So last Monday, we played basketball at the Rigby stake center and then we had a lesson with a 9 year old girl who is the daughter of a recent convert that got baptized about 4 months ago. Her name is Lindsay Lords and we taught her the restoration of the gospel and it was very hard to teach her because you know how kids are, they weren't focused on the lesson. But we invited her to be baptized and we even set a date with her for October 17th! We are so excited!
On Tuesday we had to go to palisades for our last district meeting for our zone until after transfers. Sister Parker is leaving to go home this week, Elder Clark is going to Idaho Falls, so we are getting 2 new missionaries on the Star Valley Zone. We also did exchanges with the Thane elders and so he came back to Ririe with me. He helped me with 12 week and then we went to help a member in the 3rd ward split wood and we did it the old fashion way. All i can say is that i got blisters on my foot and was sore for about 3 days. But it was fun. After we had dinner, we went to teach a non member, Vanessa Linserman. We taught he the restoration as well and she really enjoyed it! We kinds rushed through the lesson which is a very bad thing but we had to go back to Palisades to exchange back. Brother Myler took us in his truck because we had a meeting with the youth committee at the stake center.
Wednesday was probably the coldest day of the week. Logan reported to the MTC and I'm super proud of him deciding to serve! We had to go to Rigby and get our oil changed. I don't know when we are getting our new cars yet, but hopefully soon! After we were done in Rigby, we headed off to Swan Valley. Our appointment with Sy Versage canceled with us but we are doing a church tour with him tomorrow. We saw some less active people in the area and then went with Bro Jacobson the ward mission leader and we taught the last lesson with a recent convert, Talon Zoner and his family. We hope that they continue to come to church!
We had transfer calls on Thursday and my companion and i are both staying here in Ririe. Ill probably be here for 6 months, but who knows? My companion will be here for 9 months when he is done training me and that's a long time in one area! On of the AP's is also going home this week so the mission president called Elder Rush! I don't know too much about him but I hope he's cool.
We had transfer calls on Thursday and my companion and i are both staying here in Ririe. Ill probably be here for 6 months, but who knows? My companion will be here for 9 months when he is done training me and that's a long time in one area! On of the AP's is also going home this week so the mission president called Elder Rush! I don't know too much about him but I hope he's cool.
On Friday we did went with a recent returned missionary and we went to go see a couple of people. We found a foreign exchange student and she accepted to read the book of Mormon. We tried to see her yesterday but she was not home. She was from Denmark and is her until June of next year. We did exchanges with zone leaders later that night and Elder Mctavish came to Ririe with me!
We had exchanges all through Saturday. Elder Mctavish wanted to get 10 referrals and we ended up getting 20! We talked to everyone we saw and we even found a new investigator named Starla. We helped picked apples and that where we found her. She is the sister of Penny Pride who was in my last email. We ended up eating at Subway for dinner since nobody has us down for dinner. Its weird because everyone wants to feed the missionaries!
We gave 2 talks yesterday in the Perry and 2nd wards. We did pretty good and everyone said that they really enjoyed it so I guess we did okay! We went on splits with Matt Jorgensen again but we didn't have any luck. He also gave a talk in the Shelton ward and this past week 5 missionaries returned home from their missions! WOW. We went to the Perry ward mission leaders house and it was alright. We went out later that night with a couple in one of the wards and gave some invitations to a chili cook off we are having this coming Friday! Today we are going fishing with the 2nd ward, ward mission leader! That is all for this week!
Thanks for all you guys do for me and are grateful for your prayers. It does help me get through the day and it means a lot! I love you all! Until next week!
Elder Browning
Just wanted to share a picture of this awesome young man you have been so kind to share with us here in Idaho. We took a break from fishing for souls and went fishing for trout. He did get one caught but not quite a keeper. He is a great young man.
Harold Rose
Ward mission leader
