A Missionary Life is the Best Life!

Hey y'all so little time but so much to write but first of I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!! It is the best thing ever and the great news is that I learned that sisters can go on all the missions they want so that does not sound bad at all if you ask me ;).  I learned a few things this week 1 the rain storms are nothing like Idaho's the roads literally become rivers and you get so drenched and wet but I loved it.  2 Never call a palmetto tree a palm tree (I learned from experience) 3 Being a missionary I have put my all into being the best missionary and I have had so many miracles because of it like for example Me and my companion were knocking and we met this lady who was praying for a good book to read so we gave her a book of Mormon and she was so grateful.  Another miracle came from when I was explain something to a sister and she interrupted me and said that she had been praying for someone to say that to her and she had the chills and felt very good about what I was saying to her the crazy thing is that I do not even remember what I said but I was blown away and it was a very neat experience.  I love my ward that I work with I work a lot with the ward doing a pilot program in which only my mission in the whole world is doing it is called the BRP and we work with the members and help them feel confident and want to give names for us to contact and that is where the real success of my two weeks have been is by those people My testimony has been strengthened so much by this program and my love for the ward is even greater each day. I feel humbled each and every day because of the spirit that I have felt and I know that I have put a good day’s work in.  The people here know there is something different about us missionaries and it is something they desire and so they come to us but there are also people who choose to fight instead of learn so we just love them and let them go and pray for their souls to change.  I have never been a minority like I am here but it is great and humbling and I am grateful that I did grow up in a good strong area.  Well I love you all and pray y'all are so great

Love Sister Browning

Hello from South Carolina!

Hello from Florence South Carolina Things here are very different.  South Carolina reminds me of Island Park with all the trees but instead of looking for animals we look for people.  The bugs here are huge and love legs to bite and the weather is hot and I am always so sweaty and smelly and gross and people keep telling me to just wait just wait it will get hotter People are not always nice and I am told that I am going to hell every day and others just ignore me.  But aside from it all I love it.  Every day when we are headed back to our apartment I cannot help but smile and look around at all the beauty that South Carolina has to offer the people the trees the weather and I am just so thankful to be here I know I am at home here.  I have the best trainer in the world her name is Sister Allen from Cedar city and she is such a hard worker and pushes me every day to go a little further but she is so encouraging and I love teaching with her and learning from her.  The people are all generally nice and most of the time treat us with respect and will at least maybe listen to us a little bit.  The religions are so diverse and different and every time that I meet someone who despises our beliefs I always leave them with my testimony a little stronger and never weakened.  I love this gospel so much the people here never really know what we really have because of all the anti that exists but every once in a while I can get see the light in someone’s eyes and I do not know if they will be converted but I can see the little difference that I make in them.  My companion tells me that every day we always make a difference no matter where we are.  I love you all so much some of the picture is from the match sorry I will get some of South Carolina next week.  Love you all and l Love the work.

Till next week

Sister Browning

MTC Week 2!

Hello it is so weird that this is my last Thursday and that next week at this time I will be in South Carolina teaching I am so excited for the people but not the weather I met some people who live in South Carolina and they look at my outfit and tell me that I will not want to wear that there so but I do have outfits that they did approve which is good.  Ok so to make my stay here at the MTC fun I made a little bucket list of things to do here and it has been amazing because most of the things on the list that I thought would never happened.  For instance I wanted to work at the TRC which missionaries go and talk to people who volunteer to be investigators and one night they had too many missionaries and asked me and my comp to be an investigator it was a lot of fun and great to learn from the investigators point of view.  The second thing on my list was to be a host missionary to the new missionaries and I was asked to do that last week. It did not bring back any memories because my first day here was such a shock that I forgot most everything I did but I loved being the person to comfort and give encouragement to the new sisters and welcome them.  The third item on my bucket might have to wait a little longer so there are these golf carts that are everywhere that employees drive around and I think they look so much fun and easier to get from building to building but that can wait and I will be ok.  I leave officially Monday Morning at 4:00 A.M crazy and that is the time that I have to be at the bus so I  need to wake up earlier that like at 3:00 and that is a little too early for me.  I feel that these past two weeks have pushed me to be the person that my investigators need to be converted of Christ I learned to rely on the Spirit so much when teaching and learning but it has been a great feeling that is indescribable but I love you all and next time I write will be in South Carolina.

Love

Sister Browning

Hello from the MTC!

Well my first week at the MTC was pretty good.  My first night I was unpacking and trying to get out of shock that I was finally here when the fire alarm went off.  Me and my district sisters being new though it was a drill and so we calmly left our room only to go into a hall of smoke everywhere and one sister was like wow they really know how to make it realistic but we realized that there was a fire in the microwave you got to love microwave popcorn (it was the cause of the fire).  After my first day things sort of became normal for me.  I spent my day in class or in the gym or outside and then I sleep during the night.  So they randomly choose all these districts to try this new P90X exercise only this one is for Mormons and has cheesy names like Stripling Warriors.  They are intense and make me sore but it keeps me in shape.  We have that program every day at 6:00 A.M then we still have regular gym later on in the day.   Waking up at 6:00 is not too bad but trying to get dressed by 7:00 is the tough part because we usually have something at 7:00.  But I manage.  The residence halls are ok except for the bathrooms and beds.  I hate showering here because they are so nasty and the bed is gross in its own way. My companion is Sister Koeven she is going to South Carolina with me she is pretty great she is From Wyoming somewhere in the middle of nowhere.  So this is very crazy but I only have 1 1/2 week left here.  I leave June 4th which is a week from this coming Monday and then I am forced out into the big world of the South. My whole district is going to the south either Georgia or Alabama (me and sister Koeven are the only ones going to S. Carolina).  Being here has challenged me I realized that I am not a good teacher but the spirit is the better and I do not know how in the world I would be able to do it without the Lords Help.  I am grateful to be here and for all y'all and your prayers and love and support.  I love it here and while at times it is so challenging mentally and physically I know that what I am doing is true and so I will shower in the nasty showers and sleep in my nasty bed because I know my purpose as a missionary and I believe in it.  Again thank you all and till next week 

Love, Sister Browning!