Grant Mission

This has been a really interesting week! (I seem to say this a lot) My companion, Elder Lowe, got sick so we had to stay inside and do nothing for 2 days. I hated it and am glad we are not sick anymore.  One of those sick days, Elder Rosevear and I decided to walk because neither of us could drive. We saw a longtime inactive member and got some free jam from her! She has lived here for a long time and saw most of the town go up! On Monday we had a lesson with Noelia. She has had an interest in the church for a while and the Seminary Teacher helped her get in contact with us and we have started to teach her a lot! We had a lesson with one of her member friends and the friends dad helped so much! He testified and brought the spirit so well! We put her on date for July 22nd! She is excited and wants to do this really bad!  Today we got up and went to Shoshone Falls again! They let more water over and it's really cool! There was mist in the air that the falls had never had before....

Good morning everyone! It's been a long time in Kimberly and I'm excited to say that transfers happened! I'm staying. For another transfer. It should be good though because we have a ton of things lined up for July! My new companion is Elder Lowe and he admits that he is a bit crazy! He is a fun missionary who wants what is best for this area. We have had a good week already!  But, on Sunday, we had dinner with a family in one of our wards and Elder Lowe was joking around like he always does. Apparently this family got offended by what he joked about (sister missionaries not doing work and being bad missionaries when the grandma was a sister missionary and was the offended one) so after dinner they called the Ward Mission Leader and he got onto us and told us to fix it. So we had to stop a very productive exchange on Monday to go to their house and apologize for what was said. This was hard for Elder Lowe and I to do. When we apologized, we did feel a lot better afterwards....

This has been a good week. We handed Madi off to YSA (young single adult) missionaries and they are planning to have the baptism in early July. I'm bummed about that but I can't do too much there. All the people that we committed and invited to come to church didn't come. We did our best. A big thing that happened was the Ward council for the Hansen Ward came out with us every night this past week! It was amazing! The people we talked to that we were teaching before progressed so much in the lessons with a member! We have been trying to get this going for quite a while! My favorite thing that happened was probably all of Monday. Elder Smith and Elder Taber came into my area and we had a blast. We worked and had faith and prayed often and were diligent. We got the hang of member work more, signed Elder Jones and I up for over 4 hours of service this week, helped the Guerrero family that got offended commit to come to church, acted on instantaneous promptings to pet someone...

So those 2 baptisms set for Saturday didn't happen.  Brytons dad said we were going too fast and that he's only 16 and needs to take time to make these decisions. He then talks led about he let's his son do anything he wants, even wrestle with a blown out knee. But apparently baptism isn't classified in "anything". Overall he said back off for a while. So we are. Madi is still almost there but the adversary is working overtime on stopping her. Her co-coach's dad went to the ER on Thursday so Madi had to coach the little kids softball tournament Friday and Saturday so we set her date for today at 9am. Then she backed out because she had to babysit her sisters all week this week. She still wants to be baptized and is going for sometime next week.  Please pray for her to be able to follow christ and be baptized! This is important to her, she just needs a little more help. Those were the two HUGE blows we had this last week. Still recovering but doing okay. On...