Week of October 24, 2016

Happy Halloween Everyone! This week has been pretty good out here in Williston! The beginning of the week was kinda tough my comp was sick so we had to spend a few days in ha we ran out of things to do inside real quick but luckily we were able to have a good weekend. My companion and I have really been trying to get some new investigators since we haven't really had anyone to teach. Sunday night we went out tracting for a  few hours and had some really good success! We were able to find some pretty solid investigators! We have been working really hard and it is kinda frustrating not seeing much success but I know that hard work is the answer for everything so we'll just keep grindin!  Hopefully things will start to turn out positive. Other than that not a whole lot happened this week! 
Well that's all for this week! Hopefully Ill have more for ya next week!! Love ya!!

Love,

Elder Brinkerhoff

Week of October 17, 2016

Hey everybody I hope that you all had a great week! Things out here have been going pretty good! We had a pretty exciting week this week! We have been trying to find new people to teach since we don't really have many investigators right now. We are trying to work with the ward and find some people to teach through them. This week​​ we had some exchanges so that was way fun while on exchanges me and Elder Warren made this rap so that was pretty fun! I'll send along some pictures.

Sorry I didn't get to finish my Email the Sister's are kicking us off the computers. Have a great week everyone Love you all!! 

Elder Brinkerhoff

Week of October 3, 2016

Things out here in Williston have been going great so far! It has been super cold things week but not even half as bad is it will be in about a month or so! Ha not looking forward to winter at all!! I have only been here for a few days but it has been full of excitement so far!! It is so nice being in a bigger city for once! The first thing there is when you pull into town is a Buffalo Wild Wings. I turned to my companion and I was like "Elder that's where were going for dinner tonight. I haven't been there for 8 months so thats where were going!" ha luckily my companion was cool with it or we might have had some problems right out the gate haha just playin!

 On Friday we had district meeting it was awesome my district is awesome one of them is from beaver Utah and knows my buddy Tristin so that was pretty dope.

Saturday was an awesome day! We went out tracting Saturday morning and got ourselves a new investigator that was awesome she said we could come back the next day and so we did and we had a great lesson on the restoration we gave her a book of Mormon and she said she would read it and that she would come to church this week. Her name is Kristina and she is from Jamaica. On Saturday we also went out and did some service on a members farm they had some pigs. Ha me being me asked if i could wrestle one of them and he said yeah for sure so when we were done working we went down not the pen and I did some "Hog Wrestlin" as they call it out here. Ha it was awesome and yes I was able to pin it!! 

It was also sad saying bye to some of my good friend's in Winner last week but am exctied to be here to work in Williston! 

To any of you I gave my Address to last week I sent along the wrong one. The correct Mailing Address is 705 East Highland Drive Apt 106 Williston North Dakota 58801

Hope you all have a great week love you All!

Love,

Elder Brinkerhoff 

Week of September 26, 2016

Well transfer calls came this week and I will be getting transferred to Williston North Dakota. It's up in the North West corner of North Dakota, so into the Tundra I go. Last winter was super mild even though it was still freezing ha everyone says this is going to be a super cold winter so ill guess we'll see how that goes. 

I have loved being here in Winner, I have been able to meet so many awesome people and have have been able to learn so much! It will be super hard to leave but I know that the Lord has need of me in Williston I am excited for the opportunity's that I will have ahead of me. It will also be super awesome to have a Walmart in my area! I'm pretty pumped about that and to be in a bigger town. I have been in small little towns my whole mission so it will be interesting being some place with more people

This last week here in Winner was a good one. Watching conference was awesome I was able to learn so much! Its crazy how much being on a mission has changed how much I like watching conference! 

I hope y'all have a great week!!

Love,

Elder Brinkerhoff 

Week of September 19, 2016

Hey everyone! I hope that you all had a great week! This week was awesome! We have transfer calls coming up this week I'm pretty excited to hear what is going ot happen I have been here in winner for almost 7 1/2 months! Its been a long time and I have loved every minute of it, I'm pretty sure that I will be getting a call usually were only in areas about 3 months I will be pretty sad to leave I have been able to meet so many awesome people in this area!

This week we had a mission goal to hand out as many copies of the Book of Mormon as possible. Elder Mangum and I made a goal to hand out 30 copies which was the highest goal in the Zone and probably the highest or close to the highest in the mission. We spent a lot of time tracting and handing out books. We received lots of rejection but I can also gladly say that we reached our goal of 30! Ha we actually ran out of books and had to go steal some from other missionaries. It was an awesome week! There's no better feeling than looking back on your week and looking at how hard you have worked to accomplish your goals!

I hope that you all have a great week love you all!!

Love, Elder Brinkerhoff

Week of September 5, 2016

Hey Y'all, I hope that everyone had a great week! This week was crazy busy here in Winner. We had a ZTM (zone training meeting) this week and it was awesome! The mission came up with this awesome idea to do this thing called OYM (open your mouth) its where everyone in the mission goes out for 1 hour between 4-9 and either go tracting or street contacting. We have been working a lot with members and haven't been doing much personal finding so this is going to help us start finding more people to teach. We also did some work with concrete this week man lemme tell ya that is a tough job, it was kinda fun tho. The best part though is not wearing dress clothes! After wearing a tie everyday all day its feel's so nice not having to wear one for a little bit! 

This week while we were doing OYM we were tracting and we were able to get a new investigator and we were able to have a few other good lessons! I really love when things workout. Tracting in this town has been hard and not all that successful. So when we heard that we were going to have to start doing OYM we were not all that excited but after doing it for a few day's I realized that it is awesome it was definitely inspired and is something we really need to do! I feel like it is going to help the work progress so much! 

I hope that yall have a great week! Love you all!

Love,

Elder Brinkerhoff

Week of August 29, 2016

Hey everyone I hope that ya'll had a great week! We had a good week out here in Winner. We had a pretty exciting week we have been working with a few people who are progressing pretty good.  We also did lots of service this week I love doing service and just helping people out.

The most exciting news this week is that I hit my 1 year mark! Its crazy that I have already been gone a year!  I don't feel like I have been gone that long. Time fly's when your on a mission. Over the last year there have been tons of changes. Lots of hardships but also lots of good times.  I have learned so much over the last year. One of the things I have leared about the most is that everything that we go through in life is there to help us and to make us stronger people. We would not be the people we are today if we didn't go through the hardships of life. I have also learned that we as turn our will over to the will of God miracles can happen. If you work hard anything can happen. There's only 24 hours in a day how successful we are is based upon how we use the 24, we only have so much time in what ever we do so its important to make the most out of everything we do and not waste any time.

I hope that everyone has a great week this week love all of you!

Love,

Elder Brinkerhoff