Monday was just the same old thing. Played sports as a zone, and emailed. Then we got word of transfer and the rest of that day was miserable because I was freaking out haha. It's all good now though.
Tuesday morning was spent in meetings for so many hours. We had a leadership training meeting for all the ZLs, DLs, and STL's, followed by MLC at Presidents house. It was my first time going to the new mission home, and it's petty nice!! So after MLC we got to go to the temple with our recent convert Chelsey! It was her first time, and she loved it. It was also my first time going to the Bountiful temple, and WOW is all I can say. Such a beautiful temple, it truly is the House of the Lord. That night was spent packing since Elder Fuller and I both had to be out in the morning!
Wednesday was transfers and it was super sad. I really love Elder Fuller and I'm sad I only got to be with him for 8 weeks, but it was a glorious 8 weeks! So when I got to the area, the first thing Elder Payne and I had to do was plan for zone training, so that took a while. When we finished we did some finding, and found 2 kids that are super down to be taught and get baptized! Their mom said we could come back, so we will go back next week. Their names are Kyle and Hunter.
Thursday we trained the zone, and I think it went okay. We didn't have as much time (like always) as we wanted, but we got our point across. Our zone is super huge and we have a ton of good missionaries, that I'm excited to get to know better. We also got a call from a member saying her non-member roommate wanted a blessing. So of course we drove over there very quickly and gave her a blessing! Turns out she is from Estonia! The only thing I know about Estonia, is that Kyle McCormick served his mission there, so that's pretty cool! She is super down-to-earth and loving, and her name is Sigrid. It's pronounced super weird, but I'm not even going to try and explain it. We gave the blessing and talked a little bit about her religious background. She used to be atheist, but now is kinda in between. She says she feels really good when she gets blessings, and we helped explain to her that that is the the spirit speaking to her, or in other words God's love for her. She accepted to listen to our message and so we got a return appointment for the next morning!
Friday we went back to Sigrid's and taught about the restoration of the gospel. She had lots of questions that we were able to answer. One of her main concerns is really trying to believe that all of the stories in the Bible are true. We helped explain to her that the only way she would know if it's true, is if she asked God herself. We told her that we cannot convince her about our beliefs, and that she needed to receive her own answers. We left her with the Book of Mormon to read and pray about it and said that we would come back in a few days. The rest of the day was spent weekly planning, and then Elder Payne and I did some tracting. Something really funny is that one of the elders in our zone, Elder Lisboa, is training a new missionary, and he is a Visa waiver. Well, his companion had to go to California to sign a piece of paper and come back, so Elder Lisboa got to hang out with us all day. He's a stud tho and helped us talk to a few Spanish people, since he speaks Portuguese and Spanish.
Saturday... Well I wish I could remember what happened then. Oh yeah, we did have a lesson with one of our investigators named Dakota, who is 10 years old. He is a super cool kid, and knows his stuff. He is on date to be baptized on August 11th, and is pretty solid for that date. His family is super fun, and I could honestly hang out with them all day.
Sunday was just full of church and contacting people... Lol.
Anyway, I love you all, have a great week!
Elder Tyler Greer
tyler.greer@myldsmail.net
Utah Layton Mission Office
190 N Country Lane
Fruit Heights, UT 84037
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