Elder Ruesch: Boise, Idaho Mission: Week 21

Here is the video Jeffrey playing the piano that he talked about last week. He uploaded it to Google but I did not have permission to get it until now. I hope you enjoy it.

So this week has been really long. To start off, I'd like to say that this week I don't have a mental bloke in my English and Spanish. Just have to do a lot of revisions. But anyways, on Monday we did a lot of service thanks to Daylight Saving. We cut down and moved some tree branches with a member. It was quite fun and we also had dinner with them afterwards which was really good. We had elk meat and that was delicious. On Tuesday we did the same thing. We helped out with some more service and it was quite fun. Same job just no dinner this time. Wednesday came around and we had Zone Conference. For Zone Conference we learned a whole bunch of cool things that for now, shall stay hidden...We also had a volleyball tournament against the Twin Falls South Zone and the Twin Falls North Zone. We played them as a Zone and individual Districts and the Rupert Zone came out undefeated!! We only had once close game, but other than that we swept the competition away. It was soo much fun and we all had a blast from it. So just before any of that we went to Shoshone Falls and wow it was breathtaking. It was quite amazing as to how it looked. The pictures will be attached so all can see. We got back into town and ran late to everything and all of our appointments fell through. We ended up going to the youth fundraiser and grabbed a bite to eat there as well. The next day came around and we did some more service. This week has just been packed with service. We helped cut another tree which was fun. Got to climb up into it and no I did not fall down. We then did some planning and went back to help do some more service with a member. Tearing down and putting up some dry wall. Which was fun as well. We then went to dinner after that and it was really good. I'm having a hard time remembering with who we ate though. After that came Friday and we tried contacting people and we got one which was nice. We talked to Suzanne who is an Eternal Investigator. As we were in our lesson with her two RM's who served here pulled up and came into our lesson. We ended up staying there a lot longer than I thought we would. And literally after that we left and went straight to dinner. We went to dinner and had dinner with a good family. We got talking with them about mission experiences cause they served as a senior couple missionaries awhile back. It was pretty awesome to hear those stories. We later tried contacting, but nothing fell through. So we called it a night. Saturday came around and this is when we changed gears.We had a baptismal interview for Augustina and it went really well. She'll be getting baptized March 25th by her father. It's awesome!! We then came back did our studies and we went back to teach Suzanne this time without the RM bombardment. We taught her how important it is to have relationships with four people. The first being our Heavenly Father, 2nd with our Family, 3rd with Fellowman, and 4th with Ourselves. She really liked that and has been putting that into consideration a lot. We invited her to church, but didn't come. We then went and had a quick lesson with a LA family and it went really well. They are both trying to relearn the Gospel and change themselves for the better. It's pretty awesome!! We then went to dinner with somebody that Elder Ethington knew before the mission. It was pretty cool to see that. It was his old seminary teacher in Gilbert, Arizona. We later then went and visited with the Quintero family really fast and shared a message with them. And they invited us to come back and have dinner with them. We then went and got to see an RM from one of our wards who she is an only member of her family. She wants us to teach her family and she'll help us in anyway possible and we thought that, that is awesome! Sunday rolled around and we did a lot of sacrament meetings. We listened to the RM give her homecoming talk and then darted back to the Springdale wards we cover. They were having ward conference and they were talking about repentance. It was so awesome to hear all of that. During it all, we ran into some scheduling conflicts and had to adjust our day during sacrament cause some people could only meet at certain times and we had some cancellations. But none of the less, we worked it out. After church we went and planned for Augustina's baptism with the ward mission leader. Then we went and had first dinner with the Quintero Family and did some service for them. Normally we wouldn't, but we wanted to demonstrate why and things like that. We then had dinner with the Darrington family and it was really good. We had some T-Bone steak and wow it was fantastic. We spent the rest of the night with them talking about the Gospel and sharing it with everyone. We love the members here it's awesome. For today we are going to have a NERF war which I'm excited for! But hopefully everyone has a great week and I love and miss you all!! Take care y nos vemos en dos anos!!

Elder Ruesch Sosa