21 June 2010

Mon 6/21/2010 2:04 PM

Dia de seis meses y muchas cosas!!!

Why hello there!!

So what’s up? First off, I gotta give shout outs! Happy 17th B-day TanMan! and Happy Father's Day!!! This week was really good, not much teaching though. Just kind of busy with other stuff. It’s cooled down because it’s been storming, but it is just more humid. So not much of a difference! All is well. I'm just loving life out here. I mean I lose desire sometimes but I just work through it. This week is transfer week so ahhhh. I hate transfer week. It’s nerve wrecking to find out where I'll go. I think I'll stay here, but we'll see! Also, thanks so much for the package! Don't worry! I didn't get off my diet for it! I just eat a candy bar about every other day or my companions will third it with me! But that was so nice of you guys to send that to me. Thanks for always being so thoughtful! I love you all. Well, I'll get into the week! It will be short because not much happened!

Tuesday - We woke up at 4:45 am to go to zone conference in Lincoln! When I saw the capital building in Lincoln and saw my old stomping grounds I teared up a little. Just Kidding. But I do miss Lincoln. I love that place. It was good to see everyone in the old zone. Elder Hudspeth and Knight, especially - my good buddies over there. So it was fun. Zone conference was really good. We learned a lot about using the Book of Mormon, which is key! Then after zone conference, which ended at like 6, we drove back here and just chatted it up with the missionaries who stayed with us that night. (because we arrived in Kearney around 9). So ya!

Wednesday - We had exchanges with Phillipsburg Elders. The whole time Brother Anderson, from Holdrege, picked us up and we went to Holdrege and down south. We only taught 2 people, but they were both committed to coming to church. So it was good. We ate at Subway. While at Subway, we all got full size sandwiches and he was like, “How can you guys eat all that?” We' said, “..uh. we're young?” Anywho, after we got back, we went and gave a less active a blessing of comfort. I hope it helped her. It’s awesome how the priesthood is, you could not even know a person and through the Spirit, the Lord directs the blessing! Not much that day though.

Thursday - We woke up worked out with Elder McClain and Howard and then we drove down to Philipsburg, Kansas to pick up Elder Stevens! So I've now touched every state in my mission. It was like a 2 hour drive. It was good. We arrived there and saw that they have a huge apartment! It’s like as big as our downstairs. I'm not even joking! Huge! We ate some lunch - some Omaha Steaks (a member gave us money) and we went on our way! I just slept in the car. Then we taught Lisa! - our only set! We just read a conference talk. She said that it hit home for her. She's so golden. Now only if we could get her married! Ater that, we made some dinner. We've been eating a lot of healthy meals. It’s great! Then after dinner, we went and visited some recent converts with the bishop.Which was good to see, because our ward is pretty lazy about team ups, even the bishop. But he's new, so he got out with us, which was great! Then we went home!

Friday - I can't remember all too well what happened, but I know we taught Lisa again. We've taught her so much. We are running out of ideas. So we are just going through the conference talks. Then we taught Shalia the Plan of Salvation. She's hard to get past. But I think that the plan really kind of opened her eyes that this life is a probationary state and there is stuff after! We still need to get her set for baptism though. Then we ate dinner: rice, meat, carrots, and grapes. What’s up? I'm just cooking like nothing else right now. Then we saw April. She's kind of slacking on her reading, but I hope she gets it up. Then we saw Mike. He is a crazy guy. We're going to stop seeing him. He told us that he's "an enemy to God." So ya. Pretty messed up, but he wants his kids baptized! So I don't know. He was endowed in the temple but went anti. So ya. Crazy peeps!

Saturday - This day I think we worked the hardest ever! We traveled to Ravenna to see some past investigators and also to see some less actives. We knocked and knocked and knocked and not one person answered! It was horrid. Granted, there was a fair going on, but even there, no one wanted anything! Oh well. But we found a town, Gibbon, it’s packed full of Hispanics. So we are going there this week and I'm going to get some more investigators for me. After a day of knocking, we had dinner with the Berlou's. Burgers. I was starving. It was good to eat. Then after that, we had our pre-correlation meeting with Brother Hatch. He is bomb. I like that guy. It was a good meeting. We're trying to get the ward back up to speed on missionary work and home teaching. It’s hard, but we'll see!

Sunday - We show up at correlation meeting and only Brother Hatch and we were there. Disappointing. And I guess only like 2 people went to ward council. It’s disappointing. I'm sure you know what I'm talking about, dad. But ya. So we went and had our routine breakfast with Papa Mike. It was delicious, as always! Then we had church. None of our investigators showed up. Gosh! Just a bad time. So after church, we cooked a huge meal and ate it and took a power nap. Then Alberto called - the drunken Mexican. So we went over there. He's crazy. Then we saw April, and then we contacted a referral. His name is Frank. He's from Ghana! He's cool. We didn't teach anything, but we placed a Book of Mormon! So hopefully he'll be a future investigator! After that, went home and my companions got the numbers and we went to sleep.

Monday - woke up and went to the Y for like 6 hours today..Awesome time. And tonight we don't have anything set. Monday's are like that though. So we'll see!

Well, that’s it for today. Thanks for all your love and support! You guys are all just great! I love you all and hope you have just a great week. Be safe and have loads of fun for me! I'll just work my little booty off for all ya'll! Love ya!

Elder Bradley Rigby