Some cute pics I found of Justin!

I was going through my old pictures and found a few cute pics of Justin when he was little, so I thought I would share a few of them with everyone! Enjoy!!

This is Justin at Carrie and Mike's wedding reception. 

I thought they were funny because for one he is so very serious!!!

And two, he never actually played the trumpet, except this one day at their reception.  It was cute!

Justin LOVED to dress up as a cowboy when he was little, sooo cute!

Justin and a few friends playing.  I think Justin is wearing one of Casey's old dance outfits...funny!!

More Baptisms

Hello mom and dad,
The week went pretty well. Our baptism went really good yesterday and the water was soooo cold. She asked me to baptize her so I had to get in the water (obviously) and it was the coldest water I have ever baptized in my whole mission. The hot water at the chapel we are going to now does not work so it was just straight cold water, man I thought she was going to pass out. Her testimony was really good though. That’s my favorite part of the baptism is when the people get up and bear their testimony, that’s the point when you really get to see the change in them. The best part about missionary work is when you actually see the people just completely change from their old self to their new self, I love it.

We should hopefully be having another baptism this Sunday for this kid named Vicky. He is the son of the family we baptized recently and he came down for school and now we are teaching him and trying to prepare him for his baptism. It was also really cool that at the baptism, Victor (the father of the father led family we just baptized) gave a super good talk at the baptism. It was really cool to hear him actually give a talk for the first time. We also found him a white shirt and some pants and a tie for Sunday, so he looked pretty sweet as well.

We are teaching some really cool people though at the time. Recently we have been teaching this girl named Winnie. She is a girl who actually called us from a pass along card...which never happens. And while we were talking to her on the phone she sounded like completely Muslim, so we were very confused because people that are Muslim do not usually want to hear a message about Jesus Christ. But we called and we were trying to get directions from her and I think she gave us the worst possible directions to her house that she could have but somehow we found her house. I tell you it was 100% by the spirit. It would be like me calling you guys and telling you I like live next to Wal-Mart in AF when I actually live in like Provo by the BYU football stadium. It was that bad. But anyways we finally met her and to our surprise it was a black girl that spoke exactly like a person from the Middle East. It was so strange. I think she like grew up by a lot of people from the Muslim faith because her whole conception of everything is like so strange … but we were thinking of dropping her after the first visit just because she was like very strange. But we went back and she read like everything we gave her and understood everything perfectly and now she is like the sweetest investigator we have. She was also telling us that after the day that we came, 5 different people from different faiths came and asked her if they could teach her...which is really crazy because that never happens. She was telling us that she thinks that Satan does not want her to hear the message that we have for her. But anyway she came to church yesterday for the first time and she loved it … but I just thought I would share that because I thought it was kinda cool. She is pretty sweet and is on date for September.     
Ha-ha ya I love messing with Elder Rose he is a good kid. That is an awesome story by the way with the lady that served you was the same lady in the movie. That was also made like what, 4-5 years ago? So that means that she has probably been working at that Arctic Circle for quite a long time.

I have actually been thinking about prayers a lot lately. As a missionary we pray like a thousand times a day, and I have been trying to figure out how to like mix up my prayers lately. I have been feeling like I’m just getting in like a rhythm of the same prayer and its starting to bug me, so I liked what dad said a lot about that man. 
I’m glad girls camp went well, sounds like you had a lot of fun. I also did not realize that it has been that long since you guys have seen Casey. It does not seem like it’s really been that long but I guess it has. Crazy. But love you guys a lot hope your week goes good take care!
Love, Elder Justin Brey

Played a funny prank on the greeny!

Hey mom and dad,

It’s totally fine that your emails are short...I understand.  This week was pretty good though. The two people who were baptized got confirmed the other day.  It’s always kind of a relief when they get confirmed because there baptism is not complete unless they get confirmed a member.  I’ve heard of some people never coming back after they get baptized, luckily that has not really happened to me yet. I have been blessed a lot to be sent here. The lord blesses us a lot with finding people the people are truly prepared in Africa. We are having another baptism this Sunday of a lady named Blessing from Zim, we have been teaching her for a while but did not think she would be ready to be baptized in August.  We went there last week and she told us she is ready, so we had the interview and she passed!   That was pretty sweet.

We had transfers this week and neither I, nor my companion are getting transferred.   Elder Muchuno is the only one getting transferred in are district and is going back to SA.

We pulled a pretty funny prank on are greeny Elder Rose.   The night before everyone finds out what is happening is the night that the pres calls everyone if they are getting any leadership positions.  So I decided to take their phone and switch my name and the presidents name under his contacts (so when we called it looked like pres was calling).  So we were all just chilling in the living room and I went in the back room and made the call and asked for Elder Rose and I began telling him how great a missionary he has been and was just asking him how his studies were going, then I told him that I was praying a lot and decided to make him a trainer! Ha-ha he actually thought it was the Pres calling him and he accepted his special assignment.   After I was done I went in the other room and he looked pretty excited and told me that the Pres wanted him to be a trainer.  So then I took out are phone and acted like we had a missed a call but instead I called there number and when he picked up I just said, “How are you elder rose?” Ha-ha… he died!  It was pretty funny, but kind of sad.   Anyway we all got a pretty big kick out of that, training at 6 weeks old!?!  We also got to go to a diamond mine last Friday.  It was pretty cool, we got to see how they make diamonds and everything.   All the people there were super serious like we were not allowed to look at the ground just in case we saw something like a diamond or anything.  And if we dropped anything on the ground we had to be “escorted" off the property, it was pretty sweet.

Sounds like you guys are pretty busy, I hope you have a good time at girl’s camp mom, those girls probably have a good reason for doing what they do to you.  It sounds like you get them just as good as they get you.... and I will keep you in my prayers dad :) I always do.   Love you both have a safe drive to the camp and take care.

Love,

Elder Justin Brey

 The rest of the pictures were taken at the Diamond mines.

Happy Birthday Justin!!

Hey mom and dad,
Thank you again for wishing me a happy birthday.  As I already told dad it was very weird,  I actually forgot it was my birthday until the Morgan’s called to wish me a happy birthday. That is kind of a funny story about the guy who woke up in the morgue!  That would be freaking terrifying though waking up in a cold dark little space.   I would probably wish that I was dead… ha-ha.   And yes I have heard of Black Mambas (a large snake) many times.   I’ve seen about 2 or 3 of them so far on my mission.   Me and my companion tried to run one over with a car one time because,  if you see them they say you need to kill them.   A family in my last branch had one living in their back
yard which was about 7 feet long.   I sent you guys a picture of Frick holding the skin that it shed, so yes I know about them and how dangerous they are.   And yes,  I did finally get my package!!  Thank you very much to everyone!   Everything is very nice.   I was really excited to get it.   I was not really able to get a birthday cake,  but sister Morgan made me cookies.   I don’t think  any of our investigators really knew it was my birthday.  Birthdays are not really too big of a deal here
for anyone.   It’s just kind of like another day… kind of sad, ha-ha it’s a lot different then what I’m used to at home.

 That’s crazy that you are starting school again soon, it seems like you were just telling me that you were so excited for summer to start.  It’s awesome that girls camp is soon,  I’m sure your excited!   I still remember the time that I went with you and dad up to girls camp when I was little and I picked up a char coal that I thought was a rock, then Nicki  had to hold a cup of water for my hand all the way back home…. ha-ha, looking back it’s kind of funny, but not so funny at the time!

 We have been pretty successful with baptisms, we are getting 2 more this Tuesday.   Tsholo, a 21 year old girl who is like one of the most awesome investigators I have had so far!   She is totally into the gospel and reads the Book of Mormon like crazy and has soooooo many questions
every time we go over.   We are planning to baptize the rest of her family in September hopefully.  Then we will be having Kennedy (awesome name right) but it is actually a guy.   He is also very cool,  a little more quite but still knows the church is true.   I don’t know if I told you but are chapel is under renovations right now so we have to meet at the elders chapel in Brodhurst which is making it very hard on us because no one wants to go that far for church.  But Kennedy gets to church every Sunday.   He is very dedicated to the church.
Any way’s… love you all and thanks again for the package! Talk to you guys next week.

 Love, Justin

Justin posing for a tea commercial!

The church building is under renovation.

Painting for a service project.