weekly letter 7

Yo yo yo! Man time is flying! I already finished my first transfer as a missionary! Even though it is a long time it is crazy to think that I only have 16 transfers left of my mission. This was awesome!  Nothing crazy but just overall awesome progressive week! Woah... ok... Freak I was so sick this week it sucked! Being sick sucks as it is at home but it suck 10x more out on mission! I was dying like literally dying. I am pretty sure I died during one of the lessons. I was teaching and then I legit just fell to the ground and died. Then I kind of woke up and the investigator was like 

" Is he ok?"

And then I got up and continued teaching... Nah just kidding that didn't happen I lied. But man legit died... They don't even have like dayquil or nyquil so yea shame... Anyways... One of our Zone leaders are going home on Wednesday so it is just crazy to think that I just started and he is already leaving! But, this transfer is going to be so fun I can already tell. We have a lot of fun things planned for this transfer! Also thanks to everyone that is sending pictures! I got to go and print them off and now I have photos to go through when I miss home so that really helps. Also the other elders always nag about how they wanna see who I hung out with and family and what not. So thanks to everyone and keep sending them!

I love hearing about all the peeps back home getting their mission calls! That is so crazy that Max, Gabe, Tweet, and Colton will all be serving in the mission all together! So jealous, someone from back home needs to get called to South Africa for sure. Kupka and Vanfleet are cool and all but... eh ;) (They went to Timpview)

Lessons are going well. Like I said nothing too extraordinary this week but my area and people are definitely progressing. We had 2 baptisms this week and they are awesome! First ones name is Jackson and he is super sweet! He is 16 and I seriously love this dude. I am so excited for him because he is going to be such a powerful priesthood holder. I know the lord has big plans for this guy. The other ones name is Sibu. He is 9 and he may be young but this is one intelligent kid. Man, he is both intellectually smart school wise and also gospel wise. The elders and I predict that he will easily become the bishop of our ward in the future. It was cool baptizing them because I actually got to hug them and congratulate them unlike my first two with those girls haha because I had to just shake their hand... Eh... I still miss that alot haha. I miss hugging people regularly but it all gucci. Only 22 1/2 Months to go ;) 

That is about it for this week! Im sure there was alot more that happened but I forget haha. But yea love you all keep sending photos! k bye

weekly letter 6

Yezzuurr! what it do everyone! This week has been really nice! I have really gotten into the rhythm of things so I am super glad about that! We did not utilize our time as much as I wanted on some days but no worries I know that it will come with time! We taught 25 lessons this week which is good I guess because that supposedly means that we are "killing it' according to my Zone Leaders, but I know that we can definitely get 30+ a week if we actually really utilize our time right! I guess it is unheard of to have that many lessons because the week that we had 33 my zone leader said that was higher than hes ever seen on his whole mission. But really it didn't seem like that hectic of a week. I am glad that I have been super blessed to be able to come in to the mission at such a high note. My first week here I did around 27 lessons and other Elders said they had around 5 lessons their first week. So I am super happy and glad that the Lord has blessed me with these people and these lessons so that it can set the tempo for my whole mission!

But YO! The whole Xenophobia or what ever it is called has gotten people scared! Apparently last time it happened people didn't even leave their house for 6 weeks and so all the stores and everything was closed due to riots and burning cars and whatever. I think that would be sick if it happened while we were here. I know the Lord will protect us but I am sure it it comes the missionaries will be evacuated but man so people are kinda scared about that. Also since they are burning and killing foreigners I do know if many people will want to try and burn me but whatevs haha

So this week, man... we went to the beach and I can honestly say.... it sucked..... It seriously sucks so bad being so close to such a beautiful beach and I cant even swim in it haha but no worries it still was such an awesome view. We went to Jefferies bay and the beach that they have there is called dolphin beach. It is always so nice to be able to go out and do civilian things on Mondays like going to the beach and playing sports! It gives me a well deserved rest from everything and in my terms, "keeps me sane". 

This week we also had Zone Training! I love my mission president. He is such an awesome guy and so it was really nice being able to see him. It was really nice getting to spend time with white american adults haha (reference to last weeks email) We had some awesome training and then got together with all the elders in our zone and ate food prepared by the senior couples. It was pretty funny because afterwards the next morning, all the elders in our zone had stomach aches and diarrhea problems haha!! Our Ap's came over and sarcastically marveled at our "Zone Unity" We had interviews with the president Merrill which went awesome, like I said I love spending anytime that we have with him. One of the things that he said has really motivated me and helped me. 

He invited me in and sat me down. He said

"Elder Greening, I have a problem with you."

I kind of was like... what the... hoping that he was being sarcastic and trying to be funny with me because that is usually how he is haha. So I just replied with

"Oh" hahha

Then he said.

"My problem is that you are becoming a missionary too fast. When I asked your companion how training was going he replied. President I am not training him, hes training me."

Hearing this made me super happy. It shows that I am doing something right. Really though I am just super happy and blessed and thankful that the spirit and our Heavenly Father has prepared me to be out on a mission. I can not even imagine how hard this all would be if I had not been prepped as much as I was. I can not wait for all the experiences that are in store for me. 

Update on Mama Xangati! (The one I talked about last week) She wants to get baptized before May 5 because she is going into surgery then so we have like two weeks to teach her everything! That is going to be both awesome but also hectic but no worries she already knows a lot and her desire to be baptized is inspirational. Now for the rest of her kids... they still need to be baptized. And I know that her son Arthur is reading this cause he reads the blog haha but yea he definitely needs to get baptized. 

That is all for now though. Also I hope that everyone is enjoying my wonderful selfies. #Thatfacedough kk love you all till next week!

Weekly Letter 5

This week was good! Another busy week this week man. We did 33 lessons this week which is a super crazy amount of lessons! Seriously so the Lord has blessed us so much because usually people drop appointments and are not home. I am continually growing closer with all the Elders in my area which is always good. Elders: Wall, Dean, Wells, and Willhelmson are all from Utah. We always talk about how much we miss seeing american brands and talk about how crappy cereal is over here and how much better america is haha. They also asked me if I had any girlie friends that would like to email them hah so let me know if any of you are interested in good looking Missionaries haha. I didn't tell you all yet but God has truly blessed me. Not only is there a guitar in our housing. There are two! Elder Dean and I just jam on those things all the time. It seriously is so nice.

One thing about over here though is that their fruit is seriously so expensive. Well expensive in the fact that we have $70 to spend every two weeks. I miss fruit so much haha. Lettuce is super cheap though so I am very happy about that! Now lettuce has been added to the rice chicken cereal diet haha. Gotta get them greens in the meals na mean. Most of the elders try to work out all together in the mornings too so im getting back into my routines. Gotta keep repping them VasBros na mean! All Kiiiinnnddzzzz A Gaaiinnzzzz!

How about general conference thoughhh. Man I swear, they were all awesome talks no doubt, but the Quorum of the Seventy are stepping up for sure. Their talks were awesome! We watched all the sessions except for the Sunday Afternoon session. I have to wait till next week sunday to watch that one. It was cool and kinda weird thinking that we were watching the Sunday Morning session live @ 6 Pm over here last night while all of you were watching it Sunday Morning @ 10am. 

One of my favorite talks was by the presiding Bishop. Bishop Causse man his was very powerful and so applicable to this generation and time. We must constantly be asking ourselves. 

"Is the Gospel still a wonder in your life?"

What a powerful question. Then we have to ask that question in more simpler terms. Do we consider The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, The Gospel of Jesus Christ to be a miracle in our lives today? If yes then what are we DOING in our lives today that shows God that we still cherish and utilize this blessing/miracle. It was seriously such an awesome talk! There were so many more revelations received in that talk but that one especially stuck out to me. 

Another thing, Man i was so surprised by the choir that sang during the Saturday Afternoon Session. I thought since that they were just all selected from YSA that it would suck haha. Their arrangements of the music were amazing! Not as good as the madrigal choir back at Timpview but you know what I mean ;) 

So on a SERIOUS NOTE: Something has been eating at me for the past couple of weeks. Something that I failed to let everyone know during my farewell talk. The thing that I wanted everyone to know is one of the biggest reasons of why I am serving a mission. 

THAT REASON BEING:

Everything happens for a reason. God knows all and with that being said he knows the intents of our hearts and because of the intents of our hearts he has placed certain people in our lives to influence and to bless and also to receive influence and blessings from. 

We all have set people that God has foreordained us to bless and to save. We are all messengers of God and so God has placed people here on this earth for us to share our message of the Restored Gospel to. When I say the word people, I do not mean strangers whom we might think I am talking about. These people are more than that. They are children of God. Not only are they children of God but they are our Brothers and Sisters. Our Brothers and Sisters are crying every night, praying to God to please help them. Some people do not even know that God exists. Some people do not know that God is also our love Heavenly Father. Some where in South Africa my brother is crying because he doesn't think that he will see his dad who just passed away ever again. Some where in South Africa my little sister is crying, hurt, depressed, lost because she thinks that no one loves her and could never love her. They are constantly crying, unknowingly waiting for us to deliver this message to them. Let them know that families are forever. Let them know that they are loved and can feel that love by living the commandments of God. I have been blessed with the knowledge that can help these people, my brothers and sisters. Only through the Gospel of Jesus Christ can these people be saved and it is up to us to be able to go out and save them. These people are so ready for the Gospel in their lives. I am so excited to continue Gods work and his plan. I am already down one month of my mission. Its the least I can do for someone who gave me everything, and for Jesus Christ whom allowed me to achieve eternal salvation.

I love all of you so much and truly miss you all! Keep sending pictures and emailing and stuffs!  

Weekly Letter 4

Man this week has been awesome. So many miracles are happening within my ward. A lot of work needs to be done cause the past missionaries.... eh... haha but man this area seriously has been going through the refiners fire for sure. It is coming along though, just need to sift through whom the lord has prepared me to teach compared to those who just like us to come around for some bible studying haha. One thing I really miss in all seriousness... is seeing a white american family. Seriously haha it would be so nice to just run into an american even if its just for like a few seconds. Thats how desperate I am haha but its alright.

One of the things that my ward lacks greatly is friendship. No one really knows each other that well in our ward which really sucks and I am super excited to change that. We had a ward activity this week which was so awesome! This whole week on top of our regular lessons, we spent a lot of time driving around and trying to contact and invite our members, less actives, and Investigators and the turn out was awesome. I love these people so much and I am super excited to work with them and growing the ward.

This week we got this thing could the Donaldson Papers and man they are awesome! Its a talk given by Elder Donaldson from the Quorum of the Seventy to the missionaries in the Las Vegas Mission. It is seriously so powerful and we got it sent to our mission and I am loving it. Seriously the missionaries around the world will seriously greatly benefit from this talk because it is straight chastisement and revelation from God. So many missionaries are wishing that they had received this talk at the beginning of their mission which is why I am so grateful for it. At first it just seemed like a chance to rebuke all the elders but after reading it I freaking love it. It teaches how we need to teach and how serious this calling to be a missionary is. A lot of missionaries just do not get that. This is a serious privilege and us as missionaries have been set apart and have the same name that the apostles have. ELDER! But its all good I am definitely sending it to all the homies on missions because it is a change that needs to happen. It gives awesome ways on how to teach and everything too. I felt kind of bad having to rebuke my trainer and be the new guy coming in and changing a lot of things but man..... Aint no body got time for that. It needs to be done in order to fully utilize my time here on the mission because 2 year is not a long enough time.

We had tons of miracles this week but one that really has stuck out to me was yesterday. So the girl who I had first baptized, we have been teaching her family. We had not been teaching their mum though, she is seriously so awesome and so nice, their whole family is just awesome. Her mum came to her baptism and has been coming to church every now and then. So yesterday at church while we were watching conference, since we still havent seen them, she was sitting next to me. She hits me, leans over to me and says.

"I want to get baptized. I want you to baptize me."

I was seriously so happy. Oh man.. I didnt say anything I kind of just nodded my head because it was during one of the talks but on the inside I was freaking out haha. So I waited until the congregational hymn. Right when it started I just shook her hand and said

"Wow mama that is so awesome! When did you decide this?"

"Yesterday!"​

I was super excited but then she said something that I will never forget. Something that I still have not been able to get over. She said.

"I want to change, become a better person"

When she said those words.... It hit me so hard.

I replied "This gospel is the best way to do it"

Those words that she said sunk deep into my heart. I kept repeating them in my head. I started getting teary eyed and every time I repeated them in my head the tears just kept coming. (Typical Nivah) Seriously even now while I am typing this, those words still hit me so hard. That is why I am here. That is why I am on a mission. That is what this gospel can do to people. This gospel can and will change people for the better. Only through this gospel can we really allow our Heavenly Father to shape us and change us and perfect us as we grow closer to our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ. Through out the rest of conference those words just come resounding in my head. What a miracle. We haven't even taught her a single lesson. These people of South Africa are so prepared by the Lord. They are so prepared to finally find what thing they have been missing all of their life. The reason why we are here on earth and what we need to do to finally be eternally happy and have complete joy. I love these people and I love this gospel so much. What a wonderful blessing to have in our lives. I love and miss you all! Till Next week!

weekly letter 3

Hey everyone! This week was pretty busy. We ended up teaching prob roughly over 25 lessons this week which is a pretty busy week in the mission field because usually you will have people dropping appointments because they are not home and things like that. It was nice being super busy all day every day but then at the same time it is really draining and I struggle to stay completely awake. My area is awesome though. I am so blessed to have this area be my first because our boarding (Housing) is connected to 5 other elders and then our Zone Leaders are in a small house right next to that so that really helps with not getting home sick and things like that. It seriously helps so much that there are 8 other elders around me that I get to hang out with. They are so awesome and we get along really well which is great. At 6:30 we all wake up and go into the middle housing between us, because it is the biggest, and all come together to get lil workouts in. These elders are from Utah, California, Tanzania, and also South Africa. Being the new guy isn't too bad either. They always tell me that i don't act like a new guy which is nice. It seriously feels like we have been together for months but really I have been in Uitenhage for a total of 9 days. That is crazy! We all have been taking turns reading this book called Visions Of Glory. It seriously is such an interesting book about a man having visions about the second coming and things like that. I really think you all should give it a go and read it! 

I love these people though. They are so kind and loving and they seriously always bring up how big I am. Since I always tell them that I came from Provo, Utah, They are always like "You look like New Zealand Neh?" Then I explain to them everything and then they get it but yea I love them so much. It is a really humbling experience teaching these people. I will show you all the houses and things like that next week because I didn't take any pictures of the houses yet but yea. It seriously feels like I have been here for so long though. Also the money exchange over here blows my mind. You get around 12 Rand per US Dollar which is insane. You can go to KFC and get a piece of chicken and some Pop (like mash) for 15 Rand. And people say that is expensive but freak that's like a little over $1 of our money. We get 715 Rand every two weeks which is equivalent to around $65 US dollars which is alright. Usually I just find myself eating hot dogs and rice or just cereal haha. The cereal here sucks compared to back home. Me and all the US Elders just bag on it all of the time. I have been really craving Pop Tarts and Toaster Strudels too haha they dont have anything like that over here. The members if were lucky will feed us a meal every Sunday but that's if we are lucky. I am super grateful when they feed us but if they don't its not that big of a deal because I understand how much work it is for them to get and make food. People are working here literally for like 2 rand an hour. Seriously If you lived here and were getting paid in US money you would be instarich over here. So Mum n Dad any money is much appreciated to me and my fellow elders. I'm really loving the wheatbix and Meat Pies over here. Prob not as good as back in NZ but still they are good. The other day I went to this bakery and I bought a Meat Pie and it was 17 Rand which blew my mind. That is less than $1.50... yea the US Dollar exchange continues to blow my mind but still we don't really get that much because we get 715 Rand to work with for two weeks but its ok. Hot Dogs and Cereal for life. The mission life has been kind of rough getting used to but I am progressively getting used to it. We went and taught this recent convert named Busi Aka Juicy. She is awesome haha I treat her like my little sister. We went over to her house and her and her little siblings were watching High School Musical and she loves to sing so me and her were singing all the songs haha. I seriously am so thankful for little short moments like this cause it helps a lot. Little moments of what I call "Civilian Life" to help keep me sane and transition smoother into it. 

I gave a talk in church on sunday which was nice. I have a feeling that I will be giving a lot of talks during Sacrament which I am excited for. I just gave the same talk as my farewell talk. Oh and surprise! I HAD MY FIRST TWO BAPTISMS ON SUNDAY! It was cool. It made me so happy to see how happy the two girls where after the baptism.The first was a woman named Nwabisa. She is 26 and has a cute little boy. She is so awesome and I am so excited to see her progress in the church and grow closer to Christ and God. The other girls name is Valentine Xangati. She is 14 and she is a super sweet girl. Her story is awesome. So one Sunday morning, Her and 2 others were walking on the street and they passed our chapel. They said that they all had a strong urge to go inside or that they felt like that they really needed to go inside. So they did. They just walked in to check it out and they walked in during sacrament meeting and sat down. From then on they wanted to learn more and started taking lessons. Our Mission Prez always tells us that the best thing we can do for someone when teaching is the power of Curiosity. We have to make them curious about what we are teaching because then they have a desire to really actually learn about it for themselves. This is a perfect example because along with that strong urge to come inside, they were curious as to why they felt like they needed to go inside and the only way to truly find out and to feed that curiosity is to go and do it. We like to teach a lot of our investigators like that.

That is all for now though! Everyone send me pictures of them cause love and miss you all! Also all the elders want to see pictures of all friends and stuff so that they can put a face to all the stories that I tell from back home. That phrase is crazy too. I think its so cool that I have gotten into the habit of saying "Back Home..." Also it takes maybe 2 months for packages to get here so family if you are thinking of sending one start ASAP and also letters may take a couple days but letters are awesome! But yea... Bye I'm also trying to learn Xhosa which is like a click language but yea I am excited k for real bye

Elder Nivah Greening

P.O Box 181 

Observatory 7935

Cape Town, South Africa

weekly letter 2

What it do doughhh! man the MTC was awesome! It was seemed like forever that I was in there and you are always so busy that I would always forget that I was still in Provo. Its crazy to think that I will not be seeing the Provo temple for 2 years! I seriously had the best district! They are such awesome missionaries and they are going to be serving in the Provo mission so everyone pleasse!! If you see them anytime please show them love and take care of them and also tell them that you know me and that I love and miss them! The missionaries serving in Provo is all the Sisters: Cluff, Cruz, Sandall, Heninger & Elders: Edlinger, Vanderzeal, & Riddle! Seriously if you see them tell them I love them and feed them food! And email me if you see them. 

It was so nice seeing all my friends from back home in the MTC as well! Seeing buddies like Elder: Jacobs, Grey, Mckay, etc. & of course elder Murray got to hang out with him again which was really nice before I left which was awesome!!! Also saw Sisters: Millard, Studdard, Olivas, Taylor etc. which was really nice. Still sad cause couldn't hug them just handshake but it gucci. Oh yea and by the way Mum - gave one of the shirts away to this Elder that I became real cool buddies with from Aussie haha. He heads to the Philippines in like 3 weeks but yeaaaaa love you. 

So yea surprise, Im in South Africa haha but dang that flight... Long story short... I left Utah on a plane at 8:45 AM tuesday morning and arrived to Cape Town at 11:30 PM. had good food though haha. But that flight i seriously got so insanely hammerd. Also the time change was pretty difficult to get used to for a few days. I think we are like 9 hours ahead of yous back home but yeeeee it all goods because I am pretty much used to it now. 

Now let me tell yous about the mosquitos here. They seriously have been destroying me while I have been here its been insane. They seriously love me and keep waking me up at night because they are just having a feast. They always tryna get at me and im just like

 "Yo, Get off me I aint interested in no making out with mosquitos"

 and then they be like

 "Na man, We finna eat right quick hammie"

Yea they suck so definitely gonna have to start wearing bug repellent or something to sleep hahah.

Now my mission president is an awesome guy. His name is President Merrill and he used to be in the Air Force. He played College Baseball so we relate on the sports side which is nice. He took us up to signal hill which gives a great view over Cape Town! Also in the picture is my MTC companion elder Martinez and also the Assistants to the President right now they are awesome as well. 

My Area right now is called Uitenhage which is an awesome area. The people are seriously so loving and caring and I am so blessed to be serving here. We dont have enough missionaries right now so there used to be 4 missionaries covering the 2 areas in Uitenhage but now there is just me and my companion Elder Meijesen. Hes an awesome guy, super humble and super nice guy from Johannesburg, South Africa. So since it is just me and him, we have to take care of both areas with only two missionaries. Not much training time for Elder Greening but its all guuciiee No need cause im One Hunnit na meannnn haha. So that mean that we are extremely busy all the time which gets super crazy trying to plan for all these people. It sucks because I want to grow friendships and make people happy but on the mission there just is not enough time to do it. Two years seriously is not enough time but I definitely am going to make the best out of it. I told my companion that we need to start sifting through our investigators and start making choices on who we need to drop because if they are not committing them selves to make a change in their lives and live the gospel then we have to move on and use our time more efficiently in trying to find people that are because like I said I only have 2 years. I dont got time to just hang out and share messages with them every week just because they like the feeling of the spirit that we bring with us. Its tough but I know everything will work out just gotta trust in the Lord to help.

So last week Friday I was out Proselyting with one of the AP's in a township called Gugulethu. We taught a few lessons in the streets and gave out some copies of the Book Of Mormon. We went over to a little shop out on the street where people buy candy and things like that and taught the worker there. As we were teaching him these 3 little girls came up to buy things and so we kinda had to just give him pamphlets on the restoration and then leave it at that. These little girls were probably aged 6-9 and we were just talking to them and saying hi and things like that. We said bye and started walking away. As we were walking I felt something grab my hand. I turned around and saw the youngest girl which I thought to be around 6 year old. She looked up to me and asked me

"Can you hold me?" as she put her hands up openly towards me.

It broke my heart. Naturally i went to pick her up then remembered that we cant do that. I sadly said that I couldnt and then she got really sad and said

"Oh"

We said bye again and then walked to our car. 

These people are so loving and so nice and seriously are the most humble people I have ever met. They are so ready to receive the gospel and I know that it is my duty, opportunity, and blessing to do so. They are so receptive which make our job a lot easier. My first lesson out in the field was aweome as well. I committed my first investigator to Baptism which is exciting!

We agreed on him getting baptized on April 19. I am so excited to help these people and share with them something that will change their lives forever. K Bye

Weekly Letter 1

Hey Everyone! This week seriously has been so amazing. I can easily say that i have learned more in this past week than i ever did during the four years of seminary. Not sure if thats a good thing or a bad thing. My companion is Elder Martinez. Born and raised in Compton, California and went to West Jordan High School for his Junior and Senior year. He's an awesome guy and he was converted three years ago. Him and I get along really well since we both played a lot of sports and also love the lord which is pretty much all we need right? haha no he is awesome, find myself leading pretty much more of the discussions and lessons but no worries he is getting a lot better the more I work with him. Its crazy because the district that I am in is my companion and I and then another elder are going to South Africa but then the rest of the District is going to Provo, Utah for their mission. So you all better take care of them because I love them and they are awesome. Our district gets along so well which is both a good and a bad thing. Since we are super comfortable with each other we work really well together but then again we also tend to get off subject and talk about personal life and things like that but we are working on it. 

My companion and I are the Zone Leaders of our zone but half of our zone left for their missions on Monday so that was really sad to say goodbye to them. I wish i could show you pictures but i haven't been able to figure out how to add pictures since there are so many restrictions on the computers so I might just have to wait until next week when I am out in the field.

Oh yea ps. I haven't received my reassignment yet but I will most likely be reassigned somewhere state side so that I can work there until my visa processes and I will figure that out probably tomorrow. So next time you hear from me I will be emailing from somewhere in the states who knows where but dont matter na meeeaaaannnnn. Its just still crazy to me to think that On Monday I will already be out in the field preaching and what not. Its swaggy dough. 

So this week was crazy it seriously is so awesome but it is hard. It is really hard getting into the whole missionary state of mind. Our days are seriously so scheduled out and we don't have anytime to relax or anything like that. Learning so much from the teachers and preparing lessons all the time i seriously have been dying to just have time where i can just sit and read my scriptures for hours and that seriously is so strange because literally i never would read but now I find myself loving every opportunity get to read the scriptures.

This whole experience has been so amazing. Throughout this week I have noticed how much of an influence the spirit has on us. The spirit brings so much peace to me and allows me to feel of Gods love. Being a missionary and feeling the spirit as often as we do is amazing. I have noticed a huge change in my life but the one thing that has really stood out to me is the Christ like attribute Charity. Charity is the pure love of Christ. Before the mission I loved people and it was always so nice to see friends and make new friends and overall love people. Ever since I got to the MTC my love for people has amplified x 10982... Yes that many crazy huh. But really. Before the mission i cried a lot but now i find myself literally crying all the time. I'm used to it so i don't make a big deal out of it or anything but i mean now... ill finish a prayer and start crying, listen to a Mormon message and start crying, every time I testify of the gospel of Jesus Christ I start crying. I really just love my teachers and district and this gospel so much. I really miss hugs too, which sucks too because I love my sisters in my districts and my teachers so much and also some sisters are down and things like that too and i just want to love them and comfort them but I cant because I cant walk over to them and talk to them because that's considered "Flirting" so thats too bad. But honestly my love for people has seriously grown so much and I love it.

I don't have much time and hopefully I figure out how to add pictures and things like that also thanks to the Murray's for my first package! My district loved the muffins haha. 

You can send me letters through dear elder for free but only till Monday because then ill be gone so yea., its on the blog and mum packages can be sent or whatever my mailing address till monday is

Elder Nivah Keola Greening

Mar16 SOAF-CPT

2009 N 900 E Unit 132

Provo Utah 84602

They don't give us much time for emailing in the MTC so sorry if i couldn't write you back but in the field ill be a lot better! Also please send pictures of you all. I brought zero pictures and really miss everyone so please send me pictures and yea love you all till next week!!!

Moroni 7: 45,47-48

"...Charity is the pure love of Christ, and it endureth forever; and whoso is found possessed of it at the last day, it shall be well with him..."