Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll

Hey yall,

This last week has been great! New people are coming out of the woodwork! The youth in this ward are so enthusiastic and eager to share the gospel. We've met a bunch of their friends, we have an epic volleyball night where we had a lot of new faces and we're going to start teaching them here pretty soon. 

We had a great Book of Mormon study class also with an investigator that came and loved it! Sister Gail teaches from the institute manual so we're going into real detail of the events, using maps, power points, modern day prophet insights and scripture! It blew him away as to how great the class was. He would get baptized if his wife was more accepting... She would divorce him if he joined the church.... All in due time.

We've slowed down on the amount of service the past month or so and this last week we've been praying for more opportunities. In return, immediately projects in the community, for non-members, active and less active members have been popping up left and right! There sure is a special spirit about serving your fellow men, a spirit I can't get enough of I love it!! 

The members here are fantastic! We've had two Early Thanksgiving meals already and 4 appointments scheduled for Thursday. We are taking charge of setting up the Turkey Bowl too. 8 am we'll be out on the high school football field ready to tear it up! Haha

That's about it for this week. Elder Andersen and I are having a blast together. Happy Thanksgiving to ya'll and I'll talk to ya next week.

Elder Greenlaw

Florida and a New Pair of Boots

Hey yall,

It's been a great week and daggum has it flown by. 

Some of the highlights are that my new companion is named Elder Conner Andersen from Draper Utah!! He graduated from Alta a year after me. He then went to SUU for a year and then came out on his mission. He was a track star and has done 3 triathlons. Holy smokes! He's a stud, a little more quiet than my last companion, but that's alright. He hasn't been out too long on his mission. 4 1/2 months to be exact. He still has some "greenie" moments haha. It is all good though.

We've had a blast sitting around campfires all week long now that the weather is cooling down. Today is the first time I've worn long pants on a Pday and this morning when we did our workout at 5 am, I even wore a sweater!!! Crazy!... 

The work is a bit slow right now... But it will pick up soon when we hit hard with the Family Mission plans that we have to do with 35 member families. Hopefully we can get at least 1 a day. 

We've got a few investigators but they are all 70 haha. Never too late I guess! A lady named Lora has a baptismal date on for 6 weeks or so. 

We had a ward social (Fall Festival) with lots of food, candy, trunk or treating, hayrides, campfires all over the place, it was awesome! So many non-members came and it was so big and loud that random people driving by decided to stop by and see what all the ruckus was about. 

Charlie Wiggins, an older fellow whose fixin to pass soon, invited us over to give a blessing and to give the sacrament to him yesterday. Super spiritual!! It's amazing what the Lord teaches you and the things he has you say when you are truly a mouth piece for him. After a good while, he asks his wife to go into his closet and bring out 4 pairs of boots. He had us try them on then gave each of us 2. These things are 400 bucks a pop made out of Ostrich skin. Woo baby!! He also gave us some bolo ties and next time we go over he's giving us a cowboy hat.. This man is amazing... So selfless... He's hoping to make me a true southerner now.  We had a little photo shoot, I'll send some of the pics to y'all as well.

That's about it for this week. Right now, I seem to be learning a lot about myself. The Lord is revealing my weaknesses, which are many believe me, and he's helping me become more Christlike. I've had a lot of trials recently, times where I've really need to look deep within and humble myself to him. This week when I partook of the sacrament I had a great spiritual, rejuvenating experience. I've often reflected upon the talks in this last General Conference, "Are we not all beggars?" Along with "Approaching the Throne of God with Confidence" I highly recommend y'all to make time and go back and study it them if you have not already. I'm so grateful for modern day prophets and apostles who receive revelation for us pertaining to our time here in the last days. May we all come closer to the Lord this next week and feel of His love for us.

Love,

Elder Greenlaw

Pulled out the good ol' polish and leather this morning. What a difference! 

Sorry for the blurriness.... Yeeehaaaa!! 

Elder Greenlaw and Elder Conner Andersen

Me and sweet lil Princess Olivia