Week 4 in Brandon

Brandon Zone Conference

 Post Elder Hale's aunt came across on Facebook

Picture sent in an email from a Sis. Densly that served in the mission

Hello!!! I did get the insurance email. Thank you! I

procrastinated/got distracted again. I'm sorry! Goal is to make sure

and do it this week. I will do it today or tomorrow. Also my license

came! We have specialized missionary training on Friday so I will get

it from Elder Cox then. It's for missionaries in training. That's

awesome about Sister Denselys mom. She came out with me so it was

weird when her and the other sisters left. Then especially weird to

see her again haha. This was her last area, we took over after she

left. The Cardwells are awesome! Their son left last July to San

Diego. Super awesome family, their ages all line up with ours.

Sounds like sports will get very busy again. I realized it was his

birthday yesterday. That's crazy! I hope he loved it! Ward Conference

will be awesome I'm sure!

This week was awesome. Miracles are definitely coming. Elder Leslie

has grown a lot in confidence and consecration. It's been awesome to

see. We have been on exchange with all the Elders in the district now

and we are going to go around again hopefully before transfers. They

all have good desires but are all struggling. One companionship seems

to have picked it up. Hopefully we can help them keep that fire going!

The members in Valrico and Lithia have been awesome. The Ward mission

leader in Lithia has been working hard. Things are blowing up! One

miracle was with a woman and her sister who came to the Stake BBQ this

last Saturday. We found her street contacting by talking about family

history. Turns out her sister has been doing family history here at

the Stake Center. They LOVED the BBQ. We are hoping to make a

transition to teaching them this week. They are awesome! Another

miracle happened last night when we got back to the apartment. We saw

a man loading groceries into a wagon. We asked if we could help and he

said it was fine. He's in his 20s maybe 30s. He asked if we were

Jehovah's Witness. We explained what church we were from and said our

nickname is "Mormon". He freaked out and said he wants to be a Mormon

and asked where the closest church is. He's been looking for it since

he moved here. He gave us his address and number and asked for a Book

of Mormon. Crazy! We are hoping our lesson with him tomorrow goes

well! We also got to go to Bishop Birch's home last night. He is in

charge of most of the church ranches throughout the world so he

travels most weeks except for weekends. He has some awesome stories

haha. Their families ages all line up with ours too. Good things are

happening. No pictures this week but we will do our best to take some

this week. Thank you so much for the pin and license. I hope things go

well this week. Love you so much!!!

Elder Hale