April 19, 2011 - Time to Brand

today our district decided to go hiking, we went into "the niter ice cave." we started about 12 and finshed about 2. it was really cool, there was ice everywhere..... i felt like i was in a winter wonderland. we attempted to start a fire, but there wasnt enough dry wood in there to get one started. yesterday it snowed..... again..... one funny thing happed though while we were pitching out hay elder pickett fell off the trailer and slid down this hill side about 12ft. when he made it back up the hill, i laughed at him and called him slip n' slide the rest of the day. one of thoses calfs died earlier this week that we found last monday. we had to herd all theses cows to a different field and instead of using calm and sense and walk across a bridge they decided to go through a river. bishop had to rope a calf and pull it back over before it drowned and we had to take him back and put him the "hot box" to warm him back up. he should be ok. on sunday our mission president came to the soda springs stake conference and was one of the main speakers. him and his wife both gave really really good talks. afterwards we were invited to have lunch with the stake president, president olson, and sister olson. it was really nice to have some one on one time with president where i could ask him some questions and pick his brain. before that he had to interview two of our investigators, k-lou and alex, they both passed. alex will be getting baptised on the 23rd and k-lou has to wait for first presidency approval..... she's on parole and her husband is in jail and awaiting trial for drug trafficing. but he still wants to be baptized!!!!! president olson just wants to see atleast a month of going to church and taking the missionary lessons before he comes up and interviews him. so hopefully everything will work out. wednesday we taught the soda springs high school seminary classes from 9am-4pm for bishop hegeman. we taught d+c 113-119 and then asked the kids who they could invite to meet with the missionaries. tomorrow we have to follow-up on all thoses invites alot of them sounded really really promising. this morning elder pickett and I went to the "hooper springs" which in naturally carbonated water!!!! it tasted like crap but i did bring some drink mix and put in with it and had carbonated lemonade. it wasn't half bad. i actually enjoyed it. but everything is going good i really like it up here. we got to go branding this last week for this less-active guy in thatcher. he said right when we got there just cause your helping me out doesnt mean that im going to come back to church, we kinda just shrugged it off and went to work. his wife pulled us aside and thanked us for coming and he invited us over this week for dinner :) so we'll see how it goes. our high councilmen over missionary work wants us to come out and help brand all his cattle this friday..... all 400 of them......... ive come to the conlusion that we do alot of service up here cause everyone is a farmer. hahaha i love it though ill be sure to take pictures this timelove,
-- Elder Tyler Herring4380 So. Orchard AveSouth Ogden, UT 84403