yea!!! 30 March 2011

Hello everyone!!!

This week has been pretty good. the weather has been wonderful and we have really really really loved that! We have worn shoes and I hope that our boots are in the closet for good this time. Sunday, our investigator, Ipara, came to church with her daughter, and also with her sister-in-law and her niece and nephew!!! it was awesome! They really enjoyed it. Yesterday, we had a meeting with Ipara, and we invited her to be baptized. She said that she wants to but this is a very big decision and that she is nervous about it. But, she is really praying and reading and searching for her answer. She said that when she does receive her answer, that she will be baptized. We pray that it is sooner than later so that Satan does not have too much time to work on her. But she is sweet and wonderful, and we love her. So, my new companion got into moscow today, and now they are just waiting for their visas to kazakhstan. So, hopefully in the next week or so they will make it down here to us. Yes, i do know where I am living. It is super close by, just the apt. that the elders who left to Astana lived it when they were here. We cleaned there the other day, and that is a whole other story. Ill tell you at the end...but today, Ipara is coming with us to a member's house to have dinner and a lesson. So we are very excited about that and hope that she will make great friends here in the branch. So it is kinda weird that we are about to have 2 sets of sisters here. We are working on dividing up our investigators and recent converts and things. We have already divided them up and things, but of course it is hard and a sad to know that you will not be teaching them again like you did earlier. but, hopefully I will still see them at the branch building when they come to meet with Sister G and her new companion.

Ok so my story about the apartment, i just cant think of anything else to write right now. We had some time the other day, and so we planned to go over to the apt. and clean, so that it would be all ready to go for me to move my things in and for my new companion to come home to a clean apartment. So we went over there, and did not expect to be cleaning for so long. But there was just dust and dirt and random things stuffed in places that had been there for years and years through i don't know how many elders. It was kinda funny how much stuff was there. But anyways, it was taking a while, and it was already lunch time and we wanted to run and grab something to eat. So we walked out the door, and I forgot the keys! The door slammed behind us, and it is one of those crazy doors with its own mind. When it closes it automatically locks halfway. It was horrible!!! I wanted to cry, because the apt. was still left in a pig sty, and it wasn't looking like we would get to finish that day. We had some lunch, and then we called the landlord to ask her if she had an extra key. We traveled on the bus to her home, she gave us all the keys she had. We tried them, and none of them were the correct key. We got to the branch building, and the elders wanted to help us out. We remembered that we left the window open, and that the apt. is on the 2nd floor. So we thought they could help out. Then we remember that the window has one of those iron bar fences on it. So...one of the elders who is super daring and loves to do crazy things like that, jumped fences, and jumped onto a ledge and tried to squeeze himself through the iron bars. It didn't work out and we were all worried for him, and the neighbors who saw us thought we were crazy, and called a key master for us. Finally the key master got there and worked on the key lock forever, while in the meantime the elders were still trying to get in through the window. They were stressing me out. I didn't want to witness an elders death that day because I forgot to grab the keys. So finally after forever, the man opened the door, and then we found the keys inside and he tested them. He kept telling us that this is the wrong key, it doesn't work! And i was like that is the only key we have and that is the right key. He is like no no it doesn't work. Finally we got the key to work but it works pretty bad. We think he messed up our lock as he was trying to open the door. So the key worked ok, but we just wanted to make sure that it opened up the door. I went inside and shut the door, and Sister G and the elders had the key and were working on opening the door. Then I don't know what happened, but they couldn't open the door with the key. And the door locked on me, and I could not open the door from the inside. it was horrible!!! I tried everything i could do to get the door open, but it was stuck or something and I couldn't do anything. And the key master man started yelling and screaming at me telling me all these things to do, and i was doing them!!! and he just kept yelling and saying that you are not doing it right. If you were it would open! Finally after what seemed like an eternity, I kept doing what i was doing, and then the door just opened. The key man ran away in a flash, because he knew he had destroyed our key lock!!! oh well, it works ok now and hopefully we won't get locked in again in the future. Welp, that is my story, it was a long day : ) and a long story, haha.

Thank you for sending me the email from president. And thank you for the pictures!!!!! They were very fun to see. Joe and Noelle are growing up big. What cuties!!! I want to squeeze them!!! I love you all and it sounds like things are going good. Keep me updated and have a wonderful week! until next week!!!

All my love!
Sister Brown