Thursday, December 3, 2009

The Lord protects us even when we don't know we need it!

Hi! Yeah Sister Hill is way sweet. She helps us out a lot. I didn't even think about how they would be there. Sorry about that. You could have saved some postage. Anyways.

So there has been some pretty nuts things going on lately.

First, we had a baptism for a guy named Chet Hersch. . . how cool is that name. He's a stud. The baptism went really well. He's 6'8" so we had to fill the fount for 3 hours to get it high enough and had to find some way long white pants for him. It was pretty sweet. I love baptisms.

Also funny thing happened this week. (This mom is not so sure it's as "funny" as Elder Bragg, but grateful the Lord protects his missionaries too)

So we were going to this place called Dear Creek Canyon. Before we went up we called Bishop Shcoville to ask him who up there we should see. He said that there was no one that he could think of at the time. But told us not to see someone, (last name with held). We asked why and he just said to trust him. Elder Brunton asked if it was a like "yell at you" do not contact or a "pointing the shotgun at you" do not contact. The Bishop just said in a very serious way to just trust him. We didn't think too much about it and figured we would stay far away from his house. We had plenty of other past investigators and part member family's to follow up with anyways. It's a huge area so we figured no big deal. Well, we went a couple places and then the last part member family up there was a couple named the ( first name with held).So we went up and visited them. At first he was kinda sneaky, but he warmed up quick. He showed us around the house up there and showed us all his way sweet old cars, snowboards, and other stuff. He was a way niceguy and he said we could come back anytime. After we finished our visits we thought, hey lets see where that one "Do not contact" lives just so we know in the future. We typed his address in the gps and it took us right back to the other nice guys house. We were confused. We went down the mountain trying to figure out if we had accidentally seen the mean "Do Not Contact guy" and he was just way nice. We asked Bro. Hall about it. He just started laughing. . . he then proceeded to tell us how a month or so ago there was an insurance agent sneaking around on this guy's property to see if he was just faking about his back problems so he could still be on disability. . . (which I guess he was) so when the guy saw him he shot him in the back! Crazy. So he's awaiting trial right now for attempted murder. . . we didn't believe Brother Hall at first but then he pulled up his face on the computer and it was totally the same guy! Needless to say we probably wont be sneaking around his bushes or stopping by for a drink for a while. Just funny, crazy mission story.

The Lord protects us even when we don't know we need it!

Well, I've got to get heading out. We just got done with an early session at the temple (THE BEST PLACE IN THE WORLD!!!) Now were going bowling hahaha. Oh and I totally went on Thanksgiving as well. Keeping the tradition alive!!!haha

LOVE YA ALL!!
Thanks for the letters and stuff...Sister Bezzant if your reading this "HEY!" haha

LOVE
Elder Bragg

3 comments:

Jacque said...

Hi Colton this is Brea.

I just gave a Book of Mormon to my Best friend Ryan Frings and she was thrilled to see it. I also gave her The Restoration, and I told her about the Gosple and what Missonaries do. I almost started to cry because I felt the spirit to and I hope that I would become a GOOD Missonary! But that people my dad's age would not even have the courage to do that.

Your Friend Brea

steve said...

Your stories always make me laugh Colton. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Miss you tons, Steve

The Dunn's said...

Hey Colton, Chet is a great name. I had an uncle named Chet. He was super cool, a handsome daredevil. Wow, sounds like that your "do not contact" experience is one for your journal.

Lisa