I am staying in my area!! I am pretty happy about that, because I love the ward I am in. My companion however, is transferring to Alamosa and he is going to be a district leader there! I am so proud of him, he is such a great missionary, and was an amazing first companion and trainer. He's going to make a great leader.
My new companion's name is Elder Requilmen. I haven't met him yet, but I heard he is really cool. My zone leader told me he is from Hawaii and plays the uke and sings really well! I am so excited to meet him. I'll be meeting him at transfers on Wednesday. This week is going to be fun, because I'll get to see a lot of my friends, and my companion from the MTC at transfers! :) I'm super excited for a change, however one bad thing is happening... I am losing my car, and my district leader is getting it. LAME! Oh well, guess I could use some exercise. :)
I don't have much to report from last week, because not much work was done because of Christmas. But I did have an amazing time at Christmas, because I got a lot of presents and I got to Skype my family!! :) It was really hard to get back to work the next day after hanging up with my family, but I was fine by Friday.
Okay, so I do have something pretty significant to report from last week. I was put in my first, most uncomfortable situation, in my mission on Saturday. So, we were going to meet a referral we got from the spanish Elders. The guy's name was William, he's a black guy with dreads, and lives in a crappy apartment. We get there, he opens the door, and we are overwhelmed with the smell of marijuana. He wasn't smoking it at the time, so it wasn't as strong.
He invited us in, because he wants to know more about what we believe, so we teach him the restoration, and after our lesson he invites us to try a product he sells for his business. I forget what it was called but he says it's a water purifier that Moses used to purify the waters of Marah in the Bible. I was super sketched at this point and the spirit was telling me you need to get out of here pronto.
He offers us this pack of whatever it was, pulls out a water bottle and pours it in. The powder looked like Marijuana but he says it wasn't. I'm convinced that it was, and he says it would help us out with what we do and give us power. I got up at that point, said thank you for having us, but we have to go because we are late for an appointment (which we were, I wasn't lying), but I had to get out of there haha. The smell was making me sick to my stomach, and he had a wife and baby in there with him! The poor baby having to deal with a constant smell of nastiness.
Anyways, other than that my week was pretty awesome!
I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and remembered all that our Lord and Savior has done for us! :) Love you all, Have a great week!
Elder Greer
Monday, December 30, 2013
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
3 Month Mark On Christmas Day! (Week 11 In The Field)
How ironic is it that I will be out 3 months exactly on Christmas day? What a great way to celebrate that, with Christmas and being able to Skype my family! :) So I'll let you know my plans for Christmas because its going to be pretty fun!
So In the morning my whole district is going to come to where we are staying (in a members home) and we are going to have a huge breakfast, watch a movie, and just hangout. After around noon, I believe we are going to go to the church and play basketball or something like that. Then around 3 or 4 my companion and I are going to the Campanellas' (really cool members in our ward), and there we are going to eat dinner, watch a movie and Skype with my parents! :) Pretty much going to be the best Christmas ever haha! Not only that, my parents got me a brand new suit, which I am so excited to show all of you after I get it altered. I hope all of you have an amazing Christmas too!
So this week was very filled with things to do. Tuesday, my companion and I went tracting for 2 hours, and from that we gained 5 potential investigators, 3 returning appointments and handed out like 10 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty productive day.
On Wednesday, we had a Christmas Conference, where 3 other zones attended. That was a crazy fun day, because I got to see a couple of my MTC friends again. :) I get to see them next week too, at transfer meeting, which I am super excited for because I will get to see my MTC Companion as well as everybody else!
Anyways, this past whole week, we delivered a plate of desserts to a bunch of less actives, which was awesome because we were able to visit with a lot of less actives. Hopefully we can get them to come back to church soon. :)
So, Saturday was our ward Christmas breakfast, which we weren't able to be very much a part of because it started at 9:30, and we had a conference call at 10 with all the new missionaries and their trainers, which was alright I guess. I would have rather been eating food and socializing, but thats okay because we went to our zone leader's ward for their Christmas dinner. Oh, I forgot, and before we did that our whole zone went to a nearby retirement home and sang Christmas carols to all the elderly people, which was so much fun. They absolutely loved us! :) That was easily the highlight of the week.
Anyways, That is all I have to report for you all this week. I hope everybody has a very merry Christmas, and remembers what it is truly about. :) Love you all, and miss every single one of you!
Elder Greer
"And, lo, the angel of the Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid. And the angel said unto them, fear not: for, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. For unto you is born this day in the city of David a saviour, which is Christ the Lord." -Mark 2:9-11
So In the morning my whole district is going to come to where we are staying (in a members home) and we are going to have a huge breakfast, watch a movie, and just hangout. After around noon, I believe we are going to go to the church and play basketball or something like that. Then around 3 or 4 my companion and I are going to the Campanellas' (really cool members in our ward), and there we are going to eat dinner, watch a movie and Skype with my parents! :) Pretty much going to be the best Christmas ever haha! Not only that, my parents got me a brand new suit, which I am so excited to show all of you after I get it altered. I hope all of you have an amazing Christmas too!
So this week was very filled with things to do. Tuesday, my companion and I went tracting for 2 hours, and from that we gained 5 potential investigators, 3 returning appointments and handed out like 10 copies of the Book of Mormon. It was a pretty productive day.
On Wednesday, we had a Christmas Conference, where 3 other zones attended. That was a crazy fun day, because I got to see a couple of my MTC friends again. :) I get to see them next week too, at transfer meeting, which I am super excited for because I will get to see my MTC Companion as well as everybody else!
Anyways, this past whole week, we delivered a plate of desserts to a bunch of less actives, which was awesome because we were able to visit with a lot of less actives. Hopefully we can get them to come back to church soon. :)
So, Saturday was our ward Christmas breakfast, which we weren't able to be very much a part of because it started at 9:30, and we had a conference call at 10 with all the new missionaries and their trainers, which was alright I guess. I would have rather been eating food and socializing, but thats okay because we went to our zone leader's ward for their Christmas dinner. Oh, I forgot, and before we did that our whole zone went to a nearby retirement home and sang Christmas carols to all the elderly people, which was so much fun. They absolutely loved us! :) That was easily the highlight of the week.
Anyways, That is all I have to report for you all this week. I hope everybody has a very merry Christmas, and remembers what it is truly about. :) Love you all, and miss every single one of you!
Elder Greer
Monday, December 16, 2013
2 Weeks Left! (Week 10 In The Field)
I have 2 weeks left of the 12 week training program and I'm kind of having mixed feelings about it. I really want to stay because I love the ward I'm in, and the people in the ward also. However, I do want to see more of beautiful Colorado as well. So I don't know, we shall see what happens on January 1st when transfers happen.
Anyways, a lot happened this week, so lets start with Tuesday. So on Tuesday the sisters invited my companion and I, as well as my district leader and his companion, to help teach 3 seminary classes, which honestly, I thought was so much fun! Seminary is different here, they actually have a seminary building and I'm pretty sure the teacher gets paid. The classes start at 7:45, 9:15 and 2:15. Not for sure though if he gets paid, but I think he might. We taught the kids on how to invite their friends to church, or a church activity, and we role played with them, which was so much fun. At first I didn't want to help teach, but it wasn't too bad, and way more fun than I thought it would be.
Anyways, later that evening something crazy happened to my district leaders companion, Elder Robison. They were riding their bikes down a steep hill, and he was in front while Elder Bond was 100 feet or so behind him. He says he was probably going about 20-25mph. Anyways, they were riding on the sidewalk because there was no snow on them. But apparently somebody must have left their sprinklers on (I don't know why), but the water froze on the sidewalk and turned into black ice. They were on their way to dinner and it was dark, so he couldn't see it. When he went over the patch of ice his bike slid out from under him and his left shoulder nailed the fence right next to him. When my companion and I heard this, we rushed right over there to see what happened. His left shoulder looked like it got popped out of place and was hanging lower than the other. So the next day we drove him to urgent care, only to find out he just has a huge bruise and will have to be off bikes for the next week. So, lo and behold, we had to give them our car for the week. So, my companion and I rode bikes this past week, which wasn't too bad, but I miss my car haha. But we should get it back this Wednesday :)
So yeah, very crazy start to the week and Thursday we had an appointment with our potential investigator Donna Weaver, and we invited our ward mission leader to that. She is a 75 year old lady who is non-denominational, but loves to learn about what we believe. The lesson went really well and we invited her to read and pray to see if the Book of Mormon is true. She accepted our invitation and we plan to follow up with her this coming week, so I'll keep you posted. :)
Oh, we decided we are going to completely change our ward mission plan, because the one we have now has too much info on it, too cluttered, not well formatted, and displeasing to the eye, haha. So my ward mission leader is going to work on formatting it, and us and the bishop are going to help to put what info needs to be on it. So that should be fun! :)
Anyways, that's my exciting week for you all. I really miss everybody and hope you are all doing well. Have a great week!
Elder Greer
But Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added upon you. --3rd Nephi 13:33
Anyways, a lot happened this week, so lets start with Tuesday. So on Tuesday the sisters invited my companion and I, as well as my district leader and his companion, to help teach 3 seminary classes, which honestly, I thought was so much fun! Seminary is different here, they actually have a seminary building and I'm pretty sure the teacher gets paid. The classes start at 7:45, 9:15 and 2:15. Not for sure though if he gets paid, but I think he might. We taught the kids on how to invite their friends to church, or a church activity, and we role played with them, which was so much fun. At first I didn't want to help teach, but it wasn't too bad, and way more fun than I thought it would be.
Anyways, later that evening something crazy happened to my district leaders companion, Elder Robison. They were riding their bikes down a steep hill, and he was in front while Elder Bond was 100 feet or so behind him. He says he was probably going about 20-25mph. Anyways, they were riding on the sidewalk because there was no snow on them. But apparently somebody must have left their sprinklers on (I don't know why), but the water froze on the sidewalk and turned into black ice. They were on their way to dinner and it was dark, so he couldn't see it. When he went over the patch of ice his bike slid out from under him and his left shoulder nailed the fence right next to him. When my companion and I heard this, we rushed right over there to see what happened. His left shoulder looked like it got popped out of place and was hanging lower than the other. So the next day we drove him to urgent care, only to find out he just has a huge bruise and will have to be off bikes for the next week. So, lo and behold, we had to give them our car for the week. So, my companion and I rode bikes this past week, which wasn't too bad, but I miss my car haha. But we should get it back this Wednesday :)
So yeah, very crazy start to the week and Thursday we had an appointment with our potential investigator Donna Weaver, and we invited our ward mission leader to that. She is a 75 year old lady who is non-denominational, but loves to learn about what we believe. The lesson went really well and we invited her to read and pray to see if the Book of Mormon is true. She accepted our invitation and we plan to follow up with her this coming week, so I'll keep you posted. :)
Oh, we decided we are going to completely change our ward mission plan, because the one we have now has too much info on it, too cluttered, not well formatted, and displeasing to the eye, haha. So my ward mission leader is going to work on formatting it, and us and the bishop are going to help to put what info needs to be on it. So that should be fun! :)
Anyways, that's my exciting week for you all. I really miss everybody and hope you are all doing well. Have a great week!
Elder Greer
But Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added upon you. --3rd Nephi 13:33
Monday, December 9, 2013
Parent Update (Week 9 In The Field)
From Darren & Janae: Andrew didn't have a lot of time this week, or any major updates, so instead he shared with us a scripture, and some pictures. He'll send us a larger update next week.
Surely the Lord God will do nothing saveth he revealith his secrets to his servents the prophets
-Amos 3:7
Surely the Lord God will do nothing saveth he revealith his secrets to his servents the prophets
-Amos 3:7
Missionaries that went into Colorado Springs at the same time as Elder Greer
Elder Greer decorating the tree with his crown...because apparently he is "king of the basketball court" :)
Elder Greer really loves Christmas :)
Elder Greer praying before the tree (Flash in the window is supposed to represent the star in the sky) :)
Monday, December 2, 2013
Hey Everybody! (Week 8 In The Field)
I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! This week was pretty unsuccessful mostly though because of Thanksgiving, and everybody was either out of town, or just didn't want us to bother them during this time of year. However, This week has been extremely fun though! :)
Let me start off with Thanksgiving day! Thursday was like a P-day on steroids (for lack of a better term haha), but our day started off with football. Since our Ward didn't have a turkey bowl going on, we were invited to play with our zone leaders ward. We played for 3 hours, and there were so many people there, we had to split it up into 3 different games. It was seriously so much fun, and my companion was really happy he got to play football. He played rugby in college and is really good at it. Since football is pretty similar to the sport, he was the happiest guy that day, haha.
After that, we hung out in our district leader's apartment until we had to go to our thanksgiving lunches. I had thanksgiving lunch at 2 with the member I am staying with, Sister Gallegos, and her family. There were at least 25 people jam packed in her tiny house, but it was super fun. Sooooo much food, I was stuffed haha.
After that we went to my favorite members house, the Campanellas, and we watched Despicable Me with them! :) Now, I know what your thinking, "What? He can watch movies on his mission???", I was pretty surprised myself at first. It says in our policy and guidelines packet, that on Thanksgiving and Christmas we are allowed to watch any two G or PG commercial movies. I was so excited about this, but that could possibly change next year when we get our new mission president.
Anyways, afterwards we played basketball with a bunch of other missionaries. We play basketball so much here! At least twice a week we play. And, I am thoroughly convinced, that by the end of my mission, I am going to be amazingly good at basketball haha. Anyways, we finished basketball at 9 and then went back home, it was such a fun day! I had such a great Thanksgiving, even though it was weird without my family there.
As far as the missionary work goes, this week was horrible haha. We did however, get to see our investigator Curtis a couple times. We gave him a blessing, after he got his surgery, and I think he really felt the spirit during it. But we saw him a couple days later, and he just seemed like he had gotten worse :/ Poor guy had to get a bunch of shots on Saturday, and he said he wouldn't be able to make it out to church this Sunday :/ My companion and I fasted and prayed for him this Sunday, so I really hope that works and he gets better soon. He has a couple more surgeries he has to go through though, so please keep him in your prayers.
We tried to visit a bunch of less actives this week, but we didn't have much luck. We tracted too, but no one was interested in our message. So yeah, as far as the week goes, not very good. But we did find out for the past month we did awesome! 19 Less actives came back to church this month! My companion and I were so excited about that!
Anyways, thats really all I have to report. I'm sure this week will be better and I will keep you posted on our investigator! I hope All is well! I love and miss you all!
Elder Greer
Let me start off with Thanksgiving day! Thursday was like a P-day on steroids (for lack of a better term haha), but our day started off with football. Since our Ward didn't have a turkey bowl going on, we were invited to play with our zone leaders ward. We played for 3 hours, and there were so many people there, we had to split it up into 3 different games. It was seriously so much fun, and my companion was really happy he got to play football. He played rugby in college and is really good at it. Since football is pretty similar to the sport, he was the happiest guy that day, haha.
After that, we hung out in our district leader's apartment until we had to go to our thanksgiving lunches. I had thanksgiving lunch at 2 with the member I am staying with, Sister Gallegos, and her family. There were at least 25 people jam packed in her tiny house, but it was super fun. Sooooo much food, I was stuffed haha.
After that we went to my favorite members house, the Campanellas, and we watched Despicable Me with them! :) Now, I know what your thinking, "What? He can watch movies on his mission???", I was pretty surprised myself at first. It says in our policy and guidelines packet, that on Thanksgiving and Christmas we are allowed to watch any two G or PG commercial movies. I was so excited about this, but that could possibly change next year when we get our new mission president.
Anyways, afterwards we played basketball with a bunch of other missionaries. We play basketball so much here! At least twice a week we play. And, I am thoroughly convinced, that by the end of my mission, I am going to be amazingly good at basketball haha. Anyways, we finished basketball at 9 and then went back home, it was such a fun day! I had such a great Thanksgiving, even though it was weird without my family there.
As far as the missionary work goes, this week was horrible haha. We did however, get to see our investigator Curtis a couple times. We gave him a blessing, after he got his surgery, and I think he really felt the spirit during it. But we saw him a couple days later, and he just seemed like he had gotten worse :/ Poor guy had to get a bunch of shots on Saturday, and he said he wouldn't be able to make it out to church this Sunday :/ My companion and I fasted and prayed for him this Sunday, so I really hope that works and he gets better soon. He has a couple more surgeries he has to go through though, so please keep him in your prayers.
We tried to visit a bunch of less actives this week, but we didn't have much luck. We tracted too, but no one was interested in our message. So yeah, as far as the week goes, not very good. But we did find out for the past month we did awesome! 19 Less actives came back to church this month! My companion and I were so excited about that!
Anyways, thats really all I have to report. I'm sure this week will be better and I will keep you posted on our investigator! I hope All is well! I love and miss you all!
Elder Greer
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