Do it for the Vine

Heyyyyy peeps. Soooo this week has been pretty sick not gonna lie! But before that my mom came up CLUTCH with the questions.

-My area has been the same since the volcano erupted.... havent noticed much of a difference actually hahaha

-Bruno is good. We havent been able to visit him this week :(

-I am feeling good about my spanish now... pretty fun. :)

-I am STOKED for Mothers Day. It is going to be SUPER sick. 

-Miraclessss this week....... YES. Actually kinda a cool story. 

So we were walking around ALL day and all of our appointments fell through. everyone just had to decide to leave..... but sick. So we decided to start knocking on doors to finish out the day. At like 7:30 we decide to talk to a couple people that had just gotten out of their car (probably from work or something) and they just immediately told us to come inside! So we went inside and they are a family of 3 and they are freaking married which is awesome! We talked alot about the church and how everything works and what we share with everyone! We are going to pass by for them again this week to see how they are progressing. Pretty cool experience!:)

-I am nottttt using my sleeping bag yet because it is hotter than Satans armpit. But hopefully soon i will have to. :)

So this week was pretty cool like I said. :) We saw a lot of mini miracles and people that are awesome. A couple cool things that have happened this week are:

-We had a BBQ at the house of a lady that got baptized on Saturday. She got baptized Saturday and so to celebrate she invited all 10 missionaries to her house for a BBQ. It was soooooo good and kinda fun to eat with everybody and talk about the gospel. 

-Another thing that is cool is thanks to my brudda Elder McLaws I have a TON of hymns on my USB drive. They are hymns but like.... super cool hahaha its hard to explain but I will show them to the fam when I get home in like 3 years. :)

But YEAH! Before I go, i just want to share a couple words that I know are true! I know that Jesus Christ lives. He is our Savior and Redeemer. There is NO other way to make it back to our Heavenly Father  besides through Jesus Christ. Something that I have learned in the mission, is when you dont have the spirit or cant feel it... just start testifying of Christ and the spirit will return real quick. 

Love you all!

Swag

Elder Brophy

Read it killas

Families are Eternal Killa

Wasssssssup slayas! Today I have some AWESOME questions to answer from my amazing mom.

-This last week has been really good. Really busy but really cool and fun! We had a bunch of mini-miracles this week that were really cool to see!

-I went to Pomeire with Elder McLaws, Cannon, and Arriagada, not Niquet.

-We are going to use Skype. It wouldnt hurt to send the information again just in case.

-Do I have daily habits that bring me closer to the savior. Yes, hahahah lots. Pray every morning, and night, and a LOT in between the two. Another one that has helped me a TON, is reading the Book of Mormon, Preach my Gospel, and Our Heritage daily. I learn sooooo much every day and it strenghtens my testimony!:)

-The branch in Calera de Tango has been in the process of being made for the last 8 months, and now it is finally formed and everything is sick over there!

-We have found a lot of new investigators this week, and i am going to share an experience about one of them at the end of this email.

-At church here in Melipilla, I dont have to do anything because this branch is SO freaking awesome. So I can just listen!

-This saturday we are going to a widows home (who has 5 kids) and we are going to ask permission to clean out all of her backyard! Thought that would be something awesome to do!:)

Okay! So this week was pretty chill, a lot the same! (which is freaking awesome dont get me wrong). Something cool that we did this week was we all went to Talagante (the missionaries of Talagante and Melipilla) and contacted people in the town square during a little Expo that the church put on. While I was there we contacted a TON of amazing people. I also came in contact with a man that got baptized in Calera de Tango while I was there and he is getting married to a lady this Friday! Then they are getting sealed in 1 year from now so I am for sure going to that when it happens! SO COOL. Another little cool act of service that me and my buddy Elder Parker (lives with us) did is we woke up an hour earlier than usual and made a HUGE american type breakfast for our companions (from Peru and Mexico). We made them Pancakes, bacon, eggs, with syrup butter and all the fixings! We all enjoyed eating some good american food this last week for a morning!

Spiritual moment!

Okay so something that happened this week was SO SICK! So, I was on divisions with another Elder (Elder Richards) and we were contacting in our sector to find someone new that could get baptized (#BapSquad). And so we knock on this door across the street from some active members and an 18 year old lets us in. We are talking to him and getting to know him and he tells us that his mom passed away 3 months ago and he is taking care of his paralyzed father and cousins alone. It was so humbling to hear and see all this. So, we start to teach him about the Plan of Happiness... the spirit was SO strong. It was almost tangible. And during the middle of the lesson this young man stops us and asks, ¨Its possible? An eternal family? I can see my mom again?¨ Talk about the spirit standing up and punching me right in the face. It was one of the coolest lessons I have ever had in my mission. So pray for Bruno (thats the kids name).

I loveeeeeeee you all. Be safe everyone and stay SWAGGY!

Elder Brophy

Eating empanadas in Pomeire :)

Building Zion Slayers

Alright look killas. You know that I have almost 9 months in the mission when I dont have questions to answer this week... the fam is starting to forget hahahah just kiddin calm down mom. But seriously there arent any questions.

SO, I am going to hop right in to it. FIRST, this week has been pretty freaking awesome! We pretty much just went ham in the paint killas. this week me and my companion Elder Niquet have been working really hard. And we have seen a TON of miracles this week. For example, Saturday we didnt have a lesson planned so we decided to go to this ghetto part of our sector to contact. We contacted this house and a man invites us into his house without hesitation. We find out that about 3 years ago there had been missionaries in their house teaching them. They ALMOST got baptized, but they never did because they werent (arent) married. But as we found them Saturday, we put a baptismal date with them for May. Their son also is listening to us! Its amazing. They came with us to church on Sunday and loved it. SO awesome. So that was one of the many miracles we saw this week. 

Another miracle that happened this week was we had a meeting as a Stake, where all the leaders of the wards got together  and guess who I saw? One of the converts from Calera de Tango! He had a calling to be a leader in the Calera de Tango Branch. Yes, you heard that too, Calera de Tango is a BRANCH now! SO cool. So that was some cool news and miracles!

Well, just wanted to express my love for each and every one of you and bear my testimony that Christ lives and he is my savior. He loves us and will NEVER leave us behind. Always find his love, and together we can overcome challenges.

Pday today was SICK wrecking in soccer

All White Errywhere Killas

Holyyyyyyy flemmish wassup slayas. Alright. I finna hit the Q´s. 

-Everything is chill here in Melipilla and with Elder Arriagada. :)

-I try to remember to put on sunscreen everyday... but sometimes I forget as you can tell in my pictures hahah

-My feet a little better.... i still have blisters but what can ya do?

Yeah, so we are just going to hop right into this one. How the fetch is everybody? I hope everything is chill at home and everybody is happy. :) This week in Melipilla went by really fast! We had a lot of cool/spiritual/funny moments this week.

For example: Every morning we all wake up and try to do exercises really early in the morning... well this morning we all just wake up and instead of exercising we just start free-style rapping (missionary version). It was completely ill. That was random but ya know we have fun. :)

This week I have been studying alot in Preach my Gospel  about the attributes of Christ. It has been really interesting and fulfilling to be studying all these attributes that we should ALL develop as sinners here in this earth. I recommend to anybody who has a Preach my Gospel to study Chapter 6.

I also just wanted to throw a quick random shoutout everybody at home. I can definitely feel your prayers. This week especially. It hasnt even been a hard week but I could just feel the prayers and love from home. I dunno... its awesome. YOU GUYS ARE DA BEST. #DJKHALED

Sooooo... yeah. Pretty short email but its still sick. Here are a couple cool pictures from this week for you guys. Switch one and 2 hahaha

These are some awesome people that me and my companion take care of sometimes.

A HUGE 1 Kilo Empanada that I ate today..YUM!

Bap Squad

TO THE Q´S!

-I am doing good mom. How are you?:)

-I do have an AWESOME story this week for you guys. :)

-The Ecco shoes are awesome and I have been wearing them more.

-I do still have blisters.... and yes I feel like it is because I went from biking for so long to walking A TON every day.

-What happened with Jesus last week you ask? He got baptized. :) SWAG.

-I didnt hear about the Sister that died.... that is so sad. :(

Okay so this week was CRAZY! Hahaha it was awesome. :) So, something funny that happened was during the baptism of Jesus, the presidency called on me to lead the music....... and I CHOKED. Hahahahah i dont know why but I just like got up there and thought the song was in 2-4 time but it was really 3-4 time. ÑHahahahahah it was super funny and I got alot of people to laugh.... so call me funny. :)

Something AMAZING that happened this last week was Jesus obviously got baptized. Last PDay after we wrote, we went and visited him and just put a baptismal date for this Saturday. And EVERYTHING worked out. It was absolutely amazing. I am so happy for him and his family. They already have the plans to be sealed as a family in 1 year from now. Incredible right? So that was amazing and I will have pictures in this email. I just really quick wanted to say a couple things about baptism. 

1. Baptism is freaking awesome and essential in life.

2. It is the opportunity to be forgiven for all your sins.

3. Shortly after, you will recieve a guide (Holy Ghost), that will guide you throughout the rest of your life. 

Pretty freaking cool right?:) So, the invitation is... get baptized killas. Hahahahah :)

I love ALL you guys. Be safe okay? I will keep ya´ll updated from here in the Jungles of Chile.

Elder Brophy

READ IT

Ayeee whatcha got there bruh?

Wasssssssssup killllllas of Utah and of other states hahahaha:) Isssss ya boi Elder Brophy comin atcha with some more answers to my moms questions. :)

-Your favorite Elder is doing pretty good. :)

-I did know that Elder Warrick came home early.... so weird!

-Melipilla is awesomeeeee and we have found a couple new investigators this last week!

-I started wearing my Ecco shoes because i just have a ton of blisters on my feet hahaha

-Our area is city like. It is the in the center of Melipilla (which isnt huge but it isnt too small either). The people here are really actually nice and its fun to be in the city. The members here are BEASTS. This branch that I am in right now is sooooo cool, I love it.

-We get lunch everyday.... and the lunches here are HUGE. WAY too huge hahahah.

-I dont need anything right now mom, but thanks!:)

OKAY SLAYERS. So this week was pretty funny and weird and had a couple cool weird things happen!:) I am gonna start doing what my mom is telling me to do because I dont tell stories very often hahaha so here comes a quick story from this week. :)

Funny one first, well. Me and Elder Arriagada, Elder McLaws, and Elder Cannon get along reallyyyy well hahaha they are hilarious. So me and Elder McLaws decided to have a gangster photo shoot (photos below). So that was pretty funny. That wasnt even a story... lame. But this morning when I went to go shut my window that we had left open during the night so that we didnt burn alive in our house was FILLED with wasps.... and I didnt know that until i freaking tried to close it and 10 wasps fall on top of me hahahahah i ran down the stairs SO fast. So this morning I spent like 20 minutes finding and killing wasps with my notebook.... it was awesome hahahaa:)

This week was also the branch activity..... we played so much soccer. It was on saturday and I am still super sore hahahah but it was so awesome. :) Oh, and the other day I bought a new G shock watch cuz it looked SICK.... :) 

So something cool that happened was in a lesson with an investigator named Jesus... ironic right... and he told us that he wants to be baptized.... AWESOME. So we are going to his house tonight to put a date for his baptism i think and it is going to be AWESOME. I cant wait. It is amazing to see a change in people when they truly have a desire to follow Christ more fully. I honestly testify that throught the Gospel of Christ, we can all change for the good. SO LETS DO IT PEEPS. :) Read the scriptures, pray, and have enough faith to repent because we are sinners!

I love you all soooooo much. HONESTLY. :) Be safe okay errrrrybody. SWAGGGGG.

Elder Brophy

Slayer....? Yes, Killer? :D

Alrighhhhhhhhty. This week was crazzzzzzzzy. Actually it was pretty freaking sweet. BUT, like always we finna start with the questions from my mom. :)

-I am good mom. :)

-Last week we got off really fast so we could go to the pension really fast to go to work. 

-The new area that we are in is awesome! So our sector is the city part of Melipilla (Meli-pee-ya) and it is pretty freaking huge for walking (so no we dont have bikes.)

-The missionaries havent been in this sector for like 4 changes.... like 6 months.

-My companion Elder Arriagada (Ar-e-a-gada) is pretty sick! We get along well and work really hard together which is always good. 

-I listened to the recordings in the USB and they are sooooo good and funny hahahah i loved them. :)

So it sounds like everything is plugging away at home which is awesome!:) I love to hear that. This last week has been pretty interesting but good. We showed up and didnt even know the limits of our sector and kinda just left for the street and starting talking to people. We loved it. I honestly love just talking to people about the gospel. We have seen A TON of miracles this week through our contacts... people who actually want to listen to this message that we are going to pass by for this week. SO TIGHT.

Also, this branch that I am in right now is SO different than my last one. Holy... the attendance every week is around 230 people. THAT IS A TON. One of the biggest in all of the mission. The members are like gringos and go ham in the paint. So i Loveeeeeeee the new branch that I am in.

We also live with the Zone Leaders Elder Cannon and Elder McLaws. They are literally the sickest missionaries on the planet and a huge example to me. We go hard in the paint. :)

This next week I promiseeeeeee there will be a funny moment, and a spiritual moment. This week i wasnt thinking and didnt write anything down but for the next week for sure. :)

Also, I cant go without leaving you guys some homework. STUDY 3 Nephi Chapter 11. Really pay attention to the details about Christ. :)

I love you ALL! BE SAFE!

YA BOY C BROOPH SIGNIN OUT KILLAS

And if I am not mistaken this picture was us today hitting up the city pulling the typical white girl selfie.... so much swag.