Happy Thanksgiving last week!!

Hey Mom & Dad!

Hope you had a great Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving was a lot of fun.  Our Zone (the Tacoma East Zone) got together and we played the missionaries in the Tacoma West zone at football in a Turkey Bowl.  We won all the games but one.  I even caught a couple passes!  That is really good for me given how unathletic I am.

 

Andersen, Green, Geddes, Byram, Reidhead, and Ivie

The Tacoma East Zone at the Turkey Bowl!

 

 We then went to Federal way for dinner and took pictures of Tacoma from Federal Way.  It was dark so the pictures definitely don't do it justice.  It was awesome, though.

 

The Tacoma WA city lights taken from Federal Way

 

It was pretty standard Thanksgiving food with some Samoan food items in the mix.  We jumped between a couple of families just to say hello and eat some more food haha. The Members here really are great.  I am picking up on a few super basic Samoan words and phrases.  I wouldn't say I am really learning the language however.

 

Unfortunately our baptism didn't go through this weekend.  One of the daughters in the family that we were going to baptize was pregnant and lost the baby so the baptism got put off while the family grieves.  It is super sad.  We got to teach her about the Plan of Salvation though and I think that it helped a little bit.

We have some people on date for baptism for December 20th so pray that they go through.

Our week has been pretty good.  We have been finding a lot of people which is really cool.  It is just a matter of getting people to church. That is definitely the thing that is holding us back is getting people to church.  We have a lot of appointments lined up for this weekend though so we are expecting to have a lot of success.

It has been incredibly cold this week, we have been keeping pretty warm though, so we are doing fine. It even snowed a couple of days ago and Elder Ivie and I took some pictures of the pond behind our apartment with our nametags.  I imagine it must be pretty cold over in Utah too.

 

 Behind our apartment in Lakewood, WA

 

Pictures of the pond behind our apartment in Lakewood, WA

 

 

Love you!

Elder Green

 

 

Saying Goodbye to some of the missionaries who have completed their missions

Transfer Meeting - November 25, 2014

 

Elder Green and Elder Johnsen

 

 Elder Kleine and Elder Green

(Past companions from Tacoma)

 

 Elder Green and Elder Lemieux

(past companions from Chehalis)

 

 Sis Cassell and Elder Green