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October 15, 2018

To answer all those questions. I got a priesthood blessing I believe two Fridays ago from my zone leaders, there is a lot of power that comes from those blessings. As for my Patriarchal Blessing, I accidentally left it down the valley and it took a couple of weeks to come up to the desert. I need to study it more sometime probably. To answer the question concerning I feel like I am wasting time. After serving in California, we talk to a lot of people, and most cases we dont even get a conversation with some people, most the times its just "No!" and a lot of hateful words. I realized I was putting more on myself in terms of expectations and other things, to sum it up, its hard out here. Tomorrow is District Council so if there is any mail it should be there, so I'll have to let you know next week if it made it. Yes I have been eating healthy, lots of vegetables, meats, everything needed on that food pyramid. The baptism on Saturday went really well. Elida had a lot of her family come to the baptism and we had a packed house in the relief society room with members and people to support her. It was also her birthday that day so a lot of people congratulated her and wished her a happy birthday! 

When I pulled up my email there were a lot of people that reached out... Thank you Mom. There are a lot of mixed emotions going through me right now, and President Parker called me last night, not going to lie it was pretty weird talking to him after so long. In all honesty I really dont know what to talk about right now after what happened this week. I know I havent made a weekly in a while and I dont even know what to talk about. But I am very grateful for your loving example to me and everyone around you. My mind is just completely blank... Definitely next week I'll have some more things to say. I broke down a couple times throughout the week, but after Sunday I felt better for sure. Good night so many people emailed me this week I dont know if I'll be able to talk to all of them. 

I'll try and make a weekly for this week to give a bit more detail. Otherwise I dont know what to say Mom, thank you so much... Its great to hear back from what happened for Fall Break and everything that happened. Thank you Momma! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!! I'll try and find a photo and send it to you before the day ends.

-Elder Brimhall

How is your companion handling your struggles? 

He's been doing better. He's grow to know how I'm feeling very quickly, apparently I am a very expressive individual. But I guess thats a good thing in this case. I've been feeling more at peace since Sunday but it is extremely difficult right now. Yeah I was very confused when an Arizona number starting calling us at about 8:00PM at night. Very strange but it was a good talk. 

Dear Elder Brimhall,

 Thanks for the picture!!! I love you! Thank you for sharing your heart! And for reaching out for help. We are meant to share our struggles so we can help lift each other up. Christ asked his friends to surround him before going to Gethsemane. I will stay with you. I love you!!!

 Love, Mom

 (The following from Randa Bollwinkel)
Elder Brimhall's letter brought me into a full on sob today. What a beautiful expression of his heart. Sure love that kid! And I love his mission president. They are not all that thoughtful, loving, and understanding.

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