Nov. 12. 2012

Okay so first of all I want to answer sissy's question: no dish rag I have not heard Taylor Swift's new CD yet haha. Sorry dude. That snow looks like so much fun!!!....not. haha sorry guys that sucks. The weather here has been low 40's and rainy with some sun peeking out from the clouds once in a while haha, but I love the rain here so much!! The rain was probably my favorite part of this week haha:) Yes I certainly did hear about the election! Ya know, I would have voted for Romney for sure, but whether we like it or not, Obama is the leader of our country for 4 more years, so we need to pray for him and other leaders of this country and be thankful that we even get to live here. what an enormous opportunity we have to live in a free country. Let's join forces in prayer of thanksgiving, and for direction for the current leaders we have. I know it's a bummer, but there's nothing we can do now except pray. I'm good on warmth everywhere except my hands haha so yeah gloves would be nice por favor! :) Oh yeah that long talk entitled Feed My Sheep by Elder Holland is the bomb isn't it?? I love it so much!! Well as for Dwayne and Diane things are a process, and not a very good one yety haha. Diane has gone back to drinking a lot and Dwayne is frustrated and they're fighting a lot, and She's ready to kick him out. We stayed away for a few days and had no communication. Exactly what was needed. We went back on saturday and Dwayne was nearly in tears. He missed having us over and wanted the gospel back in his life. He has been dodging church for several weeks now, but on saturday he agreed to come to church, and sure enough yesterday he finally showed up. It was a great moment. No contact with Diane yet. Hope she's doing okay. Thanks for your prayers for them. They really need it. Things are okay other than that. We still have a couple baptisms lined up for this month. joseph joe should be baptized in a couple weeks, right before transfers, and hopefully jay curtain will be as well on the same day. So please pray for them too. I love you guys. not gonna lie, being on a mission for a long time doesn't get easier, it gets tougher every day. This week has been really hard to get through haha it's a dang good thing I went to the temple, that really helped! By the way, no it's not right in seattle it's in bellevue:) That was fun! Anyways I love you guys so so much!! have a wonderful week!

Love, Elder Brimhall!

P.S. Whoever wants to take this challenge is welcome. I started the Book of mormon over about a week and a half ago. I'm in mosiah 14. I'm going to finish before Christmas. Anyone think they can start in mosiah 14 and finish before christmas? Who can beat me?? haha P.P.S. if you don't want to that's fine, just read alma 26. Great chapter :)

Nov. 6, 2012

Brimhall Family! Hey!

So how's things?? Good! haha this week was alright. Please keep praying for dwayne and diane, they really really need your prayers, the adversary is working so hard on them because of how close they are. Halloween was okay! It was funny because we were tracting partially during trick or treating time haha. While they were knocking on doors dressed up in costume, I was knocking on doors as Christ's representative. While they were chomping down candy, I was feasting on the words of Christ in the bible and the book of mormon. Great times!! haha. Those pictures look good!! Looks like it was a fun time this year back in good ole' utah! Oh yeah those CD's I sent you guys are legitimately some of the deepest, truest, and most profound doctrine I have ever heard from an apostle before. That ten minute one is so awesome and I love it so much, but if you really want a spiritual high, then take the time to listen to the longer on, Feed My Sheep, by elder Holland. I love that guy so flippin much!! Happy late anniversary Mom and Dad!! 23 years!! Man that's older than I am! haha. Thank you for being such an example as a companionship for me all these years! i love you both so much!! So the reason that today is P-day instead of yesterday is because once quarterly we get to go to the temple on a tuesday, so pday is changed to tuesday this week because I'm going to the temple today!! Yay! I really miss home, but this work is keeping me busy. So the adversary is a d-bag just by the way. He interrupted the baptismal progression of almost all of our investigators this week. I guess I gotta work harder. And also as a result of that, we had to tract sooooooooo much this week! Lame haha. Oh well its an important part of the work. You have missionaries???? Sweet!! Do me a favor and just become best friends with them. Have them over for dinner a lot. Do whatever you can with them, trust me, they like it. :) The members of the ward are hands down, the MOST CRUCIAL part of missionary work. Get involved in the work as much as you can, you won't regret it! Trey, that means if male missionaries come around, take the opportunity to go on splits. Trust me man, I wish I could have had that experience. It will change your prespective of this work. I love my ward here so flippin much it's ridiculous. and it's because they are my friends and they get involved!! Well I love you all so so much! have a wonderful week!!!!

Happy Halloween 2012!

Hello family!! HAAAPPPPPPPPYYYY BBIIRRRTTTHHHDDAAYYYY MMMMOOOOOOMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That's awesome you guys got her a certificate to a massage spa thing.... good fam!! I love you guys!! So a little update for you, jessica neilson from my prayer list said that she read the book of mormon and it's not for her she didn't like it :( Frustrating. But the rest of them really need your prayers. Especially Dwayne and Diane. If you could focus on them and giving them confidence in God and in themselves, that would be great, thank you!! So it has been pouring every single day since we have been on bikes haha so that has been really super fun, and I actually mean that!! I love the rain so much!! But I could barely move up until two days ago.....whe we got another car!!!! Yay!!!!!!! haha but yeah we got another one finally haha my legs are still just ready to fall off haha! Congrats on the new calling mom!! You should probably be the President haha but I won't argue with God on this one haha. But that's really cool! Yes I got the decorations!!! Thank you so much!! Oh my gosh did I not thank you for those last week?? Yes I got them and they are hanging happily on the wall right in front of my desk so I can read them every morning!! They look like it took forever to make them!! I love them thatnk you so much!! I'm not gonna lie haha I had a pretty dang rough week. Things have been hard and tough, but that's not gonna get me down. Sacrifice preceeds miracles. Every time I feel as though I am sacrificing to much of myself, I just cast out that thought and tell myself sacrifice preceeds miracles! Never forget that fam. Our savior and brother sacrificed everything, and now we have the opportunity in this life to give a little back. Sacrifice will always bring miracle into our lives and the lives of others. I love you all so much! Oh, guess what?? I forgot to tell you last week, but I finished the book of mormon for the first time on my mission!! And now I i'm almost through first Nephi again. Our mission president has issued us a challenge to finish the Book of Mormon before the end of this year, so I gotta kick in into gear with my studying!! Well guys, I love you all so much!! I hope you have a great week!! Talk to you next week!! Oh and dad, I haven't recieved your letter yet, but hopefully I get it in the mail today Thank you so much!! Love you guys!!!

Much love, Elder Bailey Brimhall :)

Oct. 22, 2012

Hello Brimhall Fam!!

Yes tell grandma and grandpa and nana and papa that I'm so grateful for the things they sent me! I had literally no time last week for anything because of transfers, so that's why I didn't write them back! I should be sending out letters to them next monday! I wish I could send pictures, but our zone got split and the library that I have to go to now has no place in the computers to plug in my memory card! Lame! Unfortunately we aren't allowed to use weights here in the Washington Seattle mission, so congrats bruce, you will be way stronger than me when I get back! haha. So because of lots of new sister missionaries, our car got temporarily taken, so I have been on a bike all week! Just in time for like a hundred rain storms haha so much rain came this last week! On top of that, my area is one of the largest in the mission, plus it's all huge hills, so i'm either dying going 2 mph uphill, or i'm having tons of fun going 30 mph downhill!! haha yeah i'm super exhausted and my legs have never hurt so much! It's okay though, we should be getting another car in a week or two. haha oh well, Sacrifice precedes miracles and that statement has truly proved itself this last week. At the beginning of the week we had one person on date for baptism in november, but currently we have nine! So many wonderful things are happening here in the Lakota Creek ward! I love it so much in this ward, I wanna stay here my whole mission! You heard from the Gleeds huh? Awesome! Such a great family! Bishop Gleed is a seriously inspired man. One of our investigators named Brother Joe, has been looking for a job for several months. He met with Bishop Gleed the other day, and bishop said" hey brother joe, this week you will find a job, i know it, but that doesn't mean you stop coming to church. Keep your faith strong!" Like two days later Brother Joe got hired. So cool! The work here has been truly incredible!! Elder Clark and I get along just fine! Not quite as well as Elder Lindeman and I got along haha, but I like Elder Clark too, he's a great guy.
The basement thing sounds like fun!! But just for food storage? I was hoping you would say it's gonna be like a recording studio or something haha! Just kidding, food storage is a good idea... :) I miss you guys a lot! I wish I could call you lots haha but oh well, I see now why we can't. Dad I have a question from an investigator. Dwayne has a son who is 17 and doesn't believe in God. Dwayne is really trying to be a good dad, but his son Triston is kind of a rebel. Dwayne wants to talk to Triston about our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, but isn't sure how. He's afraid that he might get a bad reaction. Dwayne really wants to know what the best way is to talk to a young kid of this generation about something that happened 2000 years ago? I'm not a parent, so a little help on this one would be nice. Thanks! Haha I spent some money from my account today on a basketball because our complex just barely got new courts! Yes I do still live in the Forest Cove Apartments where I was before! Super cool, we got sister missionaries to share our ward with us now! haha yay we aren't alone anymore! haha! Yes I got your box!! Thank you soooooooo much!! I loved it!! I know I said no jeans, but I'm really glad you sent them cause they fit great! Even with the slim fit legs!! Lost some weight!! Yeah I loved the box thanks so much! Hey!!!!!! You 5 that are home!! I have almost nothing that I can do for mom's birthday so I'm counting on ya'll to do something for her k??????? Good. If you guys could pray for this list of names that would be so awesome: Dwayne Lahnella, Diane Hankins, Asia Calep, Joseph Joe, Pamelah Tuuga, Jessica Neilson, and the Osorio kids namely Junior, Lacey, and Jocelyn. Thanks so much!! They really need your prayers!! I love you all so so much! Off we go to build Zion!!! Love you!!!

Love, Elder Brimhall :)
P.S. Kick grant's butt since I only hear from him like once every third week!!

Oct. 16, 2012

Hey fam! What?? No way!! The ward's changed?? That's pretty lame!! Oh well, it sounds like you have a great group to lead the new ward though so it will all be just fine! No I didn't get transfered thank goodness!! I love my ward so much!! Unfortunately my companion, Elder Lindeman, did get transfered. Big bummer cause I love him to death! I don't have like any time because of tranfers so I gotta make this one quick. Mom, you asked me what I did for conference, well we aren't allowed to go to member's houses for conference so I just went to the stake center. I loved elder holland's talk... of course cause he's awesome!! My new companion is Elder Clark, he seems like a great guy but I don't really know him yet haha. The work this week has been going really well. We have worked super hard, gotten a few new investigators, and we're hoping to see some baptisms here in the next few weeks!! I love you guys so much!! Hope you all have a super fantastic week!!

 

 

Oct. 7, 2012

Hello Brimhall Family!!! Wow it really looks like a great year for duck hunting!! That's so rediculous! haha!! The door looks awesome!! Nope it doesn't bug me at all! Ahh yes! If you can send me a couple items in the next box that would be awesome!! I don't need jeans, but I could definitely use a beanie and a scripture case! My scripture case should be in the top left drawer of the black dresser by the bathroom!! Thank you so much!! and you can just send it to the mission office please!! All boxes are suppose to go to the mission office an most letters too! This week is transfer week, so everything sent here should be sent to the mission office just in case I get transfered. I shouldn't get transfered, but you know, just in case. The work here is kind of slow going. We have a lot of our investigators back-sliding. We are working super hard and trying to be diligent in everything we do!! We found a couple more new investigators this week, but we haven't really been able to get ahold of them since, so hopefully we'll be able to this week. I miss you guys a ton! You can tell haha I sent letters to all of you haha! Things are tough of course, but that is where faith and diligence comes in. Just gotta keep working hard and doing my best and let the Lord take care of the rest. You know what they say, hard work is just another name for luck ;) I've come to find that the times that I get to sit down and read from the Book of Mormon are my very favorite times of the day! Keep reading fam! That book truly contains messages from God on how to improve your life!! Heavenly Father speaks to me most often through the scriptues! I love it!! Love you guys so much!! Have a great week!!!

Love, Elder Brimhall!!

Sept. 30, 2012

Hey fam!!

Sissy I am so so proud of you for your baptism!! You are so amazing and I hope that you had such a great time!! I'm glad to hear that things at home are going well for all of you!!! I love and miss you guys all so much!! So two years ago, a member of the quorum of the seventy came to this mission and told the missionaries that if they worked with all they had and were exactly obedient to the mission rules that one day they would baptize 100 people in one month. Since then, they have gotten mid 80's and lower even though they were trying hard. Well in the month of september after much prayer and hard work we had 101 baptisms!!! Our whole mission was so excited!! It feels really great when you know that you have accomplised something hard like that!! It took every single missionary in our mission being their best to make this happen!! What a wonderful event!! This month we are hoping for even more than that! Why the heck didn't grant email me this week?? Go kick his butt, will ya? haha. Being out here is most definitely the hardest thing I have ever had to do, but I know that this is where the Lord wants me, so I stay here and just try my best to keep working hard! I think about you all all the time!! I'm gonna write you guys some handwritten letters in the mail this week I think!! I got the box you sent!! Thank you so so much!!! I loved it!! Haha yes I am getting plenty to eat haha!! The funny thing is that right when I ran out of instant breakfasts, I got your box that had more in it haha so thank you so much!! Thank you for the picture sis!!! I loved it!! I love you all so so much and hope you have a fantastic week!!! Love you guys!!

Love, Elder Brimhall!! :)