Repent and Be Baptized

Elder Von Trapp saying goodbye to our favorite less-active, Sie

Dear Family,

Thanks for your letters. Perhaps some of you were confused and thought
that P-day was going to be on Wednesdays from now on. Sadly no. P-day
is only on Wednesday when it is a transfer week and because it was a
transfer week last week P-day was moved. P-day is always on Monday.
Sunday is P-day eve. It's a special day, it's the day we get ready for
P-day. Saturday is also a special day because it's the day we get
ready for Sunday. Thanks for those of you who did write.

So how about that conference? I really enjoyed all of the talks but
one in particular that really struck a chord with me was Elder Snow's
talk about humilty. He began in such a unique way. I love learning
about the history of the church and in particular about the hymns. He

Elder Greenlief getting ready for take-off! :D

based his whole talk on a great hymn Be Thou Humble. President Hunter
said once that our greatest joy should be the success of others. I
don't think I really understood that until I came on a mission. Our
entire work is about people. We are in the people business. I rejoice
when someone wants to actually find out if the church is true or when
someone makes an effort to repent. There's no joy like the joy felt in
the service of others. The path to humility is prayer and fasting
(Helaman 3:35). As Alma said in his great sermon on faith that it is
better to be humble than to be compelled to be humble.

Just your average lesson with Elder McGuire

There were some great talks in general that I think it would be good
for all of us to go back and listen to conference one more time.

This past week I got word that I was training a new missionary. I
forgot to tell you all last Wednesday. Sorry about that. Elder
Greenlief is from Sandy, UT and is 18, straight out of high school. I
remember when I came out and looking back I'm just like what was I
thinking coming out that young. It really has been a long time since I
began my mission. Elder Greenlief is excited to get to work. He is
really into computers: computer programming, building computers, and
basically all things tech. He's a smart cookie and loves the gospel.
Gotta love that new missionary fire. We're going to get a lot of work
done.

Elder Greenlief from Sandy, UT. Fresh from the mothership, the MTC

So Thursday after driving a ton from Maine all the way to Moncton and
back again we met with the Ellisons again. It was Elder Greenlief's
first ever lesson of all time so I knew I needed to make it a
memorable one for him. On the way over there I was telling him that he
needed to invite Crystal, Riley, and Logan to be baptized and to
readjust Tia's date for May. He was pretty nervous about the whole
thing, but I said what was the worst that could happen. We were
teaching the restoration again just to clear some of the points up and
the lesson was coming to a close and Elder Greenlief was just so
nervous I didn't know what to do. So finally once we taught all of the
points and the Ellison's were agreeing, I said "Well thanks for having
us, before we go Elder Greenlief has a question he's been dying to
ask." He then with all the courage he could muster invite them to be
baptized. Yes you could say that Elder Greenlief put 4 people on date
to be baptized his first night in the field. Not bad for being out
only 3 weeks. President Pratt was stoked when he heard about that.
Faith precedes the miracle. We're cooking with peanut oil now!

Initiating Elder Greenlief to the ways of the Maritimes with some poutine

I love you all

HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!

Elder McGuire