Hello!

So hello family! I hope everyone is having a super week! So transfers are tomorrow! And I am staying here in Muncie, but Sister Benjamin is getting transferred and she got the leadership call to be Sister Training Leader! I am super excited for her to go and help train the sisters of this mission but I am sad that she won't be my companion anymore. 

This week has been amazing! Our investigator G is progressing so well. He has such a great testimony and is learning more each day. We have another lesson with him tonight and I am really excited for it! 

This week we also spent time serving C (who was baptized in May) out on his farm chopping down some trees and it was so much fun! Elder Chamberlain was on exchanges with the Assistant Elder Martin and we have the best assistants ever! They really care so much about this mission. 

I hope that everyone has a super week! The work here is progressing so much and there are miracles in every day!

Sister Brown II

Happy Father's Day!

I hope everyone had a stellar Father's day yesterday! I am so thankful to have the best dad in the whole world! And I am so thankful for the priesthood and the power of priesthood blessings and the worthy priesthood holders that have been in my life. 

So this week we had dinner at B's house and she is an excellent cook and she made a cake for Father's day. In honor of Heavenly Father. She is just the best! 

Last week we went biking on the greenway here in Muncie for a district fun day and today we are having a zone day fun day and transfers are next Tuesday! So there is a lot going on here, just not a lot of time for writing home. But lots of exciting things are happening and our investigators are so super! 

I hope everyone has a super week and if you are wondering where Sister Brown II is reading in the Book of Mormon right now you should check out Mosiah 2 and Alma 23! Super great places to be reading!

I love you all and pray for you!

Sister Brown II

Oh and I disneybounded as Anna from Frozen today with Sister Brown I in Germany as Elsa! Sisters for life!

Words of the Week!

1. BAPTISM!

B got BAPTIZED!!! Saturday June 7th at 7pm B was baptized! She is so amazing and totally the elect. She bore her testimony after she had been baptized and the spirit was so strong! She is deeply rooted in the Book of Mormon and she has a strong testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God. She really wants to come out teaching with us and share her story with others too. Man she is just so amazing!

2. VIOLIN

So I played a violin this week. Brother Logan let me borrow one of his and it is really nice and plays just like the one I have back home! I played for Zone Meeting with Elder Chamberlain on violin too and we played "A Child's Prayer". And then at Bonnie's baptism I played "A Poor Wayfaring Man of Grief" with Sister Benjamin singing and Sister Denison playing the piano. It was so awesome and I am so thankful for this talent. So thank you mom for all the lessons and hours spent practicing with me. You are the best.

3. BECOMING

This week I have been thinking a lot about the word becoming. And who I am becoming. Who my investigators are becoming. It is a process. And I am so thankful for the Atonement that makes it possible for me to become like my Father in Heaven. 

I hope everyone has a fantastic week! The Atonement is real and we can use it each and every day. We are here to become more than we are right now. I love you all with my whole heart!

Sister Brown II

Magical Monday!

So today we got a little more creative with who we were going to be! I am Grandmother Willow and Sister Benjamin is the Beast since her arm got attacked by a tree during a service project... So I did a fun tree yoga pose for the picture! 

AND THERE ARE SO MANY REASONS TO CELEBRATE THIS WEEK!

Happy Birthday to Elder Solomon today! And David Bowers tomorrow! And Mandi LeFevre on Wednesday! And GRACE BROWN the best little sister on SATURDAY! And Happy Father's Day on Sunday! To the dad who is best in the west! I love you so much! 

I hope everyone has a splendid day and a week full of celebrations! I love you all SO MUCH!

MIRACLES!!

So this week was a week of mysterious miracles! On Monday which was Memorial Day we had a finding challenge to go out and find as many families as possible! And as a mission we found 234 new investigators IN ONE DAY! That is crazy people! Crazy awesome! Heavenly Father is aware of us and when we put our trust in Him NOTHING is impossible!

So Memorial Day morning the Muncie 2nd ward has a breakfast and 5k and it was so much fun! Our investigator B WHO IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY came and got some sweet fellowship from the ward! It was awesome! 

So this week also we had zone conference and we got some awesome training on how to be better missionaries! It was really great and the new assistants of our mission, Elder Fivas and Elder Martin are just the best! The Ohio Cincinnati Mission really is the best in the world! (Sorry to those who are serving in Germany (: I still love you!)

And last night. At about 6pm we get a call from an investigator who asks if we can come over right away to help him move some stuff. We asked if it could wait but he said it was urgent and so we scheduled to stop by at 8pm since that was the earliest we could get there. So we show up and he wants us to move a fridge. From the upstairs apartment down the street to his house... We were not really prepared nor strong enough to do that so we called the zone leaders, Elder Carter and Elder Chamberlain who serve in our same area and they came with a recent convert C who is amazing! They totally helped us out and they were there so late but they finally got it down the stairs and to our investigators houses! So today we got them their favorite cereals and made them into "thank you fridges"! Best zone leaders ever!

So just in case anyone is wondering what I look like during email time... Just imagine Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs typing. Literally that is how my hands feel! And it makes me chuckle to think of him typing.

I hope you all have a great week! Don't forget that Heavenly Father loves you! And so does Sister Brown II!

Sister Brown II

Oh and today I disneybounded as Dumbo with my elephant necklace and my feather necklaces! Pretty stoked about it!

HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!!

I hope everyone is having a fantastic day! We only have 4 hours of pday today and then the other 4 hours on Wednesday because Zone Conference is tomorrow and also because today is a holiday and so many families are going to be home, President asked us to get out and work! We are going to have so many miracles today and I am so stoked! 

Okay so I wanted to share some facts about Muncie, Indiana.

1. Potholes are crazy here. Driving is like Mario Kart on that one level where there are all the holes and you can't fall in them. It makes driving quite exciting. Except Sister Benjamin drives. Power of being a greenie!

2. Screen Doors. Everyone has them. And I feel as though nobody in Utah really did... But it can make knocking on doors a bit of a challenge when they are shut. People also have like inside porches. Those are kind of hard to describe but they also make knocking on doors quite the adventure.

3. Dandelions are your yard. I have never seen so many weeds everywhere in my life. And people just mow over them because there are just so many! Plus nobody needs sprinklers here and there are no brown yards because of the humidity and rain here!

4. This one is my favorite... The Hoosier Goose. Hoosier: pronounced (Who-shur). Indiana people refer to themselves as the Hoosiers. And they have these Goose statues that everyone has. And they dress them up. No joke. They all have holiday outfits and bonnets. They are so rad! Yard statues are big here but not too many gnomes.

So there are some Hoosier facts! I love you all and I hope you have a great week! Share the glad message of the gospel!

Oh! And so our latest progressing investigator is B and she is amazing. She is a dog trainer and she is so prepared. She has strengthened my testimony so much of the hastening of the work. Not only are there more missionaries out serving, but there are people who are literally waiting for the gospel to be shared with them. She is going to be baptized on June 7th! She is just the best and she totally brightens my day.

Sister Brown II

Hey It's May!

How is it already May? Time flies when you are out here serving! So we got transfer calls this morning and Sister Benjamin and I are staying in Muncie Indiana!! I am so thankful and I know that there is a lot of work for us to do in this area. It is crazy that it has already been one transfer!

So yesterday was so great! President Porter let us call home and SKYPE! It was so good to see your faces and get to hear your voices!! I loved all the stories that you told me. That was such a blessing.

Today we Disneybounded as Nemo and Dory. We like to Disneybound on Monday. Magical Mondays. They are awesome.

And on Saturday we had a mission wide social media split. Which is where the members came out with us and took pictures of us teaching and finding and doing missionary work and then posted them to social media to help get the word of missionary work to a lot of people! At stake conference last week there were a lot of talks given on the power of technology and sharing the gospel through it. We had a ward activity for Mother's day and that was really fun to go to and we got a lot of less actives to come so that was really awesome.

Nothing too crazy this week, but I would just challenge you to get on social media, send a text, and just share the gospel! It doesn't have to be anything huge and if you have any awesome stories about sharing the gospel I would LOVE to hear them! 

I love you all and thank you for supporting me! The work is amazing. 

Sister Brown II

Awesome Possum

Happy Cinco De Mayo! Any holiday is a reason to celebrate! AYEAYEAYE! Arrrriiba! (:

So two things about Muncie. There are HUGE potholes everywhere and there are possums. Sometimes we want to stop and see if they are alive and playing dead, or really dead. But then we think that that would be a really bad idea so we keep driving. 

Monday was ZONE DAY FUN DAY! Woo! The whole zone got together and we played human foosball, chair soccer, basketball and even had a marshmallow fight with pvc pipes. It was so awesome! Our zone is the best!

So this week Sister Boyce, an awesome member in our ward took us to this delicious little cupcake shop called "The Flour Shop" and it is the best cupcake ever. And I am not just saying that because I am a missionary. It was really so delicious.

Yesterday was the baptism of C. He is the best. He had been taught by missionaries for a really long time and was baptized yesterday! The spirit was really there and Sister Benjamin sang. She has a beautiful voice. C bore his testimony after he was baptized and just said "As you can see I am wet. But the feeling inside is much better." That testimony was so simple. But perfectly summed up how the spirit works. Sometimes it is hard to put into words, but the feeling is what it is all about. 

And Brother Logan. He is the best. He is a fiddler. And he owns like seven or more BEAUTIFUL violins. And he let me play on one when we stopped by! We had a little jam sesh. It was so stress relieving. And mom. I know, please reread that. Sister Brown II, wanting to play the violin? Yes! It is true! And those fiddling books that we learned from payed off! Popping out Devils Dream was awesome. Brother Logan can harmonize by ear and it was the coolest thing!

Oh and the Bell family heard I was a greenie and had us over for an all out greenie meal! They have done it for forever with missionaries and have it down. An all-star green breakfast that was equal parts delicious and fun!

This week was amazing! Heavenly Father knows us individually and personally. The scriptures are where we can find those gems each day when we read. Our callings are from the Lord. And He knows best.

Sister Brown II