Rollercoaster Week! (Week 35 In The Field)

Oh boy did this week sure have its ups and downs. So Tuesday morning my stomach started hurting but I kinda disregarded it and carried on with my day. We went out to teach, but the day wasn't to successful and my stomach was killing me. Finally, when we finished all our plans, we came home and I just slept. At the end of the night my stomach was still hurting so I called my ward mission leader, Brother Tibbits, to come give me a blessing. He gave me one of the most powerful blessings I have ever received. We were all crying afterwards. After the blessing I finally got whatever was upsetting my stomach out. Thank goodness.

The next day I felt better, but I was sleep deprived so I stayed in most of that day. I am so thankful to have the power of the priesthood in my life. I know that because of that blessing, my body was able to be healed.

So on Wednesday night we had dinner with an inactive member. We were invited by an active family, the Coombs. They are an amazing family and are truly trying their best to do missionary work. We had a great dinner with the Coombs and the inactive member, Brenda. I think she's only inactive because she takes care of an elderly lady almost 24/7. She is a super nice lady, does genealogy and has a daughter on a mission. Seems like an active member. But during the conversation at dinner the coombs made subtle remarks to her about liquor stores and drinking. So I think she might have a drinking problem. Don't know for sure yet. We are going to try to meet with her again soon now that we know where she lives.

Thursday we went and did family history in the morning. I am sorta starting to get the hang of it, but it's really hard. We have a really good family history consultant here, named sister Stubbs. She really knows how to make it fun and interesting haha. I am trying to find names to take to the temple when I hit my year mark and have my temple Jubile (or however you spell it) with all the elders that I came out with.

After that, got my hair cut and we had service the rest of that day with our district leader and the sisters. Did a bunch of yard work and it was super hot that day so I was dying haha. Later that night we had a lesson with Cheryl. She's still doing really good, and we just finished all the lessons with her so now we are going to jump in and read the Book of Mormon with her. Pretty excited about that. We want to help her gain a solid testimony of it and this church. She's doing so well, I wish she could get baptized soon. She's given up coffee and everything. We talked to the Bishop and he wants to see more of a consistency to coming to church. She hasn't been lately because she pulled her back, so now she can barely move. She's going to get an X ray done Tuesday, so I'll keep you updated.

On Saturday, I went on exchanges with my district leader in my area. That was really fun and we were able to see a lot of people, and invite them to partake in the ordinations necessary for salvation.

On Sunday we ended the week with a bang. Went out with Brother Tibbitts, and tried to see a bunch of referrals we received from the sisters investigators a while back. We had luck with one. His name is Tio and he was super nice to us the moment we met him. We went in, taught him the restoration, invited him to read and pray about the Book of Mormon to know if its true, and invited him to baptism. He said no on the baptism part, but he did say he would read and pray. The man has a lot of faith and is really interested. The only problem he might have is smoking. His whole place smelt of it, and when we left we smelled like it too. Needless to say, I showered when I got home haha. But hes a nice man and we will be going back to teach him again on Sunday.

Well, That was my week! :) I hope you all had a good week as well and I will talk to you next week! Love and miss you all!

Elder Greer

Having fun with my new camera!