The Not so Long Haul (May 16-20)

On Thursday we both stayed in St. Cloud for the day to exchange with our zone leaders. I went and we mowed a ladies grass and on our way back we got stuck! There is only one exit and entrance to the neighborhood and there is a train track that runs over it. Well the train stopped in just the perfect place to keep us from leaving. We sat there for an hour waiting for it to move, but we were in service clothes, so we just did other missionary activities to stay busy. Right as we finished those things we were getting out of the car and the train started moving again... typical.

On Friday I was able to do a lot of service. We cleaned up an Elderly ladies yard, and then we helped out at the salvation Army and sorted food for 3 hours. Also on Thursday we cleaned up a members yard too. I have probably done 8 hours of service in a 24 hour span. But that was fine with me, it's always fun to clean up yards because you get to see the before and after. It truly makes the yard look splendid. It's just like our lifestyles. Sometimes we don't even see spots of sin that are destroying patches of our soul. The sacrament is a great time to "inspect our spiritual yard, and find those areas that can't receive the light of the atonement of Christ. Then we clean it up and dispense of it and never think of it again.

Saturday we had a blitz in our area with the Princeton Elders, and me and Elder Samuels went to Wadena. There was a whole bunch of self referrals there, as far back as 2016, that had requested bibles, and copies of the Book of Mormon. When we went there all of them had moved out and could no longer be contacted. It's just so surprising to me that they were ignored all this time. Since no one lived there, we headed back to Brainerd and we checked to see if any one else was interested. Let's just say that we learned how to accept rejection... but it's good because then Elders in the future don't have to waste their time going to people who are not interested in the gospel.

Sunday we tracted out in the rain for 3 or 4 hours... and no one was interested at all. 

Monday we had our Zone P-Day in St. Cloud and we played yard games and Tydyed shirts! It was good to be able to get to know the missionaries even better! I didn't get the photo of the shirts but I will send it next week! Love you all!

-Elder Brown