Transfer Week

Well its was just another week in the South Stake. Not too much excitement has been happening. We taught an investigator that we've been trying to set up an appt. with. We were able to get in a lesson with her and teach her about baptism and it was a good lesson. It's been slow start getting to this point with this family but we are are making good progress. 

Conference weekend was good. A lot of good talks and messages were given. President Monson gave a really good message: "Do more than just believe in Jesus Christ and His mission. Wok to learn from Him from the scriptures, come to know Him through prayer, and continually use His power to repent an improve." 

Last night, we had to stay in because of a tornado warning that was in the Idaho Falls area. We also had transfer calls last night and my companion and I are both getting transferred out of the area. I'm head back to the Rigby Zone and going to be in the Rigby South Stake. It's been a real treat to serve here in the Iona area and going to miss a lot of good people here! Thanks for all love and support you send this way! Have a good week!

Elder Browning

 

 Star Valley Temple

 The Green Family at Family Home Evening

 Last Run of the Iona South District

 Ran into this gem, Hermana Cole

Just Another Week

Another slow week here in the Iona South Stake. We are still working all of our ward auxiliaries and getting the names that they feel should be taught by the missionaries. 

We actually went tracting this week in the 10th ward. They are a new young ward that has a lot of houses being built in the neighborhood. The ward mission leader over that ward gave us a lot of names that lived by him so we made some visits. We saw most of them but they weren't home, but did get some return visits and will try and visit them this week.

Yesterday we had a mission prep class last night with some of the young men and women that have gotten their mission calls. We were able to watch the women's broadcast with our zone leaders and their was a lot of good messages that were shared.

Well, that's about it for this week. We have transfer calls next Sunday so we will found out who's staying or going. Thanks for all of the prayers and support! God is Good!

Elder Browning

Jamba Juice

 

Fruity Pebbles on donuts? 

Hot Chocolate at Bro. Rameys

Mission Tour

This week was super good. We had a lot of appts. the regular people who we see every week but it's still good to help them progress towards the blessing of the gospel. We have set lessons with a couple people that we go see once a week and its amazing the change that you can see from their willingness to learn more about the Savior. 

We had an all day mission conference yesterday and Elder Brent H. Neislon, head of the Missionary Department was there and also Elder Joaquin E. Costa a new General Authority that was called back in April. They and their wives all gave good messages and all bore powerful testimonies. Something that really stuck out to me that one of them shared from Elder Jeffery R. Holland was this: I am convinced that missionary work is not easy because salvation is not a cheap experience. Salvation never was easy. We are The Church of Jesus Christ, this is the truth, and He is our Great Eternal Head. How could we believe it would be easy for us when it was never, ever easy for Him? It seems to me that missionaries and mission leaders have to spend at least a few moments in Gethsemane. Missionaries and mission leaders have to take at least a step or two toward the summit of Calvary. He was addressing missionaries at the MTC but I think we can all apply it to out own individual lives. 

That's about it for this email! Hope you all have a good week! God is Good!

Helping out at the Scout Expo

A missionary sculpted out of soap

 

The 3 Amigos

Breaking Ankles

So this week was awesome and interesting. We saw the Zone Leaders a lot this week. We've been helping them with service. On Wednesday, we were playing tennis and my companion jumped to get the ball and when he landed, he hurt his foot and so now he has a cane. We had it looked at by a couple of nurses and no one seems to exactly know whats wrong with it, but we're going again today to get it looked at. The week was slow due my companion not being able to walk, so we just took it easy and let it heal.

We had Stake Conference the past two days and it was really good. The messages that we shared were super inspiring and uplifting. That's all for those, sorry it was another short email! Thanks again for all of the support! God is Good!

Elder Browning

P.S. We are moving houses tomorrow so the address to send letters/packages will be different until we get the new address so please send mail to 351 W. 14th St. Idaho Falls, ID 83401. We also are having a mission tour Monday and Tuesday of next week so we won't be having our p-day until next Wednesday.

 

 Iona South District

 At the doctor, getting his foot checked out.

Tender Mercies of the Lord

Hello Friends & Family.

It's been a busy week here in the Iona South Stake. Things are starting to pick back up again which is good for us because we are definitely needing it. My companion and I have been contacting all of the auxiliaries from each ward, Young Men's Presidents, High Priest Group Leaders, Primary Presidents etc. Our Mission President promised us that if we go and do this in each of our areas, then there would a lot of work to do. So far its been good getting around to see everybody and we have gotten a lot of names to go and see. We also had interviews with our Mission President and the one thing he asked was if we were happy or not. He wants the best for his missionaries and is going to help us anyway he can.

We literally spent the whole week with our Zone Leaders; Elder Galang & Elder Allred, and they are super funny, especially Elder Galang, he's convinced that we are going to room together when we got you to school at BYU-Idhao. We did service with them on Friday and helped them 'buck hay'. It was actually a lot of fun loading the hay into the trucks. That night we had the zone leaders car keys and phone went looking for them for a couple hours. As we were driving in for the night, we turned onto a side street and there they were, sitting on the curb, waiting for someone to pick them up. Glad we found them. Anyways, we had so many tender mercies this wee, every single day to be exact. The people of Idaho Falls are amazing. They are good to us missionaries and I'm glad to be serving here.

That's all for this week! Thanks for all you do! God is Good!

 Bucking Hay

 Saw this guy at Winco the other day.

Where the good girls at?

This week was good and really busy. Monday night, we went over a family in the 7th ward and did a Family Home Evening with them. We had a watermelon and some rubber bands and the object was trying and saying enough nice things(the rubber bands) to someone and eventually break a hard heart (watermelon). We didn't get it to break or burst, but the family really enjoyed the lesson. That night, we were put into a trio with our zone leader because his companion had to get transferred early. His name is Elder Galang and he is from Florida. It was super fun to be in a trio but he got his companion on Wednesday. We went to the temple on Tuesday and it was a really good experience. We also got a car Wednesday night which now makes the work a lot easier.

The rest week, we taught a couple lessons and correlated with some of or ward mission leaders. We got some good names that we got back from them and are going to visit them this week. That's all for this week, thanks for all you do!

Elder Browning

Family Home Evening Activity

 Temple Trip 

 Me and Elder Galang

  

Us and the Zone Leaders

 Ghetto Microphone at the Arctic Circle

 Back to school pics with the Foster Kids

Chasing Fires

Hey everyone, this week was another slow one but we managed to get some things done. We set up a lot of appointments though in one of the wards with some less active members. We did some service with our Zone Leaders in the Lincoln Stake for a single gentleman and we had to scrape old paint off his house and start putting new paint on. We also had to help a lady in one of the wards with her basement. It ended up flooding a couple days before we helped. We had to rip up carpet out of some of the rooms and had to move a lot of her food storage that was effected by the flood.

Yesterday we gave talks in the 9th ward about missionary work, of course. My companion did an awesome job and told the ward how to do missionary work, why we do it, who to share it with, etc. I think it got the ward fired up. Our mission president came out with us last night to a mission prep class to our ward mission leader house and it was good to have the young men and young women be there asking him questions about a mission. I think everyone enjoyed it. We correlated with the ward mission leader in the 6th ward and before he took us home, we went to go chase some fires that are going on up on the hill. He was a firefighter a couple years ago, so he was telling us the firefighter lingo. It was fun and didn't get back home til' really late last night. We had transfer calls yesterday and my companion and I are both staying in the area. On a good note though, my previous companion, Elder Teokotai is going to be the next assistant to the president come Wednesday. He's gonna kill it out there. 

That is all for this week! Thanks for all you do! God is Good! 

Elder Browning

A member took us out to this really good restaurant and the burgers were huge!

Again, it looked cooler in person.​