Sister Brianne Watson: ❄️☔️☁️⁉️

ITS SNOWING. WHAT. WHY. NO. Yesterday we had our first drastic snowfall . People here told me it doesn't start snowing until at least the end of November or in December. It's worse in different areas but where I live it's just a layer of death. It didn't really snow until yesterday during church but it was duuuumping. One of our investigators asked us to come do some yard work the other day since he's sick. While we were dragging giant branches and sticks through his yard, it starts hailing and raining..actually it was more like sleet. IT WAS SO COLD. They're all saying its a bad sign that winter here is going to last about 8 months and their winters are brutal. Please pray for me.

Oh my gosh the most embarrassing thing happened...sister daughety and I were in for the night so we had our cheetah footie pajamas on and we were just laying in bed putting in information about former investigators into our Area Book Planner app. All of a sudden we hear a knock at our door and we immediately think it's our 80 year old neighbor Pat probably bringing us some more puzzles. We realize what we are wearing as we are standing at the door but we just didn't care because Pat loves us anyway. We open the door and sure enough, it's a college guy that lived above us.

Ha...hahaha...haha..so we hide behind the door and crane our necks so he can't see us and he asks us for a big pot for his pasta or something. I'm laughing behind sister daughety at this whole situation so I turn around and go into the kitchen to escape the awkward mess and then I'm called back to the door to hold the door open so sister daughtey can go look for the specific pan. Hiiiii so now it's just me and Mr. College and my cheetah footie pajamas. He could hardly speak English so I couldn't understand what he was saying which was also interesting. Sister daughtey comes back and she again hides behind me/the door and shows this poor guy the only pan we have which ended up not being the size he needed. Thankfully he finally left and sister daughtey and I were just soaking in our own embarrassment...so we made ourselves a bowl of ice cream to get over it. #missionarylife

I was able to serve at the Joseph Smith Memorial again this week! That's always the highlight for me. We weeded around the buildings and I got to rake some leaves which for some reason is one of my favorite things to do. During lunch, one of the senior missionaries that serve there, Elder Ence, brought us up Patriarch Hill and holy cow...it is BEAUTIFUL. It looks over all the hills and you can see the monument which looks tiny from where you are. I'll post a picture, don't worry. But I also saw Joseph smiths grandpa's house/property which was way cool! I haven't been able to take a full tour of the memorial yet but hopefully I can later today since its P-Day.

Wanna hear some miracles? We have an investigator named Stewart who's been quite golden so far. He's been very prepared and he's progressing pretty well. At first he thought we worshipped some sort of Holy Zombie or something so he's been fairly shocked to see what we actually believeSmiling face with open mouth and cold sweat but he is so receptive to everything we teach and he's loved the Book of Mormon so far. He's taken a tour of the JSM and he watched a part of general conference and he went to stake conference last week AND him and his wife/ex wife (they're divorced but living together) came to church yesterday.

He's been working on quitting smoking and drinking so that's his biggest challenge that's getting in the way of baptism. It was testimony meeting and a lady from the ward went up and talked about obedience. He told us he loved it because it reminded him of how important it is to be obedient with the word of wisdom no matter how difficult it is. Then in the next class called Gospel Principles, the lesson was all about the word of wisdom. He couldn't believe how inspired everything was and he knew that the testimony and the lesson was just for him. The spirit is so cool :) he now wants to be baptized so bad and his wife/ex wife that wasn't interested before is now agreeing to read the Book of Mormon and she took a gospel principles book. We were talking to her after class and she said that she's been praying for something like this for about 30 years. Blessings everywhere...I'm tellin ya!

I went to the cutest town in the USA and that's not even a joke..it was literally voted the cutest town in America and I am able to have a say in that. It's called Woodstock and AHH it's adorable and I never wanted to leaveSmiling face with heart-shaped eyes it was perfect and I want to live there for the rest of my life.

Lately I've been having a hard time focusing my desires on missionary work rather than things like music, family, friends, etc. But I was reading and I came to Alma 29:6 which hit me like a ton of bricks. It says, "why should I desire more than to perform the work to which I have been called?" Alma too was desiring more than what he's been called to do as a missionary. It's so hard to put all your thoughts and desires into this calling but this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. This is a sacred calling that I'll never get back. It's such a short time and I cannot take advantage of it. I've seen through my own prayer and fasting lately that my desires are starting to change and correct itself which is such a miracle for me. I love being a missionary and I am so blessed to wear that name tag every day and represent Him. Anyway, here are some pictures!!! Have a good week :)