Busy Busy

 November 16, 2020

This week has been so crazy I don't even know where the time went.

Tuesday we had a great district council.  It was nice because we haven't had one for 3 weeks. It was awesome to get a lot of council and guidance from the Lord through other missionaries. 

Wednesday we had a great lesson with Kayla! She is homeless currently, but trying to clean her life up and go to church. It was awesome cause she made it to church this week! 

We also had a lesson with Lucille, an old lady who was a service referral. Then we went and gave Charlene a blessing for her knee. Please be praying for her. 

Kaitlyn fell through, but we are trying to get some district shirts made through her because she has a t-shirt printer. The goal is to get to know her and her fiance on a more personal level. 

Friday we had a good lesson with Ken and we met with Jeff. We are probably going to have to stop teaching Jeff because his circumstances make it that he needs a lot of help but we are too far away to consistently drive to help him with little things.  We used almost all of the miles for this month already most in this week.  Are we gonna stop driving? No. We got work to do! 

Saturday we had service for Charlene.  

Sunday, Sister Smith, a less active member came to church, and Charlene and Kayla too! So good. The other Elders also had their youth investigator join too! 

We are worried for Tamaka. She doesn't really have the desire anymore. We still meet, but her lessons just haven't been that spirit filled. Pray for her as well. Thanks!

You Know You're In the South...

 November 9, 2020

This week has been super busy with lessons. We helped Charleen a lot and she came to in-person church! She enjoyed it. She is still trying to get the guy living with her to move out so be praying for her. We are going to teach her the law of chastity so that she can be strengthened and have God on her side more. She is really close to Baptism and being put on date. We got her a few new friends in the ward too!

We are a little concerned about Jeff. We had a lesson with him and he wanted us to call him to make sure he was ok (aka not dead). We weren't able to call that evening because we had a bunch of lessons. But we called him the next day and he didn't answer or called back ! 

Tamaka is doing pretty good. We are trying to figure out how to help her progress more. 

 

This week Elder Grant and I made fried chicken for dinner, then Charlene made us fried chicken and a member bought it for us. I think we've had enough for a while!

All in all, it has been a good week! 

The Greenwood Elders

We got so much chicken this week!

One of the members has a Lamborghini!

Slow and Steady

 November 2, 2020

 There was a good deal on a shoulder roast so I am going to attempt Carne Adovada. I even found new Mexico chili at a Mexican shop with the help of Elder Grant!

Charlene is doing really well. We painted her house and yesterday had a good lesson with her. She wants to get her partner out of the house because he isn't changing and is doing drugs. But she doesn't have money for an eviction notice.  She is doing really good with quitting smoking and coffee unless her partner is around.

She is wanting to come to church as well. 

Tamaka is doing ok. We are trying to get more fellowshipers so she can learn and understand more about the gospel.  She has been taught but the understanding isn't quite there yet. 

Lea canceled because of Halloween but we rescheduled. No word from Nathan. Will probably reach out this week. 

That's pretty much it. Been a short week. We did the flags for Bishop with the football team again but it was more boring. 

One of the companionships got removed from the district but they hopefully will come back. It doesn't feel the same without them.