Sunday, May 25, 2014

Welcome Home, Elder Macklin Brown

Macklin Brown, son of Ronald and Vanda Lawson and brother to Dalan and Warner Brown, is newly released from two years of fulltime service in the Australia Sydney South Mission.  When he left for the MTC his family was living in Portland, Oregon but within a few weeks of beginning his missionary journey, the family packed up and moved to southern Utah and he was reassigned for one transfer (about six weeks) to the Colorado Colorado Springs Mission – known as the anti-Mormon capital of the world - while waiting for his visa.  Both missions were difficult – but for different reasons.  In Colorado, there was a continuous barrage of hate and “church bashing” but in Australia, where there was no persecution, the lifestyle is easy, the people are content and there is no need for anything beyond what they already have.  “We knocked on doors for hours and hours every week and were thrilled to find even one person who was interested enough to invite us back,” says the former Elder, “so we changed our approach and focused our attention on member referrals.  We found the most solid investigators are those who come from member referrals.”

For the next few weeks, Macklin will be on the Bloomington Stake “speaking circuit” while he searches for various schools in pursuit of an education which will train him to help people maintain their good health through nutrition and exercise.

Welcome home, Elder Brown.  Members of the B7 Ward look forward to getting to know you!

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