The Special Olympics so that was legit!

Hello!

I missed you guys too on Saturday! But we went to the Special Olympics so that was legit! It was a really fun day! It was a little cold because the temperature for some reason is already dropping haha. But it will be nothing compared to the cold that is to come. But yeah it was really fun to help out and cheer for these awesome people. :) They played Softball and Corn hole. We had to make sure they were following the rules and kind of just keep score. Also we were photographers. It was an awesome day.

We did see some weird stuff driving down there haha. A possible Klu Klux Klan gathering... at least that is what it looked like but maybe they were just wearing white robes for another reason. It seemed sketchy.

Lone Eagle got baptized on Tuesday and it was basically the best day of my life so far. Just like this complete joy of seeing someone that you love making a covenant with god and then just seeing the light that comes. It's amazing! There has just been so much change in him. I love it! :) He still is Lone Eagle just with a bigger smile! I remember just crying when I first met him because I was just so grateful that I had been able to return to my mission and to meet such cool people. Sister Warner laughed at me haha. But I didn't care I just loved Lone Eagle from the start. I really hope that you guys get to meet him! You would love him! His baptism was really amazing! He was tearing up quite a bit it was adorable! It was pretty great to see him and Elder Twitchell together. He loves him he calls him Elder Switchell most of the time though haha. We are hoping to get Lone Eagle to speak at the next why I believe.

Johnny is already moving back haha! I think it is because he is supposed to join the church first. :) I'm pretty excited that he will be back here.

 It really is true though. We can recognize god's hand in everything even when things are terrible because everything we go through is to make us stronger or to draw us nearer to him.

A sister missionary from England in Tooele, Utah? haha that suckkkss. nah I bet she is cool with it. Tooele is just kind of lame.

Well I love ya guys! Stay solid. Trust in god!

Love,

Sister Brooks

This guy was so cute he was like hey ladies I won a bronze medal! Then he just posed for a picture :) aww.

 Missionaries Selfie :)

Eagles forevahh :) 

Lone Eagle made us cute little medicine bags :)

Delilah :)

Tomorrow is Lone Eagle's baptism! I'm excited! :)

Hello!

Yep I'll be here in Greenwood for at least 6 more weeks. I'm glad I'll get to keep the 2014 Jetta haha. Well at least for now it might change we will see.

I'm really proud of dad emailing me it was pretty shocking! He is really growing. I still think it is funny he has an I Phone that he doesn't really know how to use.

This week was busy we taught Lone Eagle like four times this week to get him ready for his baptism. Nothing too exciting happened just the same stuff haha.

But tomorrow is Lone Eagle's baptism! I'm excited! :) He is too haha. He has to wear some of his Indian jewelry when he get's baptized. His friend made this tree of life necklace for him.  

We are teaching Crystal's kid's now and hoping they get baptized in the coming month.

Well love ya!

Sister Brooks

Saying Goodbye to Johnny!

  Dola told me I can never leave haha.

My mission president is going to let me Skype teach!

Hello!

So this week I got some sort of virus or something. I thought I had strep it wasn't fun but I'm finally over it thank goodness it was rough but we still met most of our teaching goals. 

Zone conference went good just role played for like 8 hours straight and we were all extremely exhausted and stressed out because they filmed all of our role plays. We had to watch them back and it was pretty awful to see yourself on camera haha. But we did learn how to be better missionaries. Basically role plays for dayz. 

I'm excited G-pa & Debbie are getting married! You guys need a cut out of me there :) haha. 

So I already told you this but for everyone else who reads these emails or whatever my mission president is going to let me skype teach! :D YAY! So dear friends and family who want to learn more about what I do as a missionary or what we believe I'm allowed to set up skype appointments. Pretty much the most exciting news! I found out yesterday and it was hard to sleep thinking about it. Missionary dreams are pretty wild man. My companion says whenever I talk in my sleep I'm teaching or planning lessons haha. 

You should film Dallon's game for me :) That would be pretty great! I wish I could be there. Every time we drive by football players I always wish I could watch them play haha. I never even thought I really liked football but I miss it now. 

Johnny and Lone Eagle were at church this week! Sister Oskins gave a talk this week so it was sitting in the middle of them and I just thought missionaries are weird. We bring the coolest people to church with us though :)

We had the BBQ this last weekend and Lone Eagle came and played cornhole.. he beat me. I did get one beautiful throw in there thought you should have heard the crowd! haha. #btdubs cornhole is the game of the hoosiers they love that game.

It rained super bad so we didn't have fireworks which was really sad but it was still fun. I played basketball until 9:30 since we already had permission to be out. I felt like such a rebel! living on the edge for sure haha. 

Well I love you and hopefully all goes well for Saturday Skype lesson! 

Love,

Sister Brooks

 I made little cheesecakes for district meeting. I really felt like my mother in that moment haha

 on exchanges with Sister Vidmar 

 Steven scares me on a regular basis

(only Sierra names a  scary doll after her mission President!)

Crystal was baptized! :)

I'm good I miss you guys a lot! How is the Maggie Puppy? You guys should fly her here sometime. haha.

Did you send a letter this week? I don't think I got one from you. Maybe I did I got a few letters this week but I can't remember who they were from. I'll check today.

Sister Petty told me Dallon made the team I was bragging about it haha. I miss my brothers! Just before I went to sleep yesterday I was like I want to watch stupid youtube videos with Dallon. The mountain dew guy!... gosh dang it I can't remember his name.. Francis? I think was Francis haha.

I really like scrapbooking if I ever have time I just cut pictures out of the ensign and scrapbook them because I'm a loser. But creating things really helps relieve stress. 

I feel like not too much happened this week. But the weekend was good...Lone Eagle came to church again and Crystal was baptized! :) We had dinner with their family afterwards and she was super happy! She said she feels like she doesn't have to worry so much about what happens after this life.

 Hopefully we can find some more new people to teach and just keep the area strong!

  

Ohhh yes the other day we went on exchanges and I was with Sister Randall and we saw a middle aged man riding a motorcycle listening to "turn down for what" I was laughing my butt off! He had it playing so loud and he was sitting at this stoplight for like 5 minutes. Rare species of old men who listen to crappy rap music haha. It was hilarious.

Well I love you guys!

Sister Brooks

Spock it and lock it. this picture is for father haha

I held a hamster!

   

I tried to take a sky selfie

So beautiful  

The best people :)  

We had 5 people at church this last Sunday!

Hello derrr!

:)

Transfers went pretty well! It was good to see some of my homies. I have one of the same zone leaders and sister training leaders as I did in West Lafayette. So that'll be wild! Just like old times but not… haha. 

R. CAME TO CHURCH! Oh my gosh! So not sure if I told you about R. but when we first got to the area I saw his teaching record in the former's and had a prompting to call him. He was all about us coming over and teaching him. He is a recovering drug addict and he tends to lie a lot. He kept telling us he was ready to be baptized and start coming to church. He never did so we stopped teaching him because he was lying and not committed. So the other day we drove by his house and I had a feeling we should stop by just to see how he was. We invited him to church and as usual he said he would be there. I didn't think he would come because he always says yes and then calls and says he is in the hospital...I still hoped he would come. He actually showed up! It seriously was a miracle. Also really shocking haha. Pretty much all of the elders told me to give up hope in him changing and it really made me super angry. I don't know why a lot of the Elders are just so bitter about life haha.

The mission is hard but I really don't think we should just completely give up on people because they can't keep commitments. Heavenly Father is seriously always there for us and doesn't give up that easy. So why should we as his tools give up easy? I understand we need to spend our time fulfilling our purpose to teach and baptize but these people need love and patience. 

We had 5 people at church this last Sunday! It was awesome! K. who has been investigating the church on and off for 20 years is getting baptized this Sunday. She told us we were the best missionaries ever. It seriously made me so happy! She has met like a lot of missionaries’ haha. 

Lone Eagle wants to get baptized but not sure if completely understands the difference of being baptized in our church compared to other churches. He finally came to church this Sunday! He didn't make it to church at 9 so he came to church at 1. So we went to sacrament meetings yesterday. It was a little exhausting but worth it. He seemed to like it and said he learned from it. Hopefully he understands the priesthood authority soon. That was his first time at church though so we will see. I love that guy! One of the Elders told us we should stop teaching him too. So frustrating. 

Johnny came to church again this week and he bore his testimony in sacrament meeting! He wouldn't go up until I did haha. His testimony was killer though! Everyone shook his hand afterward.

We had this kid walk into our church just because he wanted to go to church! It was super neat! I think the Elders are going to teach him. Also this entire family walked in that wanted to go to church! That never happens! The miracles of fasting are so amazing! We just had so many miracles happen yesterday like our five people at church. 

Hopefully good things keep happening! 

I love and miss you all! 

Sister Brooks

Johnny my BFF

She is a member and we are teaching her non-member boyfriend  who gives us free frosty at Wendy's. He is the nicest boy!

Me and my Grandma Dola :) I love her so much!

   

 My family away from home haha. Seriously Brother M. is my spirit animal I love that guy!  His wife is the one getting baptized and he has just been reactivated but he is going to baptize her! I'm so excited! 

It was so neat to see Chloe be baptized!

Hello!

So Sister Warner is getting transferred this Wednesday so that will be some new stuff haha. Hopefully our investigators will still like us. But this weekend was really awesome! :) It's crazy Chloe is now a member. Her grandparents are really excited! So are we! I really want to come back and visit them with you guys! But for now it's nice that I'll still see them all the time. I love the Kaptains! I miss you guys too! But it is all worth it. I love being a missionary. This weekend was just great to see two people enter the waters of baptism who are so ready for that change in their lives. 

We had five investigators at church on Sunday so that was pretty wild! Johnny came! It was funny because we were talking to him on his porch about how the extremely well planned barbecue had been canceled because of the really bad storms. He was super excited to go! He was like I want to meet all the people. So then I was like oh well there is church tomorrow so just come and meet them all then. He told us he was like I think I'll ease my way into it. Sister Warner was like well we don't want to make you uncomfortable then he said I like when people are honest and speak their minds. So then I was like straight up you need to come to church then. haha. So that is how we got Johnny there :) He loved it! He was commenting in all the classes and telling everyone his testimony of his experience in prison and his accident. I told him we have testimony meeting every first Sunday of the month and he is really excited to get up there. He was like I'll be there! haha. So I'm glad he liked it!

It was so neat to see Chloe be baptized! We stood on the steps to watch and it was so amazing to see the smile on her face and this light that came as she was baptized. I've never felt anything like that before. She has changed so much since we first met her. Even confidence wise she has so much more confidence. When we first met her and she was talking my ear off her grandparents were like in shock she talked that much. Now she is like that with everyone. And she even tells the Elders how much better the sisters are like every time she sees them. She is just such an amazing girl who wants something so different for her life than what her parents had. She is such a sweetheart. I told her she is always welcome in our home or in my future home.

So it's about to get real up in here! We most likely have another baptism set up for the 10th of august but I don't want to give the story until it's legit. But this area is really blowing up!

We have dinner appointments set up with non members! Which is super sick!
You should see the amount of food we have…that means we are good missionaries. ;) haha. 

Well I love you guys. Stay classy!

Sister Brooks

We went to one of Sister Warner's past investigators baptism and my mommy was there :D

I got some earrings from Lone Eagle

​ The Kaptain's 

 We went to a place like Benihanas for lunch it was wild! 

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Mormons do party!

Hello!

My week is going pretty well! Missing you guys a little and I'm kind of jealous you guys are in California without me! But I'll catch ya next time. We are having this like extremely well planned barbecue this weekend in our ward. So that should be pretty wild! They like have this big fireworks show and everything. The guy in charge showed us his like map of the BBQ I've honestly never seen such intense planning haha. We are trying to invite everyone so they can see Mormons do party!

So we do service at this club for people over the age of 65. We work in the food pantry there. We usually go on Tuesday's but this week we decided to go on Thursday and we were waiting for the truck to get there so we could unload the food. This old man came over and asked us who we were and we told him and he was like oh do Mormon's dance. We were like Heck yes we do! So we ended up folk dancing with old people. It was seriously the best thing ever. They were so pumped to have us dance with them! So I think that should be our new service project. 

The other day we were teaching Chloe about the Ten Commandments and somehow the 7 deadly sins came up. Her grandma was trying to remember what they all were and she said greed and obesity. I was like dying of laughter haha! Obesity is pretty accurate. 

This week we taught this Baptist guy who basically let us come over because he wanted to make sure that we were saved. We were like super hesitant when he came over to us and asked us where we thought we go after this life. So he thought we didn't know. We were just thinking he was going to tell us we were going to hell like most other people do haha. But he believes we are saved so that is dope. He is pretty crazy but I think he is honestly trying to be a missionary. 

There is an old man sitting next to me in the library and he keeps yelling at his computer that he just doesn't get it. haha. I'm too afraid to help him. 

So yeah this weekend should be pretty great! I can't believe I would have been on my mission for like 9 months now if I didn't go home. Instead it has been 6 months for me. Pretty wild stuff!

I love you guys! Have fun!

Sister Brooks

I'm braiding her hair for her baptism

  

I curled Chloe's hair at their young women's activity. I actually curled like 6 girls hair haha. It was so cute to see their confidence levels increase as soon as they saw their hair. :)

I won this dinosaur out of a claw machine! My companion brags that I can win these haha. I named him Jerome :)