Hello friends and family!

The work here is being delayed as it is difficult to have conversations with people with heavy, freezing winds blowing as we try to speak with them on their doorstep. We are literally praying for spring to come and wednesday we were specifically praying for the snow to stop falling. It worked for a little while 🙂

The snow hit once again early Sunday morning, and all the members of the branch who live out in Hale, about 45 minutes west of Oscoda, decided to turn around and head home because of the danger driving on River Road. So together the rest of the branch almost decided to cancel church, but in the end still decided to have sacrament meeting. I have been sick for the last 5 days so they didn’t want me preparing, blessing, or passing the sacrament, but in the end they had me be the conductor! We had one speaker, one member of the bishopric was there, and church literally went from 10:00 to 10:30! 🙂 After church I was nearly coughing up my lungs so Elder Boyd our district leader commanded that I get some rest, so I did. Feeling a lot better now, and I think that the Lord allowed me to get sick in order to get that rest in the end. I feel prepared to work even harder than before I was sick.

We had the chance to find some people who are interested in having us back and hope to be able to teach them next week. Sometimes we meet people for the first time and after that they drop off the face of the planet and become impossible to contact or find. We are still working with our current investigators and doing our best to help them progress and become what Heavenly Father knows they can become, and make and keep sacred promises with him.

The other day will knocking in a trailer park, we came to a trailer and knocked and from inside heard someone yell in a demonic scream, “Satan lives here!! Get off my porch!!” We did not delay leaving that house and later on that day we came to another trailer and there was a large pool of blood on the porch and Elder Hudson and I got a really weird, off feeling, and decided to leave the trailer park after that. God will lead us, guide us, and protect us so long as we will listen to the subtle promptings of the Holy Ghost.

Today we are headed to West Branch to go have some fun with the other Elders. Pictures to come next week! Love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!

Elder Breinholt