1 More Son!

Hello everyone! I hope you all had an amazing Christmas! I sure did. It was full of member visits, and lots of food. Good food! I also enjoyed listening to all the testimonies of Christmas that were shared throughout the day. All in all, a Christmas to remember!

Transfers are this Wednesday, and I got a call from president telling us what's happening! I'm training my last 2 transfers! I'm staying in my area, but they're splitting our area. I'll cover the original 2 stakes, North and Northridge, while Elder Meldrum will cover the east and Kays creek stakes with some new companion. So I will have 1 more son, and I'm way excited about it! Couldn't think of a better way to finish my mission.

This week not a whole lot happened. People are busy or out of town. So major updates as far as people we are teaching, goes as follows:

• Ariana is getting baptized on the 12th of January for sure now. Elder Meldrum will perform the ordinance for the first time, and I'll get to confirm her! 
• Had a good lesson with Daniel. Don't think he's gonna get baptized very soon, but he is progressing. 
• A few people dropped us unfortunately, so we are going to start doing a lot more finding this new year so we can see more successes! 
• Abraham is still considering baptism, and we've seen him a few times this week, but haven't had a whole lot of teaching opportunities. 

In other news, Daniel, our investigator, is the Chief Battalion of the Gill Air Force base fire department (don't know if I ever mentioned that) and he took us on base and let us tour some of the jets, and his fire department, and it was seriously the coolest thing I've ever seen. I couldn't take pictures because it's illegal... But I wish I could have. Seeing those jets, airplanes, and firetrucks in person was awesome!

That's all I got this week. I love you all, have a great new years and stay safe!!

Elder Tyler Greer
tyler.greer@myldsmail.net
Utah Layton Mission Office
190 N Country Lane
Fruit Heights, UT 84037

Transgenders and Cocaine

Interesting subject line, huh? Well, it was an interesting week. Buckle up, because most of this email will be about that day! But here's just a few highlights of the week!

So we kind of had a baptism this week! Daniela was baptized and confirmed this weekend and it was so amazing! We've had the privilege of meeting and helping her just a little bit the past couple weeks, but an awesome senior couple in the area has mostly been teaching her, and so this weekend was her Baptism! She's super strong in the gospel and going to be an amazing member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints!

So this week I went on an exchange with elder Millet! For those who don't remember that name, we served near each other in Ogden West for 8 months straight! Anyway, he's my zone leader now and he's the best! So on our exchange, we started knocking on doors and the first door we knock on, a guy answers wearing a short plaid skirt, with obvious fake body parts, and says in a high pitched voice "uhm, unless you missionaries want to come inside, I think you're in the wrong place. I don't want to hear about your church or your mission", and then continued to totally check us out... It was super weird. Anyway, later that day we were at some sketchy apartments and some guy was doing something around his car and we ran up to him to talk to him, and he was shoving white little bags of drugs in his socks... And he instantly saw us and tried to play it off all cool. We asked him if he was from around here and he was like "uhm, no... I'm just uhm, visiting" so we just pretended like we didn't see anything and kept going 😂, it was hilarious. But all in all, we found 3 new investigators that day that seem pretty solid so it was a good day!

We went to Layton Park this week where they have a ton of lights set up and gave out copies of the Book of Mormon and free hot chocolate! It was super fun and super successful!

Ariana is now officially on date to be baptized on the 5th of January! She got interviewed and is ready to go.

That's about all I got! I'm super excited to Skype home tomorrow for the last time on my mission! It will be good. Anyway I hope you all have an amazing Christmas! Love yall!

Elder Tyler Greer
tyler.greer@myldsmail.net
Utah Layton Mission Office
190 N Country Lane
Fruit Heights, UT 84037

Dying Companion

Hello everyone! Hope you all have had an amazing week. I sure did! Not a whole lot happened but I have no complaints. My companion on the other hand.... Well, he threw up like all day on Saturday and so we didn't leave the house. That was fun! I basically just did personal study all day, and watched a lot of church videos, and listened to a lot of general conference talks. He's better now, so it's all good! 

Other news this week, we had a lesson with Abraham and he told us that he's still thinking of getting baptized, and that he wants to know if he should. We encouraged him to pray about it, and he said he will! Him and his family also came to church this week!

Ariana has been sick this week so we haven't met for our last lesson, and she was supposed to get baptized this coming Saturday. We have that lesson tonight, but I bet she's going to want to move that for the next Saturday, but we will see!

I honestly don't have anything else. I need to start taking better notes like I used to, but I've been forgetting every day. I will try to do better for next week. Love you all, talk to you soon!

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1. Got an unplanned birthday cake, balloons have the wrong age  
2. Had a ginger bread house making competition and made the avengers tower
3. Missionary sports are dangerous! 
4. I love dogs
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Finding GOLD!

Hey everyone!! Hope the week has been good to all of you. This week was really good for us! My birthday week, so we had to make it good. We did a ton of finding, and we found 14 new people to teach! The mission has been really pressing for at least 1 new potential a day, and we were able to double that this week. We saw so many miracles. I'll talk about a few of the people who are golden!!

So we tracted some of the apartment complexes in our area, and knocked into this family that just moved here from Rwanda. They all speak decent English, but mostly french. There's the mom, 2 sons, and 2 daughters, and they're all 9 and older, so baptism age! The 2 sons, the mom, and the oldest daughter were all soaking in the message of the restoration. Like this is what they've been looking for. So, we have had 2 brief lessons with them and hope to have more this week! Such an amazing family! God is definitely preparing his children for the gospel.

Something else that I almost forgot to mention, Honorine (the mom) asked us why people call us Mormons. After explaining it to her, and expressed how the church's real name is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" she said something along the lines of "how dare they try to give you a nickname and take Christ's name out of it." we were so amazed by that! Even someone not of our faith, and hasn't really heard of the church, can see that it's all about him, and sometimes we lose sight of that.

I also got to go on an exchange this week with Elder Bean! He came to my area with me and it was a good day. Can't remember what happened but whatever!

With 28 wards, it means lots of christmas parties. So we have have been going to as many as possible to try and meet new people and talk to the non members that come. It was fun!!

That's really all I have this week. 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

21 Years Old, 21 Months Out

Hey y'all!! This week was nothing special, but this coming week sure is! Tomorrow, I turn 21 years old, and then 4 days later I would have been out for 21 months. It feels like just yesterday I celebrated my 18th birthday at home. They weren't joking when they said every year gets faster! Anyway, I'm blessed to be able to see another year, and this one was the best yet. So thanks in advance for the birthday wishes and the ones I've already received but haven't replied! It means a lot. Here's a few updates from the week:

• I forgot to mention that transfers happened last week, and obviously Elder Meldrum and I stayed together. The catch is, we picked up another 2 stakes (East and Kays Creek) so now we cover 4 stakes, and 28 wards. I'm also the district leader again.... So yay me.
• We had stake conference in the East stake, and the area seventy visiting called up my companion and I to speak. I've never spoke in a stake conference before, let alone on the spot, so that was fun. He asked Elder Meldrum and I to speak on different things. I spoke on how my testimony of the Savior has grown the last 21 months, and the conversion story of the Blundell family! So that was fun.
• Ariana is doing super well and should still be getting baptized on the 22nd!!
• We had a lesson with Timothy and Coraima, and it was one of the best lessons I've ever had. They loved it all and soaked it all in. They want to get baptized!! They're not on date yet, but hopefully this week they will be.
• We probably attended close to 6 ward Christmas parties this week, with tons more to come. If I will ever gain weight again, I think now is the time!

That's really all I have this week. Thank you all for the continued love and support! Have a fantastic week!!

P. S. I realized I took 0 photos this week, so enjoy me looking depressed.

Love,
Elder Tyler Greer
tyler.greer@myldsmail.net
Utah Layton Mission Office
190 N Country Lane
Fruit Heights, UT 84037