Authority, Shannon, never been more obedient, enthused and urgent

Dad and mom, Oh how i love your letters i just got your 4th of july letter yesterday thank you so much for the $40 that means alot but i dont know what i will spend it on. and it sounds like you are doing some amazing work helping people over come their addictions, i love it!
mom and dad if i had enough time to tell you everything that is going on that would be amazing. but i want you to know mom and dad that i have never being more obedient, more enthused, more urgent about the work, and i can only feel myself going onward and upward, i love the
lord and his work, i love the atonement and the power of recieving a remission of our sins, i love the principle of repentance and always being able to improve our lives, i love my companion and the missionaries i serve. i love the story about coaching the swim team dad it brought tears to my eyes. thank you so much mom and dad for supporting me while i share the gospel i love it. these last 6 months will be the best i know for sure



here is a quick report on the work Things are going very well we are getting the area jump started again last transfer we dropped most of our investigators. So some people we are teaching is Shannon she is a 23 year old lady that studied world religions as her major is college, so she knows a lot about each religion but doesn't really believe them. when we were teaching her she
had so many questions but we said we would answer them in the next lesson so she is very excited to meet with us again. We are also teaching the guy named Pat he is about 20 and has a brain tumor and will die in about 5-10 years he is a tattoo artist and has alot of word of wisdom problems but he wants to change his life and understood authority when we taught him and asked so the preacher that baptized me didn't have the authority? and we were so happy he
understood. Other then that the Zone is doing very well. elder Ruckman and i get along very well and we are learning a lot from each other in our long driving trips.

Love Elder Barrand

Transfers

were this week things are a little crazy i am leaving elder tagg and my new companion is elder ruckman he is a stud. other then that things are great i love you guys and hope everything is going well

love elder barrand
Dad and Mom,
First off happy birth day Dad!!!
i hope you guys do some thing fun for 4th of july, we saw some cool fireworks last night for canada day but it didnt even compare to anything in the states. i remeber Ken alot he actually made a huge impression on me when i served with him in teachers quorm. he was just then a recent convert and was magnifying his calling very well, then later when i was in elders quorum he was always the first one to sign up for any service opportunities, he is an amazing man. Thanks for the reminder, that everyone has the potential to become amazing, for we
are all Gods children. This week went by really fast. the longest day was we drove 4 hours to
go do a baptismal interview in the Soo for Bob davidson's son its was amazing, then drove 4 hours back to sudbury and contacted a few people and that was our day. the feeling i felt while bob was telling me how thankful he is for his son, Rob being baptized, fill my heart with the
unexplainable joy i loved it.

Love elder barrand

helping and serving

hello family

thanks for your emails and letters they are awesome!
nothing really exciting this week, i had a chance to travel my old
companion elder Rollins the one i trained. it was a really cool
experience he has grown alot, and i have grown a ton, it is crazy to
think that just in the short space of 6 months a person can change
alot because of different companions, studying the scriptures, people
you are teaching, etc. i think for me i have been very lucky to be a
zone leader i think your progression speeds up a little bit when you
have to help and serve and teach others i love it.
Things are going great i love you all

love elder barrand

dissapointing and rewarding

Yeah that presithood lesson was fun to sit in from a missinoaries
point of view. so some thing very interesting happened we went back to
timmins to travel the elders there. the ferrigans have fallen less
active which was very saddening. but we were able to reteach them and
have them feel the same spirit they felt at the time of their
conversion they are going try their best to get back to church.
it is so weird seeing the people that we were teaching 1 year ago. i
feel kinda like time has stood still for me i have progressed so much
at the same time the world around has barley moved at all. but at the
same time it has changed as well. it is a very interesting feeling.
reading over what i just wrote i makes no sense but oh well. i love
being a missionary there is no better no more rewarding, no more
disappointingand heart aching thing. i love it!

love elder barrand

thats sounds like a blast, dad! thanks for the scriptures and the
support. things are going so amazing i love my new compaion so much is
the best, we are so much alike we actually both went to byu and fail
all our classes because of wow thats pretty funny, and we kinda look
alike because we are both atractive. its going to be a blast plus he
is an amazing teacher and so charitable and very hard worker i love
it.

We are working with this young family trying to get them married we
fasted for them that they would have the drive to do that. Their names
are Bill and Crystal they have 3 aborable kids, its the perfect little
family. other then that being up north is the best we have dont a ton
of driving around because thats just how our area is and also we had
to drive 4 hours for Zone Leader Conuncil where all the Zone Leaders
get together to help make the mission better there are some amazing
things that are really going to help out. anyways i am so excited for
this transfer its going to be the best.

Love Elder Barrand
ps my new address is:
1601 Paris St. #612
Sudbury ONT P3E 5W3
CANADA

thats sounds like a blast, dad! thanks for the scriptures and the
support. things are going so amazing i love my new compaion so much is
the best, we are so much alike we actually both went to byu and fail
all our classes because of wow thats pretty funny, and we kinda look
alike because we are both atractive. its going to be a blast plus he
is an amazing teacher and so charitable and very hard worker i love
it.

We are working with this young family trying to get them married we
fasted for them that they would have the drive to do that. Their names
are Bill and Crystal they have 3 aborable kids, its the perfect little
family. other then that being up north is the best we have dont a ton
of driving around because thats just how our area is and also we had
to drive 4 hours for Zone Leader Conuncil where all the Zone Leaders
get together to help make the mission better there are some amazing
things that are really going to help out. anyways i am so excited for
this transfer its going to be the best.

Love Elder Barrand
ps my new address is:
1601 Paris St. #612
Sudbury ONT P3E 5W3
CANADA

Let's party in the Lord

so the investigator we are working with right his name is Tim, he is
very interesting/eccentric its fun teaching him he always says "lets
party in the lord" and these other crazy phrases like "are you
serious?" its hilarious we crack up every time. and he is pretty much
the only person in our teaching pool that we teach on a consistent
basis. which i am ok with because as zone leader i dont get to spend a
whole lot of time in my own area i am mostly help our elders areas and
teaching and training them i love it.

love elder barrandDad i love you! this has been the best email yet! thank you so much
for your love and concern. you have seal my intents with your
testimony. this past week was amazing!!! on wednesday its was the best
p-day yet when we taught 100 cathlic students about our church then i
didnt think about playing video games all week. it was the last week
of the transfer as well on sunday the prophet and elder ballard for
stake conference came and spoke to canada and it was amazing. then we
were finishing off the transfer with blitz day and i worked my tail
off harder then any other day, out on the hottest day of the year so
far, and riding bikes it was a blast! we talk to so many people. the
last day of the transfer at night elder madsen and i were praying
closeing off the transfer and we gave an accounting to the lord if had
accepted our work this transfer and the feeling i got was amazing the
burning in my heart as i went to sleep knowing that the lord was well
pleased with my work.
Dad thank you so much for this email and the scriptures they have made
it final for me. i will make sure and keep praying for help from the
lord to over come. but just so you know i have not been struggiling
after last p-day. so please kkep me in you prayers and dont worry i am
working hard and having fun.

Great News i am getting transfered!!!! to the Great North Zone Leader.
with my favorite elder, elder Tagg, and i will be able to visit my old
stomping grounds in Timmins and Sault Saint Marie. I couldn't be more
happy.

i dont know my address yet though

I love you mom and dad you are the best!!!

love Elder Barrand