Missionary week

Email #22
Area: Cosmo City
Companion: Elder Perez

Hey Everyone,

What a great week and it went really fast this one. Sunday was really sweet yesterday. It was missionary oriented and everything was pretty much done by the missionaries. My companion and I spoke in sacrament, the other Elders blessed the sacrament, we conducted and taught the combined with the priesthood and relief society! It was just about missionary work and to encourage the people of the ward to really focus on missionary and get the missionaries people to teach. So now we really are going to start picking up in a few weeks with finding some new people. Already yesterday when we went to a lunch appointment to sisters came over to the members home to chat with her and we got return appointments with both of them for this coming week. The work is really picking up in this area. In the entire zone our district is doing the best with investigators at church, people on date for baptism, and for the most investigators progressing. So the lord is really helping us with that. We don't go looking for recognition. Just like Christ he did it freely out of the charity of his heart to just bring the knowledge to those that do not have it. There are people out there that are the lost sheep of the fold and it is up to us as missionaries and members to go and retrieve those lost sheep and bring them back into the fold.

The members are really great better than you can ask for, but they are just being the members they know they need to be. Every Sunday they feed us and that is really nice of them, I feel so loved hahah!!! The investigators are good. There are many of them that are not baptized because they are together, but not yet married and if they live together they need to be married and have been trying to get it figured out for awhile. The way they get married over here is really weird, they have to pay the parents. It's called Labola and without it, they do not have permission from the wife's parents to marry. It's different you pay to marry your wife, but I am glad we don't do that because they say it is very expensive. Don't worry about the cheetahs, it was tamed and very safe it has been raised in that facility so it was the nicest thing ever. It was so cool I never thought I would in my entire life get to see a life size cheetah and get to pet it and just be close enough to do so.

Today I ready in Jacob 5 of the Book of Mormon the longest chapter in the Book of Mormon. But it plainly speaks about the Lord and the servant of the Lord and the work that he is doing to help bring up his vineyard. We are the servants and we need to help Him in making his vineyard get rid of the bad trees producing the bad fruit and to graft in the new branches to help the trees or the people to produce good fruit.

Love,
Elder Bryner