14 November 2011

 Mon 11/14/2011 9:50 AM

Bautismo! Fue un exito!

 sup sup sup,

 Well, without further ado, we did have the baptism on Saturday. It went ultra good!! I had the opportunity to dress in white and represent the Lord in baptizing her. It was soooo good. It’s nice in this ward, they do everything for us. So we had a lot of ward involvement and it just went “money in the bank.” I had to baptize her twice because her knee popped up, but all was a success. Saturday was one of the most fun days I have ever had!!!  We started out the morning playing some basketball with some ward members and an investigator (man, I am rusty!) Then after that, we went and ate some breakfast with our Ward Mission Leader and first counselor. After that, we started to slaughter turkeys and geese for Thanksgiving. Such a cool experience, I will have to show ya'll the videos. So we killed, plucked the feathers, gutted them, and dressed them. It was a cool experience. I really enjoy doing that kind of stuff. So it was a good experience for me! After that, we got the font ready and did some baptizing! It was a really good meeting, At the end, our bishop charged her and her husband to go to the temple in a year - which I think she will. She is so converted to the gospel. So it’s pretty cool to see that happening!

The rest of the week was kind of boring. I have been walking a lot with my companion. He is very green still, so I am trying to help him chill out and relax. But yeah, I can tell he is a bit high strung, so that’s why he is with me, so I can help him get some personality and get out of his shell. It seems I do that a lot - crack shells!  Thursday was transfer day. I drove to Grand Island because I wanted to....and just said hi to all the people and yeah. It was a good day. I have noticed a change in the work here, it’s a little more slow but the members really just love things right now. I am focusing a lot on setting this area up for the future. I am really prepping the members to make this place good. I don't mind if the work is slow, I feel good about the last 23 months of my mission. I really do. I am just always happy and just loving my life at all times. Things go wrong, but I don't mind, I am patient, I am loving, and I just have a completely different outlook on the mission than I did a while ago. I just want to be out here and do my work. My goals for this transfer are to help the members become missionaries, and to help my companion be cracked out of his shell. So, I mean, things are good. We are still are waiting to teach that family in the sandhills. We haven't heard anything yet, so we will see!!

This week will be pretty fun, last night Elder Nelson and his companion came and stayed here and are spending P- day with us. We will be leaving to Lincoln at like 4pm! We have a mission tour tomorrow - a member of the seventy is coming. Elder Golden, I think it is? So that will be a fun experience and a spiritual one at that. So I look forward to this week. Saturday will be the same routine, basketball and farm work!!! So yeah. Things are going really well right now. I am really trunky, I won't lie, but it’s not taking my mind off the work; it just helps me finish stronger. I am ssoooooo excited to see ya'll again. But I know I need to be patient and finish strong and I am doing so!!!! I love you all soooo much!!! I hope you have the greatest weeks ever!!! Sorry it’s short, the next 4 emails will be really short, I don't have too much too say it seems. But I will be jabber jaws on the 20th....trust me! Love you!!!

Con amor,

El Elder Bradley Rigby

09 November 2011

Wed 11/9/2011 9:51 AM

SUUUP!

Transfer info came in. My companion is leaving, and I am getting Elder Caldwell. He is very new. So yeah, he is going to be the one who sends me home! Crazy huh? This week was not toooo bad. We had a ward party on Friday promoting mormon.org and stuff. It was really fun. Saturday morning we played basketball with some investigators and then we chopped wood for like 4 hours! Then we went and saw Margarita! She is soooo solid! She is getting baptized this Saturday! So that should be really awesome! I am really excited for that. The other day we were at her house with her friend there and she just started like bearing her testimony to her best friend and telling her why the church is true, and what she has felt! Sooooo awesome! Anywho, on Sunday we taught a lesson at church to the whole ward. That was weird. We taught about mornon.org and it was really good! We also met with the bishop that day and I presented this program thingy, that Elder Hoyt came up with, which is really successful. So yeah. That was good! Things are getting better and better here now! We have a new investigator who has cancer. She wants to hear more from us because I gave her a blessing the other day and basically it said that if she listened to the gospel, everything would be alright! So that was a pretty bold blessing! But I know that the Lord said it and I did not!  I can't really think about too much to say right now. I will say more next Monday. I hate the Wednesday P-days because I just forget everything about the week before. But those are the things I remembered. I have 6 weeks left. My last transfer. Go big or.......go home? Ha ha. I love you all sooo much! I will write you more next week! I promise! I love you!

 Con amor,

 Elder Bradley Rigby

31 October 2011

Mon 10/31/2011 1:54 PM

Hola

Well,

I honestly have like no time today. We are going to go help paint faces for kids at the YMCA in like an hour, and just do some activities with them, it will be really fun! Then we are going to a ward Halloween party. I am doing really good. I got my suit. It’s good! I have to lose a couple or three pounds for it to look awesome though - which is no big deal at all! But I like the suit a lot. This last week was a complete blur. But we went to Broken Bow, Nebraska. It’s a pretty cool place. It reminded me of Storm Lake a lot!!!!  It was just a weird week. I honestly don't remember a lot. We had Stake Conference yesterday and they talked a lot about missionary work, so I was happy to hear that, as always. Then we had dinner with a member afterward, which they had their son in law over and he wasn't a member. Anyway, we shared a scripture, just to do so, ya know? Nothing big. Then the family started bearing their testimonies to him and crying, and it was completely awesome! So, it ended up with the guy saying that we could come over and "chat."  So....that’s better than nothing.

Love ya.

 Elder Rigby