My Roller Coaster Week (Week 5 In The Field)

Wow, this Week really had its ups and downs, let me tell you. So, starting with last monday when I last talked to you guys. It was our p-day obviously, so we played basketball with everyone. In the middle of the game, I have the ball, and my Zone leader is defending me hard core. He swings to knock the ball out of my hand, misses, and upper cuts me in the jaw! I bit my tongue in two places and it was bleeding everywhere. Needless to say, I didn't eat that night because my jaw was super sore. But everything is okay now, I got a blessing from my Bishop and that made me feel better. So yeah, thats how my week started, which was horrible, but it did get better. :) 

We went on exchanges for the fist time, and I went with my district leader in his area, and his companion came in mine. That was the most fun I've had so far, and I learned a lot too. So we went to a members home for dinner, and they had a super nice home, and they cooked an amazing dinner. But anyways, my district leader shared the ward mission plan with them and we had a lesson on how to invite others to church. They were an older couple who served as missionaries before, but we still talked about the importance of it. She told us how she has this really good friend of hers, who's actually their neighbor, and every time she brought up the Book of Mormon or anything about our church, her friend would stop her and say, "Stop now, before we lose our friendship forever." She cares about her friend a lot and she was really sad because she read a quote from a general authority basically saying anybody that knows about the gospel, and has a chance to accept it, but does not, is damned essentially. This made her tear up because she loves her friend and doesn't want that for her. 

I then told her, look, you have to know that everything will be okay in the end. Sometimes it takes a while for people to accept the gospel. I then told the story about Great Grandma, I told her how she knew about the gospel ever since Grandma was a kid, and how we tried getting her to be baptized, but she never did. Until last summer, she decided she was finally ready, and she's in her 80s now. Anyways, I told her that there is always hope and to never give up, it will all be okay in the end. That made her really happy, and made her tear up. She thanked me and then we closed with a prayer and left. That was a really cool experience that I'll never forget. I told Great Grandma that story when I wrote her. I hope that makes her happy :) 

So after that, the week kinda started going bad again. Our investigator won't be able to get baptized until next month because you have to attend church 3 times and he's been going to the hospital 5 times a week because of his diabetes and other medical issues. My companion and I are really bummed and we don't know what to do. Guess we just have to continue to keep praying for him and hope it works out. On the bright side, we had 9 less actives come to church last Sunday, don't know how, but they did, and it was awesome! 

And yesterday was such a good day. It was supposed to be our p-day, but it was a holiday. But I'm glad they switched it to today, because we had such success yesterday. We gained 3 potential investigators and have return appointments with all of them. We gave 2 of them a Book of Mormon too. It was awesome! So hopefully they turn out to be something good :)

Anyways, I love all of you, please continue to pray for Curtis, he really needs it. I hope everybody is doing well, I'll update you next week!

Elder Greer

**My Bishop and his family

**Finally wearing winter clothes

**Gorgeous view the night we went on exchanges