Finding Strength in the Lord

Hi Everybody,

My cute little friends were baptized this week. It was pretty good. The little boy started crying because he is scared of water (and he is autistic) but he did great. He was so happy after. Here's something a little strange- the primary president gave them both necklaces to welcome them to primary. I thought that was nice until I saw them. They are crosses!! What? I thought we didn't do that in this church? Weird.. oh well.

Also, their older sister wants to take the lessons. She has taken them before and had a baptismal date and everything (a few years ago), but canceled it the day of. Please pray for us and her. We are trying to be very bold and loving.

The 4 min Restoration has brought so many blessings this week. The other day we taught a man standing at his door. We didn't even finish before he said, "Can you come back to teach this again so my whole family can hear it?" W-O-W!

You can imagine our response.

I am doing a lot better -I am overcoming Satan. Sometimes I just want to sing "VICTORY, VICTORY" the way Tim does (and sometimes I do) it actually helps me. The other day Satan made me laugh. He is pretty good at getting to me when it comes to self-confidence, but I have been working hard and I am totally kicking his butt! He has tried a new approach this week- Drugs. We met a man and he was crazy! Saying, "I’m a missionary too! I have been traveling all over South America and my church is doing great. It's a non-religious church. Genesis 2, ever heard of it? Well, yeah.. We had to make it into a church because otherwise it would be illegal. It's really good- we need to use all the plants that god has given to us. Do you like to get high?" *offers us multiple types of different drugs* "It's so great. Here is our card. You can look us up or call us or whatever." blah blah blah.. Oh I just wanted to laugh my head off. He was so ridiculous. We were conversing a little bit about what Mormons believe. He was telling us that Jesus Christ didn't establish his church- I asked him about the 12 apostles and how that would work if Christ didn't call them to discipleship. He said they were already apostles before Christ came. WHAT? umm.. you can check me on this, but I am pretty sure they were fisherman. I had so many things to say to him, but basically I just cried repentance and walked away. What is this world coming to? Hermana Jahnel was so funny. On our way home that night she told me that she just wanted to say "See you on judgment day!" haha It was really cute and funny with her accent.

This week in sacrament meeting all of the YM in the branch bore their testimonies. It brought a special spirit. It was so powerful.

We had a lunch with our branch president this week. We had tostadas. It was really funny because they had this really spicy sauce and it was so good. They were really surprised at how much I liked it- they thought it was going to be too spicy for me. It made them all laugh because I love spicy food and my companion hates it. It was a good meeting.

It has been very cloudy here- so humid. My skin is melting off my body as we speak haha. I miss my desert weather. However- I LOVE all the lightning and thunder here! It is one of my favorite things (along with the sunsets and sunrises.) Florida is so beautiful.

I am SO EXCITED to watch General Conference this weekend!!!!

The only bad thing is that I am going to watch it in Spanish :/

Did you get a chance to watch the general women’s broadcast? It was SO GOOD!

Here are a few more pictures from our trip to the Orlando Temple. That’s about all I have time for.  I love you and appreciate all your prayers!

Love,

Hermana Bryan

Our baptisms this week!

I thought about Ethan and his family when we drove past this!

This is the group of Sisters that attended the temple with me.

Such an amazing experience!

The church is TRUE!