Two Brothers Two is the continuing story
of Sam and Luke and their two younger
brothers, Tommy and Joseph, 5,000 days in the making.
Watch Sam, Luke, Tommy, and Joseph
negotiate the journey of adolescence
on the road to young adulthood.
While they don't have it all, they do have each other.
And this is their story.
We called BYU.
And he says, "Well, I don't know what to tell you.
We're full.
You can try and walk on in the fall,
but I don't know what else to say.
We're full."
There's been a massive, deadly earthquake that's
just struck in central Chile.
Seven days had gone by, and we still hadn't heard from Sam.
Because I truly got to that place
where I truly believed that I probably lost him,
I thought, "Well, it's been seven days.
Every other missionary has called home."
The updated death toll is 700.
It's widely expected to rise--a catastrophe of unthinkable
magnitude.
[ACOUSTIC GUITAR MUSIC]
[PIANO MUSIC]
Does it work?
Um, it works, yeah.
OK.
So it's been an interesting last couple of days
because there was an earthquake.
We just barely got electricity last night,
and we still don't have water.
Tomorrow we're going to go over to Penco.
I think we're going to hitchhike again.
And we're going to--there's someone that has a phone that
works.
So I'm going to call home.
And then the phone rang again. [SNIFFLES] And I picked up
the phone, and it was Sam.
This was right after the consulate had called.
It was a little scratchy.
And he goes, "Hey, Mom, what's going on?" [CHUCKLES]
And it was the happiest moment of my life.
Saturday at 3:40 to 3:41 and 1/2 or 3:42 a.m.,
the earthquake hit.
Here's our survival food.
We've got some Ideal bread, some crackers, marshmallows,
and Lipton chamomile tea.
When it stopped, we looked outside,
and there were people running around everywhere,
people screaming.
I looked up on the hill, and there was a big fire.
And there was a band of gangsters and prisoners
who escaped from prison.
And we're coming to [INAUDIBLE].
Everyone was in the street with these on.
And people were driving down, going down the road just like,
[MUFFLED SHOUTING] "Yeah!"
OK, this is the view from outside of our house.
The earthquake's been really good for my fear
of eating dirty food.
I hunted this rat, and now we're going to eat it.
The walk-on day is next week.
And it's your last chance to fulfill your dream
to play BYU football.
So you get 35 minutes to prove yourself--150 kids trying out,
eight spots.
How do you feel?
Kind of surreal that it's finally here,
or that it's coming up.
Yeah.
I've been thinking about it for so long.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Welcome to [INAUDIBLE].
Ah.
Too much time to let your [INAUDIBLE] some balls.
Oh, no.
Don't tell me you dropped.
Hi, coach.
There's these two really buff kids from Hawaii.
And I think if they didn't take me, they'd take one of them.
There's probably 12.
And they said they'd take one.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
You're on.
Yeah!
[SHOUTING, CHEERING]
Oh, yeah!
I just made the team.
I'm a BYU Cougar football player.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
So you received your mission call.
So I've been waiting for it for a while.
But my mom was going through the mail,
and she's like, "Luke, your mission call's
sitting right here."
And I was like, "What?" "Dear Elder Nelson,
you are hereby called to serve as a missionary.
You are assigned to labor in the Cambodia Phnom Penh Mission."
Cambodia!
Oh, my gosh.
Then everyone gets so excited.
I'm just sitting there.
And I was like, "I don't even know where Cambodia is."
Oh, my gosh.
A few years ago, I made this discovery that if I wanted to,
I could prevent being sad by detaching from it.
When you love people, you can empathize with them more.
You can understand what they're feeling.
And by that, you can help them more.
The thing is, loving people kind of hurts.
It hurts to empathize with people.
I thought that as I went on with my mission,
that it would get easier, because I'd get used to it.
But it doesn't.
I want to be--I want to have self-control and self-mastery.
But I want to love people at the same time.
John 11:35: "Jesus wept."
And the perfect human, the perfect example of manhood
and the perfect example of self-control and self-mastery,
wept.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Today we went for lunch.
It was still not very clean, and they still
have the maggot farm next to their table.
The important part of that is, I just ate
them like it was no big deal.
He's getting very well at the language.
I'm understanding people a little bit better.
He had the exact words to say to people.
His dad said, "You have permission
to be baptized on the 27th."
Luciano was like, "What?!
Are you serious?"
And Omar has been to church every Sunday,
and he still hasn't been drinking.
And Gaston is doing all right.
He's still teaching with me, and he's teaching really well.
And I kind of just wish I could just stay here forever.
I've taught over 1,000 lessons.
I've contacted thousands of people.
But still, every day I have to do things that
are out of my comfort zone.
And I feel like the mission's changing
a lot of things with me, and I am
going to be a lot different when I get back.
The mission is really hard sometimes,
but I feel like it's making me a man.
Yeah, that's it for today.
Ciao.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
Me just entering the MTC as a new missionary
and him coming back as just a stud missionary wolf,
we'll probably have a real interesting conversation.
Sam.
What's up?
How's it going?
[MUSIC PLAYING]
I feel like I've been through a lot
since the last time I saw Sam.
East Side Catholic and football, state, that whole thing,
and then going to BYU and--
[SPEAKING KHMER]
Wow, he's from Cambodia.
[SPEAKING KHMER]
Sam, you have to be impressed with that.
We're running out of time.
All right, well--
See you, Luke.
See you [INAUDIBLE].
Take it easy.
Yeah.
All right.
See you in two.
[LAUGHING] All right.
Better write me.
OK.
Don't forget your stuff.
Hey, [INAUDIBLE].
See ya later--
See ya.
--Elder, or Sam, Nelson.
Well, all right.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
All right.
So, first day in the mission.
OK.
Whoa.
I seriously feel like I just got back from war.
I've never sweated so much in my whole life.
Oh, great.
I just ate pig blood.
That's disgusting.
Since I've been here, I've just been worn down
by everything that's happened in the culture and everything.
I just need a friend.
All I've got is this video camera.