Week 90-April 23 I'm Turning 20!

Not only am I turning 20 but but we found 20 new investigators!!!!!!!  I'm kidding,  that would have been an awesome email though. But we did have quite the week full of 4/20 blazing festivals, walking down town filming a music video, interviewing companionships about mountains they have over come and coming to discover Elder Brown has an altar ego young Busy B....he's the new rapper in me.... We were with the Ap's like 3 days this week so me and my other half Elder Blackham didn't get to write much music but we did get to arrange a primary song...Armies of Helaman and a Wise Man Built his House Upon a Rock! 

 Since we had to be with the AP's the majority of this week we weren't able to get in as much proselyting and finding time as we would have like to. But we found a good bit of investigators! We had two promising miracles happen this week. We were led to a potential Lady's house. We went up to her house and she got out of her car but she told us to come back in 20 minutes because she was on the phone with her boyfriend. We decided to go tracking somewhere and the first door we knocked on we picked up as a super solid potential investigator.  She prayed that morning to find peace in her life and we came and knocked on her door right as things were crumbling down for her. After that we went back to that Lady's house and we started talking with her and picked her up as a new investigator. We had return appointments with both of them and they are both solid and both want to continue our lessons. Other than that we picked up a bunch of other potential investigators and will be trying to contact with them throughout the week.

 It's nice to have smart phones and be up to date with the 21st century as for Facebook you can comment I just can't comment back and so try not to be so diso. 

Thanks  for all the birthday wishes I really appreciate it. I love you guys so much!!!!!!  

Elder Brown

Week 89 April 16 Awesome Week

Awesome week this week!

My new companion is Elder Blackham.  We serve in the Sloan Lake Ward. With two other Elders.   

He is from Mount Pleasant Utah and is 8 months out on his mission. Back home he played in a band called the Melting Rain look it up on Spotify. He is a super talented singer songwriter, guitar player and drummer. He plays a little piano too.

This ward is definitely interesting. It's really ghetto in most of the area but has some wealthier parts as well. I didn't go to the ward this Sunday since it was stake conference. Pres and sis Savage spoke.  We haven't had much receptivity from finding through our own efforts which has been really hard because we work like crazy. But we had a weekly planning session yesterday and had 4 potential investigators reach out to us. We set really high goals to show the lord our faith and in return he has blessed us with prompting people to reach out to us. We have a lot of  teaching appointments this week. Haven't taught anyone but I had an amazing experience. 

So at stake conference yesterday,  I was sitting in the back on the metal chairs (so comfy....) and I looked to my left and there sitting with her step mom is April Tavenner the one me and Elder Beck were teaching in Arvada. I looked on my phone and in the contacts was her number. I told her during conference to look my way over text and she came running over and gave me a hug and started breaking down crying. She has ignored the missionaries in Arvada because she  has been dealing with a lot with her family. Her mom wants to put a restraining order on her so she can't see her daughter. Such a hard thing to overcome. But she told me to call her so we could set up a time to meet. I had a strong witness that I know I was called to this area for her....unbelievable I would have never guessed....coincidence?? 

As far as the music goes it has been so much fun! So we are permitted 3 hours of practice time a day to write music and prepare for our firesides we are performing in the next month. So we talked to president he is not sure when but he said that we will be traveling from stake to stake performing firesides and sharing our testimonies. We have written one song already and 3 are in  the works. The first one is a funny one and that's what the Savages want. It's about a missionaries schedule with some commentary in between. It will make you laugh. It's so fun to jam out too when we come home at night. We just have a blast. 

Oh yes I went to the funeral.  I forgot to tell you I spoke and it was hard to speak but people told me that what I said was needed. They turned the chapel into South Sudan and a minister from the African community came and spoke. The church was packed. Sam still wants to get baptized  Elder Braegger said!   What a great experience for me speaking. I saw everybody from the old ward too. 

I performed at a convert fireside. Wish you could have been  there. Such powerful music. I was in 4/5 of the musical numbers crazy. We get our smart phones this week...so pumped!

Love you!!