Where the Email goes... Nobody knows.

Hi Everyone! the time has come at last for an Email

This week has been great! lots of stuff to do and lots of things happened!

Also Sunday Night / This Morning were transfer calls! So I will reveal what happened at the end of the Email.

The rest of last Monday was spent playing board games of various variety, and then in the evening we went and taught a girl named Ali. She has been coming to church with her friend for a while, and wants to be baptized soon... So we have been teaching her each Monday, This time we were teaching the Plan of Salvation. She didn't really ask any questions, but we have prepped for a more interactive lesson this week.

Tuesday was also a blast. We met with many of the ward leaders in our area. It seems like there are always more though. That's what happens when you cover a stake!

Wednesday morning I made more brownies because the cream I got on Monday to make whipped cream was totally forgotten about and stayed in the car for a sad day. So I couldn't make pumpkin pie, as there was no whipped cream, and if there is no whipped cream, then what is the point of pumpkin pie. So Brownies! for District Council. They turned out alot better than last weeks brownies. I was using a recipe that a family in Ashton served us. When I first had them I thought they were tricking us and just gave us fudge. but turns out they are just thick brownies... huh.

Transfer news is I am not going anywhere and Elder Cluff is also going nowhere, and staying with me and we still cover the whole stake.

Speaking of Ashton I guess I never talked about some of the coolest people I had the opportunity to teach so far on the mission. The Powell's are people I taught in Ashton. They moved from Arizona around March. My companion and the ward and I helped them move into their house, and then we didn't really have any contact with them for a while. Until, we were at a dinner near where they moved and the family asked us if we had met them. I mentioned I had but my (new by then) companion had not yet. So we went by that night, and they were the most inviting people ever! We taught them until I left, and they are currently planning on getting Baptized September 26th. I am super excited. 

Thursday morning we did service for a family in our area. we had the whole district there. We were taking apart some of their hedges and cleaning them up. I don't know quite what happened, but my finger got caught inside of the glove I was wearing and suddenly, it was bleeding under my nail. So pictures in the Album. It's all healed now, but it hurt then. That afternoon I went on Exchanges with the DL Elder Mera. We visited more people and setup lessons with some of the people we were teaching. 

Friday was some ward meetings and some lessons that were canceled last minute. 

Saturday was spent dying of heat. Not super bad but it was kinda hot. 

Sunday morning we gave talks. The youth speaker gave an amazing talk about missionary work and having the light of christ. I followed that up with using the atonement to be a good example and to help others feel the spirit, and Elder Cluff followed me up with how it works in practice with a friend he had back home. It was good. That evening we had dinner with some awesome members. We made stovetop s'mores and also the husband was a chiropractor so he adjusted us. I'll be honest I don't obviously feel better, but I definitely don't feel worse. So I'll take it. 

And that was the Week! Transfers are this Thursday, missionary work continues and it's all a fun time up in Idaho. 

Did you skip to the end to read about transfers?! Naughty! The news is somewhere in the middle now...

And it's light grey to make it harder to read...

And it's tiny too...

If you didn't skip to the end. I apologize for jumping to conclusions like that.

The End

STOP! It's Email Time

 Dear Family!  Well, this has been a week!  There's a lot going on that I won't write in an email, but will try to call.

Tuesday morning I made brownies for district council on Wednesday. But most of em didn't make it til then. We also visited a guy named Jason that has been meeting with missionaries for a little while, he is pretty interesting. He definitely has been prepared to meet with missionaries, it's just he also has had a crazy life and has some preconceived notions about other people. But he loves church, and loves when we come over. I think change is going to take a bit for him though. 

Wednesday, we had District Council and also interviews with President Hurley. This was my first with him, and it was really cool to see the differences between him and President Nelson. He didn't talk much. Asked questions and then waited for a while. Everyone liked the scraps of the brownies I brought. I disguised them by putting them on a plate. So it looked like the whole pan. After that we walked around and tried to meet our neighbors. We caught a lady home who was a Baptist minister. She was super nice. It was kind of funny. We were walking away and it seemed as though there was a bit of a contest to see who was going to get the last, "Have a nice evening," in. 

Thursday was a ton of planning and another quick lesson with Jason. 

Friday we did similar as Wednesday but with our car and not near our house. 

Saturday we worked most of the day at a booth at the Rigby fair that was going on. We had a ton of copies of the Book of Mormon, and a big sign, and there were four sets of missionaries there. Sometimes we would wander around and talk to people and Sometimes we would hangout at the booth. It was really cool because I was able to see lots of people from Rigby East--my area a year ago. So that was good. In the evening Elder Cluff hurt his hand (purposely), so we had to go to urgent care and see if it was broken. We got home at 11 and I was really tired.

Sunday was church and some meetings. The last thing we did was visit a family and share a message, I talked about charity and how at the start of the mission I had trouble loving the people and really getting into the mood of the mission.

 Elder Pope (recently gone home companion,) in every prayer he said he always asked for more charity. I have really noticed the need of it on the mission. Especially in a more member area, lots of people are looking for reasons to leave the church, and it's really easy to get offended by something someone does. But charity helps us look past the failings of people.

Everyone has problems, and we can instead of getting offended, we can help and reach out.

the end

Rose:  Going to the fair and helping out

Thorn: Saturday night Urgent Care and driving in the dark

Is it pronounced Email? or Email?

Hey! Everyone!

It's Email time!

I am bad at Emailing some weeks.  

This week has been weird. Elder Pope my 2nd companion went home this week on Tuesday. I was on exchanges Wednesday. We visited a ton of people rumors are flying about the stake center that is being built in Rigby East and where the new stake boundaries are going to be.

Idk, It's all been normal stuff so far. We have been meeting lots of cool people recently. We are going by a family later tonight to do Come Follow Me with them, and some other stuff. Other than that, It hasn't been a super remarkable week.

Rose was having an awesome time meeting so many awesome people (I finally feel kinda confident talking.)

Thorn was being tired and stuffy Sunday Morning. so not much.

-Elder Darcey

Jen retpoŝto. Mi esperas ke vi ŝatas ĝin!

Dear Family,

Hello! It is the time of the week that I write Emails!

All the cool stuff happened on Wednesday when we went to Zone Conference in Rexburg. We had our first conference with President Hurley as mission president. He is on fire. He also pronounces "home" as "hoame" like "hoa-mm" so that's funny.

He had a great training about finding faith. He told a story about a Branch President back in Pennsylvanian that was convinced that the branch was dying. He was impressed to call a new Branch President, and he told him something like,"see if you can keep it from dwindling away too quickly..."

The new branch president was like "nuh uh! we are gonna be a ward." and six months later they have gone from 13 members of the branch to 56ish. He had the faith that that branch could be a ward. President Hurley related that to our areas.

When do we feel like our area is dying/dead and there is no work to do? you need the faith to find! There is always work to do when you have faith! there is a video you guys should watch.


It's of Elder Bednar at a Mission talking about faith and it's really great. I think that some missionaries put it on you tube with the Title "Bednar - Ask in Faith" I recommend listening to it. it's only 5 minutes long.

Anyway I don't have a lot of time still. Today we are going to a member in Rigby East to have our zone activity. I know them from a year ago, so I think that's going to be fun!

Elder Pope, (one of my companions) goes home in 2 days. AAH THAT MEANS I ONLY HAVE ABOUT 5 MONTHS LEFT

Anyway.

Rose: not going home in two days (Also I made scones for Breakfast this morning and only fried one finger)

Thorn: One of our investigators said they would be at church, then they weren't :(

-Elder Darcey

LTPS