tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26788829785554131722024-02-07T05:21:59.913-08:00Serving Massachusetts-BostonCalled to Serve in the Massachusetts-Boston Mission
for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day SaintsBrandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-80229051408626285122011-01-24T11:44:00.000-08:002011-01-24T11:45:56.478-08:00The Work Keeps Comin'<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">1-18-2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey everyone,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>S</strong></span>orry, but the Martin Luther King Holiday didn’t allow me to email (library closed).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great weekend! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have a new companion now in Elder Strong. He is 21 from Orem, UT, and has 3 months to go on his mission, so he should finish up here in Brewster. He is a cool guy and we are getting along easily. He has already fit into the branch well too. Elder Crandell went to Weston. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We found 3 more new investigators this weekend. Brian was a referral from </span><a href="http://mormon.org/"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong>Mormon.org</strong></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told us he was browsing the web and came across the site. He was intending to just mess around in the chat room but instead found himself interested in the message. Weird huh? He's a 16 year old and he was excited to read the Book of Mormon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, as we were closing our first discussion, his mom came in and didn't seem too happy we were there. Hopefully it will work out to another lesson. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then there's AJ and Sue who are a newlywed couple, also referrals. AJ has a good member friend in Utah who introduced him to the gospel. Recently they went to Temple Square and saw the Joseph Smith movie. They both have been reading the Book of Mormon and AJ already feels that it is true. We gave them a first discussion "as if they were brand new to the gospel" and it went really well. Sue isn't completely set with the church since she really wasn't religious as a kid, but she seems to be willing to follow along with her husband.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How golden & ready is this couple, huh? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s really exciting! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday, we went to the Hyannis Recreation Center with Bro. Biega and Alex. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is such a nice facility: 2 ice rinks, full size gym, and arcade. We shot hoops and watched a high school girl’s hockey game. The game was a lot more interesting than I thought ha-ha. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As you all know, the Patriots choked on Sunday <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:(<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much for that Super Bowl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Massachusetts is pretty depressing when it comes to sports and losing. Not gonna be a happy next few weeks around here ha-ha. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">So that was the weekend. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lookin' like a cold wet week ahead so I'll bundle up. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope you all have a great week! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">AND SEND LETTERS!!! LOL <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Later!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Love, </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #666666; font-size: 7pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-13622302164315680112011-01-24T11:23:00.000-08:002011-01-24T11:28:24.863-08:00Snowy, White Cape<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">1-13-2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey everybody!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>I</strong></span>t’s been a great week and a half out here. The snow keeps finding us. Had some snow on Sunday that shortened the congregation to 20 and we only had sacrament meeting. Then we had snow fall last night. It’s not as bad as up north in Boston, they got hammered, so I'm grateful. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Things are going to be a little different for me in the coming weeks. Yes, I'm staying in Brewster, just gonna have a new companion. Elder Crandell is transferring out tomorrow. He looks to be taking it pretty hard because he doesn't want to leave. Now I'll have to take the reins for a little bit since I'll know what’s going on here and my new companion will be wondering if he's lost in the twilight zone. I'm anxious to see what will happen, and I know the success will continue out here. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We ran into a lot of new investigators recently. Cole Arvidson's girlfriend, Alex, and his dad listened to our message the last couple Mondays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her dad was very sturdy with his beliefs and was resistant to listen to another organized religion, but he was willing to have his daughter listen so we'll go with that. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Johnson's son and his wife walked into a lesson we were teaching about church attendance and they were willing to come to church.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the storm ruined that deal, so we'll try for it this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jim is back. He looked much better in our recent couple visits. Thank you to those who prayed for his help. We assured him that he was thought of and missed while at the hospital. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Halls are a lovely older couple we taught last weekend and they were really interested in the Plan of Salvation. We hope to teach them that lesson this week. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1SG421_-RAs_NNscCiDEO3fgmunvhc0pvr6AzUKrv4pWWpgI9iBS6tGyqFzPYAaCIm0IVDCJiiGrzgg63kvMCvybhWwM1hGb6YOiAwwg757Ss4Q4bfrd497SR3khk-CsZeOwwL0nTXMA/s1600/Sox+Cap.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" s5="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1SG421_-RAs_NNscCiDEO3fgmunvhc0pvr6AzUKrv4pWWpgI9iBS6tGyqFzPYAaCIm0IVDCJiiGrzgg63kvMCvybhWwM1hGb6YOiAwwg757Ss4Q4bfrd497SR3khk-CsZeOwwL0nTXMA/s200/Sox+Cap.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">As you can see I got the first of my few Red Sox caps as a little late Christmas present to myself :). <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm excited (little nervous) for what will happen at transfers tomorrow and looking forward to many more experiences here in Brewster. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm sure all is well back home and I'm grateful to all of you for your continuous love and support. I'll let you know how the change goes on Monday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take care!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Love,</span></div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></span>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-36439280136639682112011-01-10T13:29:00.000-08:002011-01-12T05:33:31.431-08:00Happy New Year!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">January 3, 2011</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wassup everyone!</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;"><em>H</em></span></strong>appy 2011! This last week was pretty solid despite the holiday and low amount of miles. Fortunately the members really came through for us by giving us rides to appointments. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Starting out with last Monday, it was a lot of fun going to Alex's hockey games and celebrating his b-day. His team won the second game. They scored the game-winning goal with less than three minutes to go. It was pretty intense! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">On a lower note, Jim hasn't been doing so well lately.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was in the hospital for the past couple days and is now home. Please keep him in your prayers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our newest investigators, the Melix family, are really a joy to visit. They love our company and actually have questions about the church despite being devoted Methodists. We are excited to answer their questions this week and hope that they open up to explore the gospel. </span> </div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Does that mean you're not interested?"</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">New Year's Eve wasn't as exciting as yours. We went to the Biegas for dinner and that was a good visit. However, it really felt like a typical Friday and normal curfew. I was in my bed watching the clock go 12 and then fell asleep. I know, lame... So that was basically the week. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I got news that the Chiefs are in the playoffs! Too bad they gotta go through New England to get to the Super Bowl. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">My favorite scripture right now is <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">D&C 19:23</b>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>“</em></span><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.23?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>Learn</em></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> of me, and listen to my words; </em></span><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.23?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>walk</em></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> in the </em></span><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.23?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>meekness</em></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> of my Spirit, and you shall have </em></span><a href="http://lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/19.23?lang=eng"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em>peace</em></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><em> in me.”</em></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Bro. Biega showed me it and it is such a simple yet powerful scripture. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thank you to all sending me letters and packages. I love ‘em.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hope all is well with you all, back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will get back with you again next Wednesday when transfers roll around. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Have an excellent week!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Love,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-64310613450271661172011-01-10T12:36:00.000-08:002011-01-10T12:45:52.231-08:00Merry Christmas! :-D<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">12-27-2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">A lot of great and weird things happened this week. Starting off where I left off last week with the snowstorm that hit. Remember that family in the branch with the farm? Well, I got to be a farm boy for a day because we got snowed in at their place! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIgSB_eDoDf7DQVQPHb-gRgImx7Y00b0a-XtGKWY2WImTqsB8WBj007mtpQ7qyoX9rpuKqTuZlB5qUMsIO_1ScHQ-ApD26uuat3XipQbk42M4FH-pxpmZzbUCdb7b21M7cND6DOdknxQ/s1600/Snow+path+out.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFIgSB_eDoDf7DQVQPHb-gRgImx7Y00b0a-XtGKWY2WImTqsB8WBj007mtpQ7qyoX9rpuKqTuZlB5qUMsIO_1ScHQ-ApD26uuat3XipQbk42M4FH-pxpmZzbUCdb7b21M7cND6DOdknxQ/s200/Snow+path+out.JPG" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">They live on a private road that doesn't get plowed so our pathetic front-wheel drive car had no chance of getting outta there that night. The next morning we had to shovel our car our and then follow previous car tracks to slide our way outta there. It was a fun night but an exhausting morning because we also went to shovel our branch president's driveway. Ugh, snow... </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The rest of the week went by pretty fast due to little miles left for the month. We did however have some great lessons. The best of the week was with the Pabsts family. We hadn't seen them for a while, just Jenny, so we really hoped that our plan of salvation lesson would gain their interest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jenny answered a lot of our questions very well, showing how well she listened to last lesson. Ms. Pabst has read to Mosiah already in about a month and also asked great questions. The other 2 girls Emily and Sarah participated too. We set a date for February 5th with all 4 of them and plan to teach them accordingly to be ready for that date.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMIxU6AykGszP4QdQPUn-1tmzhaM6cEwXCgT9V4gEXdWJGeyhY_ORC7pBo1nxvFPAvS5Er9CFnhMkXP6NkYJwD-IxzFofaPvz8NWyC3N1lS6hXndfIEQczV2OXMOf8e8QbadSFXyvb6U/s1600/Snow+Christmas+Tree.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="200" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxMIxU6AykGszP4QdQPUn-1tmzhaM6cEwXCgT9V4gEXdWJGeyhY_ORC7pBo1nxvFPAvS5Er9CFnhMkXP6NkYJwD-IxzFofaPvz8NWyC3N1lS6hXndfIEQczV2OXMOf8e8QbadSFXyvb6U/s200/Snow+Christmas+Tree.JPG" width="200" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Christmas Day was not like a normal Christmas back home at all, but it was one to not forget. We opened our Christmas presents that morning and went to the Arvidsons for dinner and stopped by the Biegas as well. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am very grateful for all the presents I received from you, my friends back home and members of the branch. It really shows me how much love people have for me and that makes me so grateful and blessed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite present was my phone call home. I wanted to do it early but I was afraid you would be too busy opening presents so I didn't end up calling them until that night. It was such a joy to talk to all of you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It doesn't seem like I've been gone for too long though but it was still awesome to say “hi” to and catch up on your lives, as well as answer questions about my mission experiences.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jim got confirmed on Sunday! He was so full of the Spirit and will really be a great member to the branch. He was so excited to take the sacrament too. "Oh, do I get to take this now?!" ha-ha It was great to see his excitement. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">MORE SNOW came last night and this morning. It just continues to come. The wind is just howling! Lights were flickering on and off in our apartment but luckily it didn't go out on us. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We got to go see Alex Biega play a hockey game this morning. He has a tournament today on his birthday! It was great to watch and we'll actually get to see another one tonight as well. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Reminds me a lot of me playing ball at that age and, like Bro. Biega, my dad yelling to me to do this and that ha-ha.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This week will be somewhat the same as last week because of miles and snow. Hopefully we can get some good work in during the week. I don't know the rule on New Year's Eve yet, just that we'll be at the Biegas for dinner.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks to you and everyone for your support and prayers. I know the Lord is blessing you for it. I love you all and pray for you too. Thanks to those who sent me cards too. They were much appreciated. I hope that you have a great week and a great start to the New Year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Talk to you soon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-25210571713749574712010-12-23T11:52:00.000-08:002010-12-23T12:17:17.443-08:00"It's Beginning to Look a lot like Christmas!"<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">12-20-2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello everybody!</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></strong>hat a great week!! Went to the temple, did a lot of hard labor, had our first baptism, and ITS SNOWING! Looks like it'll be a white Christmas after all. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg649MhPDzK5lFvUQa8BpZfTvr3enFEUjvF_icX970HgUTsC2h0qmSuc21TSjqCCGSXOnN_B5wbrMtnhrjtePSkgI267Z1_K50p0niutGCYahLEYFfdlmGrrXsPFkhKzutvqOdkcnvfjRE/s1600/1st+Baptism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="289" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg649MhPDzK5lFvUQa8BpZfTvr3enFEUjvF_icX970HgUTsC2h0qmSuc21TSjqCCGSXOnN_B5wbrMtnhrjtePSkgI267Z1_K50p0niutGCYahLEYFfdlmGrrXsPFkhKzutvqOdkcnvfjRE/s320/1st+Baptism.JPG" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Jim's baptism went great! We had about 25 from the branch that attended at our chapel. Performing a baptism is awesome!!! Even though the water was FREEZING cold, it’s one of those things that I'll cherish forever. I was somewhat nervous most of the day, but the Lord comforted me when I needed it and I didn't have to repeat the ordinance. Jim was so overwhelmed the whole day, but he was full of joy. We were so proud of him. I hardly remember that first day we met him but he slowly but surely progressed and he is going to be such a good member of this branch.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwIFkBnt3J_j4s9MAL9LLVwmon8RhjfEIuBZ24Mr62n0fA6j3b2CPLKIOrF9RZct67lrS76C9CeqvmuNpff0PMBbRr2BzJiHmA6cgiIsITMmSWalBMQG9XrYeKIxSP6b6mY9XtuFzrDI/s1600/Elders+with+1st+Baptism.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="130" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZwIFkBnt3J_j4s9MAL9LLVwmon8RhjfEIuBZ24Mr62n0fA6j3b2CPLKIOrF9RZct67lrS76C9CeqvmuNpff0PMBbRr2BzJiHmA6cgiIsITMmSWalBMQG9XrYeKIxSP6b6mY9XtuFzrDI/s200/Elders+with+1st+Baptism.JPG" width="200" /></a> <br />
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</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I got to go to the temple again on Tuesday with the rest of the zone. The feelings in the temple never change and I was so glad to be there. We also got our Christmas packages that day. I love the big Dell box. Everyone kept joking that I had a computer, ha-ha. I'm excited to see what's inside on Saturday. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I was in Plymouth on exchanges for a couple days. It’s a very interesting and historic area. You'll see that cool statue that I got to go visit. It was huge!! </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We did some service at Bro. Carmack's farm, moving hay bales into his barn. When I said hard labor, I mean hard labor. We were just wasted after we finished off those 150 bales! Ugh, again I am so glad I wasn't raised on a farm ha-ha. </span><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOnxbDyME0mYs_Ci1sUnhcLi-Q0vCx7X4wfv_0kz_FRzqiGlVF90qwbZZjwhXq92Wd92HJLsG6z8_p766BvTmofddKyLu2Q0WYbD4scpX9_apaubVDrtfJjt-s4FqlHYbbInXCt6Y9gLc/s1600/Elders+Christmas+Trees.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; height: 163px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 221px;"><img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOnxbDyME0mYs_Ci1sUnhcLi-Q0vCx7X4wfv_0kz_FRzqiGlVF90qwbZZjwhXq92Wd92HJLsG6z8_p766BvTmofddKyLu2Q0WYbD4scpX9_apaubVDrtfJjt-s4FqlHYbbInXCt6Y9gLc/s200/Elders+Christmas+Trees.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLvbosFLLnZsy3kKQcKjfQG3R8wZF9EtE3pCXvxIvMC1WcOxOtSXovgCdJ0ZJhZ54OLHkEZxWbkGHwfbga4o5RY8aLxyOCQDPoG_hRDmTB4I7DS1BnCWBOOmrjYuCJ_K4uhKxqKkRMcU/s1600/RSCN9951.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="199" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcLvbosFLLnZsy3kKQcKjfQG3R8wZF9EtE3pCXvxIvMC1WcOxOtSXovgCdJ0ZJhZ54OLHkEZxWbkGHwfbga4o5RY8aLxyOCQDPoG_hRDmTB4I7DS1BnCWBOOmrjYuCJ_K4uhKxqKkRMcU/s200/RSCN9951.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Crandell and I are loving those 12 days of Christmas presents. Some of those scriptures are real stumpers. Grandma also sent me a box with a cute nativity scene. We also got 2 Christmas trees, one cardboard from our fellow Elders in the Cape Cod branch and a artificial one from the primary. Yeah we got hooked up with decorations and grateful for it. </span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Did I mention it’s snowing?! Just came down last night and probably for a while longer. I'm both happy and frustrated about it at the same time.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzaFUXrzu7C0wE_AWOwmjtNGEqv8i0SXFRha2d3Vkvg8SAI042PrFq6EjlFGggrNYZt3tIX0yebZPgIVhwMtpip_xsgOQCKw9Mc0_N0_rNf7wxqdb6rDAKf9P9X67O2hQ9XqkUZ9DZ8w/s1600/Snow+in+Dennis+Port.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="148" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfzaFUXrzu7C0wE_AWOwmjtNGEqv8i0SXFRha2d3Vkvg8SAI042PrFq6EjlFGggrNYZt3tIX0yebZPgIVhwMtpip_xsgOQCKw9Mc0_N0_rNf7wxqdb6rDAKf9P9X67O2hQ9XqkUZ9DZ8w/s200/Snow+in+Dennis+Port.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This week will be pretty booked. The snow is gonna slow down things a bit I think, but the weekend will be fun. We have a couple member homes to visit on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. </span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm very excited to call home!!! I don't know what time exactly but I'm shooting for the afternoon or evening home time. I don't think I'll get any Christmas shopping done this week but I'll get some presents and goodies to send home. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love you all and wish you all a safe and Merry Christmas. Thank you for all your continuous support that helps to keep me going. Take care and I'll talk to you soon.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-18794713802490672222010-12-15T16:41:00.000-08:002010-12-16T11:36:43.789-08:00The Freezing Continues...<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">12-13-2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">W</span></strong>hat a great week here on the Cape! Things continue to become better and better as Christmas draws closer. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We have a baptism lined up for this Sunday with Jim!!! If all goes well with the interview this week, I will have the honor of baptizing him! I'm so excited for him and amazed how much he has progressed in the last couple months. He is such a sincere and charitable person and God is giving him the blessings he's deserved. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We also got another baptismal date set with Jenny for January 14th. She really wants to learn the gospel and has understood the first and part of the second lessons very well. Hopefully (if transfers allow) and all follows suit, that will happen as well. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The last couple days have been very busy with a lot of work. Saturday during my tour with Elder Castro in Brewster, we didn't have anything planned except meals and we just took the branch list and started stopping by all the less-actives in Hyannis. We ended up with 5 potentials and a couple lessons throughout the day. My faith in the Lord grew that day because I thought the whole day would be a bust and it ended up super. Then yesterday after church, we met at members’ homes one after another and had a couple lessons that day too, including the one with Jenny accepting her baptismal date. God is continuing to bless this area day by day and I am grateful to be witnessing those blessings happen. It’s amazing how true missionary work is.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I got a good amount of mail this week. My friends Elder Tyler Weeks, Elder Lance McDowell, and Natalie Peterson all sent letters. The YSA back home sent me a letter with messages from them. I got Blake's Sunday school class's package with their letters and an overwhelming amount of sweets. And I got the package with the thermals and goodies too, (the thermals fit fine). Thanks to all of you for those letters and packages. It’s what influences me to keep on working and serving, knowing that I have a strong support system. To all you who haven't yet, don't be bashful, feel free to send letters!!!!! Ha-ha!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMjVlVRdijh88nVaqAfUaOtr_XkZXIlCfZ1aQqAT4axm7Ks8kK9lZQp0Uw0umDW81vjMlKTqT9cLeF3fUZ9KMju7Cv63D7eTCCqiaMrT7f9ZS8ktaoBvsaKvMX4DK_Nb2ZfjfuUqxhPEg/s1600/Cmas+lighthouse.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMjVlVRdijh88nVaqAfUaOtr_XkZXIlCfZ1aQqAT4axm7Ks8kK9lZQp0Uw0umDW81vjMlKTqT9cLeF3fUZ9KMju7Cv63D7eTCCqiaMrT7f9ZS8ktaoBvsaKvMX4DK_Nb2ZfjfuUqxhPEg/s320/Cmas+lighthouse.jpg" width="242" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The weather has been FREEZING this week!!! Temps were in the 20s and 30s all week except for the past couple days. I wore everything! My thermals, my trench coat, my skull hat, my gloves. Anything to keep me from being a Popsicle! It was COLD, especially when we were bold and tracted.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">How things going back home? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>ALLYSON! Congrats on the soccer championship and the goal!! That's awesome!!! I wish I was there! </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">To clarify, ANY picture is what I’m referring to on the Christmas list. I can't wait for the other Christmas packages to come. We have had a few families invite us over for Christmas so we should be taken care of for that weekend. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The branch takes such good care of us and makes sure we are good. So to all you that have Elders in your ward/branch, check to make sure they are taken care of for the holidays. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The holidays are cool here in Massachusetts. I enjoy riding at night and seeing the lights through the trees. It's different. I've been humming and singing NSYNC Christmas songs constantly, just as if I was home ha-ha!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm excited for the next couple weeks!!!</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love you all!!!!! Keep me in your thoughts and prayers. I know that this work I'm doing here is true and is worth it. Pray to the Father in the name of Christ and he will pour out his blessings upon you and answer your questions. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Take care and I'll talk to you all next week! :)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<a href="http://lds.org/broadcasts/archive/christmas-devotional/2010/12?lang=eng">2010 Christmas Devotional (link)</a>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-22804910812356242442010-12-15T15:22:00.000-08:002010-12-16T11:38:01.856-08:00Good Week, Better Weekend<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">12-6-2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wassup Everybody!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>I</strong></span> know it hasn't been too long since my last email but it is P-Day so here I am! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">It was a great weekend! Transfers went by smoothly. The district got switched up a little bit as we had Elder Kiss go home and Elder Olsen transferred. So now its Elder Graft and Elder Gallegos joining "<u>The Forgotten</u>" down here in southeast Mass. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj147gZsA-BT5TKPALlKxxUy0LDz_3f8DcS18wPxZTf0XLVdKpsQUkTSHq0Y2gIgsLnCwh6KA9g-h53WyOyRYBbuZkSgVE20-woOgQAuUIbamqp0u_lQG6rvEM-seMz_RcwXAzsdUSa1fo/s1600/Boston+Temple+Spire.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj147gZsA-BT5TKPALlKxxUy0LDz_3f8DcS18wPxZTf0XLVdKpsQUkTSHq0Y2gIgsLnCwh6KA9g-h53WyOyRYBbuZkSgVE20-woOgQAuUIbamqp0u_lQG6rvEM-seMz_RcwXAzsdUSa1fo/s200/Boston+Temple+Spire.JPG" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I finally got to go to the Boston temple on Saturday as we were invited to go up with the Biega family and witness their sealing as well as Bro. Biega taking out his endowments. It was AWESOME!!! The celestial room is one of a kind. My mouth just dropped when I walked in it. The temple is one of a kind and I was so happy to be there. The sealing was very inspiring and beautiful. The blessings that were said during the ceremony were special and I was just so excited for them. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">With Alex Biega</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sunday was just as good. Jim came to church again and stayed for the whole block. He enjoyed it even more than last week. Carolyn was there as she regularly is and is still progressing in her quitting smoking. Allyssa came with the Biega family so we were glad she was at least at church since we haven't had great success with her lately. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Right after church, we had this fun Christmas party in the church building. It was a lot of fun and a lot of the less actives and visitors were there. We had a hard time trying to meet all of them. It was weird to watch the Christmas Devotional <span style="color: red;">(The Church broadcasts an </span></span><a href="http://lds.org/broadcasts/archive/christmas-devotional/2010/12?lang=eng"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Annual Christmas Devotional</span></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: red;"> from Salt Lake)</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>at the Boudreau's home instead of back home like usual, but I enjoyed the devotional.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The weather is now at freezing more often and even rumors of flurries are starting to roam. It won't be long before I'm a Popsicle. Ha-ha.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I can't believe BYU lost that close!! Ugh, frustrating. But I'm glad they at least have a bowl game. BYU b-ball is sounding solid right now. I haven't been caught up a lot on much sports so it’s good to be getting that info from people here and home. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I miss all of you guys very much, even more now that it’s the holidays. A lot of people ask us if we're homesick and I tell them yeah but not enough to affect me. Keep praying for me and hope to receive letters/emails from you (and my friends too).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take care and have an amazing week!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Love,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-3976929226924767062010-12-06T13:54:00.000-08:002010-12-06T14:08:05.392-08:00Thankful<br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">12-1-2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey Everyone!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></strong> had another solid week in the Cape. Thanksgiving was very filling! We went to a couple members’ homes, one for fun and another for dinner. We enjoyed their company. There was so much food! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Man was I stuffed!!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Anyway, things are going okay. Our investigators are continuing to progress. Jim went to church for the first time last Sunday. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was very pleased with how the experience was. We had another great lesson with the Pabst family. Again, we watched the Testaments and again the Spirit filled the room. It is such a powerful movie! One of the four came to church last Sunday but we're hoping that the rest will show as well soon. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"The Forgotten District"</td></tr>
</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Oh yeah, transfers are this week. No worries, I'm still in Brewster. The both of us actually. Not much change to our district either. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">S<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">till no snow but it is getting colder.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have been doing lots of service as well. Raking leaves is a PAIN! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>: ) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to do that at a couple houses. Also we helped the Boudreau family move some things around in their house too. One of the families in the branch, the Biegas, is getting sealed this weekend at the temple and hopefully we'll be able to attend. I'm excited for that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hoping that things pick up again before the next big holiday hits in a couple weeks. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Take care for now. I love you all and you guys are the reason why I continue to work. Thank you for the blessing that you all are to my life. I miss you and pray for you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a great week!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-73042914334863434482010-11-25T20:10:00.000-08:002010-11-25T21:03:18.133-08:00Martha's Vineyard 2010<div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqtRsiVLHTVTO04JpIZqkCMq8C_CPvl3ZjxanS475Ul6RBcfYaB9C8pDax53-6mkXXErisSbnTwORYgbgr03zxuLez2v34y7MnAjjFP_1Cy9RNtOvmfrtJcShdMMm3A3QkmcfRGS_zVo/s1600/Brandon+on+Martha%2527s+Vinyard.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="232" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmqtRsiVLHTVTO04JpIZqkCMq8C_CPvl3ZjxanS475Ul6RBcfYaB9C8pDax53-6mkXXErisSbnTwORYgbgr03zxuLez2v34y7MnAjjFP_1Cy9RNtOvmfrtJcShdMMm3A3QkmcfRGS_zVo/s320/Brandon+on+Martha%2527s+Vinyard.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhdz_XToSda8HMAwz1PAmUrPFvHPJrOtyVLmLGsBoOzjAsniK5z-Ls_PRis_1Sq9HijA5oZg6vczXMsFNCkWZkXJZxDo4e1DadKzGaq1THb6hVu1PepWyJw8rdlsMZJ5UDaVBaKJmgGI/s1600/Martha%2527s+Vineyard.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: right; float: left; height: 91px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 86px;"><img border="0" height="240" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgKhdz_XToSda8HMAwz1PAmUrPFvHPJrOtyVLmLGsBoOzjAsniK5z-Ls_PRis_1Sq9HijA5oZg6vczXMsFNCkWZkXJZxDo4e1DadKzGaq1THb6hVu1PepWyJw8rdlsMZJ5UDaVBaKJmgGI/s320/Martha%2527s+Vineyard.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjksFhAdpD7i_UyC7oSFOJdvWZIeMmUkOeJLh8kbCWn2NmBU4LL7qH2Sq0qrILygE2WvK7HRnB9C1teTY7FX1ECykYTDcNJoTIcV4c5cBNyzHCadhuqYixKAL4kp7nc0rRL7_whvYS83w/s1600/Martha%2527s+Map.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="308" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjksFhAdpD7i_UyC7oSFOJdvWZIeMmUkOeJLh8kbCWn2NmBU4LL7qH2Sq0qrILygE2WvK7HRnB9C1teTY7FX1ECykYTDcNJoTIcV4c5cBNyzHCadhuqYixKAL4kp7nc0rRL7_whvYS83w/s320/Martha%2527s+Map.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxy-kJVvDOVJxRpk750o-Wq5Ux__fBPCNNpxn2ylj4xyyFc58guOYyV3v_5BQNtFUMLP8DRTEfg5LCFG9TBRBtIC3F8kNBQusDaoVIfVEZ2-2dwgfaEbzxz1P3FkqnWcSioYaF_D8nfU/s1600/Martha+Ferry.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left; height: 141px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="145" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTxy-kJVvDOVJxRpk750o-Wq5Ux__fBPCNNpxn2ylj4xyyFc58guOYyV3v_5BQNtFUMLP8DRTEfg5LCFG9TBRBtIC3F8kNBQusDaoVIfVEZ2-2dwgfaEbzxz1P3FkqnWcSioYaF_D8nfU/s200/Martha+Ferry.JPG" width="200" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP-K_K7sCcJ01598pr5c9AEeTQSgyc90sepoH3unYFqPlopyOahmNG5I5MHqDLz57GwTGxRvwy5bu74ZDzFtJlPs22ucHWd75uKNUPRHqXGJEgmt8QAW1Ouwh3VyVQ_TOOC8EOpjaC_VY/s1600/Crab.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: right; height: 110px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; width: 322px;"><img border="0" height="150" ox="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP-K_K7sCcJ01598pr5c9AEeTQSgyc90sepoH3unYFqPlopyOahmNG5I5MHqDLz57GwTGxRvwy5bu74ZDzFtJlPs22ucHWd75uKNUPRHqXGJEgmt8QAW1Ouwh3VyVQ_TOOC8EOpjaC_VY/s200/Crab.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-32649852841322373952010-11-25T14:15:00.000-08:002010-12-06T14:15:44.863-08:00"I Love Being a Missionary..."<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">11-24-2010</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hello again,</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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</span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><span class="apple-style-span"></span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">S</span></strong>orry I'm late writing this week. We had a district activity yesterday in Martha's Vineyard so I never got to the library. Martha's Vineyard was awesome. We had a lot of fun out on the beach (nobody got in the water haha). It was somewhat cold in the morning but it warmed up later on. Too bad our district is so far apart so we can't do activities like that more often. </span></span></span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table> <span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The week went really well. We taught the Pabst family who was referred to us from the member and they had a lot of good questions. I could feel the spirit so strong as we answered their questions and went through the first discussion. They each accepted a Book of Mormon and will hopefully read and pray before our next appointment this week. I feel very good about them and their interest in joining our church. As for our other investigators, Carolyn is still struggling with obeying the word of wisdom. Jim is the one who arranged that package that you should have gotten a few days ago. That's all for you, nothing for me to keep. He wanted to send to our families what we are experiencing here on the Cape. He's creative and so charitable. Allyssa still seems disinterested, but enjoyed watching The Testaments in our last appointment. I hadn't seen that movie in a while and it was so powerful to me, and hopefully to her as well. We continue to struggle finding a time to meet with Dan, but he wants to be baptized yet still struggling to tell his folks. </span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">District Meeting was kind of cool because we had to sleepover the day before. It was like the MTC all over again. We had tours again this time with the Martha's Vineyard elders. I stayed in Brewster this time with Elder Morales. Not only did I get to drive again, but this time I was basically in charge of scheduling appointments and figuring out what to do. Not an easy job but it was a decent day. Matter of fact, today I'm on tours with Elder Willard in Brewster. Again not a busy day, so we'll see what happens.</span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
<span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><br />
</span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><span class="apple-style-span"></span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">I've been struggling to come up with ideas for a Christmas list. Really the only two things I can come up with is a Red Sox cap and hoody to buy here. I'm sure you guys have some ideas for me so feel free to go for it because I'm no help haha. I'm warning you now, I probably will be writing</span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"> </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"><span style="color: black;">next Wednesday</span></span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);"> </span><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">because Transfer Week changes P-day to Wednesday. </span></span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thanks again for the package and letters last week. I have gotten a few letters from friends at school and other elders. Hope all is well and things are running smoothly. I love being a missionary and enjoying the experiences I have each day. Have a Happy Thanksgiving!! I love you all. </span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>W</strong></span>hat up everybody!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">… Another week on the Cape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had a lot happen this week. I went on splits for the first time on Tuesday. It was a solid lesson despite the little kids being...well kids. Ha-ha!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
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</tbody></table><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We went to leadership training the next day back in Weston. Such a long drive! The training was good and reminded me somewhat of the MTC all over again. After that I had my first "tour" as I worked with Elder Snyder in Hingham. Elder Snyder is from California and is actually leaving at the end of the transfer. He's a very funny guy that was good to learn from because he had a lot of advice from his experiences. Hingham was a really nice area. You could see downtown Boston from certain spots there. The people that we met and taught there were really sincere and we had a lot of spiritual lessons during those two days (it was a super tour). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Got back to Brewster with Elder Crandell and realized how different and unique Cape Cod really is. ha-ha We were invited to an Eagle Court of Honor for one of the young men in the branch. They went all out with this Court of Honor, just decorated everywhere. We got to participate in the program since both of us are Eagles so that was cool. It made me very proud to have gotten that award, even though it was a pain. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Cool thing happened yesterday where we had a "break the fast" meal at the church after Sunday meetings. It’s pretty nice to not have any other wards/branches after you so that can happen. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The weather has cleared up the last few days and it has been beautiful outside, though it is still chilly, especially at night. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Our investigators are continuing to progress. Carolyn hasn't smoked for three days, which is a huge deal. Jim is doing well with his business, and he met one of the members of the branch the other day with us. Allyssa read a little from the Book of Mormon and hopefully will gain a little more interest in that. We have continued to be steady with our key indicators and we have a lot of appointments and lessons lined up for this week. So many that I was frustrated trying to schedule them all in! Ha-ha. It’s amazing!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hope all is well back home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'm glad you guys enjoyed those letters. I miss you guys and am praying for you all daily. Keep up the good work and the blessings will flow in :) </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Have a great week!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-69569821185851175932010-11-10T09:20:00.000-08:002010-11-10T19:03:52.583-08:00Success and Blessings<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">11-8-10</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hello again everyone,</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">What a great week! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I am very happy with the success and blessings me and Elder Crandell have had the last few days. We've set up 3 baptismal dates. Carolyn has a calendar set up so she meets with us twice a week and quits smoking and drinking coffee by the 14th so she can be baptized on the 27th. We are still working with Jim to get to church and set a goal for December 5th to have him baptized, but that's more of a faithful goal. We have a new investigator Dan who has met missionaries before and wants to be baptized but is afraid to ask his parents (more his grandma), so we're helping him gain confidence. Also we met and taught Allyssa who is friends with a member, Katelyn, and we set a date for December 18th with her. There are also a couple referrals we have contacted who are interested in the discussions so there looks to be more dates coming. It is awesome! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Crandell had us use the cup lesson for most of our lessons this week. It is a visual display of a cup pyramid that shows the foundation of the church, the twelve apostles and the prophet. This shows the same church that Christ established during His ministry is on the earth today in the same organization. I was impressed by it, and so was our audience (ha-ha). </span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"></div> <br />
<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Zone Conference in Weston was pretty cool. I got to meet many more elders and learned some good skills to have on the mission. That morning our car had frost on it, so we had to scrape it off. It was 28 degrees that morning!!! Brrr! </span><br />
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</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kjo60XuCZhvxk1WuZWz1zgmt5DpqPdJwg7mSlu2ZQMwmKAqlh1TQ3PS632YomICqnlJdlQ3fh92CBLbTzJdpUgitxqL5CyXQEY0yOjdTgzu-gfDdQUagGHovH3x9Z2FSmsAw-gDhMAI/s1600/efy_2007+duel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" px="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6kjo60XuCZhvxk1WuZWz1zgmt5DpqPdJwg7mSlu2ZQMwmKAqlh1TQ3PS632YomICqnlJdlQ3fh92CBLbTzJdpUgitxqL5CyXQEY0yOjdTgzu-gfDdQUagGHovH3x9Z2FSmsAw-gDhMAI/s200/efy_2007+duel.jpg" width="126" /></a><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">President and Sister Evans' son, Will, was at ZC and he, to my astonishment, was my EFY counselor from '07! It was awesome to catch up with him. <span style="color: red;">(Especially For Youth (EFY) is a youth program sponsored by the Church and is held each summer at various locations. Brandon attended the ones held at Brigham Young University-Provo, UT)</span> </span></div></div><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I just got over a little cough and sore throat that I had most of the week. The weather just continues to get colder and wetter (ha-ha). Stake conference was also this weekend in Franklin. It took two hours to get there...but it was good. Elder W.T. David Murray, an Area 70, was the visiting general authority. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">This week should be interesting as we have leadership training back in Weston and then my first companion exchange, or tour, after that. I'm looking forward to that. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'm sending letters to you guys today so those should be there in a couple days. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Thank you for your unconditional love and support. Hope you all have a great week! </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Love you all!!!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-24183264972917258682010-11-01T10:33:00.000-07:002010-11-02T12:29:25.549-07:00Solid Week on the Cape<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Monday, 11-1-2010</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey Hey Everybody!</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><strong>I</strong></span>’ve put in the first full week out in the field. I am starting to love it out here but still adjusting to the new life. There are a lot of good and promising things going on out here. Elder Crandell and I are putting our best effort into this area.</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div> <br />
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</tbody></table> <span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We have a couple investigators. Carolyn has been investigating for awhile. She's great & continues to go church so we're just helping her as best as we can. Jim is another investigator and he is a saint. He has helped us out so much with what's what in the area and getting us things that we might need. He loves to talk and and we have some good conversations with him. He's a little self-conscious about a few things so we hope to bring members to his store to fellowship with him. We are picking the weeds and finding a few other new investigators here and there so we are continuing to fill our teaching pool. I love the Brewster Branch! They're such a great group and they really do love the missionaries. </span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">There's this one 10 year old Alex Biega who is just a stud. He plays hockey and basketball, and also can “jerk” and dance. He reminds me a lot of Bryce and I see him as another little brother. Pretty much all the young men in the branch mess with us like older brothers. It's pretty laid back, ha-ha. We get dinners from members most of the week but there are a couple days where I have to bust out the frozen dinners and chicken noodle soup ha-ha. </span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The views I've seen! <br />
October 2010</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The weather was nice early in the week but it is getting cold very quickly all of a sudden. The sun is out though, so that is somewhat nice. Zone conference is on Wednesday and I am looking forward to that. It'll be fun to see more missionaries because we are pretty lonely out here on the Cape.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re about an hour and a half away from the closest companionship. As far as going to the temple, we're not really sure, but I think we'll get a chance pretty soon.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I did get the letters from you guys last Monday after the email and I got the package with the USB and CDs. "Ask and ye shall receive" ha-ha. Thanks so much!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I actually did get letters from Ashley Ellis and Kamala Kelley last Monday. It was so nice to get those, and from what it sounds I should be expecting more soon <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>:). If you can find more church music CDs (more Alex Boye’, he's awesome), that'd be great. Yeah, keep on recruiting more letters and hopefully they'll come through eventually. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sounds like Breck had a good time at the <span style="color: red;">Homecoming</span> dance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It does seem like a bummer that Halloween was yesterday <span style="color: red;">(on Sunday)</span> .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We had to be in by 6pm because you know how kids are on that specific night ha-ha. So yeah I think that is all that I can remember from this week. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Time is starting to blur together again like at the MTC. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love you and am continually praying for you in all you do. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I'll try to spit a letter out later this week.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have a great week!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-75628303660900790552010-10-25T17:53:00.000-07:002010-10-26T08:07:10.138-07:001st P-Day on the Cape<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Monday, 10-25-2010</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Wassup Everybody!</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span></strong> know it’s only been a couple days since my last email but today is my p-day <span style="color: red;">(preparation day)</span> so I get another chance to tell ya how the weekend went. We met President Barlow on Saturday, who gave us good info on those less-active and investigating in the branch. Then we went tracting. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We first we went just around our apartment in Dennis Port. Yes, it’s the barn-looking building with a “Clean My Roof” sign in front. The door is on the backside of the building. Not much luck around the area. A lot are of the Catholic faith. We did meet a guy named Jim who just moved in and hadn't heard of our church so hopefully we'll get a chance to teach him this week. We t</span><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">hen drove a good half hour to Hyannis, where there's been recent success. The neighborhoods are much more active than in Dennis and we got a few people interested in a future lesson. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sunday we met most of the branch members. They LOVE missionaries! They all were very nice and considerate to us and we can tell they have high expectations for us. The branch mission committee told us of some plans that they have lined up to get us more opportunities to teach, more so with less actives. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today we were in Hyannis tracting and we met a lady named Patricia, who was of the Bahaii faith (I think I spelt that right...)<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> (Baha’i)</span></b>. I have never heard of it and Elder Crandell knows little of it so it was a good spiritual conversation as we both talked about our faiths. It was amazing how the faiths were somewhat similar. Hopefully she reads the Book of Mormon we gave her.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yeah the district includes us as well as the Elders in the Cape Cod branch, the Martha's Vineyard branch, and the Plymouth branch. It takes us about an hour and a half drive to District Meeting at the Cape Cod chapel. Most everything is at least a good half hour away. I doubt Elder Crandell knows how to drive in snow so we'll just pray and hope for the best (ha-ha). </span> </div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Cape Cod Beach.</td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I'll have to check the mail to see if those letters you sent came. You can send them to the mission office or home and they'll forward it to me. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">The Cape is a tourist spot during the summer so it is the offseason right now, making it somewhat difficult to find people. It is cool to see the beaches though. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Well I gotta get to my errands. We went tracting this morning since it’s hard to do at night and now we have P-day the rest of the day. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love you all. I'll check back next week.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-55306067798375495122010-10-24T19:01:00.001-07:002010-10-28T08:35:34.091-07:00Hello Boston & Massachuetts!<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Saturday, 10-23-10</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">I</span> am finally here on the east coast! It has been a crazy first couple days out here in the field. The last week at the MTC went by so fast. It was somewhat hard to leave my new friends there but I was so excited to get into the field. </span></span></span><br />
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The graffiti on the walls was so legit and there were a lot of old buildings around the area. We drove by Fenway Park, which was awesome! The people here drive way different than anywhere else. We were in some traffic and people are allowed to drive on the shoulder lane as if its another driving lane. Not to mention we almost got hit like twice haha. There are even terms for certain driving maneuvers they do... like the Boston blast, Boston creep, and Boston shadow. </span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">We got to the mission home and it was pretty nice. Felt like any other home, not really extravagant. Sister Evans made a great dinner for us (which helped because I pretty much hadn't eaten the whole day) and we were given a lot of orientation, along with interviews with the Evans. </span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Then came the Transfer Meeting the next morning at the Belmont Chapel, next to the Boston Temple. It's cool how the Moroni towers over the trees. I got to see Elder Chavez and Elder Wright who both were at the Y with me. My trainer is Elder Crandell. He's been out here 7 1/2 months and is from <span style="color: blue;"><span style="color: black;">Mesa, AZ</span>.</span> He is a pretty cool and a funny guy that I've gotten along great with. It looks like we're going to be great friends after this transfer because our area is going to be pretty difficult. </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Map of Cape Cod <span style="font-size: xx-small;">(click to enlarge)</span></span></td></tr>
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875);">We are assigned to the Brewster Branch, which has about 30 active members. The area is basically all of Cape Cod, that little elbow down in southeast Massachusetts. Neither of us know the area because Elder Crandell was in Cambridge his first 7 months. Therefore its called "shotgun" training. It was actually Elder Chavez's last area so he told me somewhat of the happenings around here. It is a very big area! The Branch is spread out all across Cape Cod and it takes us probably 30 minutes to get to the church building in Brewster. </span></span></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><br />
<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">After the Transfer Meeting we headed out to Dennis Port where our "not so bad" apartment is. We had dinner at Bro. Corb's home and met him (Elder's Quorum President) and Bro. Arvidson (Branch Mission Leader). Yesterday we had district meeting with the other 6 elders in our district. They are all funny Elders and easily welcomed me in. After that, me and Elder Crandell have just been cleaning up our apartment and making plans for what we're going to do around here. There's really only one progressing investigator, Caroline, who's been going to church frequently and one recent convert, Bethany, who was baptized back in July. I'm excited for what's to come.</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hope everything is going well at home. I was so happy to call you guys the other day. Felt like I was really at home for a little bit. Thanks for the cold weather wear and treats in that package at the mission home. I've been putting those thermals to good use because the wind is just blowing right through me and its already in the mid 50s, not to mention rain since I got here. I'm kinda scared for what weather is to come in the next few weeks. </span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">My new address is <strong><span style="color: black;"><u>355 A Main St. Dennis Port, MA 02639</u></span></strong>. Make sure to get that on my blog so I can get some letters from friends and relatives. My P-day will be on Monday and since I didn't get one this week due to travel, we are checking out the library and other surroundings along with sending this email. So get excited for Mondays mom :). I'll try to get a photo card adapter so I can send some pics through these emails, or I'll just print and send like at the MTC. Have a great week! </span></span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" /><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.226562); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.226562); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969);"></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="-webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">I love you all and are thinking of you guys each day. Keep me in your prayers as I start this expedition.</span></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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<span class="apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-83710537635695617872010-10-24T18:49:00.000-07:002010-10-24T18:49:06.123-07:00On His Way<div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Wednesday, 10-20-2010</span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfZFKkYraM39ra4xpGW2f1HJiJKF1Eo5yz-oYSVHAsjZn35Nzg5TLA604XSDlFpkdPTRMIz9Vcvbx_R-UcLTBA3dhoskpaJgVK3dVW3IND68FYq4cVy74NP958YdFcAzB7zSr0lsKrwc/s1600/Delta.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="134" nx="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXfZFKkYraM39ra4xpGW2f1HJiJKF1Eo5yz-oYSVHAsjZn35Nzg5TLA604XSDlFpkdPTRMIz9Vcvbx_R-UcLTBA3dhoskpaJgVK3dVW3IND68FYq4cVy74NP958YdFcAzB7zSr0lsKrwc/s200/Delta.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We were able to hear from Brandon this morning - what a great treat!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We weren't sure when he was flying out, but he called about 8 am our time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was at the SLC airport waiting for his non-stop flight to Boston that was leaving at 10am.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was so great to hear his voice.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loved his time at the MTC, but he was ready and excited to go.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Elder Henson was traveling with 6 other Elders - 3 English speaking and 3 Spanish speaking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We talked for almost 40 min.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The flight is 4 1/2 hrs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A long day, but at least he will get there in during the daylight hours.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can't wait to hear of his new adventures and about all of his “firsts” - first companion, apartment, area, meeting the mission president and seeing the area he will be serving in for 2 years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We can't wait to hear where his first area will be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoPlainText" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We are so proud of Brandon's desire to serve.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We miss him like crazy!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please write to him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He would love it!</span></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-41054699158533852212010-10-14T13:23:00.000-07:002010-10-14T15:27:43.052-07:00Week 2 in the Books!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10-13-2010<br />
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Hello Again Everybody!<br />
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Well, week 2 is in the books! This week was twice as fast as week 1! I can't believe I'm going to be in Boston next week!!! I'm so excited!<br />
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I did see Elder Stover up here a couple times, says he's getting the hang of things. I've met some good new elders last week. One is Elder Franklin who is an amazing dancer.<br />
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I sent Clint <span style="color: red;">(Whitney)</span> a letter today congratulating him on his mission call. I'm so excited for him to go to France. What an awesome country! <br />
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I didn't get the missionary reference books because I figured I could borrow them from a companion or the apartment in the field. I did get my hymnbook along with the scriptures last week. About the plaque, go ahead and keep Alma 29:1 on there.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">"O that I were an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the <a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/alma/29/1a" title="Isa. 58: 1; D&C 29: 4."><span style="color: red;">trump</span></a> of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry repentance unto every people!"</span></b><br />
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I already got the October Ensign through the Branch for so no need sending me another one. Thanks for trying to spread the word to others to send letters. Hopefully it pays off. If you’re still using my phone, go ahead and ask some friends on there for their addresses and let me know through <a href="http://dearelder.com/"><span style="color: blue;">DearElder.com</span></a> . <span style="color: red;">(This has been a great way to send a letter to Brandon while he’s in the MTC. He receives them either the same day or the next.)</span><br />
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Glad to hear BYU finally won! I did hear the crowd while heading to class and I was so depressed… well at least for 5 minutes. Too bad the Chiefs lost, but I'm sure Austin Collie had something to do with that. That's great Max Hall is finally starting. Hopefully he improves.<br />
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I can't think of anything else to send to Boston. Just don't send me anymore goodies till I'm out there because I have a stash already in my room (ha-ha). Thanks for all that!<br />
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Hope everything is going well back at home. Did Blake get his B-day card and present, along with the pictures for you guys? I'll be sure to send more as I get to Boston. Thank you for the emails, letters, candy and treats. Like I said last week, letters and packages are gold here! At least my family is coming through with it, unlike my friends (hint hint). (Just kidding)<br />
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Anyways my time is running out so I will get back to you guys in Boston. The Church and Book of Mormon are true and I love my missionary experience so far.<br />
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I love you all so much and you are always in my thoughts and prayers. Best of luck to you and May God bless you continually.<br />
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Elder Brandon Henson</div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-58135031783002205322010-10-06T16:21:00.000-07:002010-11-01T19:07:21.493-07:00Greetings from the MTC!10-6-2010<br />
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<div><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Hey Family,</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><br />
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<div><div><div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">I</span></strong>t is so nice to finally write back to you. I have gotten used to the new life here. The days are gradually getting faster each day, especially P-day today. My P-day is Wednesday but I'll only have one more next week before I fly out. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I've met SO many people from BYU! Both Elders and friends working the MTC dining haha. I did get my new scriptures at a great price thanks to the missionary discount :) . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I have been taking some good pictures but I don't see a memory card slot on these computers so I'll have to manually mail some printed pics and then find a USB to attach more to these emails (bare with me haha). </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My companion is a cool guy. His name is Elder Brian Piacitelli (pee ach i tell ee) from Delta, UT. He is in my dorm along with the other companionship going to Boston: Elder Cade Thomas from Logan, UT and Elder Nick Berlin from Taylorsville, UT. They are really great men and we've had some good laughs together so far.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</tbody></table><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">General Conference was amazing! I can't believe what I miss when I don't watch Saturday sessions haha. It was just the break I needed from an overwhelming three days. It is getting chilly up here and it has rained the last couple days so haven't worn short sleeve shirts too much. </span></div><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The food here is just like the Cannon Center, but a little better I guess. I don't know if I'll be able to finish all those goodies you sent me but I did finish off those Krispy Kremes from the Swainstons :). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">So far I went to the temple earlier today. What a great time getting to feel the Spirit even more! Later I hope to get some letters done. I can't wait to hear from Clint about his mission call! Feel free to tell other friends of mine (either on my facebook or in the ward) to send me letters. I love hearing from the "outside" as we call it here haha. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The studying has taken some time to get used to but I enjoy reading the scriptures and I'm getting better at teaching the first lesson. Well, that is pretty much all I can think of reporting at this time. Like I said, I'll send some pictures in the next couple days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I miss & love you guys so much and am praying for you every night. Talk to you soon.</span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Elder Henson</span></div></div></div></div></div></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-31523448934380604732010-10-05T19:29:00.000-07:002010-10-15T07:48:02.405-07:00THIS IS ABOUT YOU<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="left">Elder Henson at the Missionary Training Center (MTC) </div><div align="left">Provo, UT - September 2010</div></td></tr>
</tbody></table>“<span style="font-size: large;"><strong>I</strong></span>n whatever country you live, however young or inadequate you feel, or however aged or limited you see yourself as being, I tell you, you are individually loved of God, you are central to the meaning of His work, and you are cherished and prayed for by the presiding officers of His Church. The personal value, the sacred splendor of every <i>one</i> of you, is the very reason there is a plan for salvation and exaltation. Contrary to the parlance of the day, this <i>is</i> about <i>you.</i>” <br />
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<div align="left">- Elder Jeffery R. Holland <br />
Of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles</div><div align="left"></div><div align="left"></div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2678882978555413172.post-32233306332331115992010-09-22T07:47:00.000-07:002010-09-24T22:35:05.421-07:00Boston Skyline<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikNIrsAJwn0WSnLoyxDycDFYpkZzH6gkQVax0w_NGgqIF64OEziZO5JDtv8Gohd7HlehBbNBDrc4Vawfl4kdqHeXW6hutfQCInQDcpQViBUv3boqMLu50jbIfXJt9bHkQ0QMz1KAegLkc/s1600/massachusettsjobs%5B1%5D.gif"><img style="MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; FLOAT: left; HEIGHT: 132px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5519750674683411346" border="0" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikNIrsAJwn0WSnLoyxDycDFYpkZzH6gkQVax0w_NGgqIF64OEziZO5JDtv8Gohd7HlehBbNBDrc4Vawfl4kdqHeXW6hutfQCInQDcpQViBUv3boqMLu50jbIfXJt9bHkQ0QMz1KAegLkc/s200/massachusettsjobs%5B1%5D.gif" /></a><br /><div>What a beautiful skyline! Elder Henson won't spend time on the water but will definitely enjoy the view! </div>Brandon Henson's Missionhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10842878717228446932noreply@blogger.com2