It's a Boy!!!

I loved your email and sounds like everything is well. Well I am short on time because my new companion had problems with his email account so here I go.

So thank you Alix Hague for the letter! I really enjoy letters from anyone but I really enjoy pictures as well! But just a letter is fine too!

So let me do a bio on my son… Elder Chan, exactly like Jackie Chan, but no relation. Elder Chan is from Hong Kong and he speaks Cantonese and Mandarin and English… kind of, but we can communicate. I was a little bummed at first because I thought how am I going to relate to him but I found that we share many similarities the most important is that we both have a strong testimony of Jesus Christ and we both want to work our tails off and be obedient so as long as he wants to do that I am excited to be with him, just as long as I don’t have to learn Cantonese. That stuff is confusing as!

The Assistants to the president moved into our flat and I love them. Their names are Elder Sunnex and Elder Boardman. Elder Sunnex was trained by Elder Lamereaux (I think I misspelled that) and he is Maori. Elder Boardman is from Draper Utah and I believe he comes from English descent but I could be wrong. I love them both and they help me so much because I have so many questions!

A little more information on the Mission merge. President Simmons has been out 6 months so I will finish my mission with him. And my mission bnoundaries will be pretty much all of New South Wells except the south west quarter. It is going to be pretty big, nothing like Elder Joshua Smiths mission but it will be pretty big! The headquarters for the mission are not decided yet but I believe they are going to keep them in the North mission.

Oh and mom they do have Outback steakhouse here.

So while I was waiting for elder Chan to get here I was put with another missionary who was training and that missionary happened to be Elder Colton Dana. So He and I got to work together for a few days and it was so much fun! We were able to teach a few lessons to people. I just loved it. We even ran into a really weird guy who came out to us while we were talking to this other guy. He was wearing this necklace made out of chicken bones and chicken feet and he was video taping us and he kept on saying we were a cult and that he kidnapped some missionaries in Newcastle and that he beat them and stuff and Elder Dana with a big grin on his face just said we teach about Jesus Christ, would you like to learn? Of course the guy said no, but I am so glad I got to share that experience with a friend.

So investigators… nothing has happened with anyone except Brendan. So we taught him this past Friday about recognizing the spirit and I felt I did a bad job, it was decent but it could have been better. Then this Sunday we had teastimony meeting which was way good and then gospel principles class was rocking as well! We then went to Elders Quorum. This was the first time he has gone to Elders Quorum and of course they talked about Home Teaching the whole time. Yeah we read from first Nephi but nothing that would apply to him. Later that evening we went to Melissa Hale’s (Brendan’s girlfriend) cousin’s baptism. The service was great and after the meeting I just asked him how he felt and what he said shocked me! He said today in Elders Quorum when we read first Nephi I felt something, Elder Brough I think we need to reschedule. We have a date for February 27 and I am so excited I just pray I can do everything I can to help him so keep him in your prayers!

It was a great week! Lots of ups and heaps upon heaps upon heaps of downs but those few moments were I am on top of the world trumps all the discouraging times! I love being a father, a friend but above all a servant of the lord. I love you all and thank you so much for your support!

Elder Landon Brough