need to be ready and willing to change and adjust for the new Mission President. He also made sure all of us knew that if we get married in Salt Lake somewhere, he would like to perform the sealing. That would be pretty cool! Zone Conference was pretty much just them telling us how much they loved us and want us to succeed.

Thursday - Weekly Planning usually causes not a whole lot to happen on Thursdays. But this Thursday


especially, nothing happened. For dinner, Hermana Cadenas had bought us Burger King, but she made a mistake and ordered two mini whoppers instead of regular whoppers. We set an appointment with an investigator after dinner that lives an hour away. So, after dinner, we drove an hour. They weren't there. So we drove back and it was time to return to our apartment.

Friday - We went on exchanges with the English Elders. I went with Elder Mortensen this time. We were just trying to contact a whole lot of referrals that day. However, we went and stop by a member's house. She was going through a really hard time. We shared an incredible lesson about the Atonement. She felt the Spirit and thanked us for stopping by. I love lessons like that.

Saturday - We visited a former investigator down in Kilgore named Yeimi. She was really friendly, but was too caught up in Nursing School, so she did not really want to start taking lessons again. Sad.

Sunday - Church was really good. A lot of heartfelt testimonies were given.  Our Branch here breaks the fast together after church. So we ate a potluck for dinner. It was really good. Someone made really good meatballs. There was also some really good Pasta con Salchichas that the Rossows made. They call it, "Divinity". We then went a Lesson with Carlos Aguilar who is an inactive member. He is currently living with his fiancée who is not a member. We brought over The Restoration movie to watch with them. It went well. Shannel ,(His fiancée) has lots of really good questions. She also agrees that the gospel makes sense logically. She is reading the Book of Mormon. I know that she has been touched by the Spirit.

That is all for this week. I KNOW that this is the Gospel of Jesus Christ restored to the Earth in these last days. I know that Christ Lives. I know He loves us. I know He is calling out to us and waiting for us to heed to His Counsel. I know the Book of Mormon is the Word of God and that man can grow closer to Christ by abiding to its precepts than any other book in existence. 

I love you all,

Brandon

Pictures. I am not sure what order they are in... One is of me and President and Sister Taylor. One is of the Gilmer, Tyler, and Longview zones. One is a picture of a birds nest with a bunch of babies in it. One is of the mini whopper we had for dinner that one night.

--

Elder Brandon Bullough

Texas Dallas Mission

La Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Últimos Días

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Letter # 21 - Old Friends

¡Buenos Dias mi familia!

¿Cómo están? Estoy muy emocionado para escribirles hoy. Quiero decirles cómo he estado con mi español. Me encanta el idioma de español. La gente es muy amable. Yo como mucha comida.... Estoy engordandome mucho jaja. Me encanta la obra misional. Estoy aprendiendo mucho aca. ¡Les quiero mucho!

I had a decent week! This transfer is flying by! It is crazy how fast time goes when you are on a mission. I cannot believe that I have already been put for 5 months... where does the time go? I definitely wish time was not a factor so that i could just focus on the work. I do love it here a lot. I already cherish my mission so much.

Here is my week!

Monday -  we had an amazing lesson with an inactive member named Carlos. He lives with his fiancee who is not a member. We had an incredible lesson. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon and the power of conversion. His fiancée even got touched by the spirit and began to cry. It was incredible to be a part of.

Tuesday - The Zone Leaders came out and did splits with us. I was with Elder Wankier in the morning and then we switched at dinner and I was with Elder Turnsplenty for the rest of the night. They are both great. They came into our area for splits, but neither of them speak Spanish... so i was on my own for Spanish! It went well. Elder Turnsplenty and i visited a couple of less active members in Kilgore. We had some really great lessons. We tried to stop by Lucero while we were in Kilgore, but she wasn't there. So we left a note. Come to find out, she got the note and called us, but Elder Callister had our phone, so she talked to him and they set up an appointment for Friday!

Wednesday - Just a regular Wednesday. We mowed Hermana Cadenas' yard again. Then we had a very slow day. We visited a family outside of our boundaries after we got permission from the APs. We set a return appointment with them as well. 

Thursday - Weekly planning took place, and then at night we just visited some bishop referrals. Not very much excitement there.

Friday - The time came for our lesson with Lucero. We planned an incredible lesson for her. We felt really good about things. She showed up with her sister Yaneth as well! We started our lesson and about half way through the lesson, we felt like it wasn't what they needed. We simply stopped and talked about how we are the ONLY church that has the Book of Mormon. So, if we pray to God and he gives us an answer that the Book of Mormon is true, isn't it important? If the Book of Mormon is true, then there really was an apostasy... and we have the fullness of Christ's church back on the Earth today. We asked them if they would read it and pray about it. They both said yes. Then we said, "When God answers your prayers that the Book of Mormon is true, will you be baptized by someone who holds that authority from God?" They BOTH said yes. I went into this lesson with so much faith and hope, and i SAW the miracles that came. It was a great day.

Saturday - We helped unload a truck from the Bishop's Store House. It was a neat experience. Later, we went and gave President Johnston a blessing. He hurt his neck and it was bugging him a lot. We had dinner with a returning less active family. The Rivas family. The wife and two daughters have been coming to church every week now for a month, but the husband has not. We had a delicious meal. Popusas and this incredible homemade mixed fruit juice. We had a good talk with them. I know that Hermano Rivas was touched by the Spirit. His eyes got watery as he talked about the mission he served for the church. Such a great family.

Sunday - Church went well. Then we had dinner with the Rossow family. Then we just went and visited some inactive members.

Not a super exciting week, but nonetheless, I KNOW that i am about my Heavenly Father's work. I know that I am led by the spirit. I know that miracles still exist and that I see them DAILY. i know that our message is one of truth, peace, and power. I know this message can help ANY person in ANY situation.

Love y'all lots! 

Brandon

Elder Callister avoids taking pictures, so sadly there are only two for this week. We got a new couch in our apartment! And then the other is just Elder Del Angel and me here in Marshall.

Letter #20 - Off Roading

¡Hola mi familia!

Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there! This week was a good week. It is weird thinking that this is most likely my last transfer in Longview, TX. Longview has treated me well.

Let's just jump right in!

Monday - PDay went well! That night, we had a lesson with Dewond Robinson. He is a perspective Elder. He works at Sams Club and can't come to church on Sundays. We had a really great lesson about the Sabbath day and he committed to talking to his boss about getting Sundays off!

Tuesday - we had our last interviews with President Taylor... it was really sad. He offered me some great advice. He also gave every missionary a blessing at the end of the interview. His blessing was incredible. It motivated me in my mission more than anything has up to this point. President Taylor is an incredible man. That night, we drove down to Henderson for a lesson with a man named Eduardo. He is really nice. He just likes talking so much that it is hard to get in lessons. He agrees with everything we believe. Including apostles and prophets.

Wednesday - in the morning we did the usual weekly yard work for La Familia Cadenas. I took a picture this time. Their yard takes so long to cut. We then had our weekly planning session. I have never seen so much love come from one person before in my life. As Elder Callister and I shared our goals and each other's strong suits, the love i felt from him was incredible. He has so much going on back home, and yet here he is, loving me and wanting to help me and seeing the most incredible things in me that no one has said about me before. It truly was amazing. He is a great guy.

Thursday - Something that President Taylor does is he assigns a few missionaries as Special Assignment missionaries. Their job is to just go around doing splits with missionaries and making sure they are motivated and know how to do things properly. On Thursday, they were out with Elder Callister on splits. Elder Belnap and Elder Nixon. Elder Nixon was here in Longview my first transfer here. He was with me all day. We spent the day doing work in Kilgore. We wrote a letter to Lucero and left it on her door. It basically was telling her how much effort and time we spent on her and then told her that when she is ready to be baptized, call us. It was awesome. We even called up elder Judd! It was great talking with him.

Friday - Because Elder Callister is District Leader, he has to go on splits with everyone in our district, so on Friday, we were on splits with Elder Del Angel and Elder Mortensen. I went with Elder Del Angel. We mostly just hunted down former investigators who had baptismal dates in the past. We then went and picked up some flan that Brother Green from the English ward made us. He is awesome. He makes great Flan too.

Saturday - the English missionaries had a baptism. We knew the two kids that were being baptized, so we went to support them. We ate at Wingstop with Hermano Ovalle for dinner. After that, we went around to a lot of part member inactive families with very little success.

Sunday - Happy Father's Day! It was a high counselor Sunday in our branch. The talks were both very well done. One spoke his in Spanish, and the other spoke his in English and our branch president translated for him. That is definitely a hard skill to master. That night, we got permission to leave our area and visit a family who lives in a different area. They live in an area that only has English wards, so we got permission to go and see them. Sadly, they weren't there. That was all our night consisted of.

That is about it for my week. One fun fact about my area is that ALL of the police cars are SUVs. I have not seen a single police car that was smaller. Kind of an interesting fact.

I know that this work is the work of God. I have more faith and hope than I have ever had. I know God sends His angels to accompany us in this work. I know that miracles have not ceased. The Power of God is REAL. Pray about it.

I love you all,
Brandon

Pictures!

1 - Elder Callister and me after our service.

2 - Elder Del Angel and me on our exchange.

3 - Me, Elder Nixon, Elder Belnap, and Elder Callister after our exchange.

4 - This horrible road we had to drive on to get to an investigator's house.

5 - Elder Mortensen, Elder Del Angel, Elder Callister, and Me at their baptism.

Letter # 19 - Poison Posole

¡Buenos Dias!

I had a good week. One thing I realized this week is that the mission really changes you. It changes your view on life, your view on people, and just your view on how things should be. I have been trying to just reflect each night before bed, and my perspective on the world is a thousand times different than it was before my mission. My view in what actually makes me happy is different as well. I can clearly see the difference between temporal happiness and eternal happiness now. I just wish I would have seen that before I left on my mission.

Here is my week:

Monday - after P-Day ended, we just went and tried to locate a couple more potentials we have.

Tuesday - we had a district meeting. I gave a training on hope. It went well! We had a lesson with Rosa Avila. She is from Mexico. She is an inactive member! We knocked into her and found her records. She said that when she moved here 16 years ago, she tried to find the church, but never could, so she just went inactive. She has a 10-year-old daughter named Marithza. They are really nice. We also had a lesson with Rodrigo. He is the 9-year-old that got baptized my first transfer here! He is awesome. At night time, we drove down to Henderson and had a lesson with a referral named Eduardo. He would not stop talking haha. He also would not stop bashing the Catholic and Jehovah Witness faiths haha. It was kind of funny to watch.

The Cadena's yard after mowing.

Wednesday - We did a lot of service. We spent an hour helping a member cut up his neighbor's tree that fell down in the last storm. After that, we went back to Anilu Cadenas' house to cut her yard. It took us about 3 hours again. I love doing yard work. The smell of freshly cut grass is heavenly. That night, Hermana Marmolejo brought us dinner at the church. It was this red posole. From now on, that posole will always be called THE posole....

Thursday - THE posole got to Elder Callister. He threw up 2 times during the night, and 3 more times during Thursday. He also had really bad diarrhea. Food poisoning. I felt so bad for him. So I did a lot of reading that day. I am currently doing a study of the Book of Mormon on Remembrance in 6 weeks. It is going well. I am in Mosiah 5 currently. Elder Del Angel came and switched out so that He and I could go to a lesson that Elder Callister and I had with Marithza and Rosa. So Elder Mortensen stayed with Elder Callister. We set a baptismal date with Marithza!

Friday - We spent the day in Henderson. We had some potentials down there that we wanted to go and visit. We didn't see a ton of success, but it was nice to finally spend a lot of time in Henderson trying to do work.


A play for Father's day performed buy the Relief Society

Saturday - Ramon Alba came out with us in the morning. We visited some less active members. It went well. Saturday night was the Branch Father's Day activity. It was a dinner and a show that the Relief Society put on. It was good! AND an inactive family that I have been working with since I got here in Longview came to the activity! The mom and the two daughters have been to church the past 3 weeks, but never the dad. But he came to the activity! He told us he did it for his girls. We will get to him soon enough. I know it.

Sunday - church was great! The Rossow family spoke in church. After church, we ate with them. It was awesome. In Sister Rossow's talk, she threw down about how lots of male members don't live worthy of the priesthood and she related it to how it also makes them unworthy parents! It was pretty awesome to listen to! We had another lesson with Rosa and her daughter Marithza. Marithza told us she is afraid to get baptized because her dad and grandma don't want her to be baptized. It is sad. But we are still working hard with her.

That is it for this week. Nothing super duper exciting... sorry! Also, not many pictures just because it was a weird week. Sorry for that as well!

I love you all, thanks so much for the prayers and support.

Love,
Elder Bullough

Letter # 18 - Tornado Alley

Hello, Everyone!

Crazy week for y'all! It has rained every single day since my last email here. This whole week we have seen the consequences of the rainstorm last week. It was apparently a tornado. So there was lots of damage all over the city. That's Tornado Alley for you I guess.


Brandon and Elder Judd
 


Monday - We found out that Elder Judd would be transferred to Grand Prarie out in West Dallas. It has been a fun ride with him. He has taught me a lot and I know we will be great friends for our lives. We also found out that my new companion would be Elder Callister! His grandpa's brother is Tad R. Callister the general authority. I was only told great things about Elder Callister. Elder Judd and I also helped clean up a member's yard after that crazy storm on sunday. Trees have fallen on houses, roads, and fences everywhere. Some people didn't have electricity for 5 days. All of the stop lights were out as well.

Tuesday - Transfer Day! The plan was that Elder Del Angel and I would stay in Longview together. Brother Green would drive Elder Judd and Buford to Dallas and bring back our companions. Long story short, there was some miscommunication and he only brought back my companion. They found out 2 hours away from Dallas that they left someone, so they turned around and went back. Elder Callister did not arrive until dinner time. He is our district leader here. He is a hard worker. He is from Las Vegas. He loves to play volleyball. We are going to work super hard this transfer.

Wednesday - What a strange day... it was the last day of the month. We only get a certain amount of miles for the month and we were out... we couldn't go anywhere and no members could come with us. We were at the church almost the whole day. We did a lot of online proselyting, calling, planning, etc. Elder Callister is a beast though. I cannot wait to work with him.

Thursday - It was crazy to start June! The year is already almost halfway over! We did our first week planning together and then went out with a member to visit some families down in Kilgore.

Friday - Lots of knocking on potential investigators doors. We are trying to clean our area book out. We feel that God is a very organized person and that once we become more organized, he will bless us immensely. That night, we got chased away from a house by a mean pitbull. It was terrifying.


Elder McCallister and Brandon
 


Saturday - Saturday and Sunday were our Stake Conferences! They went really well and i learned lots! Elder Callister and i attended the breakout session for ward mission leaders. We basically got chastised for being missionaries. Ward mission leaders here don't understand that we have specific assignments from president Taylor. We have been asked to do things a certain way that apparently these mission leaders don't agree with. It was definitely sad to be in a setting where you are being attacked by members of your own church. We get attacked every day as it is. We don't need it from our members too. Afterward, Elder Callister and I were talking about it, and we both mentioned how we had felt a very small nudge to attend the young men's breakout instead... i know that was the spirit trying to get us out of a sticky situation. We didn't listen and were punished for it. Live and learn.

Sunday - Stake conference was incredible. The main theme was families. I loved all of the talks. We drove out to Marshall to visit some of our potentials out there continuing to try and clean our area book. It is looking good now!

That is about it for this week! I love you all so so much. Have a good week!
Brandon