Hey family how you?
Things are going good. The weather here is cold sometimes and rumors here is that it might be snowy, so yeah NOT!!!!!!!! The snow here is not at all the same as in Utah.
Oh and we moved out of our apartment and into another one, so this is why, the UW, university ward missionaries don't have a bus and they live a long way away from campus. So they had us switch with them which kinda was a bummer cause we are now 10 miles out of our area, instead of right in the middle, so yeah we got the short end of the stick way bad.
We had an investigator come to church yesterday, first time in six weeks, so that was great, it was an unexpected visitor, but very well welcomed all the same. Church was great, it was all about missionary work and making up your own ward mission plan. You guys should think about doing that, finding someone to share the gospel with and have the missionaries teach them, that would be awesome, right? So as a missionary I am asking will you find people for the missionaries to teach?
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien.
1/25/2011 News from Seattle 3rd ward !!!!!!!!!
Hey Family,
How are you all doing?
Things are great here. Transfers are today and neither of us are getting transferred so that is good. Elder Mellor has been in this area for a long time at the end of this transfer he will have been in this area for 10 and a half months which is really crazy.
About the fireside, Elder Whitney L Clayton of the Presidency of the seventy, and Elder Patrick Kearon of the Seventy, it was a great meeting with them both. We spent most of the time asking them questions, which was great, it was a very spiritual experience.
And now on to the underground tour, it was not very good at all. The tour guide was not very good, great actress, but not a good tour guide, so yeah that was a waste of 15 dollars, I wouldn't tell anyone to go there, but I did find out that this city was built on greed, corruption and murder which is a great beginning for a city right???? So yeah it was not a very good tour. That's all for this week talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
How are you all doing?
Things are great here. Transfers are today and neither of us are getting transferred so that is good. Elder Mellor has been in this area for a long time at the end of this transfer he will have been in this area for 10 and a half months which is really crazy.
About the fireside, Elder Whitney L Clayton of the Presidency of the seventy, and Elder Patrick Kearon of the Seventy, it was a great meeting with them both. We spent most of the time asking them questions, which was great, it was a very spiritual experience.
And now on to the underground tour, it was not very good at all. The tour guide was not very good, great actress, but not a good tour guide, so yeah that was a waste of 15 dollars, I wouldn't tell anyone to go there, but I did find out that this city was built on greed, corruption and murder which is a great beginning for a city right???? So yeah it was not a very good tour. That's all for this week talk to ya later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
1/17/2011 News from Seattle 3rd ward
Hey all you peeps in the Sanpete Valley
Things are great, the work is great and we are teaching like crazy,
just kidding, work is slow and we have kinda hit a pot hole in the
road and is repairing it on the side of the road. Other than that
I am excited for the visit of Elder Whitney L Clayton of the pres. of
the seventy and Elder Kearon from the seventy. In case you don't know Elder Kearon he is the seventy that talked in the last general conference about how when he was young he and his parents went out in the desert and he decided to wear his sandals instead of his shoes and he got stung by a scorpion and had to be driven to the hospital by his dad, so this should be a great mtg. which happen this Saturday in Belevue. Love ya all.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Things are great, the work is great and we are teaching like crazy,
just kidding, work is slow and we have kinda hit a pot hole in the
road and is repairing it on the side of the road. Other than that
I am excited for the visit of Elder Whitney L Clayton of the pres. of
the seventy and Elder Kearon from the seventy. In case you don't know Elder Kearon he is the seventy that talked in the last general conference about how when he was young he and his parents went out in the desert and he decided to wear his sandals instead of his shoes and he got stung by a scorpion and had to be driven to the hospital by his dad, so this should be a great mtg. which happen this Saturday in Belevue. Love ya all.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
1/10/2011 News from Seattle 3rd ward
Hey family,
How are you?
Life is good here, yesterday at church was fun and also our lessons
with our recent converts.
Today we are going to have some fun we are going to go on the underground tour which at this point I have no idea what it entails, so I will give you a little more details next week.
That's sad that Shane Sherman died. I didn't really know him very well I only knew Samantha.
Anyways gotta go.
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
How are you?
Life is good here, yesterday at church was fun and also our lessons
with our recent converts.
Today we are going to have some fun we are going to go on the underground tour which at this point I have no idea what it entails, so I will give you a little more details next week.
That's sad that Shane Sherman died. I didn't really know him very well I only knew Samantha.
Anyways gotta go.
Love ya all,
Elder O'Brien
1/8/20011 Pictures of ward members, investigators, new converts. Taken in 2010
Member & me
Investigator-Oscar Johnson
Members-Bustemante family & Martinez Family
Recent Converts-Rojas Family
Recent convert- Me, Austin St.Pierre
Investigators-Forleo Family
Members- Coselman Family
Members-Hutchinson family
Investigator-Oscar Johnson Members-Bustemante family & Martinez Family
Recent Converts-Rojas Family
Recent convert- Me, Austin St.Pierre
Investigators-Forleo Family
Members- Coselman Family
Members-Hutchinson family
1/3/11 News from North Seattle!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey Family what's up,
Life is great here. Testimony meeting yesterday was amazing and very spiritual.
This past week has nothing new and exciting to tell other
than on P-day we went down to Pikes place Market and had fun and
bought some stuff at the Seattle shirt Co. and at Ye Old curiosity
shop.
Anyways that's it.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Life is great here. Testimony meeting yesterday was amazing and very spiritual.
This past week has nothing new and exciting to tell other
than on P-day we went down to Pikes place Market and had fun and
bought some stuff at the Seattle shirt Co. and at Ye Old curiosity
shop.
Anyways that's it.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
1/1/20011 Pictures from a cultural day in Seattle 9/13/2010
Jacob's checking out the different berries
Space Needle
Interesting Arches 
The Fremont Troll
12/20/10 News from Seattle 3rd!!!
Hey family what's up,
Everything is fun here, this last week has been great, I found out that I am over all the youth for the whole stake, which means where ever there is youth I go. So I go anywhere and everywhere I want to go in the stake which is awesome.
Elder Mellor is fun, we have a lot of fun together. Did I tell you about me knowing him before? Well on my second transfer and his first transfer we told each other that we would be companions and what do ya know we are companions, cool huh?
So today I have pday which means we are headed to pikes place after emailing.
About the sword they are just small samurai swords so probably not that heavy.
Oh and the reason I want that 50 dollars is to help me buy a GPS I need about that much to buy one, because my area is roughly 30 square miles and there is no way I am ever going to be able to memorize that big of an area so if ya could send some money that would be awesome.
Anyways love ya all and have a great Christmas.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
P.S. I will call you guys when I find out where I am calling from.
Everything is fun here, this last week has been great, I found out that I am over all the youth for the whole stake, which means where ever there is youth I go. So I go anywhere and everywhere I want to go in the stake which is awesome.
Elder Mellor is fun, we have a lot of fun together. Did I tell you about me knowing him before? Well on my second transfer and his first transfer we told each other that we would be companions and what do ya know we are companions, cool huh?
So today I have pday which means we are headed to pikes place after emailing.
About the sword they are just small samurai swords so probably not that heavy.
Oh and the reason I want that 50 dollars is to help me buy a GPS I need about that much to buy one, because my area is roughly 30 square miles and there is no way I am ever going to be able to memorize that big of an area so if ya could send some money that would be awesome.
Anyways love ya all and have a great Christmas.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
P.S. I will call you guys when I find out where I am calling from.
12/14/10 News from Seattle 3rd!!!
Hey family,
Transfers where today and I got a new companion and a new area which I'm a little bummed because I loved Burien ward, but hey good news I made senior companion so I must be doing something right. I am also in a car which I am the driver, woot woot, my new comp's name is Elder Mellor from Orem Utah (yeah I know another one of those dang Utahans) what is it with this mission sending so many people from Utah to here (wink wink lol), so I am officially in dad's old stomping grounds downtown Seattle, so where does pappy want me to go?
These last few days have been very sad having to leave my favorite area in the whole world, the Burien ward. I got a lot of hugs, no kisses thank goodness from my Chuuk and all the people I visited, apparently I was everyone's favorite missionary because everyone gave a lot of parting gifts or maybe it is just the Christmas season, either or. But yeah my favorite family the Dacus's gave me a bunch of presents, I got a few toys and a few ties, I think one of my favorite gifts was when I was doing some service for a less active guy and when he heard that I was going he went into his bedroom and brought out not 1 not 2 but three swords and gave them to me. I told him I couldn't take them, but he said it would break his heart so I said yes and then he made a comment, think of it as my Christmas present to you from me, so yeah I might be mailing home some swords, just because I don't want to lug them all over the place and don't freak it wasn't my fault, is the season to be jolly right?
About the Christmas presents, don't need any clothing I'm good in that department, how bout I make it easy for ya, just give me 50 bucks or something like that and a few goodies and I will be happy with that.
I could use a couple more temple slips that would be nice, tho I did forget to take one to the temple this last time I went, so yeah that's all I need.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
Transfers where today and I got a new companion and a new area which I'm a little bummed because I loved Burien ward, but hey good news I made senior companion so I must be doing something right. I am also in a car which I am the driver, woot woot, my new comp's name is Elder Mellor from Orem Utah (yeah I know another one of those dang Utahans) what is it with this mission sending so many people from Utah to here (wink wink lol), so I am officially in dad's old stomping grounds downtown Seattle, so where does pappy want me to go?
These last few days have been very sad having to leave my favorite area in the whole world, the Burien ward. I got a lot of hugs, no kisses thank goodness from my Chuuk and all the people I visited, apparently I was everyone's favorite missionary because everyone gave a lot of parting gifts or maybe it is just the Christmas season, either or. But yeah my favorite family the Dacus's gave me a bunch of presents, I got a few toys and a few ties, I think one of my favorite gifts was when I was doing some service for a less active guy and when he heard that I was going he went into his bedroom and brought out not 1 not 2 but three swords and gave them to me. I told him I couldn't take them, but he said it would break his heart so I said yes and then he made a comment, think of it as my Christmas present to you from me, so yeah I might be mailing home some swords, just because I don't want to lug them all over the place and don't freak it wasn't my fault, is the season to be jolly right?
About the Christmas presents, don't need any clothing I'm good in that department, how bout I make it easy for ya, just give me 50 bucks or something like that and a few goodies and I will be happy with that.
I could use a couple more temple slips that would be nice, tho I did forget to take one to the temple this last time I went, so yeah that's all I need.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
12/7/2010 Greetings from Burien!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey y'all how have you been doing,
Life is great here as usual don't have that much to report tho these past three days has been awesome. First on Saturday we had dinner with our Chuuks and they sent us home with a lot of food and then on Sunday we went to our bishop's house the Pulokas, the Tongans in our ward, and they sent us home with a lot of food. Then yesterday we went to a single's potluck and they sent us home with a lot of food. We have dinner tonight at the Dacu's an awesome family in our ward and no doubt they will sent a lot of food home with us as well, so yeah mom you you don't have to worry about your son not getting fed. Elder Armstrong and I are getting stuffed hopefully it won't put too much weight on. lol
Oh and we also was able to go to the temple today so that was as always a very spiritual experience and that is about all to report.
So ta ta.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
Life is great here as usual don't have that much to report tho these past three days has been awesome. First on Saturday we had dinner with our Chuuks and they sent us home with a lot of food and then on Sunday we went to our bishop's house the Pulokas, the Tongans in our ward, and they sent us home with a lot of food. Then yesterday we went to a single's potluck and they sent us home with a lot of food. We have dinner tonight at the Dacu's an awesome family in our ward and no doubt they will sent a lot of food home with us as well, so yeah mom you you don't have to worry about your son not getting fed. Elder Armstrong and I are getting stuffed hopefully it won't put too much weight on. lol
Oh and we also was able to go to the temple today so that was as always a very spiritual experience and that is about all to report.
So ta ta.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
11/29/2010 News from Burien!!!!
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
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
10/25/2010 News from Burien!!!
Hello,
This last week was awesome. We had an awesome baptism this last Saturday the 23rd, one of our chuuk people got baptized, 1 down 9 to go (Pres. Larkin told me to get 10 chuuk (pronounced chook) by the end of the year). His name is Tarson Arongaw Iphraim he is 9 years old and an awesome kid. I will send you some pictures. Oh did I tell you guys about the chuuk branch we are starting up? Well not quite a branch yet give it a couple years and it will be, but anyways my bishop started the chuuk class so that all our chuuks, about an average of 6 to 7 so far, can have a place so that they can learn gospel principles in their own language. It has been a blast for me and Elder Armstrong, we switch off one week I go to the chuuk class and he goes to the English class and then we switch the next week. I'm also starting to pick up a little chuukese as well, so that is pretty fun and it's so funny all the chuuk call me Elder Chuuk or my howlie chuuk, howlie transelated as white boy in chuukese LOL. So yeah this week was great.
I have gotten my memory card back did you like the pics?
Anyways love ya all have a great Halloween I guess and talk to ya next week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Here is the baptism of Tarson Arongaw Iphraim baptized by Elder Nathanael Read. enjoy
This last week was awesome. We had an awesome baptism this last Saturday the 23rd, one of our chuuk people got baptized, 1 down 9 to go (Pres. Larkin told me to get 10 chuuk (pronounced chook) by the end of the year). His name is Tarson Arongaw Iphraim he is 9 years old and an awesome kid. I will send you some pictures. Oh did I tell you guys about the chuuk branch we are starting up? Well not quite a branch yet give it a couple years and it will be, but anyways my bishop started the chuuk class so that all our chuuks, about an average of 6 to 7 so far, can have a place so that they can learn gospel principles in their own language. It has been a blast for me and Elder Armstrong, we switch off one week I go to the chuuk class and he goes to the English class and then we switch the next week. I'm also starting to pick up a little chuukese as well, so that is pretty fun and it's so funny all the chuuk call me Elder Chuuk or my howlie chuuk, howlie transelated as white boy in chuukese LOL. So yeah this week was great.
I have gotten my memory card back did you like the pics?
Anyways love ya all have a great Halloween I guess and talk to ya next week.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Here is the baptism of Tarson Arongaw Iphraim baptized by Elder Nathanael Read. enjoy
10/18/2010 News from Burien!!!
How y'all doing?
Life is great here we have still two people on date and am working with them, Tarson one of our on dates. We just taught him all the lessons so all he needs is an interview and then on to baptism this Saturday the 23rd. I am way excited this is the only person so far on my mission that I have taught from the first lesson to baptism I am so excited for him.
Anyways love y'all and y'all are in my prayers.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Life is great here we have still two people on date and am working with them, Tarson one of our on dates. We just taught him all the lessons so all he needs is an interview and then on to baptism this Saturday the 23rd. I am way excited this is the only person so far on my mission that I have taught from the first lesson to baptism I am so excited for him.
Anyways love y'all and y'all are in my prayers.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
10/11/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hey family how are you,
This last week was great we where able to find a new investigator named Debbie Ballard she is an awesome lady who Elder Read and I found and who Elder Armstrong and I just taught. We are going to have a church tour with her and put her on date in October. Also all our other investigators are doing great and progressing very well. It is always a joy to watch, as the gospel changes lives for the better.
Today the temperature is pretty nice it's not as cold as Utah, but it's a little nippy probably in the lower 60's to higher 50's not too bad.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
This last week was great we where able to find a new investigator named Debbie Ballard she is an awesome lady who Elder Read and I found and who Elder Armstrong and I just taught. We are going to have a church tour with her and put her on date in October. Also all our other investigators are doing great and progressing very well. It is always a joy to watch, as the gospel changes lives for the better.
Today the temperature is pretty nice it's not as cold as Utah, but it's a little nippy probably in the lower 60's to higher 50's not too bad.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
10/4/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hi Family,
This week was great with conference weekend and yes I did go to all five session why would I not. They where all awesome I think my favorite one was in the priesthood session and it was on pride by Pres. Uchtdorf become I have a real big problem with pride.
Yeah sister Luksan is the the best, the sister that called you. She makes great dinners and yes that stir-fry was amazing not as good as yours of course but amazing. It reminded me of the great Sunday dinners that we make. The funny thing is tho when I was talking about it to sis Luksan some other member heard in and invited us over to dinner so I had my favorite stir fry two days in a row, which both of them if I say so myself was delicious yum yum.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
This week was great with conference weekend and yes I did go to all five session why would I not. They where all awesome I think my favorite one was in the priesthood session and it was on pride by Pres. Uchtdorf become I have a real big problem with pride.
Yeah sister Luksan is the the best, the sister that called you. She makes great dinners and yes that stir-fry was amazing not as good as yours of course but amazing. It reminded me of the great Sunday dinners that we make. The funny thing is tho when I was talking about it to sis Luksan some other member heard in and invited us over to dinner so I had my favorite stir fry two days in a row, which both of them if I say so myself was delicious yum yum.
Love ya much,
Elder O'Brien
9/27/2010 News from Burien!!!!!!!!!
Hey family how's it going?
Things are great here. It has been fun serving with Elder Armstrong this last week, me and him mesh perfectly and we joke around with each other all the time. Also our on-dates are going great, still trying to get them married and taught all the lessons.
Also the mission is revamping a lot, we now do not tract what so ever (which if you don't know what that is, it is walking up and down streets and knocking on every door, which is very boring) we now do street contacting which yields a lot more investigators and is a lot more fun than tracting.
Also we now have dinner every night opposed to how it was before to where we only had Sundays and Mondays. Now I'm gonna start getting fat, especially with all the Tongans I have in this ward wanting us over for dinner all the time which is awesome. So yeah so far we have dinner tonight at the Dorset's, dinner with the Dalrymples tommorrow and dinner with the Luksans on Wednesday and we are working on getting dinner for the other days.
So that is all to report on this week.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
Things are great here. It has been fun serving with Elder Armstrong this last week, me and him mesh perfectly and we joke around with each other all the time. Also our on-dates are going great, still trying to get them married and taught all the lessons.
Also the mission is revamping a lot, we now do not tract what so ever (which if you don't know what that is, it is walking up and down streets and knocking on every door, which is very boring) we now do street contacting which yields a lot more investigators and is a lot more fun than tracting.
Also we now have dinner every night opposed to how it was before to where we only had Sundays and Mondays. Now I'm gonna start getting fat, especially with all the Tongans I have in this ward wanting us over for dinner all the time which is awesome. So yeah so far we have dinner tonight at the Dorset's, dinner with the Dalrymples tommorrow and dinner with the Luksans on Wednesday and we are working on getting dinner for the other days.
So that is all to report on this week.
Love ya,
Elder O'Brien
9/21/2010 Greetings from Burien!!!!!!!!!!!
Hi Family,
This week was great. I had a bunch of lessons with my on-date investigator and then where able to teach her a lot of stuff, she is an amazing lady.
Also we just had a 3 hour meeting with Elder Kikuchi of the first quorum of the seventy so that was awesome, it didn't feel like it was 3 hours, but it was very mentally and spiritually uplifting, and I was able to learn a lot from him.
Also transfers where today and I got a new companion, his name is Elder Armstrong he is an awesome guy very fun. I've served around him before and now I'm his companion, so yeah that is all for this week.
So yeah I will be getting those pictures to you soon I just need a package to put it in and it'll be great.
Anyways love ya much, talk to ya later,
Elder O'Brien
This week was great. I had a bunch of lessons with my on-date investigator and then where able to teach her a lot of stuff, she is an amazing lady.
Also we just had a 3 hour meeting with Elder Kikuchi of the first quorum of the seventy so that was awesome, it didn't feel like it was 3 hours, but it was very mentally and spiritually uplifting, and I was able to learn a lot from him.
Also transfers where today and I got a new companion, his name is Elder Armstrong he is an awesome guy very fun. I've served around him before and now I'm his companion, so yeah that is all for this week.
So yeah I will be getting those pictures to you soon I just need a package to put it in and it'll be great.
Anyways love ya much, talk to ya later,
Elder O'Brien
9/13/2010 Greetings from Burien!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey family,
This last week has been fun, we where able to teach a lot of our investigators and was also able to put two on date which was awesome.
Also today was my cultural day and Elder Read and I went to down-town Seattle. It wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, but that's also probably because we only had time to go to the free places because we where poor. But hey we where able to get some pictures of the sites there, so I will be sending some pics home this week.
Oh and I went to the temple last week and I was able to go through for one of the two cards you guys gave me so I will be sending that home as well.
Well that's it.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
This last week has been fun, we where able to teach a lot of our investigators and was also able to put two on date which was awesome.
Also today was my cultural day and Elder Read and I went to down-town Seattle. It wasn't as fun as I thought it would be, but that's also probably because we only had time to go to the free places because we where poor. But hey we where able to get some pictures of the sites there, so I will be sending some pics home this week.
Oh and I went to the temple last week and I was able to go through for one of the two cards you guys gave me so I will be sending that home as well.
Well that's it.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
9/7/2010 Hello from Burien!!!
Hey family,
Sorry I didn't write last week, there was this really stinky guy sitting next to me and he was giving me migraines so I got off and tried to get to another computer but there was none available sorry.
Yes my MP3 is here, thanks for it, thing is huge, Elder Read calls it a brick lol.
So you went to Portland ehh? 100 that is incredible that grandma is still alive. I hope she's still there when I get home.
Anyways these past couple weeks has been so so I guess nothing really exciting to report. My two drunk investigators who we where teaching is in detox tho for the next three months which is sad.
That's about it, talk to ya all later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
Sorry I didn't write last week, there was this really stinky guy sitting next to me and he was giving me migraines so I got off and tried to get to another computer but there was none available sorry.
Yes my MP3 is here, thanks for it, thing is huge, Elder Read calls it a brick lol.
So you went to Portland ehh? 100 that is incredible that grandma is still alive. I hope she's still there when I get home.
Anyways these past couple weeks has been so so I guess nothing really exciting to report. My two drunk investigators who we where teaching is in detox tho for the next three months which is sad.
That's about it, talk to ya all later.
Love,
Elder O'Brien
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