I can battle with the best of them. - Nov 24

So this last week has been crazy because starting Monday I started
having random times where I was dead tired (to the point I actually
fell asleep in a lesson) and then would get these random bursts of
energy. So this last week we have been taking things slow so that I
don't hurt myself or fall asleep in a lesson. It has been a battle,
but I am known to battle with the best of them, I have been doing it
all my life. I have been eating right and getting enough sleep. Sister
Plumb thinks that I am getting sick and I think that it's the last 16
months of work catching up with me.

Oh an interesting thing happened yesterday. We went to try a media
referral that we received. Well we stop by to give her the Bible that
she requested and get to know her. Well we get there and we giver her
a Book of Mormon and tell her about what it's about and then we give
her the Bible. She then starts to tell us about her life story. The
odd part of it all is she told us that she doesn't trust yet she had
got to the point were she needed to tell us everything.

Well y'all have and awesome week and a wonderful Thanksgiving, eat
plenty of our family's potato salad and eggnog pie for me.

Love y'all,
Sister Brady

Camped out in the bathroom - Nov 17

This last week has been freezing. To the point that I have bought
leggings so that my legs stay warm (tights just aren't cutting it). I
have been doing all I can to keep warm and to make sure Sister Plumb
stays warm (she's from Arizona so I have to make sure she really
doesn't freeze.)

Well we had an interesting experience yesterday. After church the
elders came to our house so we could warm up some of the food that
members had given us for lunch. When they were getting ready to go
they were debating as to if they would go out to the area that they
usually go to on Sunday's to give a sister the sacrament. Because a
member had warned us that there was a storm coming in. So we did our
studies...and we accidently fell asleep which had turned out to be a
blessing because not long after we woke up the elders texted us and
told us to stay in because the storm was close. Well four hours later
the sister training leaders text us and tell us to stay in because we
are on a tornado warning, because it was going straight to Amite. So
we stayed in even longer. But we decided we were going to watch the
thunder and lightening from our screen door. Well it started getting
louder so we decided to camp out in the bathroom (the safest place in
a tornado). It was crazy because when we were in there the office
email texted the entire mission and told us that the entire mission is
on red alert lockdown. Ya, we were freaking out and all that jazz. I
have never feared for my life like that before. Everything is alright
now, no harm done.

Well love y'all and hope that you have an awesome week.
Love,
Sister Brady

Second to last transfer - Nov 10

So my time in the field is closing in and I can definitely feel it.
Things this last week have been crazy. We had exchanges right of the
back again, which I am not a huge fan of but I'm not the Sister
Training Leader so I don't make that call anymore. It seems like
everything was falling through that day. We did find out that one of
the part member families in our branch is going through a lot more
then we thought. It was so sad to see the wife who is the member
sitting in front of her front door looking lost and confused.
 
Oh and a weird/funny story to tell you. Last night we went over to see
a less active sister that calls us almost every morning at 6am to find
out when we are coming over next (unfortunately we can't answer that
early) and she was showing us the pamphlets she has from us. She
points out the word of wisdom and tells us that she loves the word of
wisdom and that she doesn't drink.  Well later in the conversation she
tells that WHEN she drinks she drinks no more then five beers or a
wine cooler.  We just sat there when she told us this wondering what
her definition of alcohol is because it isn't the same as what the
pamphlet says.
 
Anyways hope y'all have a good week.
Love y'all,
 
Sister Brady

Well I am staying in Amite. - Nov 4

So as you can tell I am staying in Amite, with Sister Plum for at
least six more weeks. This week has been crazy. Halloween we had to be
in by dark. I got a flu shot (the mission insurance covered it for a
few days.) and apparently the guy that was giving them to us had gone
to our church. He knew quite a bit it was really cool, unfortunately
we didn't have enough time to contact him, so we are sending the
elders to go and contact him when they go to get theirs. We have been
doing a lot lately to try increasing our teaching pool. Like we are
trying to meet a less active sister who has a sister who was
investigating the church but she sort of fell off of the face of the
planet. She has tried to make contact with her, and the one time that
she did she didn't ever call us back as to a time when we could meet
on the day that she said would work. But that is the mission life for
you. People disappear and reappear all the time and we don't have any
control over what happens. Like I found out that one of my
investigators in Houma disappeared off of the face of the planet.
We've been tearing it up this last week. We have been trying so hard
to stay busy. It has been hard though because there are so many people
we can see in certain areas and so much that we can do because the
cities here are so small, and we don't have many miles.
But things have been good. More and more people are showing up for
church each week...You would be surprised by how many visitors that we
get each week. The Amite Branch doesn't show up when you use the
church locator on lds.org.

Well y'all I love ya and hope that you have a good week.
Love Sister Brady