Hello family how are you?
Thing's have been going great here, we where able to get rings for our Chuuk investigators Ipha Arongaw and Wea Herry and they will be getting married in December. It has been a long six months working with those two and is rewarding for them to make that much progress. Also hopefully if all goes as planned, they both, along with their daughter Tvanna are going to be baptized in December so it should be a great month, I am looking forward to it.
My Thanksgiving was great. We where able to go to our Phillipino members house for dinner and it was delicious. They sent us home with a bunch of food and then we went to another family on Friday, they also sent us home with a bunch of food, which I am glad for, because I am out of money on my card and this food should last us until next Monday, when we can shop for more food yeah!!
Anyways that's all to report this week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
11/22/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hey mom and all,
Life is the norm here, nothing exciting going on here except it being freezing cold, right not it is in the 20's and the weatherman says it will be getting down in the teens tonight, chilly chilly. Oh and we also have snow here, yeah it only about half a foot, but hey it's still snow. I got wet outside today and built myself a snowman which is something I have not been able to do in a long time. Yes the snow here is nothing like the snow in Sanpete the snow here is pathetic!!!!!! I was lucky enough to get little tiny snowballs to stick together long enough for me to take a picture before they fell apart, yea it was that much of an epic failure.
Anyway that's all for this week, talk to ya next week and have a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Life is the norm here, nothing exciting going on here except it being freezing cold, right not it is in the 20's and the weatherman says it will be getting down in the teens tonight, chilly chilly. Oh and we also have snow here, yeah it only about half a foot, but hey it's still snow. I got wet outside today and built myself a snowman which is something I have not been able to do in a long time. Yes the snow here is nothing like the snow in Sanpete the snow here is pathetic!!!!!! I was lucky enough to get little tiny snowballs to stick together long enough for me to take a picture before they fell apart, yea it was that much of an epic failure.
Anyway that's all for this week, talk to ya next week and have a great Thanksgiving weekend.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
11/15/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hey family how are you all,
Things are great, I got the pictures from Jared and they are great. Life here has had it's ups and downs, we had most of our investigators drop us, but we are slowly getting more and with the Lord's help we will be baptizing more people soon.
Burien has been a wonderful ward so far and I hope that I can contribute more baptisms for it, man I can't believe that it has been almost six months here in the Burien ward, it's crazy how time flies.
Our recent convert Tarson Iphraim is doing great, he is only 9 and he is learning about the gospel really quick, he reads the book of Mormon all by himself and with our help is learning a lot of stuff in it.
Well that's it for this week. Thanks for the update from home. No it's not in the 50-60s here. it's just in the 40-50s lol
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
Things are great, I got the pictures from Jared and they are great. Life here has had it's ups and downs, we had most of our investigators drop us, but we are slowly getting more and with the Lord's help we will be baptizing more people soon.
Burien has been a wonderful ward so far and I hope that I can contribute more baptisms for it, man I can't believe that it has been almost six months here in the Burien ward, it's crazy how time flies.
Our recent convert Tarson Iphraim is doing great, he is only 9 and he is learning about the gospel really quick, he reads the book of Mormon all by himself and with our help is learning a lot of stuff in it.
Well that's it for this week. Thanks for the update from home. No it's not in the 50-60s here. it's just in the 40-50s lol
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
11/8/2010 News from Burien!!!!
Hey mom and family,
To answer your question. No I have not personally baptized anybody yet and to be truthful it would be cool but, I don't care. As yet no one has asked me, so I wait until someone asks which if it is never than at least I get to teach them and progress them towards the waters of baptism. Beside it's better if a member in the ward baptizes them anyways, because it is more special to them, it is someone they will see for a long time which is better than someone who will be here for only a short period of time. And yes this mission is a lot harder than Brazil, Brazil doesn't have a lot of rich snotty people as the Seattle area does. We are going to be lucky if we reach 720 baptisms this year alone and we are at 486 as of yesterdays 5 baptisms, so yeah, I still have one person on date for baptism so I am still praying for that to happen on the 19 of Nov.
So that's it for the week. Talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
To answer your question. No I have not personally baptized anybody yet and to be truthful it would be cool but, I don't care. As yet no one has asked me, so I wait until someone asks which if it is never than at least I get to teach them and progress them towards the waters of baptism. Beside it's better if a member in the ward baptizes them anyways, because it is more special to them, it is someone they will see for a long time which is better than someone who will be here for only a short period of time. And yes this mission is a lot harder than Brazil, Brazil doesn't have a lot of rich snotty people as the Seattle area does. We are going to be lucky if we reach 720 baptisms this year alone and we are at 486 as of yesterdays 5 baptisms, so yeah, I still have one person on date for baptism so I am still praying for that to happen on the 19 of Nov.
So that's it for the week. Talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
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