Elder Jaren Brown: Four Elders in a Chapel and the Betrayal of Taco Bell!

Hi Everyone! As you can tell by the title, this was a crazy week! It doesn't even say it all! (Also it sounds like a murder mystery bestseller) This week we had an interesting exchange, a blitz, several miracles, and a historic general conference that was the most hype thing on the planet!

To start off, we had an exchange with the Staunton Elders on Tuesday, starting after district meeting, and we decided to grab some taco bell for lunch. Bad idea! Elder Berger and Elder Noorda got food poisoning from it, and we're feeling crappy (literally) the whole exchange. Also, we had a member dinner that night and we had Mexican again! (It was really good though)

Anyway, elder Burdette and I did service at the food bank and played Tetris with bread! Yup, we had to stack a bunch of bread products in a giant crate. It was a lot of fun, and we had to use a bunch of shrink wrap and a few industrial rubber bands to keep it in. It was great!

We also had some sweet miracles, and our investigators are starting to progress! We got some really solid people we are working with now, and one of them is now on date for baptism on April 21st!

We had a blitz with the Zone Leaders on Friday, which was a lot of fun, and also have two other progressing investigators who are close to a baptismal date! One of them is a really cool referral from the hermana's.

Then comes the best part of the week! General Conference!!! I was so hyped throughout the whole thing, and there were tons of inspired and exciting changes! It was overall very historic and very spiritual, and I loved the opportunity to sustain our leaders during the solemn assembly. I can say with certainty that I received a definite spiritual witness from God that President Nelson is His chosen prophet. When they announced the new temple in Richmond, there were just us and the Staunton elders in the chapel, and we all jumped up and cheered! I was so excited!

Also, we had a hilarious and fun zone prep. day today. Elder Berger cut my hair this morning, and we did a weird kind of Pokemon go game as a zone. It was hilarious, and pretty fun!

Love ya,

Elder Brown