We're staying in Lebanon Y'ALL!!

Hello my sweet family that I love so much!!!!

 

Sister Brown and I are staying in Lebanon! We are so happy :) This week was good. We taught Anne Marie with Sister Arnold a couple times. Sister Arnold is in the Relief Society Presidency here and has been SO helpful in giving us rides and coming to lessons with us. And she took Sister Brown and I to this ice cream place and we all got HUGE ice cream sundaes. I couldn't finish mine, but it was so yummy! Anne Marie is doing great. She is the best and so funny! Yesterday Brother Hatch (the Ward Mission Leader), Sister Arnold, and Sister Brown and I had lunch with her. Bro. Hatch made these super good, gourmet grilled cheese things with tomato soup. Sorry I'm talking about food a lot in this email haha. But they were so YUM! Anyway, Anne Marie was being so funny and speaking in French about the food. It reminded me of Dallin so much! All of you would love her! And when we were leaving she was saying goodbye to us in French and I was just LOVING it.

We've been helping a woman move out of her house. Her name is Chelsi and she has a 5-year-old daughter named Addi. Chelsi is great! Hopefully she doesn't move too far so we can continue to see her :) And we did a lot of weeding/gardening this week. When I come home I've decided to be a professional weeder :)

Well fam, I LOVE YOU! Thank you for EVERYTHING that you have done for me and are doing for me. It makes it a lot easier to be out here knowing that this is where you want me to be. I'm gonna leave you with this quote I found in the June Ensign. Remember, Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ LOVE you and KNOW you. 

"There is nothing that we are enduring that Jesus does not understand, and He waits for us to go to our Heavenly Father in prayer. I testify that if we will be obedient and if we are diligent, our prayers will be answered, our problems will diminish, our fears will dissipate, light will come upon us, the darkness of despair will be dispersed, and we will be close to the Lord and feel of His love and of the comfort of the Holy Ghost." -Elder Robert D. Hales

And I love you too!!!

With all my love,

Sister Brown

Oh what a beautiful morning!

FAMILY!!!! I love you!!!!

It's funny that I say oh what a beautiful morning because it's raining right now :) I love it though. There was a really bad storm a couple nights ago that I slept right through (yay!). Our power and water was off for a good 12 hours. So no shower that day haha. ANYWAY. This week was fantastic! Anne Marie is doing GREAT. She does have a smoking problem, but she wants SO BADLY to stop. So we are doing our best to help her with that. Her baptismal date is August 24! Sister Brown and I are ecstatic. ------hello other brown family!! Sister brown-red here. I love you all!! You have a wonderful, beautiful, spectacular, fabtabulous, magnificent, magical, cute, loving , happy, delightful, special, heart warming, llama, funny, spiritual, touching, full of energy, go-get-'em daughter and I love her so much. thank you for sharing here with me X) thats all. bye.------ That's real. She stole the keyboard away from me! ------true that!------

The ward here is amazing! As you all know from The Work of Salvation broadcast, the First Presidency is really pushing for members to get involved with missionary work, and the ward here has been so good with that! That is how we started teaching Anne Marie, she is the best friend of a member. They are all so willing to help us, and we LOVE it.

Family, I LOVE YOU!!!!!! I'm praying for you and hope you all have a WONDERFUL week! Don't have too much fun without me, but have enough :) This gospel is true. I wouldn't be who I am today without it. 

Loves, Sister Brown

Found a turtle in the middle of the road : )

MIRACLES HAPPEN ONCE IN AWHILE WHEN YOU BELIEVE!! (Princess Diaries :))

My dearest lovely, sweet, family!!!!

I've really got to get better at managing my time haha. I always only leave a little bit of time for the big email. GREAT things happened this week! We got four new investigators! Sister Brown and I had been struggling as you know, and we have been praying and fasted for miracles and they definitely happened! One of our investigators, Anne Marie, has already accepted the invitation to be baptized. She has definitely been prepared by the Lord. She is so sweet AND she came to church :) She called Sister Brown and I her "guardian angels". We meet with her again tomorrow.

Again, I'm so sorry this is short, but I do want you to know that THIS CHURCH IS TRUE. We taught Gospel Principles yesterday about The Atonement of Christ, and it was such a blessing. Although I was very nervous :) The Savior loves us and KNOWS us. And I love you so much too! I pray for you EVERYDAY :)

Love, Sister Brown

Holla from NH!

Hello everyone!!

I love you all! Thank you for all of the support and love and emails and letters :) THEY ROCK! We had our first baptism!! Just kidding, they were people that the Elders were teaching before we even got here, but we did go to their baptism. It was a dad and his nine-year-old daughter. It was VERY cool! A week ago on Sunday Sister Brown and I got to talk to the YW about missions and I loved that. YW's is where it's at! It was SO rainy this week. There was a lot of flooding in Lebanon, but that's a good 30 miles away from our apartment, so we're all good. It rains like it does in SC and I love it. All the memories of thunderstorms and the lights going out start rushing back :)

We went on exchanges this week and I ventured on over to Hanover area with Sister Morgan. She's GREAT. We went to Dartmouth and walked around there with some girls Sister Morgan and her companion are trying to teach. That was really cool. We also got to see AND HOLD one of the very first Book of Mormon's ever printed! That was awesome. On the 4th of July Sister Brown and I went to the ward party at Lake Sunapee. It was fun getting to know the members better and eating yummy food. Also there are hidden lakes everywhere here, and it ROCKS. They are so beautiful!

Saturday our zone got to officially meet President Stoker and his wife. They seem very nice and super excited about missionary work! We still don't have any investigators, but we are trying our hardest! We are really trying to activate the less-actives and that is going pretty well. We helped move in a new family from Arizona. They seem awesome.

Well family, I want you to know that I LOVE this gospel. I know that Heavenly Father knows us and loves us and wants us to be SO happy. Prayer is SUCH a real thing. I've never prayed so much in my whole life and never realized what a great thing it is. The Book of Mormon is literally the word of God. I've grown such a love for it as well over this last month.

I LOVE YOU ALL SO MUCH!

Sister Brown

P.S. They call me Sister Brown-Horse. It's pretty funny haha. 

This is at Dartmouth College and it's one of the very first Book of Mormon's ever printed!!!

The Sisters in our district : ) They rock!

I saw a horse!!!!! His name is Levi : ) We're friends now

This is our apartment and what it 

looks like around it : )

MTC and New Hampshire pics!

Dear Family!

I'm sending my pictures separately because it won't let me send them together so it'll probs just be pics this week :) But to answer a few of your questions. I'm doing pretty good. From what I hear it’s pretty hot out there! It hasn't been too hot here, just very humid and raining tons! I love it though. It reminds me of SC :) I'm jealous y'all are going to Kanab!! That's going to be so much fun!

Sister Brown is good. We get along very well and she's very nice. The ward is AWESOME! Everyone is really nice and the Ward Mission Leader and Ward Missionary help A TON! We still don't have investigators :( Hopefully we will by the end of this week though.

There was a baptism on Saturday. That was really cool. I was the chorister and Sister Brown and I did a talk thing together. But I have to go:(

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!

Me and Scrad : )

Me with my MTC companions:

On the left is Sister Tait and on the right is Sister Hoffman

The sisters in my MTC district

Our whole MTC district together

My companions

Sisters

District

Me and Em again! I got to see her EVERYDAY!!!!!

This is one of our MTC teachers. He was on The District 1 (the series you watch before you go to the MTC). He was awesome!

We played Hymn Hangman : )

This is a pic with another one of our MTC teachers

I was VERY HAPPY to get Dallin's package!!!!!

This pic is just funny because we all got a ton of packages on the same day : )

Me being "Me!"

President and Sister Wilkey

Me and Sister Brown : )

We picked daisies!!!!

SO PRETTY!