A Christmas Blizzard

Ayyeee, all is well here in Rigby. This is going to be short email btw, so heads up. We did indeed have a white Christmas and was what everyone wishing for. This is going to be short email btw, so heads up.

This week was trying to see people before they left for the holidays, but we managed to catch a few home and share some scriptures with them about the reason for the season and all that good stuff. It snowed here the last half of the week and on top of that, the winds started to blow in and now we have lots of snow drifts and it's still blowing, hahah. Don't you worry though, we have a Subaru Legacy and has 4 wheel drive (most of the time). We only got stuck once and ended up in someone's yard yesterday since the roads were bad and the snow was way deep, we got 20 minutes later and life is good.

Hope you all had a good Christmas and have a happy new year. The church is true and Christ lives.

Elder Browning

PS> If you are going to send mail in the next week to me, hold off, I may be getting a new address.

Dinner with one of our recent converts

Dinner with the Munn's

A White Christmas

 

YESH

So this week pretty slow. We started off the week by getting strep throat, and that lasted for about a couple days. On Tuesday, we had our Christmas Zone Conference and had a few training and then they did a slideshow and then the talent show. It was a pretty fun day.

We had a giant snowstorm that happened on Friday and it snowed about a foot and then some. Our mission president texted all the missionaries and advised us to stay inside for the day so we ended up having a lesson over the phone with one of our less actives. Then it got really cold and has been ever since.

Our recent convert, Dustyn got the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday and he will be able to pass the sacrament in a couple weeks. It amazing how the gospel can change lives and see the blessings from living it. That's it for this week. Thanks for all you do. Remember to serve 25 ways over 25 days this Christmas season, use the #LIGHTtheWORLD and check out the viseo on mormon.org

2 Nephi 17:14 -  Therefore, the Lord himself shall give you a sign—Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and shall bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.

Elder Browning

Spent the night with the Salmon Elders

Deep in the heart of Rigby

Rigby Rush

T'was a good week in the Rigby South Stake. Yes, we are still contacting those lists with the part member families, prospective elders, and unbaptized children. We are have more and more success with visiting each of the ward council members and seeing who they think we would have the most progress with. 

We had exchanges this week and I was with Elder Pukahi again. We were able to teach a couple lessons and see a few people and make appointments. That night as we were about to go to bed, the power went out. One of the power lines exploded and there was a huge fire. We decided to drive around town and it was dark. The power ended up coming back on a couple hours later just before we were about to freeze to death. All is well

We had stake conference this past weekend and had a general authority and our mission president come to both sessions. One of the talks that were given talked about how being obedient brings us the blessings of heaven. It was probably one of the best conference's I've been to.

Well, that's about it for my week. I love it here in Rigby. I love the people and love the work. The church is true. God loves all his children and Jesus Christ lives. Thanks for all you do! Don't forget to serve 25 ways over 25 days and use #LIGHTtheWORLD and check out the video on mormon.org

Elder Browning

My dude Tobin

The best VC Director, Sister Reed

3 wise men

Snowed like 4 inches that day

Happy December

We started reading the Book of Mormon as a mission again and this time we read one chapter a day so we are able fully 'feast upon the words of Christ'. We were able to finally teach our new investigator this week and taught the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It went really well and she's a really smart 10 year old girl.

We are still contacting our part member family, over age youth and prospective elders lists. One lady we contacted said we could come back. She has a few kids that aren't baptized and hopefully things turn out well. We attended two Christmas parties things week and they both emphasized the #LIGHTtheWORLD video and ways we all can help out doing service this month.

That's all for this week. God is Good. Christ lives and loves every one of his children. Be sure to check out the new Christmas video on mormon.org and use the #LIGHTtheWORLD.

Elder Browning

Decorating at the Woodhouse's

Shoutout to the Green's for taking us out to lunch.

Zone training pic.