Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! (Week 64 In The Field)

Wow, I cannot explain to you how awesome this past week has been. I don't even know where to begin. I guess I can begin with last Tuesday. That day we had our Christmas conference most of the day from 9AM to 4PM. It's basically just a zone conference with a Christmas theme to it. 2 zones were a part of it, and it was awesome because I got to see my pops! (My trainer) I also got to see my MTC companion and a lot of other good friends I have made while being out on my mission.

At zone conference they talked a lot about how we need to be more bold in inviting people to make commitments and how we need to begin with the end in mind. Basically how when we start teaching people we need to picture them going to the temple some day and getting sealed. Which is an interesting way to look at it, so now I need to take that into account when we first start teaching people. The best part about Christmas conference was when Santa made a surprise visit during lunch time. So obviously I had to take a selfie with him, it's not every day you get to see Santa and talk with him face to face haha.

So after the conference one of the sister's car wouldn't start so since nobody had jumper cables we had to call one of our members that lived close by to come jump start their car. It took like 30 minutes for us to find someone. We called our investigator and his daughter answered the phone and said she would be glad to help but her Dad wasn't home. We were hoping it would be our investigator that came to help so we could set an appointment with him but nonetheless, we were very thankful for the help in which we were able to have. We were able to jump start the sister's car and they were on their way.

Christmas Eve was awesome as well! :) A bunch of musically talented Elders and Sisters from our zone got together and went to the mall to Carroll. That turned out to be a great finding tool! We passed out so many He Is The Gift cards and people loved us! One Elder played the guitar, while another Elder went into one of the stores, asked for an empty box and used that as if he were playing the bongos. Let me tell you, the box was the best part! People loved it and started video'ing him doing box solos in between the verses of Joy To The World. So while those two were playing instruments, the rest of us sang, while another Elder and a Sister were passing out cards for whoever walked by. It was a ton of fun. As we were leaving, a member saw us and gave us 40 bucks to get ourselves some ice cream. We were all very thankful and decided to go to baskin robins. Must have been inspired, because there my companion met a guy named Shawn, who was interested and he invited us to come over to his house and teach him more about what we believe. It was funny because he just so happened to live in our ward boundaries too. So we set an appointment to go over there on Saturday at 5.

Now I'll come to that part when I get to what happened on Saturday so I'll hold off on that story until when I get there.

On Christmas I got to skype my family, which was the best part of the week! :) I love them so much and cannot wait to see them again! It was so nice to talk with them, I'm so glad we get to skype twice a year. Anyways, that was the highlight for sure.

After we went and visited a part member family and shared a quick Christmas themed lesson. The 15 year old daughter just got baptized last year. Her Dad is less active, and her Mom is not a member so it was a very good teaching opportunity, and we had dinner with them the next day! The lesson went well, got to know the family for the first time, super nice family. After that, we went to a members house and watched The Lego Movie with them, which was an awesome movie. I loved it, perfect allegory to the plan of salvation.  We also played games and ate late lunch with them. All in all it was a fun day.

Friday we moved out actually. We moved into apartments way out of our area. It is now a 20 minute walk just to get to our area. But anyways it took up our whole day moving into that. Our Bishop is still continuing to look for someone to house us within the ward boundaries. Unfortunately, I have no idea what my mailing address is yet, so I'm going to have to find that out soon and let you know.

That night we had dinner with that part member family, which I told you about earlier, and her Mom said she was interested in taking lessons some time in the future, so that was super exciting to hear.

On Saturday we had that lesson with Shawn we talked to in Baskin Robins. So we get into his home and he's super friendly with us. And we go in prepared to teach the restoration but instead he just argued with us. We kept telling him we weren't here to argue and asked if he was truly interested in what we believed and he said yes. However every point we kept bringing up he just wanted to argue with us on it. So we were in there for a good hour and a half and we didn't want to keep wasting our time if he was just gonna argue with us. We tried so hard to get out of there as soon as possible but he just kept on talking forever haha. Needless to say, he was not prepared. After the lesson, a member took us to get Panda, so that was some nice comfort food after that horrible lesson.

Sunday, not much happened. But before emails this morning we went shopping at Walmart and a guy walks up to us, non member, and he says his name is Joseph Smith. And it actually was! He grew up in Utah and worked for the Church, however we thought it was interesting that he was not a member. He was a super nice guy though. We invited him to take the lessons and be baptized, however he's moving to New York in a couple days, but who knows maybe he will join the Church some day. Now I can say we invited Joseph Smith to be baptized haha!

Anyways, that was my week! :) I hope you all had a great Christmas. I love and miss you all so much, have a great week and a happy new year! 2015 BABY! :D

Elder Greer

Santa at zone conference!

Selfie with Santa!

 New tie "rack" for Christmas!

Sick Week (Literally) - (Week 63 In The Field)

So unfortunately I came down with a pretty bad cold this past week, so I had to take it slow a couple of days. But, on the bright side I feel a lot better now! :) So that's good because Christmas is coming up and nobody wants to be sick on Christmas.

However, for the days that we did go out and work, we worked our tails off trying to pass out as many He Is The Gift pass along cards as possible. You would think people would be more willing to accept a pass along card than anything else. We have to pass out 10 a day, and it is hard! We will go out knocking doors and people will refuse to even accept a harmless card that has a harmless link to a video on it. Haha it is what it is. As long as we do our best to try to share this great message we have to others.

My companion and I yesterday said to each other, "Alright, today we WILL pass out 10 cards." So we knocked doors and ITL'ed right after church until it got dark. And we actually managed to do it! We passed out 10! :D We figured we should try our best to do that because Christmas is right around the corner and we won't really have much more time to pass them out anymore. This week is gonna be booked. Well, at least till after Christmas. Oh by the way, for those that don't know, ITL stands for Invite To Learn. So when you ITL someone, basically it's just street contacting. Talking to someone cleaning up the yard, washing the car, putting up Christmas lights, whatever they may be doing outside of their home. It's my favorite form of finding because you could just walk up and ask if they need any help. Usually they say no, but they are pretty surprised when you offer help and then they become more friendly to talk to haha.

Oh, our appointment with our investigator fell through this week, not surprised, but hopefully we can set one up again. We may have a new investigator coming up shortly though!  This couple investigated the church a while back but stopped because their son disowned them. However it's looking like they wanna meet with us again so we are super excited! :) I'll keep you updated on that.

Sorry this letter is going to be shorter than normal. Because of my sickness, we weren't able to do much. Oh and I forgot, Christmas day is my 15 month mark! I hope you all have a very merry Christmas! Don't forget why we really celebrate Christmas. Always remember him this special day and throughout the year. He is the greatest gift that was ever given to us, and I am so thankful for him and all he has done for us. I am so thankful to be his servant at this time to help his children come to the knowledge of the fullness of the gospel. I know He lives and loves every single one of us. :) Don't forget him on this special day. Remember him in every thought.

Love,

Elder Greer

#ShareTheGift

Exchanges and Other Craziness (Week 62 In The Field)

This week, and last week as well, have been really awesome weeks! Probably because during this time of year there are a bunch of activities that the church puts on. We have literally had some type of activity every week so far.

A couple weeks ago we had something called a Christmas Creche. It lasted from Friday 5 to 9 and Saturday from 2 to 9. Basically what it is, is thousands of different nativity scenes from different countries, depicted in different ways. All the nativity scenes were set up in the gym and there were signs hanging, categorizing where the different nativity scenes came from. Like some were from Africa, South America, Pacific Islands, Asia, etc. They also had musical performances in the chapel during the evening times, and a live nativity outside in the back of the church. It was very well done and there were more non-members than members that attended! It was a great missionary tool. They actually had all the missionaries in the zone help work the creche. I mainly helped pouring and passing out hot chocolate, and greeted people at the entrance. It was so much fun, I didnt want it to end haha. I thought it was such a great idea, I wanted to recommend to my home stake to do it when I get home, but it turns out they just started doing it haha. Well, for next year's Ill have a few suggestions to help make it better. :)

Anyways, this past week was kept pretty interesting. We started out the week with going on exchanges with our zone leaders who have become pretty much our best friends, we hangout every p-day and do service together during the week. The exchanges went great! I stayed here in my area and was with Elder Conrad, who actually served here 2 months ago haha, He enjoyed seeing some of the members again. We worked really hard. We talked to everyone that was outside and managed to pass out 10 He Is The Gift pass-along cards to people. I dont know what it is, you always manage to have really good things happen when you go on exchanges. We may not have found any investigators but by the end of the day we both felt that we did really good that night.

Later that week we had the ward Christmas party, which was awesome. Apparently our ward has a jazz band, and they did such a good job!

And on Sunday, this is where things got interesting. We attended our regular church meetings, and after we had our missionary coordination meeting. During that meeting one of the ward missionaries told us that he has a friend that agreed to take the missionary discussions. I got super excited when I heard this, because that's the first time a member got us an investigator. We should be setting up a time to teach him this week. We are super excited! Please pray that all goes well with that.

Anyways after we went to our dinner, here is the crazy part, we had just a normal nice dinner. then she brings out the dessert, which is just some cookies. Anyways, I take a couple bites of the cookie and I start feeling a tingling on my tongue and the roof of my mouth, so I decided to stop eating the cookie at that point. Then I could start feeling my tongue and throat swell a little bit. At this point I'm freaked out, because I've never had an allergic reaction before. I asked her what was in the cookies, and apparently it was like a raspberry filling cookie. I already knew I was mildly allergic to some fruits, usually it just makes my ears itch, but this reaction was worse, still not too bad though because I could still breath. So I took some medicine and asked for a blessing. By the end of the night the swelling went down. Had to end up cancelling one of our appointments because I just wasn't up for teaching that night after that.

So instead, we went to our stake Christmas devotional which was very nice and relaxing. The music was beautiful, and I also got to see a few members from my last ward which was nice. Anyways, I feel perfectly back to normal today and ready to go have some fun. I'll keep you posted about our new investigator, his name is Peter by the way.

I hope you all have a great week! I love and miss you all!

Elder Greer

**Darren: You'll recall Andrew told us he was asked to sing a solo several weeks ago.  We were finally able to get a copy of it, and you can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVe6A43Ev60&feature=youtu.be

Andrew's Early Christmas Present From Us :)

Andrew's companions grandma sent him a mini tree 

Andrew and his companion with Santa :)

Happy Thanksgiving and 14 Months! (Week 60 In The Field)

Well I'm going to start this letter off by letting everyone know I have now officially been out 14 months here in the mission field. I wish there was a way I could just slow down the time, it goes by way too fast haha.

Anyways, I wanna wish everyone a happy thanksgiving, I hope y'all's thanksgiving was just as amazing as mine! :) So for thanksgiving at 8 in the morning our ward had a turkey bowl combined with another ward. That was a lot of fun, I dressed though, as if it were going to be 40 degrees outside, and oh man to my surprise it was not. It was in the 60s and when we started playing, I got so hot, so I took off my sweater but I was still wearing jeans, so that didnt help very much haha. Out of all the guys that showed up, I was the only one in jeans, so the guys joked around about that a few times, but then I started doing really good and they were all like oh man, the jeans must be helping and making him better! Haha, it was a lot of fun, first time I've played football in a few months, and I was doing pretty good.

After, we had thanksgiving lunch with one of the members in our ward, which was awesome!! I ate way too much food haha. After the dinner, we shared a thought on the atonement of Christ and both shared our testimony and how thankful we were for Christ's sacrifice and what it's meant for us in our lives.

After that, we went to our bishops house and watched Elf because we are allowed to watch one movie for thanksgiving and Christmas that is G or PG. Oh man I forgot how funny that movie was, I was laughing like the whole time, it was kind of embarrassing because bishop had his whole family there and I was like the only one laughing that much. But anyways, that was fun, then after we played settlers of catan with his family and we played with an expansion pack, which made the game a whole lot more interesting. And that was the end of our thanksgiving, hope you all had a good thanksgiving too. :)

As far as teaching went this past week, most of our appointments fell through probably because of the holidays. But this next week should be really good because the brethren started this new initiative called the "He is the Gift" initiative. They have given us a bunch of pass along cards they want us to hand out before Christmas, and we are actually going to have a new statistic we have to report on the number of investigators we find through this initiative. Its a big deal.You can watch the video on the website http://christmas.mormon.org so check that out whenever you all get the chance, it is an amazing video that just reminds us of the true meaning of Christmas.

On December 7th the church will take over YouTube's home page to advertise this video and they will be the only advertisers on the front page of YouTube until after Christmas. They are expecting big things to come from this so I am excited! Please Share this video with all your friends. I can't wait to see all the good that comes out of this. :)

Oh I forgot to tell you, it's the beginning of a new transfer and we received news this past Saturday that both us will be staying. I am excited to see what good thing are going to come out of this next transfer! :) Anyways, sorry this is so short but I just want to end by saying how thankful I am to be a missionary and to help in this great work. I am thankful for my family and the wonderful example they are to me, I love them so much and cant wait to be reunited with them again soon.

Oh shout out to my brother Tyler, its his birthday this week, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TYLER!!! Hope its a good one. :) 

Love you! I'll send you something this week! I guess I will end by saying how thankful I am for the Savior and His atonement. I have gained a deeper understanding of it and know that it is the most important gift that we have been given. I have a testimony of its infinite power and I know that when we actually apply it in our lives we will be much happier.

I love and miss you all so much and hope you all have an amazing week this coming week!

Elder Greer

Paper Nativity Set that we sent him!

Meeting a 70! (Week 58 In The Field)

So we had not only a great week, but a successful one too. On Wednesday we had what is called a mission tour, where a member of the first quorum of the 70, or an apostle comes to speak to our mission. (In this case it was a member of the 70, Elder David S. Baxter). Anyways that meeting lasted the whole day, and was up at the very north end of our mission in Parker. The drive up was beautiful and so was being there.

I saw the area and I was like oh man what I would give to serve up here. Everyone who serves up there says it's the place to be. Anyways, the meeting started at 10 AM and went to 4 PM. The meeting was awesome, and Elder Baxter is an amazing speaker, we were so blessed to be able to have him come speak to us.

He talked a lot on the conversion process a person must feel before they decide to be baptized and we also had a 2 hour question and answer session with him. There were a couple of silly questions that were asked, but more of them were serious and the spirit was just so strong there. And as I mentioned last week, half way through the meeting a few missionaries and I did a special musical number of I Am A Child Of God. It was a little different from the regular song because a missionary named Elder Wasden Composed the music himself. One sister played the violin, while he played the piano and 5 of us Elders sang. It was so beautiful, and the spirit was so strong during it. I had a solo part, the first verse, and then a duet with another Elder for the second, and then we all sang the first verse. I wish I recorded it because it was amazing. I was super nervous at first, like my heart was thumping so hard I thought you would be able to hear through the mic but it ended up going well, I calmed down once I began singing. :) So yeah that went really well.

Oh, Something I forgot to mention is that each missionary got to meet Elder Baxter personally which was cool. He is like the British version of Elder Holland, doesn't sugar coat anything.

The rest of the week was really good, we did some more service for our potential investigator, and I think he is really starting to feel the love of Christ from our service. We have been doing service for him every week. His name is Shawn and he is just the nicest guy ever. Please pray that he will have a desire to actually meet with us to do a lesson and come to church.

We also met with our investigator Duane and he is awesome. He is an ex marine, so he looks super scary but he is just the nicest guy. We hardly have to teach him though. We started teaching him the plan of salvation and all we have to do is state one principal and he will figure out the rest himself. He believed everything we taught him and we didn't have to teach him much. We state a small principal and he will talk his way into understanding it. And oh boy can he talk. We took a priest out with us that day so that was a good experience for him. Please pray for Duane that he will have the desire to be baptized.

One other thing that has been amazing lately is that we have been asking members that we have dinner with, the day before, what they would like us to teach for the spiritual thought that night. And the spirit has been so much stronger during lessons. A member told us last night that the thought we shared helped him a lot and that it was exactly what he needed to hear.

Well I gotta wrap up, I just love being a missionary so much and am so thankful for this short time I have to be able to serve the Lord. I love and miss you all so much and hope you have an amazing week!

Elder Greer

North Zone Mission Tour Pic

Interviews With The President (Week 57 In The Field)

So last week we had interviews with our mission president, everything was normal and the interviews went great. The next day we were asked to help at the new family history center for about 3 hours. President and his wife sister Rehm were there finishing up interviews for missionaries in our zone. So everything was still normal, that day the local news paper company was coming to do an interview with some of the people who work at the family history center, and to take pictures, because it is brand new and super nice. So we had the job of cleaning it up and decorating it to make it look nice.

Anyways, the family history center is right next to where sister Rehm and the other missionaries were sitting waiting for their interview. So when we weren't doing anything, we went to go talk to the missionaries and sister Rehm. While we were talking, a guy walks into the building, and starts asking us for help. He claims the spirit guided him here to help him with some financial issues he's having. He's not a member. So he comes up and talks to Elder Seymour and I, we told him we can give him the bishops number.

While one of the family history consultants scrambled to get a hold of one of the 4 bishops near the area I went to go sit down with Sister Rehm and she just looks super frustrated. Anyways, he comes to sit down soon after. Sister Rehm starts asking him questions, like if he has family nearby. Then he just blows up, super angry and says ma'am, do you think I would be here if I had family to help, don't you believe we are all family through God? Sister Rehm stays all calm and composed, which was amazing, I can tell she was mad. She tells him: Sir, I do believe we are all brothers and sisters and I was just asking because those are the people you should go to first for help. And then she tells him how she is just worried because people come in off the streets, and basically come in and just use us for our money. The guy is super angry at this point, but then the family history consultant comes in and gives him the bishops phone number.

Sister Rehm gets really bold here, and says if the spirit guided you here, then it is because the Lord wants you to hear more of the restored gospel. The guy says well I don't doubt that. Then she invites him to come to church on Sunday to see if he is truly serious about learning what we believe or if he's just using us for money. He told her he would come. After, Sister Rehm gets up and leaves to cool her tension. The guy is just about to leave but we asked him if he would like to pray with us before he goes. He was asking sister Rehm earlier if she would pray for him during the argument, but she declined. Not because she didn't want to, it was just because the spirit was not in the room the time they were arguing.

So we prayed with him and we each said a prayer with him, one of the sister missionaries that joined in after her interview, Elder Seymour, and me. We went in a separate room to pray. Before we prayed we just told him that Sister Rehm is just looking out for us and making sure we aren't being used, and he completely understood after we told him that. So we each said our prayer and while we were saying ours he would like talk during it, saying amen and a bunch of other stuff. The guy is nuts haha.

After, he stands up and thanks us and then he says, you wanna know what my office is for the church I go to, I'm a prophet. In my head I was thinking no you are not, there is only one and that is president Thomas S. Monson, but I didn't say that because I didn't want to cause more contention. Right before he walks out the door, he turns to me and says you know, you got a good spirit about you, you will go very far in life. I thanked him, that was a super nice compliment, but there is something wrong with this guy. After, sister Rehm comes up to me and is like, you better call me and let me know if he comes to church, I wanna know if he will show up or not.

So that Sunday rolls around and needless to say he never showed up. I kinda expected him not to. So Sister Rehm ended up being right, so we called her, she didn't answer but we left a message letting her know. So thats my crazy story from last week haha, it was pretty funny.

Not much else happened this week, we did service with a potential investigator we are working with, and brought some members from the ward with us to fellowship. After, we had a great conversation about our church and I think it went super well. I'm sure after that, he will progress soon.

So on Wednesday we are having a mission tour. A member of the 70 will be coming to talk to our mission. I was also asked to sing a solo for it. I am super nervous but at least it's only the first verse of I am a child of God. And then I will have a few other Elders sing with me the second and third verse. So wish me luck! :) I hope you all have a great week! I love and miss you! :)

Elder Greer

Another Trip to Garden of the Gods!

Random Pictures (Week 56 In The Field)

Goofing around!

Sister Gallegos at the Family History Fair!

P-Day Glow In The Dark Mini Golf!

Pumpkin Carving :)

Random Member Going As a Ghost Buster!

13 Month Mark and New Area (Week 55 In The Field)

Well, just Saturday I hit my 13 month mark being out in the mission field! So thats pretty exciting! The downward slope is already going by crazy fast. The days are long, but the weeks fly by. I am enjoying it way too much for it to go by fast.

So as you know, last week was really rough for me. I got the call from President that I'm getting emergency transferred to the Briargate ward, which isn't too bad since it's still in the same stake, so I'll see members from the Cordera ward here and there. :) I've come to grips with the fact that this is where the Lord needs me at this time, and I am excited to be serving here.

I was a pretty emotional wreck my first day, so my new companion was a big help. His name is Elder Seymour, he's a super nice kid, loves planes a lot, almost done with his mission as well. He's got about 4 months left. He's a little socially awkward, but he's a good missionary, and we get along pretty well. Anyways, that night he gave me a beautiful blessing, which helped me a lot. I received confirmation that this is what needs to happen.

So the members that we live with are pretty cool, the Williams family. My new address is:

    Elder Andrew Greer
    2420 Linenhall Court
    Colorado Springs, Colorado 80920

He is actually running for state secretary, so thats pretty cool, and they LOVE board games. Every night they play with a couple friends, it's nuts. They can stare at the game board for hours haha. They are super nice though, oh, and guess what!? We get the master bedroom in the house! Haha, needless to say, we have it pretty good. :)

Not much work-wise happened this week, just because of the whole situation that went down. Tuesday was probably our best day, just because we were able to talk to everyone we came in contact with. Not a single person didn't answer their door, it was crazy. The rest of the week was pretty slow though. We don't have a car, so we walk everywhere. I'm going to be getting a pretty good work out in this area haha.

Something cool that happened this week was the family history fair! They just built a new family history center at our building, and it is so nice! There are couches, a 60 inch flat screen tv, and like 15 computers. It's the biggest center I've seen so far. The fair was on Saturday from 10 to 4. There were tons of non members there, the parking lot was full the whole time. They said next year they are predicting that they will need to use the local high school parking lot, and get buses to transport people from the school to the church. That was probably the most exciting day we had this week.

My new ward is pretty cool, the members are super nice as always, but holy cow the ward is so small! There was hardly anyone at sacrament meeting on Sunday. It's a good ward though, and I am excited to get to know everyone and serve here to the best of my ability! :)

I got to go now but I love and miss you all and hope you have an amazing week!

Elder Greer

An Unexpected Turn (Week 54 In The Field)

Oh man has this week been eventful. I'll start with the bad news I received last night from my mission president. So as you all know I just got a new companion a week ago, Elder Alpaugh. Well looks like we won't be companions anymore and I am no longer going to be serving in the Cordera ward. I am getting emergency transferred to the Briargate ward which is actually in the same stake I'm serving in now. So at least I am staying in the same stake. I am really trying to stay positive about this whole thing because I am super sad to leave the area, and my current companion. I literally cried last night. Everything was just so unexpected, I wish I had a little more time to grasp the whole thing and to at least say bye to a few people. I make the switch tonight.

The reason the switch is happening is because the missionary that is serving in the Briargate ward now is not getting along with his companion at all, so him and I will be switching places. I personally don't feel right about the switch, I feel like I was supposed to stay in Cordera for a reason and to serve with Elder Alpaugh to learn something from him. I emailed the mission president today, and told him how I feel about the whole thing. But maybe this is really what the Lord wants and I am just over stressing about the whole thing. I dont know, we will have to see how it goes.

Now that the bad news is out of the way, I can move on to the better stuff. Oh man did I love serving with Elder Alpaugh the few days that we have been together, he is a super good missionary and we had a super fun time together. Him, and his twin brother are converts to the church, they joined 2 years ago. His brother got sealed in the temple, and he made the decision to serve a full time mission. His parents weren't very happy with the decisions they both have made, but they both are being blessed because of it.

Anyways, so Tuesday, was transfer day, so I said good bye to Elder Mcghie and picked up Elder Alpaugh. I had a blast serving with Elder Mcghie, he is a good missionary. So not much happened tuesday, just unpacked everything. But on Wednesday we did a service, helping a non member move. It was in a super ghetto area. But while the other missionaries and I were talking, this 9 year old kid comes up to us, holds out an E-cigarette and asks us if we want a hit. We looked at the kid like he was crazy. I couldn't believe he was smoking in public and not only that but hes 9! He told us he started smoking all this bad stuff at age 6 and he sounded proud of it. So I threw down on the word of wisdom on that kid and straight up told him that is not something to be proud of, and to stop, because it is all terrible for you. I don't know if it helped any but I voiced my thoughts on him haha.

On Thursday we had to go downtown to take our car to the shop to get it fixed. We get there about noon, drop the car off and the guy said he would call us when he's done. So we go to lunch and walk around Walmart for a bit until the call. Well 4:30 comes along and we are both like, the car has to be done now. So we go back and the guy is like umm your car won't be done until tomorrow. I was wondering where you guys walked off to. We were both like what the heck. So we try calling a bunch of members to ask for a ride back, and finally by 6 we found somebody. Didn't end up getting home until 7 that night, So that was pretty crazy.

Friday was district meeting, and after, we got a ride from our zone leaders to pick up our car. That was pretty much the extent of our Friday. On Saturday we did service in the morning and went to stake conference later. Stake conference was so good! They talked about the importance of family history and how we all need to be involved in it.

On Sunday, stake conference continued, but it was cool because we got to hear messages from David A. Bednar and Richard G. Scott. They weren't actually there, they were just broadcasting it to a couple different states that were all having stake conference that day. The main focus was members and missionary work, and on how they can be more involved in it.

After, we had lunch with a member, then sang at the old peoples home with a few members of our ward. After that we had our sign language class, went to dinner, then had our mission prep class where we teach the youth. It was a really good day until that night I got the call. But I'm sure the Lord has a purpose for me to leave so suddenly and I pray everything will turn out okay.

I hope all is well back at home and hope you all have a good week. I love and miss you all!

Elder Greer

Last day with Elder Mcghie

Me and my new comp chilling at mcdonalds

t was a glorious 5 days togeather

Last time at this fountain. Model photos

reflections

they stole my camera haha

this one is better