Last week I was pretty bummed I didn't get a chance to write to y'all. I only got to send off a few sentences to Mom saying I'm fine, not dead.... YET. We went off to St Augustine for P-day. We had a chance to go play some beach volleyball again. It was awesome! Other than the fact I was limping everywhere I went. A Sister missionary even told me that she had never seen someone fall on the ground so slow ha ha. I severely sprained my ankle playing some basketball. It's been three weeks and I'm still not healed up all the way. Elder Jenkins my trainer rolled his ankle doing the same thing the other day. The doctor said, because your a big guy weighing almost 300 pounds you have to go get an x-ray ha ha. He said it wasn't even bad, he was still able to walk but he still went in for the checkup.
Hopefully I can partially make up for not writing last week because things have been awesome here! We have had many opportunities to do service for people, which has been great. There is a food pantry in Green Cove Springs that we volunteer at from time to time. Lots of very sweet, loving old woman there that sadly too in love with the churches that they already attend. We still had the chance to answer their questions about the church. We often get asked... " So I'm very devoted (Baptist) but I'm interested in the differences between our churches.
We painted another members home, did some yard work, moved a piano, the list goes on and on for service these last two weeks. There is an area in Folkston, Georgia where the missionaries can't even preach. They are STRICTLY service. Even when people ask them about the church they can't tell them about it. Not being able to preach would be a bummer but I personally wouldn't mind serving all the time. It's a great way to feel the spirit and create great relationships with people. You always have a great felling in your heart when you serve people.
So as for God's children that we have been working with recently, Chelsie Alvarado has been attending the YSA in Jacksonville for a month now and has met a bunch of missionaries. She is really good friends with Victoria Taylor in our ward also. She had never been taught anything except how to receive revelation for herself by prayer, reading the Book of Mormon, writing questions and answers down, and praying afterwords. The fourth verse she had ever read in Chapter 32 of Alma was when she got answer to one of the questions that had been weighing on her mind for awhile. By this amazing experience she immediately knew the Book of Mormon was true. She is solid. She wants to learn learn like no other and we have now taught her the Restoration of the Gospel, and the Plan of Salvation inside the Taylor's home. It has been so powerful having the entire family sitting in the lesson baring testimony, sharing experiences and expanding on principles. Member Missionary work is LEGIT! The spirit is always so much more powerful when your teaching with members and they are more likely to progress and eventually get baptized. Last night after the lesson i invited her to be baptized and she accepted! February 9th is the day! Mark it on your calendar folks cause its going to be incredible! She has a friend in the YSA that has investigating the church for awhile now. She had a date but later cancelled and we are thinking that this might just be the thing that pushes her towards baptism. Maybe even the same day!!
Sadly, Daphne hasn't progressed at all in the past 3 weeks. Ever since she got her old job back at the post office she's been working a TON and we haven't seen here since. We know that she is prepared and is ready to accept the fullness of the gospel but all in the Lords timing I guess. She loved church and told us she would be coming back but the weather has been so freakin great recently that the drag strip she works at on Sunday, doesn't shut down. Lets just say that we pray for rain on Sunday a lot! We've got some other people that have fallen off the radar and are not keeping commitments... So that's it for right now.
Hope y'all have a fabulous week and either continue to or start making invitations to your friends and family to come closer to Christ! Let us all strive to have the spirit more and be more Christlike which is the only way to have true lasting happiness in this life.
God be with y'all til we meet again.
Elder Greenlaw
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