Brandon is out of Carnival Jail

We are finally out. We went in Sunday evening, and came out Wednesday. Thursday was zone conference, so today is the first chance I've had to email you guys. I will be doing so again in about 3 days. Haven't spent any time in my area yet this week, though. That hasn't been too fun, and we had to fight off boredom while we were stuck inside. We played a lot of Risk, quite a bit of ping pong, and didn't do a whole lot more. We finally got Monopoly the last day we were in, but didn't get to play it, cause we were already in a heated game of Risk. Not that this interests you at all, just thought I would expound upon my week. But zone conference was awesome. Other than Elder Christensen and I had to give a 10 minute lesson. Teaching investigators is one thing, but teaching a room full of missionaries is a completely different atmosphere. I think we did alright, though. I don't know why, but I think I'd like to share something with you from what I have been studying lately. In 2 Nephi 28, it is talking about the apostasy, but there is a verse that I think is talking about the Church today. It says that Satan works at the Church by making them think that all is well in Zion. Basically, they think that life is good, and stop working towards perfection. Satan slowly lures them away by getting them to stop doing good, not tempting them to start doing bad. Things like tithing, fulfilling a calling, or home/visiting teaching. If we do those things, then Satan looses power, and we won't be led away. But if we don't do those things, then we won't have the help of the Lord to keep us away from temptation.That's just something that I was studying the past couple of days. Just thought I would tell somebody about it.Tell Chase to keep playing strong, and if he wants to play college ball, work on his vertical jump. I think he could, if he could play no problem if he could jump. Just a thought I just had.Well, mom. I love you. I will talk to you later. Love, Elder Ackerman

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Monday, February 1, 2010
Trinidad North Zone

On 25 Jan 2010 Pres. Gould the Stake President of the Port of Spain Stake asked for volunteers to help sort clothing and food to be sent to Haiti. President Gamiette gave permission for the North Zone and 4 Elders from the Central Zone to help with that project. Below are some pictures from that project. Some are a bit blurry, they were moving so fast when we took the pictures-they got so many bags of clothes and boxes of food sorted the United Way people were pretty amazed!!!

February 1

Hey, mom
Trinidad is great. I'm havin a lot of fun. The work is going great, and I love it here.We should be having a baptism this weekend. A 16 year old boy named Reon. He is best friends with the Bishops son and has come to church like 5 times. We are going to see him tonight for a FHE with Bishop. It should be sweet. Everyone else we were working with is basically dropped. None of them came to church, even though Saturday night they promised they would be there. So we are going to be doing a lot of finding this week. But some good news. 8 less actives came back to church yesterday. Well, 8 that we were working with. Some haven't been for more than 6 months. The Narines are one of said families. They are pretty sweet. There is 3 of them, the mom, and 2 kids. It was pretty sweet to see them there.

Funny story for yah. My first Friday here we had a zone meeting. At the end, each district in the zone had to come up with a name. The other district are called the Chupicabras, and our district is called the Thunder Cats. It's pretty sweet. I guess it's probably not that funny, but maybe you'll enjoy it. Maybe not. It's there anyway.So, I haven't got to check exactly how much the hard drive is going to cost. I will let you know as soon as I do that.Well, mom. Love yah.

Love, Elder Ackerman