Erin Greenwood Mission: Week 74: October 23: WE’RE STAYING TOGETHER!!! (Erin will be home at next transfer!)

Hey Hey

So lately we have been busy doing stuff on pdays and I have been trying to write longer group emails and, as a result, haven’t been able to write you individually. So...lo siento. But I’ll do my best today to get out some good emails.

After pday last week we had dinner with a member in the YSA named S and she took us to Spin! Pizza and it was way good. Their gelato was prime. After dinner we went to drop of a spanish bible and Book of Mormon to a lady in another ward who has a friend that wants to learn! He was at work though so we are going back on Wednesday night to teach him. After that we went to FHE and they built their own chariots out of cardboard and had to race around the gym, switching the person that was in the chariot ever lap. It looked way fun! We didn’t do it though cause dresses and running around don’t go super well together.

The AndersEn’s asked us to stop by on our way home so that they could give us something in preparation for transfers this past week and guess what it was.....a 25 lb bag of rice hahaha. Turns out that’s pretty much all he ate on his mission lol

We had a lesson with A on Tuesday and that went really well! We talked about the Restoration. We had a little puzzle of Jesus with us and talked about how when he came to the earth, one of the many things he did was establish His church. But, when he was crucified and his apostles were rejected, the church slowly changed and broke into a bunch of different pieces (like the different pieces of a puzzle, get it?). So people were lost and couldn’t get the whole picture but when God called Joseph Smith to be a prophet to restore the gospel, it was brought back without a missing piece. So cool and such a blessing to know. I think a lot of times we take for granted the knowledge that we have.

The past 2 lessons we stayed around for a little longer to do some crafts with A. She is super talented and cute and it has been fun to get to know her better and let share her talents with us (cause I am literally the worst at crafting).

We did service for Sister Dowling again and in return she made us apple juice and apple sauce from her juicer. Man, I want one of those things soo bad.

We had dinner with the bishop and his family and then afterwards his wife took us and M to the Historic Liberty Jail. It was seriously such a miracle that we finally got to go with her and she absolutely loved it!! She kept talking about how incredible it was to know that she was exactly where the prophet was years ago. She loved hearing about all the revelations that were received there and how it is a testament of Gods love.

Plus, sister Wimmer came in clutch on the drive home and was just like “M, we need your faith. When are you going to be baptized?” Way to go.

Oh and transfer calls came on Tuesday and WE’RE STAYING TOGETHER!!!

On the last day before transfers, we always have a zone get-together. So we met at the stake center at 8am to have a breakfast before doing studies. Super fun. I can’t believe how fast this past transfer flew by.

Even though neither of us got transferred, we still got to go to transfers cause we got a new car! Literally the best.

We finally got to actually meet with T!! He is doing awesome and actually is related to some of the members in our ward.

On Friday we got to meet with M and do some service for her! She was stressing because she has a haunted house in her basement and was supposed to open it up on Friday night but it wasn’t finished yet so we came over and helped her finish it! It was so much funnn!!!

Saturday was a little crazy because we were supposed to go to the Historic Liberty Jail with T (a recent convert) buuut we showed up to the members house and it took longer for the member to get ready so by the time we left we were already like 30 min late and then we had to go and pick up T and head to the jail and we got there with literally 15 min to spare before we had to be heading back to get to dinner on time. So we didn’t get to go on the tour but some other members from our ward had driven up with us in another car so T stayed with them and got to enjoy the tour... every day is an adventure lol.

We had a lesson with Y and D on Saturday night and that was crazy. They totally threw a curveball at us and Y told us that she doesn’t and wont believe that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ appeared to Joseph Smith. She went on like this whole tangent about it and then didn’t come to church on sunday because she said she just felt like she wanted to be lazy. So if you could keep her in your prayers, that would be awesome.

I love you all lots ❤️❤️ thanks for sending me all those pics

Setting up for Halloween Haunted House in M's basement.