happy birth week

 this week was kinda long, we ended up teaching one of our new investigators on monday night and taught him the restoration. he understood everything pretty well and he'd even been carrying the book of mormon around with him in his jacket pocket and been reading it every time he has a chance too. he does have a smoking problem though and he i living with his fiance but they have a wedding date in mind and should be getting married on february 14th. on tuesday was my birthday and it snowed a couple inches so we had a snow day as a mission and since we couldn't drive our cars, we walked to one of our bishops house who just lived a couple miles from where we live and we went tubing on the four-wheeler around their block a couple times until we got cold and then we just hung out around the house. that night, we went to mutual and played 'tennis ball dodge ball'. it was an interesting game and don't think it was a smart idea since there was kids that kept getting hurt.

on wednesday, we had a worldwide missionary broadcast that the apostles and church leaders talked about 'teaching repentance and baptizing converts'. they also changed our missionary schedule so that we are more flexible with our scheduling so that we can stay busy during the slow hours of the day. they also made our preparation days two hours earlier so that we are able to get things done and have time later in the day to email and play sports. it should be a good change but we'll see how things go. that night, we taught two of the three investigators and they are progressing well. they are both getting baptized on february 11th and one of them and his mom came to church yesterday for the first time! on thursday, we had to go to idaho falls for a doctors appt. for my companion. when we got back, we had dinner with one our our ward mission leaders house and ate with a family that used to be in the joliet ward about 8 years ago. it was good to see them. later that night, we went to the stake center and got to play some basketball since one of our less actives was there playing so we got play a couple games with him. 

on saturday, I woke up with strep throat again so we went to the doctors to get medicine and all that good jazz. we tried to see one of our potential investigators but i guess we came too late and told us to come next time a little earlier. later that night, we went to the Farleys who are a recent covert family. we made homemade rootbeer and watched a church movie with them. it was a good night. yesterday we gave talks in the garfield 1st ward and gave mine on personal conversion. everyone seemed to enjoy what we had to say and he are a couple things from that talk.

a quote by sister bonnie l. oscarson, "True conversion occurs as you continue to act upon the doctrines you know are true and keep the commandments, day after day, month after month."

a quote by elder david a. bednar, "Knowing that the gospel is true is the essence of a testimony. Consistently being true to the gospel is the essence of conversion."

well, thanks for all you do! the church is true and by small and simple things, great things are brought to pass. y'all have a good week and see you in six months :)

elder browning

 

Sledding on Tuesday

Our investigators ben and josh

Dinner with the Landermans

making homemade rootbeer

lei se fun

Hey! All is well here in Rigby, we don't have much time today because we've been running around getting some things done. We are in a in another winter weather advisory and supposed to be getting a couple inches of snow later on today.

Our investigators are doing well, we were able to teach all but one this week and their baptism's are all ready for next month as of right now and just hoping that things will continue to go well for them.

We are having a mission broadcast from salt lake and some new changes are coming to the mission. Thanks for all you do! God is good, and Christ loves us all.

Elder Browning

Low Hanging Fruit

So this was hecka crazy! We started off the week by teaching our new investigator, Benjamin and taught him the commandments. He's a super fast learner and knows a lot about everything already so we set a baptismal date with him for january 28th so hope things will turn out good there for him and his family. As we were leaving, the mom gave us a referral for her sister that has a nephew that just moved in from them and wants to take the discussions, so now we're teaching him and taught him the other day and set a baptism date for him on february 11th.

We taught our other two investigators this week and were also to set baptism date with them as well, one for february 25th and the other for february 11th as well. The work is going really good here and the members are awesome. We are meeting with all the yw, primary, and relief society presidents in our stake this week to see what names they have for us to stop by so this week is all filled up with that going on.

Thanks for all you do! The church is true and God is good! Hope y'all have a good week!

Our investigator, Benjamin

Black charcoal masks for smooth skin

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#ICE_GANG

Hey fam, how y'all doing? It's been a pretty crazy week here in Idaho. The weather has been played a major role in missionary work. We had to stay in for a few days due to the temperatures being in the negatives. All is well though.

We found a new investigator this week while we were knocking on a door. He is a 9 year old kid and hid mom is a member. She told us that she wants him to be baptized as soon as possible. He even came to church yesterday for his first time. He'll probably get baptized at the end of this month.

Life is good here in the Rigby South Stake. The work is finally starting to pick back up and the members are awesome. We got a booked week with appointment lined up ever single night filled up. Hope you all have a good week. God is Good, the church is true and Jesus Christ loves all his children.

Elder Browning

Splashin' on New Years

Hey hey hey! How is everyone doing? Not too much to report here on this end of the US but we're managing to survive the cold temperatures and the snowy weather. We were able to find a new investigator at one of our dinner appointment this week. His name is Jesse and he's 9 years old. His mother is less active and wanted us to start teaching them them the lessons. We have the first lesson with them this Thursday and hoping things will turn out well/

Other than that, on new years eve, we went to a church building and got together with a bunch of Polynesian families and hung out for a couple hours. We had a 3 on 3 basketball tournament and my team ended up up winning the whole thing and got $10, so that's fun.

We moved apartments this week and we are back in the boundaries of our stake. We live next to a farm and have cows that wake us up every morning, so life is good.

All is well in the Rigby South Stake. Hope y'all have a good week and had a good start to the new year! God is good and the church is true.

PS. Our new address is; 3894 E. 200 N. #2 Rigby, ID 83492

Elder Browning

Reppin' the new jacket.