I
hope that everyone had a good Thanksgiving Holiday. As for my companion
and I, we had about six dinner appointments and we just ate until we
were full. My companion was sick for half of the week. He had food
poisoning from a bad "bambino" (its like a calzone). So that kind of put
a damper on week but he is better now and we are ready for this week
filled with the Lords work!
Last Monday, we had a little
brief meeting in Rigby about our Thanksgiving day. We emailed in the Family History Center
there and then we went to lunch at Bambinos. It's a really good little Italian place and when we were paying for our food, a lady jumped in
front of us and paid for our meal! #blessed. We spent the day with the
Rigby south elders; Elder Harris and Anderson. We went to Rexburg and
went to the DI to drop of the crap that Elder Franks left in the house.
We went back to Rigby and played basketball for the rest of p-day. We
went to dinner at the Grover's house and spent the rest of the night
there. They have 3 kids who LOVE missionaries. We played games and just
hung out. It was really fun. They have a little puppy who looks like
little baby Butters! He was so cute!
On Tuesday, my
companion was sick so, he just slept for the most of the day. I cleaned up a
little bit around the house. We went to meet with Bishop Peterson of
the 2nd ward to go over the ward directory to see who's where in the
ward. After that, we went to play basketball with one of our
investigators but he didn't show up until we had to go home.
Wednesday, we had district meeting up in Swan Valley. We talked about
goal setting again, and I gave a training on "Simplifying". As of right
now as a district, we have 5 baptism dates! After our district meeting, we
went to the local diner and had lunch with the Thane Elders. Since
nobody was home because of the holiday and our dinner appt and lesson
cancelled, our Ward Mission leader told us to go home. We had dinner at
the Grover's again and we played games, and hung out with their family.
THANKSGIVING! Like I sad in the beginning of this email we had about 6
dinner appointments. In the morning, we went to the Young's home early
and their 15 yr. old son wanted us to play games with him and his
sisters. We played "Egyptian Rad Slap" for about an hour and then we
feasted! It was really good. We then went to the Call's for another
dinner. Sister Call made me some pumpkin rolls just for her and Bro. Call was a
little mad at her because she didn't make any for him, haha. Next we
went to Bishop Peterson's in the Clark Ward and they gave us some banana
cream pie to take home. We went to our ward mission leader, Bro Cox and
also we had some more pie. Finally, we went to Bishop Miller's of the
Perry ward and gave us yet more pie. Later that night, we went to the
Rigby stake center to hang out as a zone. We played a big game of
capture the flag throughout the whole church and that was fun. Our team
won so the others didn't want to play anymore. We finished the night by
playing volleyball with some members.
BLACK FRIDAY!
Unfortunately, we did not do any Black Friday shopping. We went to Bishop
Miller's house to go over his ward directory with him. He has a lot of
less actives in his ward but has a good WML and good ward missionaries
that are doing their best to bring them back. We shoveled a lot of driveways because we got tons of snow Thanksgiving morning. We
had dinner at the Mabey's again and they made us breakfast! We had
pumpkin chocolate chip pancakes. We went to the Cole's for the rest of
the night and their daughter, Carly, is finally back from Ecuador. (and she came back
engaged!) It was fun catching up on things. She showed us a song on
YouTube and its called "A Christmas Hallelujah". I encourage all of you
to listen to it!
Saturday, We just contacted 3 referrals
and had dinner at the Darrington's. We watched "kid history" with her
kids, haha. We had a lesson with Jack he asked us some really good
questions. The lesson went good and have another one this coming
Saturday!
Yesterday, we went to the Clark Ward for my
first time since I've been here. We went to the Perry Ward hoping that
one of our investigators would be there, but she wasn't. We went to the
YSA ward and they were all so happy to see us there again! We had dinner
at the Wilson's and our lesson with Jakob got canceled so we went to
visit some less-active people. We told them to check out the new LDS
Christmas video that they just put out and you should all check it out
too! Its a real tear jerker!
Today we are up in Afton, WY again and we are hanging out as a
district. We are going to Pizza Hut for lunch, bowling and then
the Afton sisters are making us dinner!
Well everyone, thanks
for all you do and hope that as we celebrate this upcoming Christmas
season, we will remember the real reason. I love you all and hope that
you all have a good week! If you can do a favor and especially pray for
my brother Logan. He is having the same issues I was dealing with, haha.
Are the Browning boys that bad to train? hahha just kidding. Thanks
again. You're the best!
Elder Browning
Little Baby Butters (His name is Turk)
Big Papi Schaerr and Sister Clift - straight thuggin.
Our Sister Training Leader gave us this for a Thanksgiving gift.
