Andrew's District of Elders
Andrew's District Leader
Family in his Ward with 10 kids!!
Monday, February 23, 2015
Monday, February 16, 2015
I'm What President?! (Week 71 In The Field)
So Thursday night I got a call from my mission president and he's like
"How are you doing Elder Greer? I'm doing good, how about you President?
I'm doing pretty good. Just wanted to call you and ask you if you would
be willing to accept a call to train one of the new missionaries coming
out this next transfer? How do you feel about that? We prayed about it a
lot and we felt that you should be one of the trainers. Will you accept
that call? Uhh....I would love to president, wow!" So I guess I will
start training a new missionary next week.
This coming week is the last week of the transfer. I can't believe how fast its gone by. Elder price and I have got a lot done and did a lot of good in the past 5 weeks. But it looks like he's off to a new area, which will be good for him, since he's been in this area for 7 months now and has been here his whole mission. So I guess I will take over here with a new missionary, oh man am I super nervous haha. I'm a little bit excited, but more so nervous than anything. But I trust that if the Lord trusts me to train then everything will be fine and I'll do okay. There is always a reason behind everything, so we will see how this goes.
So this will be my last week with Elder Price, so I gotta make the most of it. :) This past week was really good! We taught our new investigator, Vern, the first 2 lessons with a member and those went very well! He has really enjoyed our visits and seems really accepting to everything we teach him. He keeps all the commitments we leave with him, except coming to Church. We need to figure out the concern there. He is reading the Book of Mormon a lot, and cross referencing it to the bible and seems to be loving that. He reads all the pamphlets we give him twice, and watched the restoration video twice, and the bible videos 3 times each haha. He is loving all this new info we give him, but he just won't come to church. So we will have to see what's going there and we are thinking about inviting him to be baptized this next lesson we have with him Tuesday.
Ivy has been coming to church and staying all 3 hours, and is really enjoying getting to know all the members of Relief Society and they have enjoyed getting to know her. We hope and pray she decides to get baptized soon because she is so ready.
We also received a referral from a member for a potential new investigator. She has agreed to take the discussions with us so we hope to meet with her this week. Her name is Judy, also an older lady but I'll keep you posted about her.
I have to say, I am also getting pretty good at soccer. ;) We play every Tuesday and Saturday with a bunch of non members. I actually have a crazy cool story from it. So we usually start with a prayer before we play, but we forgot one time. So we play and almost everybody started getting hurt, and getting mad, and being all un-sportsmanship like. So one of the members that we play with, in the middle of the game, was like you wanna know what, we should pray, we forgot to do that. So we pray, and after that everything changed. It was a night and day difference, like someone flipped a switch. Everyone started showing good sportsmanship, the injuries stopped, and everyone was laughing having a good time. And those who did get hurt started to feel better after the prayer. It was amazing! :) It really boosted my testimony on the importance of prayer for everything. The non-members were amazed by the difference that the prayer had, and commented on it a lot. But always remember to pray for even the little things.
God loves us and wants to hear from us and he will bless us when we take the time to communicate with him. I hope you all have a great week! I love and miss you! :)
This coming week is the last week of the transfer. I can't believe how fast its gone by. Elder price and I have got a lot done and did a lot of good in the past 5 weeks. But it looks like he's off to a new area, which will be good for him, since he's been in this area for 7 months now and has been here his whole mission. So I guess I will take over here with a new missionary, oh man am I super nervous haha. I'm a little bit excited, but more so nervous than anything. But I trust that if the Lord trusts me to train then everything will be fine and I'll do okay. There is always a reason behind everything, so we will see how this goes.
So this will be my last week with Elder Price, so I gotta make the most of it. :) This past week was really good! We taught our new investigator, Vern, the first 2 lessons with a member and those went very well! He has really enjoyed our visits and seems really accepting to everything we teach him. He keeps all the commitments we leave with him, except coming to Church. We need to figure out the concern there. He is reading the Book of Mormon a lot, and cross referencing it to the bible and seems to be loving that. He reads all the pamphlets we give him twice, and watched the restoration video twice, and the bible videos 3 times each haha. He is loving all this new info we give him, but he just won't come to church. So we will have to see what's going there and we are thinking about inviting him to be baptized this next lesson we have with him Tuesday.
Ivy has been coming to church and staying all 3 hours, and is really enjoying getting to know all the members of Relief Society and they have enjoyed getting to know her. We hope and pray she decides to get baptized soon because she is so ready.
We also received a referral from a member for a potential new investigator. She has agreed to take the discussions with us so we hope to meet with her this week. Her name is Judy, also an older lady but I'll keep you posted about her.
I have to say, I am also getting pretty good at soccer. ;) We play every Tuesday and Saturday with a bunch of non members. I actually have a crazy cool story from it. So we usually start with a prayer before we play, but we forgot one time. So we play and almost everybody started getting hurt, and getting mad, and being all un-sportsmanship like. So one of the members that we play with, in the middle of the game, was like you wanna know what, we should pray, we forgot to do that. So we pray, and after that everything changed. It was a night and day difference, like someone flipped a switch. Everyone started showing good sportsmanship, the injuries stopped, and everyone was laughing having a good time. And those who did get hurt started to feel better after the prayer. It was amazing! :) It really boosted my testimony on the importance of prayer for everything. The non-members were amazed by the difference that the prayer had, and commented on it a lot. But always remember to pray for even the little things.
God loves us and wants to hear from us and he will bless us when we take the time to communicate with him. I hope you all have a great week! I love and miss you! :)
Elder Greer
Monday, February 9, 2015
Road Trip To Springs And Other Things (Week 70 In The Field)
This week we were kept super busy! We had to go to town 3
times this past week. On Monday we went to Pueblo to do our shopping.
We only get to go to Pueblo a couple times a month, because it takes up a
lot of our miles.
So while we were there, we went bowling with the other
missionaries, and then went shopping. Bowling was super fun, I broke 100
the second round we played, I was doing pretty well compared to how
terrible I was back at home haha.
On Wednesday, we went to a funeral in
the morning. A much loved woman in our ward died last week of unusual
circumstances, so we went to that to show our love and support. I only
met her a couple times, but she was a super nice lady. It's sad to see her
here one day and gone the next. The service was good. All her kids are
less active in the church, and I think many of them were touched by the
good talks that were given at the service.
After the funeral we had to
take our car back to Colorado Springs, because we got our truck back, so
we don't need the car anymore. So that was a fun road trip. The zone
leaders were having their MLC's up there so we were able to get a ride
back with our zone leaders. It was awesome because I got to see a lot of
my friends while I was up there. They were surprised to see me too.
On
Thursday we went with a member in our ward to see a non-member who he
has been working with. This guy's name is Vern and he is reading the
Book Of Mormon and really studying our religion. We stopped by to meet
him officially, and he was very nice to us and said we can come back to
teach him more. So we are going back tomorrow to teach him. Pray that
everything goes well with that.
Friday we had to go to Pueblo again for
zone training. That was a really good meeting. They talked about how we
always need to strive to fulfill our purpose as missionaries. That took
up pretty much our whole day.
Sunday was the best day of the week though,
because Ivy Hill and Ethan Gomez, our investigators, both came to
church and they both loved it! The members in this ward are such good
fellowshipers. It is amazing to see the members doing missionary work, it
made us so happy. :) Our next goal is to set baptismal dates for them
both so please keep them in your prayers.
I hope you all have had a
great week and have another one as well! I love and miss you all! :)
Elder Greer
Monday, February 2, 2015
We Got Our Truck Back! (Week 69 In The Field)
So this past week we got to pick up our truck from the shop. I don't
know if I told you all this, but the truck was crashed by the last Elder
that was here, and was in the shop for the past month getting fixed. So
we have been driving in a little car on a ton of dirt roads for the past
month, and almost got stuck a few times in mud, haha.
Oh, that reminds me of something that happened a couple weeks ago, I forgot to mention. We went out to do service for a lady, and had a couple of young men come with us to help. Their van got stuck in the mud, so me and Elder Price went to go push on the front of the car while he drives in reverse. Well, we got him out of the mud but in the process, while the wheels were spinning, I got caked with mud! From head to toe, all on my left side. It was a good thing I was in service clothes, because it was not pretty, haha. I meant to take a picture but I forgot. So sorry you won't be able to see it, it was pretty funny. But yeah, we have the truck back now, so that's been nice.
This past week was interesting. Ivy, 1 of our main investigators, dropped her baptismal date for valentines day. She feels she is not ready, but we know she is, so we challenged her to pray specifically to ask Heavenly Father if she's ready. So we are hoping Heavenly Father gives her a blunt answer telling her that she's ready. Our next appointment with her is Friday, so please pray that she will have received an answer by then.
We also had a lesson with our other 17 year old investigator, Ethan Gomez. We read the Book of Mormon with him, and cleared up a lot of his concerns. We extended a baptismal invite, and he said he would love to be baptized, once he comes to find out it's true. So we are going to meet with him sometime this week to follow up with that. He talked to his parents about him meeting with us, and his Mom is okay with it, but his Dad is kind of indifferent to the idea. Hopefully we can meet with his parents, so they know what exactly he is doing, and know the situation.
Not much else happened this week because we had to do a lot of traveling. We had interviews with our mission president, which went very well, it's always good to see him. :) And then we got stuck in Pueblo on Friday while we were picking up our truck, it went a lot longer then expected. Apparently the paper work wasn't ready, haha.
But Everything is going great and I am loving it out here! :) The work is awesome and the area is stunning. I love serving a mission, and know that it's the most important thing that I will ever do. I hope you all have a great week and know that I love and miss you all. :)
Oh, that reminds me of something that happened a couple weeks ago, I forgot to mention. We went out to do service for a lady, and had a couple of young men come with us to help. Their van got stuck in the mud, so me and Elder Price went to go push on the front of the car while he drives in reverse. Well, we got him out of the mud but in the process, while the wheels were spinning, I got caked with mud! From head to toe, all on my left side. It was a good thing I was in service clothes, because it was not pretty, haha. I meant to take a picture but I forgot. So sorry you won't be able to see it, it was pretty funny. But yeah, we have the truck back now, so that's been nice.
This past week was interesting. Ivy, 1 of our main investigators, dropped her baptismal date for valentines day. She feels she is not ready, but we know she is, so we challenged her to pray specifically to ask Heavenly Father if she's ready. So we are hoping Heavenly Father gives her a blunt answer telling her that she's ready. Our next appointment with her is Friday, so please pray that she will have received an answer by then.
We also had a lesson with our other 17 year old investigator, Ethan Gomez. We read the Book of Mormon with him, and cleared up a lot of his concerns. We extended a baptismal invite, and he said he would love to be baptized, once he comes to find out it's true. So we are going to meet with him sometime this week to follow up with that. He talked to his parents about him meeting with us, and his Mom is okay with it, but his Dad is kind of indifferent to the idea. Hopefully we can meet with his parents, so they know what exactly he is doing, and know the situation.
Not much else happened this week because we had to do a lot of traveling. We had interviews with our mission president, which went very well, it's always good to see him. :) And then we got stuck in Pueblo on Friday while we were picking up our truck, it went a lot longer then expected. Apparently the paper work wasn't ready, haha.
But Everything is going great and I am loving it out here! :) The work is awesome and the area is stunning. I love serving a mission, and know that it's the most important thing that I will ever do. I hope you all have a great week and know that I love and miss you all. :)
Elder Greer
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