Jun 16: Oi!

Hi Family!

It's been another great week in the Texas San Antonio Mission!

On Monday evening we met a wonderful new family! The F Family! We have often seen a man who rides down the street in his electric wheel chair, and every time we see him we comment on how he looks like such a nice person and we would like to meet him. This time when we drove by he was parked in front of a house, so we pulled over and walked over to him! He was very kind, and eagerly set up a return appointment. He introduced us to his wife and son! They also had these adorable puppies that looked like a baby version of Marcia! (By the way, how are Marcia and Treasure liking Uncle Ken's house?)

We also met a man named Ce! He was outside by his car in an apartment complex. He was putting saran wrap around his car windshield. There was a huge hole in the window! ...He said it was one of the downsides of living in an apartment complex with lots of boys that like to throw balls around! oops! But he was so nice! He said he had a few minutes to hear our message, so we shared the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. He was excited to read. He has an extremely busy schedule and doesn't usually get home until after 9pm, so we were lucky we caught him then. But he happily gave us his phone number so we could talk about the Book of Mormon more.

We called him this morning and he said he has liked it so far! He has only been able to read a little bit at the beginning, but he asked us to call back on Wednesday to talk about it more.

Another interesting fact, he and his wife write gospel music! They have a big group that travels!

We met a Televangelist that night also! That was interesting!

On Tuesday we had an incredible lesson with Sc. A young member of our ward (he will be getting his mission call soon! A convert of about 4 or 5 years) came with us and shared the perfect testimony of baptism that addressed and answered Sc's concerns! The Spirit was incredible. By the end of the lesson, Sc had committed to baptism on a specific date and was excited!

We had a wonderful lesson with L and our new convert, A came as well!

After our dinner appointment that night, on Tuesday, we were getting into the car, and suddenly we heard Sister T saying, "ow! ow! Ow! OW!!" ...She had stepped in a mountain of fire ants!

So we went home and got her cleaned up! Luckily we had some Benadryl (thanks, Mom! You gave it to me before I left, and we've used it several times for Sister T because we keep finding out about allergies we didn't know she had!).

The Benadryl made her super drowsy and her foot was hurting a lot. An hour or so later she was well enough to go out again, although she was a little loopy, so Sister J and I did the talking. We met an incredible girl named V! She loved the message of the Restoration and told us "I am excited to read this!" as we gave her a Book of Mormon.

We had dinner with the M family again on Wednesday. Brother M and the kids had gone to Stake Conference and had each brought a note book! So after dinner, they each shared what they liked from the talks! I was touched by the simple, powerful statements of truth that their 9 year son had written! "Thomas S. Monson is our prophet today." "Families are not just for this life, they are forever." The older son, in high school, had been particularly touched by a talk about the temples.

The sick bugs are going around again, and on Thursday poor Sister T got the flu or something! ...Sometimes it seems like all of the bad stuff happens to her!

By Friday she was better! We had an incredible training by President Slaughter on Friday morning. Faith in Finding. We are applying a lot of new principles to our work here in Merrilltown!

On Friday night we saw a man walking down the street with a Brazil shirt on! He looked like he could be Brazilian. (PS: this week we initiated plan "Bring Brazil to Texas" which involved me teaching my two companions and the other two sisters who live with us Portuguese, all of us becoming very tan, and us teaching all the Brazilian people in Merrilltown.) So we quickly pulled over into the gas station that he was about to walk past, parked the car, and walked over so that by the time he passed by we could easily and casually intersect with him! It worked! He was super friendly! Turns out he wasn't Brazilian but he loves the Brazilian soccer team and supports them in the world cup!

Saturday and Sunday were wonderful days! Great days for finding fathers! We met several great people, got a few return appointments. Our new convert N fed us dinner on Saturday! ...we had no idea she was a professional chef!

On Sunday we were in an apartment complex and passed by a man who was sitting at his front door (either smoking or on the phone...I can't remember which) and we waved to him. He waved back and asked how we were doing. He was super nice! He was up on the second floor. I felt like we should talk to him. We went and knocked on the door we had been heading too. On the way back to our car, we passed the man's door again, and he wasn't there any more. We went up the stairs and knocked, and a lady named Ti answered! We testified, asked if we could share a 10 minute message, and she said yes! The other people home weren't available, but she listened to our message and said she would like to be baptized and read the Book of Mormon. She will be having a baby really soon, but we made a tentative return appointment and got her phone number.

There are miracles all around us every day!

I'm so grateful y'all had a good week and a happy Father's day.

I love you!!

-Sister Greenall