Hey mom I got your package today my compaiion got a package too. lol So montana is nice i fit right in with the people. I have had elk burger. Nothing else yet but rifle season starts this weekend so everybody will be huntin. We have seen alot of people in camo that have been bow huntin, and i told you about the guy on the moped. I have taken pictures, i was gonna do what my companion does he sends home his memory card his mom does what she wants with the pictures and sends him back the memory card. But if i do that send me an extra memory card i only have 2. Well 2 days ago we were driving to find a inactive members home and it was in this ranch type of place and there was alot of mule deer and whitetail deer. I want to see elk, mooose, bear, and big horn sheep, the people here say they will start coming down out of the mountains cause of winter. Well our apartment is made of logs well the outside is, and the inside is just normal, it is the biggest apartment in the entire mission. Its in a lumber yard that the 1st counselor in the stake presidency owns. We live in a small small town of about 1000 in called deer lodge. But we cover 2 other towns which are about an hour drive. we cover 1 ward and 2 branchs. THis past weekend was stake conference so i got introduced to alot of people that i dont even rememebr. I am the driver which is very unusual cuase they usually dotn let you drive till you are on your mission for at least 8 months, but my compaions liscense is expired so i have to drive. We drive really nice trucks chevrolet colorado 4 doors z71 we are gettin a new one here soon cause it is abotu to hit 50000 miles and they trade them in after 50000.My mission president is really nice but REALLY STRICT! we have to wear proselytin clothes at ALL TIEMS even pday, adn we are not allowed to fish. or drink any caffience watsoever so no soda. So the other day me and my companion were planning and i told him i wanted to try something. i wanted to take out the former investigators book and pray and then open up to one and go see that person.(kind of the same thing i did at youth conference) so we did and we opended to a lady named darla white the missionarys taught her back in 06. Sothe next day we went to the address and the lady that came to the door was not darla white but the lady was really interested in the church, so we are gonna start teaching her this week. My compaion was liek wow i have never done that before lets do taht every night from nwo on. We have had no success tracking just doors slammed in our face but its fun. we track alot surprisingly. Then we went to a recent converts house her son is 14 and wants nothign to do with the church. I talked to him a little bit, he is just like me when i was his age doesnt like church thinks its boring.So i talked with him about how i was the same way but then i shared why and how i changed i told him a year ago i would have told you you were crazy if you told me i would be on a mission. I told him about my experience at youth conference i told him the power of prayer and how it has helped me i nlife. i had goosebumps sharign all of it. Then i asked him if he loved his mom and he said yes. And i said with the gospel he could live with his mom forever. I then asked him if he would pray about the book of mormon and read the introduction to know if its words are true and he said yes. :) The spirit was soooooo STRONG. I love sharing my testimony and i loving spreading the gospel. ONe thing i need to work on is praying at peoples hosue haha i forget there name and then they ask me to say the prayer and i dotn rememebr there names haha Oh yea at our apartment we have all our sheets and everythign we need to do our laundry. By the way i got 3 more suits people left them in the apartment when they went home and they fit me so i am using them lol THe mission president told called me into his office right before i left to head to deer lodge and said i am a leader and i asked him what that means and he said he can tell i have a big heart and that i am a leader and he wants me to get ready for anythign he throws at me. And he said i could be in this one area for as much as 10 months. he siad he wants to get this area back active again and he thinks i have waht it takes to do it. we do have a baptism in 2 weeks for a 10 year old girl. and this week we are planning on commiting 3 more to baptism a husband and wife and a 12 year old. Well funny story today me and my companion got up and went ot wash the trucka dn the doors were frozen shut haha it rained all yesterday and it was 20 degrees this morning. So i feell out of place everyone here has tons of ties really cool ones nad i hardly have any haha so send me some ties please :) Today i think we are gonna go bowling with some other missionaries from our district for pday. MY gps has come very handy in case you were wondering i am 1974 miles from my apartment to our house. Well i cant think of anythign else to write about haha sorry it is all confusing and out of order i just htink of somethign and type it. I am sure i am missing somethign but oh well. Tell everyone i love them.:)
ps i got letters from grandma and papa, mema and pepa, bro and sis stubbs and the package today. pss i have been out a month in 4 days....
love yallElder Branham
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