Brantford, Week 14

August 13, 2012

Hello Family!

It has been a great week. And a busy week! Preach My Gospel suggests that we go through the Area Book often to keep it up to date, and to go through the former investigators once in a while because that is a great place to find people who may be ready to accept the gospel. Former investigators may have been dropped for many reasons- gone on vacation, got too busy, or maybe they weren't really interested. Elder Pitre and I contacted many, many people who seemed to be very interested but dropped because they got too busy, or contact was lost. Many of these people said they would meet again! So, that is exciting for us. A weird thing just happened yesterday, the Woodstock area closed for some reason. We're not sure what for, but hopefully it wasn't too crazy. We're guessing they just shifted some missionaries around to different areas. Woodstock is probably about 40 mins southwest from Brantford. So we got taken out of our district and were placed in the Stratford District, and we have been given some responsibility over the Woodstock area's investigators. We're not sure how much or how often we will have to go out there, but our District Leader said to be open on Wednesdays so that we could be available to help with investigators that are there that are close to baptism. That should be a neat experience for us too.

As far as the training goes, that is fun. Its just one of those things that you just go out and do, and learn how as you go. I hope Elder Pitre is enjoying it. I hope he has an awesome experience! President Scott half-joked last week that we should train them to be ready in 6 weeks instead of 12. I thought he was half-joking, but Elder Pitre said that was mentioned in their first-day meeting too. So maybe he wasn't! But that would be insane if some missionaries were ready after 6 weeks! It is definitely attainable. It'll be interesting to see what happens in 5 weeks.

Well, Brantford is an amazing place. The ward is great. There have been a couple of young (20 yrs old) ward missionaries called. And an old one too. So we're excited to create some energy among the young people. The Gospel is great. It teaches people to do good, and to be good. How can you go wrong? Its true. God lives, He is our Father. He loves us! And so does Jesus Christ. Through Him, all things are possible!

I love you all so much, and I hope you all have a great week! Its going to be a great week here in Brantford, we have a lot of teaching to do this week! Can't wait to tell you how it goes. This past week was all preparation and finding, clean up, and now its time to SHARE. (Spark Happiness And Rescue Everyone- something that we found in our apartment) Anyways- love you all, you are in my prayers.

Love,
Elder Brett Simper