Sister Madeline Brown: Week 10 - Nebraska City

Hi all!

This week was slow with Christmas and Christmas Eve and now new years. It's been nice, but nobody's home and there's nobody to find or teach hahaha.

I experienced freezing rain for the first time this week. We had a 5-hour car fast one day (which just means we walk everywhere instead of driving) and it was the rainiest day of the week. It was pouring rain and really windy all day, the wind here bites. It was 15° (but you can't just look at the temperature when you check the weather here, you have to look at the "feels like" part because it's always drastically different.) So it was 15° but it felt like -3° hand warmers are my new best friend.

We ran into a lot of bible bashers during that car fast, and a lot of angry words towards us hahaha, but we keep going. They just aren't ready. The last house we came to though, they weren't interested but insisted we come in so we could warm up and she made us some tangerine tea. (So good) so that was a huge tender mercy. And maybe they will be interested at a later time, who knows.

Joei is doing well and we have her set for baptism on the 25th! We're so excited for her and she has such a light around her. Even with all that's going on in her life she is still putting her trust in the lord and keeping her faith.

We haven't been able to see Harley because she is at her dad's in Missouri right now, but she is getting baptized this weekend! And she texts us every other day telling us how excited she is to get baptized.

I know this is the greatest work I could be a part of and I know that President Nelson is a prophet called of God. He is such an amazing and inspired man.

I love you all so much! Email me and let me know how everything is going in your lives, I may be far away but I still think about and pray for each of you, and I love & miss you all. Have a happy 2019!!!

-Sister Brown