Happy Transfers

This week was really busy for us. We had a really good district meeting on tuesday and talked about meeting with ward presidencies and contacting the referrals we'll get from the temple open house. We have a good district and the elders and sisters are working hard, teach repentance and baptize converts.

We are continuing to work with our progressing investigator, Brooke and she is awesome. We gave her a 'my family' booklet and she is super excited to fill it out. She is getting baptized April 8th and she is going to be going to the temple the staurday after her baptism to do baptisms for the dead for some of her own family names. The ward that she's in just took her under their wing and she is loving the members and the friendships that she is making with them . Her kids even tell us when we teach her that they can't wait for church because they love going to class, hahaha.

We have transfers coming up this wednesday and I am getting yet another companion. One the bright side though, we get a car again and is going to make the work here a little easier. My new companion is Elder Ross and has been out for 6 months. So tomorrow we are going as a district to help plant flowers for the temple open house and should be super fun.

Thanks for all you do and have a good week. Be sure to check out the video!

Elder Browning

Lovest Thou Me?

So a penguin and a walnut tree walk into a bar, it was flippin' nuts. This week was busy, the weather is still amazing and we have super cool neighbors. 

We were able have a couple lessons this week with our investigator, Brooke and she is still doing awesome! She was able to find a place for her boyfriend to live so they wont be living together anymore, so that's good. She even wanted to move her baptismal date a week earlier, so now she'll be getting getting baptized on April 8th. We are having a lesson with her this evening at the stake presidents house. 

That's about it for this week, thanks for all you do.

Elder Browning

PS.  Be sure to check out the link at the bottom!

Shower of Heavenly Blessings

Lunch with Papa Tom

A guy at one of our dinner appointments had a mini train track in his basement.

Service up in the Ammon Foothills

On exchanges with Murdie Boy. ;)

March 13 :)

Hey everyone! God is good, the weather is nice and the church is true. What more can you ask for? I forgot to mention that the members here are awesome too. Idaho in general is just a great place be. We had a missionary tour/conference this past week and they had a couple people come up from Salt Lake City and told us how to better perform missionary work. They now want us focusing on the investigators and getting them to the waters of baptism and initially to to the temple. We are now working primarily with the members and their friends. We are now able us use Skype and FaceTime to teach people all around world using social media. So as you can see, the work here is moving along well and it's only gonna get better.

We were able to have a lesson with our progressing investigator Brooke. She is flat out amazing. She still reads from the Book of Mormon everyday and she came to church again yesterday and been coming now consistently and she is doing so well. We had our Stake President come with us to the lesson and it was so amazing. The spirit was so strong and we extended a baptismal invitation to her and she committed to be baptized on April 15th and we could not be more excited!

The mission life is good and the talk of the town is the Idaho Falls Re-dedication coming up here in a couple weeks. It's gonna be BIG and they are expecting about 500,000 people to come through the temple and we're expected to bring members, investigators and less-actives so we have a lot of people that we will be able to go with so we're super excited for this upcoming event.

That's about it here for me this week We are still grindin' here in the Ammon West Stake. Y'all have a good week and be sure to check out the links below and enjoy the pictures. :)

Elder Browning

Ask of God - Joseph Smith's First Vision

Spiritual Whirlwinds

Bowling with the District

Taylor Mountain District

Exchanges with Elder Smith

uber drivers

you know you're a missionary when you're at a dinner appointment and the dog is the best part of the whole dinner. literally the story of our life this week. its all good though because our only investigator right now that we're working with is progressing really well. she came to church yesterday and she's been reading in the book of mormon still. she is so golden. we are having a lesson with her tonight and are planning on setting a baptism date for april 8th. stay tuned on the email and we'll keep you posted on what end up happening.

all is well here in the ammon west stake. the work here is a little slow but all is well. we are working with a lot of good and motivated to do missionary work! y'all have a good week. stay warm!

elder browning

on splits with a priest.

when you get a pizza for dinner and the members say who it's for. :)