Dear Family,
So, there's an ice storm headed for the mission. Don't know precisely when or where it will hit, but we are prepared. We're stocked up on food and other supplies. We'll be perfectly safe if anything happens where we live.
Our Investigator had some family issues come up so he won't get baptized this week. It will probably be in the next two or three weeks. I would guess the 19th of February. We are very excited and he is very eager to be baptized as soon as possible.
This morning we had Biscuits and Gravy. Chocolate Gravy. It's a Southern food. An amazing one, at that. We got a recipe for it last night and tried it out this morning. I mailed a copy of it home for you to enjoy. The person who gave it to us said that it's best with homemade biscuits, but if you don't make homemade biscuits, get the Pillsbury Layers biscuits(which is precisely what we happened to have on hand. It was gooooooooooooooooood). It was so delicious. Not for the faint of stomach. It is incredibly rich. Easy to make though.
Elder Rowley and I have had colds the last week or so. We're starting to get over it now. His was worse than mine. Theraflu is a wonderful thing. :)
Not too much else exciting to report. I hope y'all have a good week! I hope you go to the temple!
Love,
Elder Bracken
Monday, January 31, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Dear Family,
It has been an awesome week. :)
I don't remember if this happened last week or the week before, so I'll just tell you. Maybe it's not news. Our "Eternigator" decided to get baptized. He will get baptized on the 5th of February. He just got interviewed yesterday and he is good to go. We are very excited for him. :)
We also got a new Ward Mission Leader yesterday, which we are very excited for. He's pretty gung-ho about missionary work. He just moved here from Sallisaw, Oklahoma where he was a Branch Mission Leader. No break for him! haha.
We also had a less-active Sister come who we've been working with for a very long time. She hasn't been to church the whole time I've been here. It was a huge blessing to see that.
We also got a lot of people to sign up on our Dinner Calendar for once, which we accomplished by taking a picture. We emptied out the fridge, set the camera inside of it on a shelf toward the back, and had it take a picture of us looking inside at the empty fride while looking very sad. It worked wonders. We have so many people feeding us dinner now. :)
Other than that, it's business as usual back at the Ranch. Not much else to talk about, I don't guess.
Sounds like the Super-bowl will be lame. I don't like either of those teams. :) haha
Well, I hope y'all have a good week!
Love,
Elder Bracken
It has been an awesome week. :)
I don't remember if this happened last week or the week before, so I'll just tell you. Maybe it's not news. Our "Eternigator" decided to get baptized. He will get baptized on the 5th of February. He just got interviewed yesterday and he is good to go. We are very excited for him. :)
We also got a new Ward Mission Leader yesterday, which we are very excited for. He's pretty gung-ho about missionary work. He just moved here from Sallisaw, Oklahoma where he was a Branch Mission Leader. No break for him! haha.
We also had a less-active Sister come who we've been working with for a very long time. She hasn't been to church the whole time I've been here. It was a huge blessing to see that.
We also got a lot of people to sign up on our Dinner Calendar for once, which we accomplished by taking a picture. We emptied out the fridge, set the camera inside of it on a shelf toward the back, and had it take a picture of us looking inside at the empty fride while looking very sad. It worked wonders. We have so many people feeding us dinner now. :)
Other than that, it's business as usual back at the Ranch. Not much else to talk about, I don't guess.
Sounds like the Super-bowl will be lame. I don't like either of those teams. :) haha
Well, I hope y'all have a good week!
Love,
Elder Bracken
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Things are going really well. Last week I was on exchanges with a Spanish Elder and we found an awesome family to teach. We taught them the second lesson last night. It went well. We are very excited for them.
It's been cold here, but not too bad. The temperatures have been fluctuating up and down quite rapidly. Arkansas is a strange place.
Transfers are the Thursday BEFORE my Birthday(which is a Monday). I'm anticipating that I'll be moved out, but no guarantees. So perhaps you should send it early?
Not much else too exciting has happened, I suppose. Oh, I ran over a cat(it wasn't my fault nor my intention), did I tell you that? NAILED it. The sound of bones crunching and blood splattering. Then as soon as we turned around and came back to see it, it was gone! Vanished without a trace! No blood, no remains. Not on the road or our car. Nothing. I think that cat was resurrected. :)
Life is good for me. I was frustrated to see that the Library and Post Office were closed yesterday due to the federal "holiday." So I am emailing today, and look forward with an eye of faith to the near future moment when I shall open the mailbox and taste of the fruit there-in. I hope.
Well, I will get going. I love you. Go to the temple. Especially if there are things going on in your life that you must pray for, go to the Temple and do it there.
Love,
Elder Bracken
It's been cold here, but not too bad. The temperatures have been fluctuating up and down quite rapidly. Arkansas is a strange place.
Transfers are the Thursday BEFORE my Birthday(which is a Monday). I'm anticipating that I'll be moved out, but no guarantees. So perhaps you should send it early?
Not much else too exciting has happened, I suppose. Oh, I ran over a cat(it wasn't my fault nor my intention), did I tell you that? NAILED it. The sound of bones crunching and blood splattering. Then as soon as we turned around and came back to see it, it was gone! Vanished without a trace! No blood, no remains. Not on the road or our car. Nothing. I think that cat was resurrected. :)
Life is good for me. I was frustrated to see that the Library and Post Office were closed yesterday due to the federal "holiday." So I am emailing today, and look forward with an eye of faith to the near future moment when I shall open the mailbox and taste of the fruit there-in. I hope.
Well, I will get going. I love you. Go to the temple. Especially if there are things going on in your life that you must pray for, go to the Temple and do it there.
Love,
Elder Bracken
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
It's been snowing! Crazy! It started Sunday night. It continued a little yesterday, but not much. Really, it's not a lot of snow. Just a couple of inches. But for the people here it's like the sky is falling. School's closed. The library closed(hence my emailing on Tuesday). The whole place just shuts down. It's so funny.
We were glad that we bought some De-Icer windshield wiper fluid. It's good stuff.
We just had Stake Conference. It was a broadcast from Salt Lake to all the stakes in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. It was very good. First to speak was Bishop Keith B. McMullin of the Presiding Bishopric. Then Sister Elaine S. Dalton. Then Elder L. Tom Perry. Then finally President Thomas S. Monson. It was very good. my favorite talk was by Bishop McMullin. He spoke about being "stuffocated." We have so much stuff in our lives taking up our space and time that we leave no room for Heavenly Father and His Gospel. He talked about removing the things that distract us so that we can communicate clearly with our beloved Father. It was very good. President Monson talked about Rescuing those who are lost. The widows, the fatherless, the less-active, the lonely, etc.
Well, I had better get going. Have a good week, and go to the temple!
Love,
Elder Bracken
We were glad that we bought some De-Icer windshield wiper fluid. It's good stuff.
We just had Stake Conference. It was a broadcast from Salt Lake to all the stakes in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama. It was very good. First to speak was Bishop Keith B. McMullin of the Presiding Bishopric. Then Sister Elaine S. Dalton. Then Elder L. Tom Perry. Then finally President Thomas S. Monson. It was very good. my favorite talk was by Bishop McMullin. He spoke about being "stuffocated." We have so much stuff in our lives taking up our space and time that we leave no room for Heavenly Father and His Gospel. He talked about removing the things that distract us so that we can communicate clearly with our beloved Father. It was very good. President Monson talked about Rescuing those who are lost. The widows, the fatherless, the less-active, the lonely, etc.
Well, I had better get going. Have a good week, and go to the temple!
Love,
Elder Bracken
Monday, January 3, 2011
Dear Family,
Weather has been fine. A little rainy. Other than that, no problem. Van Buren is not prone for tornadoes. And you don't need to worry, Mom. If the Mission President doesn't call you, then I'm okay. :)
New Year's was basically just a normal day for us. We went to the Ward Party that was super lame. Hardly anybody showed up. Kinda sad. Oh well. That's what happens when everyone's out of town.
Work has been slow here, because of the holidays. And there's all kinds of sicknesses going around. Colds and stuff. And also a stomach virus a lot of people seem to be getting.
We had an interesting experience this past week. One of our investigators was having weird things happen in her house at night. Things falling off the walls. Toys thrown across the house. All at night. Only her and her son were in the house. No one else. She kept having nightmares. So anyways, we went over and blessed her home. There wasn't anything evil or weird there when we were there. And there hasn't been since, apparently. So that was kind of interesting, I guess.
We also had an "Eternigator" at church yesterday. During a baby blessing he said he felt a "presence." Kind of disturbed him a little I guess. Well, a baby blessing is an ordinance where angels are likely to be present, so I'm sure that's what it was.
Odd stuff.
We haven't been fed hardly at all lately, with the holidays and everything. A member family gave us a crock-pot for Christmas and we've been using that quite a bit. We had the Spanish Elders over for dinner and made some stuff in the crock-pot. It turned out basically like a Mexican flavored Chili. It wasn't quite what we intended, but it was really good.
Nothing else too exciting has happened. As I said, it's been slow with the holidays. But with those being over, everyone will get back into the swing of things and things will pick up, I'm sure.
Well, I hope you have a good week and that you all make a New Year's Resolution(one that you'll actually keep) to go to the temple frequently!
Love,
Elder Bracken
Weather has been fine. A little rainy. Other than that, no problem. Van Buren is not prone for tornadoes. And you don't need to worry, Mom. If the Mission President doesn't call you, then I'm okay. :)
New Year's was basically just a normal day for us. We went to the Ward Party that was super lame. Hardly anybody showed up. Kinda sad. Oh well. That's what happens when everyone's out of town.
Work has been slow here, because of the holidays. And there's all kinds of sicknesses going around. Colds and stuff. And also a stomach virus a lot of people seem to be getting.
We had an interesting experience this past week. One of our investigators was having weird things happen in her house at night. Things falling off the walls. Toys thrown across the house. All at night. Only her and her son were in the house. No one else. She kept having nightmares. So anyways, we went over and blessed her home. There wasn't anything evil or weird there when we were there. And there hasn't been since, apparently. So that was kind of interesting, I guess.
We also had an "Eternigator" at church yesterday. During a baby blessing he said he felt a "presence." Kind of disturbed him a little I guess. Well, a baby blessing is an ordinance where angels are likely to be present, so I'm sure that's what it was.
Odd stuff.
We haven't been fed hardly at all lately, with the holidays and everything. A member family gave us a crock-pot for Christmas and we've been using that quite a bit. We had the Spanish Elders over for dinner and made some stuff in the crock-pot. It turned out basically like a Mexican flavored Chili. It wasn't quite what we intended, but it was really good.
Nothing else too exciting has happened. As I said, it's been slow with the holidays. But with those being over, everyone will get back into the swing of things and things will pick up, I'm sure.
Well, I hope you have a good week and that you all make a New Year's Resolution(one that you'll actually keep) to go to the temple frequently!
Love,
Elder Bracken
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