Baptism!

It's been another eventful and exciting week! I've noticed that the better the week's I've been having, the quicker they go by, so this week was fast, haha. 

Monday, we went to basketball in the morning and President Jaggi was there! For his age, he's actually really good, so it was pretty fun. From there, did our shopping, and got out haircuts. After dinner, my companion and I went on exchanges, he went to our lesson with Jayla and Nesha (progressing but still no baptism date), and I went to a family home evening at President Jaggi's with our recent convert, Bill. It was a really good meeting, the Jaggi's are such inspired people, and I just love hearing them talk. 

Not much happened on Tuesday. We had to be at the mission office at 7am for new missionary training, which lasted until like 2pm. It was mostly common sense, but it was good because they fed us a great lunch, and I got to see all the sisters that I came into the mission with! I'll attach the picture of us to this email. 

Wednesday, we visited Vicky Morgan in the morning, because she said she missed us coming over all the time. We already finished the new member lessons with her, but her husband is still having troubles coming back to church, so we'll be visiting them until he's active! After, we had district meeting, and the rest of the day was normal. 

Thursday, we had some more service here at our landlords house, digging out cement blocks in the ground that used to be a foundation for a shed type thing. The entire district came over for that. Later that night, we went to visit Duane, who's inactive. We had a super powerful lesson with him, and he said he would go to church Sunday! 

Friday, we had our weekly huddle meeting at the Jackson's. After our meeting, we got a call from a lady in one of our wards saying that she really wanted us to come by and give her a Priesthood blessing. She was recently in a car accident, and hasn't been healing the way she thought she would. We were able to comfort her and give her that blessing. Later we went to the Habitat for Humanity and did some service for them. 

Saturday, we had a baptism for Denver! He's 8 years old, and we've been teaching him ever since I got here. His dad isn't a member of the church, and his mom is less active. It was a great baptisimal service, and there were a lot of non-member family members there. My companion baptized him, and while they were getting dressed, I gave a 5-minute restoration presentation for the people there. It went pretty well, and the dad seems to be changing a little bit, so we're hoping he will want to be baptized as well. 

Sunday, was a pretty regular Sunday, but I got to do something I've never done before. I got to confirm Denver a member of the Church and give him the Gift of the Holy Ghost in sacrament meeting! His mom cried afterwards, and told me how great I did. I had told her that I was nervous, because it was new for me too, and she thanked me for doing it. Around 4, we had another lesson with Jayla and Nesha. 

I wrote this email and it was even longer than last weeks, so I went through it and took out everything that I thought no one would care about haha. I might say this every week, but I can really see myself progressing as I teach and follow the direction of the spirit. It truly is amazing how we can receive the Holy Ghost as a constant companion to always help us, as long as we are obeying Gods commandments to the best of our ability. 

Hope everyone has a great week, and feel free to email me! Love you all, talk to you later!

Utah Ogden Mission
923 West 2225 North
Clinton, Utah

Elder Greer