Hello everyone!
It's wintertime here in Florida at a whopping 60 degrees! It's freezing! ha ha. Just kidding, people look at us weird because were still riding our bikes with short sleeves when people are bundled up in long pants and hoodies! Okay fine, there was a few cold days of around 40 but still nothing compared to home in Utah.
Getting a flu shot!
This week has had its ups and downs. We had the wonderful opportunity of having a Zone Conference with President and Sister Craig. They are truly incredible! It was a glorious chance to see all of the other missionaries and to be spiritually enlightened. Spiritually exhausted I should say. After 8 hours of training and a near death experience with a needle and flu shot, there is so much to retain and to apply to our work. It reminds me of a story in 3 Nephi when Christ visits the people in America and tells them to retire to their homes after he has taught them many things. Ponder and pray about them and then visit him once more to learn the next day. Except for us as missionaries, we don't go back and learn again, we go apply what we learned in our own teaching! How great is that!
We still have our progressing investigators Brannon Mullins and Marcus. Marcus was at church with his friends but sadly Brannon wasn't able to make it. He didn't sleep at all the night before and wasn't feeling good. We then received a text that night that he was in the ER because of some severe chest pains. We were able to go give him a blessing at the hospital. Brannon has now recognized the spirit more frequently in his life as he has been praying and reading to find out that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God. He said that he has felt at peace and found comfort in his reading. From someone considering himself being Pagan, these are leaps and bounds! His testimony of his Heavenly Father and Savior Jesus Christ are growing tremendously.
I'm grateful for the opportunity we have to be online missionaries. I've been teaching a few people that I met back in Gainesville. One happens to be James, a man who worked at Taco Bell when we use to go there almost everyday and get food! It's amazing how our ability to share the gospel has grown with modern technology. Let us all use these to our advantage in sharing the gospel with our friends and less active or non member family! Just a simple post of a quote or phrase might make somebodies day!
I'm so grateful for the opportunity to serve here in the Florida Jacksonville Mission, the best mission in the world. My companion and I are making the work fun and exciting and I wouldn't want to be doing anything different with my life at this time.
Love y'all so much! Til next week!
Elder Greenlaw
Elder Greenlaw and Elder J Johnson
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