2 (Week 94 In The Field)

I hit 22 months out on the mission on Saturday, and turned 21 years old on Wednesday. I had a mission birthday, and a real birthday all within 3 days of each other. :) Thank you everyone who wished me a happy birthday! :) I really appreciate all the emails I got and hearing from some people I haven't heard from in a while. 

I had a really interesting birthday. I got a call from the housing coordinator that morning, he wished me a happy birthday than told me that we had to move immediately to the downstairs apartment, and I was like are you serious? Can't we wait to do this after transfers, but he said no, so we started moving that morning. Good thing we were only just moving downstairs into the sisters old apartment, because that would have stunk only having 3 weeks left, and having to move far. 

So that took up the whole day moving downstairs, so I really didn't do too much else for my birthday. We did, however, go to Chilis as a district to celebrate my birthday, that was pretty fun! :) The rest of the week was pretty good too. 

We got to go on exchanges with our zone leaders, and I got to go to their area. It's always fun to switch it up a bit. We had good lessons with our investigators this week. We taught our new investigator, we read the Book of Mormon with her and that was awesome! We are reading some with her because she doesn't understand it very well, so we are trying to help her understand it better and get in the habit of reading her scriptures everyday. That is the most important habit you could ever get into! Please, everyone get in that habit haha. It will bless your life more than you can ever know, and if you read as a family, you will grow closer together. That's what we promised Bolinda, she wants to have a better family life. She's making some good efforts so far, she's awesome! :) 

On a really good note. The less active that we have been working with who was dis-fellowshipped just got re-fellowshipped back in the church, and can now hold callings!!! :) We are so excited for him and his devotion on working towards getting back. 

It's been an awesome week and we are hoping to make this next one even better. Gotta finish strong and work hard my last couple weeks! I hope you all have an awesome week! See You all soon! :)

Elder Greer

3 (Week 93 In The Field)

So, it is super weird how each one of these last weeks of my mission just keep flying by. I have about 3 weeks left here in the mission field and I am giving it my all until the very end. So my last emails will be a countdown, because I can't figure out what else to title them anymore haha. 

But anyways, this past week has been amazing! I got to start off the week by doing some more service for Habitat for Humanity. These projects haven't been as cool as the last ones, but they are still super fun to go to. 

After that we went to go visit one of the less actives that we are working with named Mitch. Well, he comes to church every week it's just that he was dis-fellowshipped, so we have been working with him to get the priesthood back. We read with him a scripture in Alma chapter 7 through 11, which just talks about Christ and how he suffered everything that we suffered. We visited with him the next day and he said that the scripture we read with him comforted him that day because he just got denied a job promotion, so he prayed for comfort and received it. That was a testimony builder to me, to see how much scripture reading and prayer actually work. 

I got to go on exchanges with Elder Diaz, who is a Spanish Elder. That was an amazing exchange, miracles happened on that day. We saw a lady who allows us to come over, but who's less active, and doesn't ever wanna talk about gospel related things. Well, this time she asked gospel related questions! Elder Diaz says she never does that. So he was able to answer all her questions, I couldn't because it was all in Spanish, but I got to hear about it all afterwards. That was a good day. 

The next day we got two referrals from our zone leaders, and we got two new investigators because of it! Bolinda and Jose.  Bolinda is a 30 year old single mom, and really wants to know more about what we believe. We gave her a church tour and taught a lesson in the chapel after. The spirit was strong and she has a strong desire to change her life around for the better. We taught mostly on faith, repentance, and baptism. 

Jose we taught on the same day at the church. He's not as interested, but he is still willing to hear us out and learn more. He's 17 years old and has weird ideas on some things, but I think he's a good potential. 

On another good note, I turn 21 in 2 days! Dang, I am getting old! Hahaha but I am super excited for that. 

Well I have to go now, but I love you all and cannot wait to see all real soon! :) I hope you all have an amazing week!

Elder Greer

Birthdays, The 4th, Service and Other Stuff (Week 92 In The Field)

These past couple of weeks have been kept pretty busy with the Holidays, and there were two Elders in our district whose birthday's were the 8th and the 9th. My companion was one of them, he just turned 20, as well as one of the Spanish Elders. So we had a pretty good time celebrating those this past week! And not only that, but my Birthday will be here pretty soon, so I am pretty excited to turn the big 21! :) Dang, I am getting old. 

We also celebrated the 4th of July with a member in our ward and our district of missionaries, got to grill some hamburgers, eat some chips and watch fireworks blow up! :) It was a pretty good past couple of weeks! 

We also got to do some more of the Just Serve projects as well. We continued to do some more of the Habitat for Humanity building, an adobe home. The group that was here this past week was a group of college students from California,and they were an awesome group of kids, made me really look forward to the friends I will be making when I go to college. We painted and layed brick for the wall of the home that we are building, it is coming so far since we first started working on it. It was another neat opportunity because of the questions that they have and the chance we get to answer them and share more about what we believe! 

We got to teach a lot this week. We had dinner with a part member family, she's a less active and he's a non member, but he has been coming to church a lot more frequently and is really enjoying it. He hasn't agreed to take the discussions yet, but I think he is getting really close to allowing us to teach him about the restored gospel. 

We also met with 2 less actives and had great lessons with them, and one of them came to church for the first time ever since I got here, that was awesome! :) 

I know that the gospel can change lives for the better as long as we are willing to do the things that our Father in Heaven has asked of us to do. We have to show our Heavenly Father our faith and act on it, not to just believe, but to do as well. It will make us happier, and it will make Heavenly Father happy too. :) I know that blessings will come when we show our faith, I have seen it in my life, and I have seen it in the lives of the people I have been able to work with on my mission. :) I know that this Church is true and I wanna let you know that I have a firm testimony in our Savior. I am thankful for the things I have learned on my mission, and I wouldn't ever change that for anything. It's sad to see it coming to a close, but I will be eternally thankful for the friends I have made out here, and the things I was able to accomplish through the Lord. 

I love and miss you all and can't wait to see you here soon! :) Have an awesome week!

Elder Greer

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