Hello everyone!!
I have had the best time here in Florida my first week, there is so much to tell you! The MTC was a great experience but man, Florida is where it's AT! I hear from all of you that its cold and snowy and I just have to laugh because it could not be more perfect here. 72ish degrees every day along with the humidity. I've been stationed here in Gainsville, Florida! My area is huge and out of the 17 new missionaries that showed up, of course I would be the only one that has to ride a bike. We have to plan about 2-2 1/2 hours of traveling each day. The church is 30 minutes away! I'm so used to being able too walk in about 5! Everyone tells me I came at a good time because starting June, its going to get sooooo hot here!
I prayed and prayed for an amazing companion who is a hard working and strictly obedient and that exactly what I got! His name is Elder Jenkins, who is from Pleasant Grove, UT and is only 19 years old. He ended his training as soon as I got here and now he trains me! We truly bring the best out each other. We work well together, and we are always laughing. He's planning on playing football for Utah State when he gets home and believes that there is a girl waiting to get married for him! ha ha Good luck Bro..
STORY TIME!
Days feel like weeks, and weeks feel like days. We witness small miracles each and every day here. My second day in, we are sitting down planning for the next week and we get an urgent phone call from a lovely, but a crazy member named Shelly saying that we need to meet her somewhere, PRONTO and give her a blessing. We immediately hop on our bikes and go to Kmart to meet her. She shows up twenty minutes late for some reason, and at first we were kind of upset. While we were waiting for her, a man (we think is hopeless) named Pete, comes up to us on a bike and starts talking to us. He wanted to know what we were doing there. He also had questions about the gospel! So of course, being amazing missionaries, we had a lesson with him about the importance of prayer. The funny thing is that he is now our new investigator that we are going to see again soon! Because Shelly showed up late, we had the opportunity of meeting this man and bringing him one step closer to God. :) Things like this happen every single day. So what did we get out of this? Be patient and understand that EVERYTHING happens for a reason. We are on the Lords time and not ours, so when we think times are boring and slow, there is reasoning behind it. We end up meeting a specific person that is humble and ready to listen!
Anyway, I love y'all and I can't wait to hear from you next week!
Love,
Elder Greenlaw
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