Hello Everybody!!!
Well this short week was a very good one and things are
going really well!!!
The Betlyons (recent converts) are doing great and
preparing to go to the temple soon!!!
The Harpers are so awesome who were baptized last week
and they are progressing so much, they are already referencing things in the
D&C and the Pearl of Great Price and everything it is just so awesome to
see them so converted and they just want to do what’s right! We are going to be teaching the
rest of their family the gospel for Family Home Evening. They are so funny and always make jokes
about how they are black etc. So they are always making us try their black
foods (fried green tomatoes, grits, pig’s foot etc.) haha so this week they
were like what kind of food culture do your people have? and Elder Roberts and
I just start laughing because we don’t have like a culture so we told them that
white people eat casseroles and funeral potatoes lol so this Thursday they are
making a combined white person and black person dinner with funeral potatoes
and fried chicken!! haha we are excited!
On Saturday we were up to our normal tracting. Since the
baptisms have happened our teaching pool has fallen down a little bit but we
had an awesome miracle while knocking doors one day. We see these black kids riding their bikes and it was obvious
that they were foreign because of the way they were dressed, and we have been
searching a ton for some refugees to teach English and there are some refugees
that have already converted in our ward. So anyway we go walk over to where they are and we find like
this family of I think 15 people that have only been in America for 2 months
and they are struggling and we are going to teach them all English and also
yesterday we had a man and woman that speak French from our church go over and
teach them the Restoration (the speak Swahili and French) and so we taught them
and the one man, Sebastian at the end of the lesson just says, "You come
teach me every day about God." haha pretty cool so we are really excited
to teach Sebastian and Gabriel's families both English and the gospel!
Yesterday was Stake Conference and it was so awesome! We sat with Ann and Jeannie and they
just loved it and they got to meet President and Sister Loveland and man it was
just a good day!
I am doing a lot better this week and just trying to act
with faith. I think this is going to be as Elder Bednar would describe it, more
of a rising sun spiritual experience than the flick of a light switch, but I am
excited for the journey and thankful for all of you so much!!!
Again happy b-days to all my fave people Jmatty, Wally,
Aubrey you are all so old now haha also congrats to Parker and Jenna! <3 can’t
wait to meet you some day Jenna :) Welcome to the fam.
Love you all,
Elder Green!!!
