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
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