Sept 20

Well I think Dad's cold must have found its way to Barstow. This week wasn't such a good one first we spent all day Monday and Tuesday in Victorville cause we had a blown casket in the car and the AP's drove us back up Tuesday so we haven't had a car at all this week. Then our apartment got sick so that held us up for a bit too. When we went out to dinner I got a flat tire on my bike so it was a kind of slow week. But on the bright side our investigator Mariha came to church which is awesome she is coming along so fast it's sweet, we can't baptize her though until she gets off of probation (for fighting) which she will be by the end of this month or the beginning of next so that's good. Besides that we weren't able to do to much with no car and being sick and all, but this week will be better it's going to be awesome. And about the stuff I sent last week, our member, one of them is crazy about it and about stuff that could happen she has all these chars and info and stuff and going over them, reading and looking at them kind of makes ya think, that we know that the worst is not yet over ant that things are only going to get worse so we just gotta do what we can with what we have and put a smile on our faces cause hey, we are alive ain't we and that's reason enough to smile. We are alive and the Lord is on our side ant that's good enough for me. I love and miss ya'all tons

Elder Brough

Sept 13

This letter really got the best of me, I will have to admit it did scare me a little, and I have been pondering things for the last week. I will post most of it here and I hope it makes you think of things a little too.

Well this was a good week we got a new investigator his name is Joseph Clark he's a black man, he's looking for religion trying to find something better in life and well, boom, here we are!!!!! We taught him about the restoration which went really quite well and we will be going back on Wed. I don't know if Mandy's told ya but they are changing the lessons again and how we teach, we are going old school with it. We teach the doctrine of Christ and then about receiving Revelations through prayer, reading the Book of Mormon and going to church and everything is how the spirit directs. Kind of like the apostles of the New Testament is more like how they want us to be teaching they won't start teaching it tell May at the MTC so we practice up on it till then cause once they come out with it they won't know the Preach My Gospel lessons anymore so its kind of neat. O and Mom make sure you keep up on the food storage be sure and have a years supply, and have good winter gear (such as a winter tent and ect.) and see if Dad can go buy some ammo for the guns, cause things are going to get worse before they get better and we need to be prepared. Check up on those things and check up on others and make sure that they have their food storage set up. I love ya all tons

Elder Brough

Sept 6th 2010

First of all I asked him about the Elder that was hurt in the bike accident.

Both the bike and the Elder are both okay. Our meetings with Mariah are going really well she has been clean from smoking and drinking for a couple weeks now which is awesome. Well, Mom I think I'm turning out to be like you, for the life of me I can't remember what went on this week, lol. Hmmm we ate at Dennys for dinner one night with less active which went good. Barstow has finally cooled down for a few days it was only in the 90's which was awesome and now it only gets up to 106 which is better than 118 so that's nice. Other than that though nothing much has happened this week. I love ya'll very much.
Love Elder Brough

Aug 30th

Well this week was a little slow I guess you could say our baptism that we had set for the 4th is moved back to a later date yet to be decided due to she hasn't come to church yet. The other person a 85 yr old guy named Cole that we where going to set a date up with, he was pretty cool guy, he passed away early this past week due to cancer and some other difficulties so that was kinda of a bummer and at the same time not cause he is in a better place out of pain. Well I got to call Hawaii this week too, lol, we had a missionary from Victorville come up on exchanges with my roommate for the week and on Friday he wrecked on my bike and broke his collar bone so we spent most of the day in the hospital with him, and I called home to his mom to tell her what had happened, so that was interesting. Thursday I believe it rained like crazy so we got some flooding, who would a thunk that it would rain in Barstow. lol. Miss ya and love ya'all tons.
Elder Brough