A snowy week in Brighton!!

Well this week was interesting! I experienced lots of things for the
first time. I love Brighton!

Being District Leader means more responsibility so I've had less
time to write people and stuff like that! But I love the work, it's
great. On Wednesday we had District Meeting, it was the first one that
I organized, it was good! I like our new district, the new Elder in
Howell is a stud (ironic because his last name is Stubbs) haha.
Anyway, we saw some awesome miracles this week! Members came out
teaching with us a lot, we saw lots of Less-Actives and had good
lessons with them, and it was just overall a great week. We had a
pretty cool miracle about home teaching in our ward actually: These 2
home teachers went to this Less-Active and Part Member's home and
shared a message with them and they both wanted a blessing (they are
going through a difficult time right now). Next thing ya know, we are
teaching the non-member husband and they come to Church on Sunday, the
first time this particular member has been to Church in many many
years. This was testimony to me of how powerful faithful home teachers
can be!
Adrian is getting baptized on the 8th! I can't wait, he is so
awesome! This week we had a lesson with him and afterwards he gave me
his bible that he got in the Marines, it's really cool. Then he bought
us Jets Pizza, it was so good! Haha. I can't wait to see him enter the
waters of baptism and make that covenant with our Heavenly Father.
Saturday night we got TONS of snow, so we only had one hour of
Church on Sunday, as the snowstorm was getting progressively worse
during the day. Then on Monday we were told that we shouldn't drive
until 1:00pm to make sure we weren't out on the roads until they were
cleared up. We ended up getting about 15-18 inches in Brighton, and
are expecting more tonight! So that's why I'm emailing today instead
of yesterday. All the schools here had a Snow Day on monday AND today,
if I wasn't on my mission here I'd be skiing it up at Mount Brighton
and doing crazy stuff in the snow, there's just tons of it everywhere
here right now. Yesterday we got a random call from a Less Active
Part Member family who said they wanted to take us out to dinner!!
That was a great surprise.
Taking over the Sister's area has been tough but I'm becoming more
confident in my knowledge of the area boundaries, the people, and the
roads there so that's good. The rest of this transfer should be really
fun!

I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that if we
just read it and ask Heavenly Father if it is true, we will receive an
answer from Him. All He asks is that we demonstrate a little bit of
faith! I love you all, thanks for all of your love and support for me!
I love receiving letters and packages from all of you, it "Brightons"
my day every time I hear from one of you. Have a great week!

-Elder Goff