A letter from Sister Lee Kindernay Greer

Dear Lerwill Family,

It was a wonderful surprise to receive your note. It has been a busy month for me. After my Baptism on March 5th, I got married on April 8th. I am now sister Greer. I have already been so blessed these past few months. Your son has been a part of all these blessings. You should be very proud of the exceptional son you raised. His spirit and the strength of his faith had an influence on me during my lessons. We are all going to the Easter Pageant together on Tuesday. With your permission I will give Elder Lerwill an Easter hug for you all.

God Bless,

Lee Green

This is Sister Lee Kindernay with her now husband Elder Greer. His son is who baptised her. 

Happy Birthday Dad from Elder Lerwill aka Dalan

I think my husband is AMAZING

We have been working on our food storage (getting more food) and also cleaning our food storage room. You know the routine, de-junk!! We have made some trips to DI and we have organized and used space better. Put some stuff in the crawl space and other places. We also got a smoking deal on some shelves. We were so excited to find a lady in Sugar City who wanted to get ride of some old rotating can shelving. She did not have any clue what she had. Hey her loss, my gain. We picked them all up for $80.00. So excited. So Stacy has got them all put in and we filled them up. We have so many that we need to go buy more canned foods. Fun! Stacy has been playing with this idea to make some shelves in our floor joist's to put our gallon cans. Well we got it done yesterday and it is AMAZING. We have so much more shelf space. It almost looks like we don't have very much food storage because it is all tucked away so neatly. Here are some pictures.

Saturday Sunshine

Saturday and Sunday were some of our first sunny days in FOREVER! We got our 22's out and sited them in, now waiting for more sunny days so the squirrels will poke their heads out.

That night Bailey went to a party and Stacy and I visited the Booker's. They had quite the scare this week with Angela getting her thyroid out and then complications, airplane ride to SLC, a week later home and Angela has lost her voice. They hope that it will return but no one can say for sure. She is doing well and can breath so that is wonderful.

Sunday was Easter and we went to our Sacrament Meeting and then went to Driggs and went to Nathan Hartshorn's home coming. It was really good, he looks great. We came home and had Verna over and had a yummy Easter dinner of ham, sweet potatoes, Resurrection rolls, cream corn, Bavarian peach jello, and strawberry, cream, and angel food cake. It was yummy.

Easter Pageant Picutes

Dalan with his room, roommate from BYUI. Coleman McConnon from Massachusetts. Pretty cool! He is serving in the Tempe Mission.

E-Mail 4-25-2011

Hello everyone there. sounds like things are starting to warm upa little there for you, that will be a nice change! :) cant believe that it is still snowing there, it has been really nice here htis past week and we have really enjoyed it, it has made the easter pageant so much more enjoyable! :) what a wonderful expirence it has been this week! we have seen so many miricles.


sounds like you will be getting all the equitment ready to roll here soon, i hope that that will all come to gether smoothly and you c an get things rolling soon. ill keep you in my prayers! :)

so this week has been really busy and different that our regular weeks... we went to the easter pageant every night this past week and had all of our investigators attend but 1 family was out of town with other easter plans. it helped them so much and the spitit so strong!

So on closing night of the pageant we were going with nate and sara graham and that is the crazyest night ever... there are people there saving seats at 11:00 am. so crazy. there were 15,000 people in attendance on closing night,...thats alot, haha. so we got there at 5:00 looking for decent seats and we ran into bishop gleave of the Harris 1st ward as we were walking around and he told us that he had been there saving seats sence noon and he just had some people fall through and werent going to be able to make it and wondered if we would like to take them...it was incredible. we were right in the center, 3 rows back!! we got some amaizng pics that i will send! it was a blast! :)

we had a investigator named jennette who has been kinda flaky latley but she was willing to come to the pageant with us so she did on Wed and she LOVED it. she texted us back that same night and asked for 4 tickets for the next night so she could bring the rest of her family. we are teaching her tonight. she was the one who pushed this lesson through and is wanting to meet with us so we will be setting a baptismal date with her tonight. we are really excited for her adn her son, he has been coming to church for the past 3 months but the mom has been the hold up on him getting baptised so now that she is on bored things should move along quickly! :) it was great and there were defently a lot of touched hearts.

SO AWESOME. i have been talking to you about TOny Denice and Brody, well the whole family came to church on sunday and sat with there fellow shippers! IT Was incredibl;e to see htem there and they really enjoyed it. we are teaching them this week and we will be talking to them about getting married and bishop is meeting with tony so he can get married and get the priestood so he can baptise his wife! so we will be setting a baptismal date with her this week. that will be such a miricle. everyting seems to just be falling into place. the month of may will be amazing!

Tedd didnt get baptised due to work scheduals and getting off his new job and also his G/F's job but he is still solid and doing really great! i seen him at pageant and talked with him and he is really struggling but has so much faith. it is really humbling to see, i need to be better at having faith that everyting will work out in my life, he has flat out been drug through the crapper and yet he still has faith that it will all be worth it and wants to continue on with the goals he has. what a amaizng person and we ahve such a great friendship. so he will be getting baptised this saturday at 5:00 for sure and i am so excited to finally see him get baptised. so many blessing await him as a result of his hard work and dedication. he defently feels all the love and prayers comiing form all over so thank you. he will be and do great things.

I got your easter package thank you so much. i loved it and it made my day! iboughtall the stuff i need to make the cake and it has been fun to have some things to eat. :) i didnt see the tape... i will have to go home and look through the box again, mabey i missed it. ill find it though! :) thanks a ton. we had a great easter! went from church from 8 am till 5 pm then went to dinner, good ham and funeral potatoes! :) it was really good, then we contacted a few new people and that was about all the fun that made up our easter! :) we had some amazing talks in our wards! it was so awesome, Lee talked in sacrament and such a great job! she is so solid and is doing so good. we have started to teach her mom and she is awesome as well. she has been coming to church sence lee got baptised and loves it. she is 81 years old and wants learn. she will get baptised for sure, we are really excited for all these great people who we are workign with and will be soon! :)

I havnt heard anything back for Samantha... i sent her that letter back and havnt heard anyhting else. mabey ill drop her another on if i get a chance! :)

perscriptions....wow i hope that there is somthing going on there that i dont know about, like a free corvette at the end of the year, or something great... that hurts, but i will just keep doing a s you ask! it will all work out. a fill lasts me 1 month. i will send that reciete to you! thanks for all you do.

I am sure nathan did such a great job! be sure and give him a big hug for me! it sure is crazy how fast time flys by!

well we are going to go to the batting cages today. next wweek we are have a zone activity and we are going to play softball. it will be a blast and we will be doing that on the 2nd at 10:00 so we weill email after that, FYI.

well i better get but thank you so much for all you do for me andhelpign me in the ways you do. i am truly blessed with such a great family and friends. thank you thank you thank you!

I hope that you have agreat weeek and keep safe and healthy! good luck with all you do and keep it up! take care,

Love,

Elder Dalan Lerwill

p.s. my sugars are doing O.K.?!? I have been kinda struggling latly but i am doing ok. thanks for sending me new sets and resivors! i will try harder and keep on top of it! thanks so much, XOXO

Easter Egg Coloring

Bailey made this for her brother Jo Jo

Tradition! I have hours of videoing of us coloring Easter eggs. It has always been a fun tradition. This will be the first time in 20 years that Dalan hasn't been here with us. I am not sure I like this stage of my life. I loved having little kids! I love my big kids too! I am glad Bailey still is young at heart. The eggs turned out so bright and pretty. We did it the old fashioned way with food coloring. They are way more brilliant than the box with food coloring tablets that cost a lot more.

Friday Morning Surprise

The snow was all gone on the lawn until.....we woke up this morning to 4-5 inches of pretty white stuff. It is really pretty if it is in December. The sun was gorgeous for part of the day. I think the sun is on strike for our area. Must belong to a union or something crazy. I think everyone would pay her extra if she would visit more.

Yummy Yogurt

It turned out so yummy and good. I love it! It is easy too! Yummy just plain (I added sugar and vanilla) or add some yummy strawberry or raspberry jam. Can't wait to make some more!

Three Little Pigs

Yummy Pork! We picked our pigs up today.

Bet you can't guess what this is???

This is my first batch of homemade yogurt. Hope it turns out. I will keep you posted. Thanks Katie for all the tips. I am sure I will be calling you, AGAIN!

Bunny Tails

Found this idea on the awesome Internet. Had to make some, aren't they cute.

Dalan and Bailey and nieces and nephews all got one.

April 19, 2011 Happy Birthday Stacy

Happy Birthday to the most wonderful husband, father, and friend! Stacy got some new clothes, so it wasn't the most exciting gift getting (especially for a guy) but hey it is better than not having any clothes. He was in real need. He also got a pair of leather slip on shoes that are really nice. Bailey and I took him to Gringo's to eat. It was yummy. We thought we would see a movie, but there wasn't anything playing we wanted to see. We will save our money for a good one down the road. We had a great evening, we just want Stacy to know that we love him so much and are very thankful for all he does for our family. Here is the sweet letter Dalan wrote him for his birthday.

Dad, thank you so much for your email of updates and keeping me in touch! i love to hear from u and how all is going there. I hope you have a great day today and do something fun! ill be there for your next one! it is so crazy how fast time goes by and things change. you are a amazing example to me and have always been so great. i love you so much and really miss talking with and doing things with you on a daily basis! it was a huge change coming out here and having little contact with you all but it is really a great experience, thank you so much for making it all possible. i hope that all of the farm stuff just falls together and works for you in a fast and easy manner! :) your always in my prayers. i have a card for you that i will get in the mail today so i will write more then but have a wonderful day and enjoy this wonderful day! its in the 90's here so love it there! :)


I would love to hear some things about your mission. if there are any experiences that really stand out in your mind of when you seen some awesome miracle i would love to hear about it!

I wish the happiest birthday and a great week! take care and be safe!

Your the best i could ever ask for, love your son/best friend,

Elder Dalan Lerwill

p.s. any coyotes? :)

Bailey's Baby Grade

Bailey did awesome! 99% So Proud of her!

Elder Thomas and Elder Lerwill

Elder Thomas and Elder Lerwill in the MTC. April 2010

Elder Thomas at Provo Temple 2010

Elder Thomas and Elder Lerwill, April 2011, in Mesa AZ, Zone Leader Companions

e-mail 4-19-2011

Hello, wow i am going to have to type really fast to get all of my awesome new info in so mom please edit this before you post! :) we have had such a great week here and seen so many amazing things happen! it has been great! sounds like the sun is staying away from Idaho.. it sure isn't here, it has been in the high 90's and warming up everyday, and it is really different because the sun goes down and it is still 75-80! pretty crazy! hope you can get all the parts and equipment ready for the spring go and all goes smoothly, you're in my prayers! That is so excited for Kayla that she got baptised! ya i remember her, that is so great and thanks for all the wonderful birthday wishes and support! thanks so much. well i will get you all filled in on the kool stuff that has happened here in AZ.


Well to start off my testimony has been strengthened so much this past week. 2 weeks ago Brody Arrington got baptised and that was such a sweet experience, his father Tony was bap when he was 8 and had never gone back, he wouldn't sit in on the lessons with us and just was a little shady when ever we would come over. well he came to the bap and it was his first time in a church in over 30 years and he was really touched. it was a very emotional bap. he has had a complete change of heart. we were able to set a apt with him and the bishop and unlike all the other times he has had apts...he actually came. we were able to visit with him for just a second before his interview and you could tell that he was really nervous but had a lot on his mind that he needed to get off. he was in there meeting with bishop for 1 1/2 hours! bishop called us after and was so excited, he said that he had a great visit with Tony and a lot of progress was made. Tony expressed sincere desire to come back into full fellowship in the church meet with us with Denice, get married, get the priesthood, baptise his wife and some day go through the temple! this is such a answered prayer, when i heard this i just started to cry. there is no one that is too far off the path that they cant make it back! it has been really humbling to see this all transpire and take shape. it hasn't been easy but they have so much family and ward support. we are so blessed to be able to work with them and be a part of their lives! great people and we are really excited for them, we are going to the Easter pageant with them on Thursday! it will be great and they will come along great! :) So exciting

This is another answered prayer. Tedd Buchert was going to get baptised 3 weeks ago but told his parents and they disowned him and have been really hostile toward him, he has been beat up by parents and has such a strong spirit though. well the good news is he finally got moved out of the house and got a place living with some members and is now really ready to get baptised! he called us on Sunday and was ready to get baptised this Saturday! :) so great for him. so that will be happening on Saturday! what a great person and example of enduring! hopefully he can stick through the first ruff months of being a new member and i have complete faith that he will! :)

Nathan Graham got ordained on Sunday and he asked me to do it. so i did and it was a great opportunity. very powerful and i am so appreciative that he gave me that opportunity and he has made these choices for himself and for his family!

Our zone meetings went really well. all who were involved did great and we even planned it all to where we ended right on time, which was partly lucky because you never know how long president is going to be in interviews! :) it was awesome. we have a few small companionship issues in our zone that we will be having to deal with. always hard to know how to do what and when! haha, president has so much trust in us, its great. a very enjoyable day and we all learned so much! :)

The Easter pageant is the sweetest thing ever! we are so blessed to have that in our mission! i will be going every night this week with investigators and we are working at it and talking to people on Wed. so we are going to have another busy week! the spirit is so strong there on temple grounds and the pageant is so well put together and choreographed! i cant wait till you all can come down some year and see it! its incredible! :)

This week has been so rewarding and at the beginning of it, on Monday night, we got dropped by 2 people 2 visits in a row so we were pretty down on all that was happening but we just kept working hard and being obedient and look what happens, God really must love all of his children or else this work would really suck! haha such a blessing to be here at this time and have a great companion that i get along with.
we are doing really well together and are working really hard! seen so many blessings. it was kinda crazy but the other night we were laying in bed just talking before we went to sleep and come to find out, we actually met each other at collage!! CRAZY huh, we hung out one night at the dorms together because he was dating a girl that lived there and i was with a girl who lived there as well! as we talked we put it all together! small world! elder Thomas is great and we are doing awesome and having a blast!

E Mace is from San Antonio
E Vigil is from Wichita Kansas
E weaver is from Georgia some where, i kinda have forced that 3 weeks out of my head...i hope to never again go through anything like that, haha but it was a great learning experience
E Fairbanks actually went home with elder paiz, he came back out for a few months but was still having lots of health issues so they sent him home for good, honorable release! great guy and hope all is well for him! :)



well i have to get a few other thing wrote to president and have little time left so i gotta go but thank you so much for all your love and support and your letters and emails. thanks for all you do for me in making this wonderful opportunity possible! keep the faith and be safe, your always in my prayers and i hope the very best for you this week. ill talk to you soon!!



All my Love,



Elder Dalan Lerwill

Great Members watching over Missionaries

Hello Lerwill, and Thomas families,

Tonight we had the wonderful chance to host two good young men, and great missionaries for dinner.
We had a good time as we talked family history and trying to connect other folks in Arizona that they know from this mission.
They both wouldn't leave the table without clearing their plates. Especially because Elder Thomas told us that his mom told him " Never leave your plate!"
We wish we had someone for them to teach. Still working on that.
If you ever want to come to the amazing Easter Pageant - or just Mesa - be our guests.
contact us, and if no one is in the guest house, it's yours.
Karen Reidhead
Hope you enjoy the photo

Oh Baby.....

It might not look real from the pictures, but come hang out with it and it acts pretty real. It is really crazy. So Bailey is taking Parent and Child Development and part of her grade has been wearing the pregnancy belly for 24 hours. That was too wild, that I couldn't even make myself take a picture of her wearing it. It was uncomfortable for us as parents, but it was a learning experience for her. She had a hard time driving because her belly was so big and her legs are so short. We can all laugh at it now. Well on Wednesday after school she got her baby that she is in charge of  for 5 days. It is a darker skinned baby girl, that Bailey named Lexi. It even smells like a real baby. It cries like a real baby. This is how it works, Bailey wears a bracelet that is programed to go with the baby. When the baby cries, Bailey swipes her bracelet and it will chime and then she proceeds to make it happy by either feeding it (which sounds real also), changing it's diaper, burping it, or just rocking it. When the baby first cries she has 2 minutes to start helping her. It feels real also. It's neck must always be supported just like a new baby. It is amazing that it records all that happens to her and how she is taken care of. Then the teacher can print it all out to see how well you did and get your grade. The first night Lexi slept all night til 5 and then went back to sleep. Well last night was a different story. Bailey finally got to sleep around midnight because of the baby and then she was up 2 more times. It was a long night. I wondered if I would like this assignment. It has been really educational I think. It has not been easy and Bailey made a comment to us yesterday that hit home. She said wow you really have to not think about yourself. I told her that if that is what she learned from this she was doing good. What a true comment. Oh how having children changes your life. She is getting a feel of how hard it can be, but I want to tell her how wonderful it is. When it is done at the proper time of life, with the right person, you don't think about the hardships as much. It is a wonderful blessing to have children and the sacrifice is worth it all. A time and place for all things. Bailey has been doing a super great job at taking care of this baby and I know she will someday make the most awesome Mommy to her children. Wow and then I will be a Grandma. Double Wow!

One Year Down

We are so excited that Dalan has hit his 1 year mark!!! (April 14, 2011) We sure thought a lot about that day a year ago and are so glad that it is over. What a hard day! In Dalan's words he said "with time it is all down hill from here". I am sure it will go by quickly! We are hoping for that. Can't wait to talk to him in a few weeks. Yeah!

Happy Birthday Elder Lerwill, Happy Birthday Elder Thomas (how crazy is that!) The best present ever a baptism=Brody

Hello how are you all doing on this wonderful monday morning! Bailey your book shelf looks awesome and it was fun to see all the pics of your branding weekend! :) looks like it was a little chilly! it actually rained here Friday Saturday and Sunday so that was nice to be able to enjoy that nice weather! So i have so much to fill you in on! this week has been crazy, we have been running aroung like crazy trying to get everything taken care of and in line for this up coming transfer. It was so good to hear from you, either from email or by letter. I have had such a awesome birthday week and it has been even funner because elder thomas' birthday was on Sunday the 10th! crazy right. we had a great time celebrating our 20th birthdays together! and the rudds took really good care of us! we ate cosco hot dogs and other things then funfetti cake! it was really chill and low key but a lot of fun. they gave us a big box of junk food! M&M's salt and vinagar chips diet coke and lots of other favorites, i love them so much, they do so much for us its awesome! They made us the SWEETEST cake ever! i will send you pics but it was a huge name badge cake haha, it was sweet and we had a really enjoyable time with them! I relaly enjoyed those pics that you sent to the Rudds, i got to see them and it is crazy how fast time goes by, seems just like yesterday that we were at those differnt parties. time goes by fast thats for sure!


Me and elder thomas are prety much brothers! we are getting along and working really well together and really excited for the next few months we will hopfully be together for! he is from medford oregon and is way chill. we are really excited. we are seeing so many miricles and have some really prepare people who we are getting really close to start teaching! the members are helping us out so much and give us referals often! it is so great to have the wards trust and let us help them share the gospel with their friends! :) We have lots of lessons planned for this coming week and some of them are new investigators so that is exciting for us and for our wards. we have a ward who hasnt had a baptism in 3 years. there are lots of members in their ward boundry and everyone has been approched so it is kind of a difficult area but we are going to work really hard and get a baptism there for them, that will be a great motivator to do missionary work! :)

Brody got baptised on my birthday! it was awesome and the spirit was so strong. Tony got up and said a few words and it was really touching because he is making some great changes in their lives and i can see denice getting baptised in a short time so we are really excited for that! :) Brody is such a awesome example and has play such a huge roll in the convertion of his mom and the returning of his dad, tony! it is really awesome that at such a young age, he can have such a great testimony. awesome family and we are really excited for them!

We are starting the easter pagent this week! we get to go and work on the 13th, the first night! its the night that all the zone leaders from both the mesa and the tempe missions will be there working and it will be great! its only a matter of time before i run into coleman down here! that will be fun! and also tell bishop that i was really sad i didnt get to see them and the next time they come down let me know a time and date and we could mabey just conviently meet at the visitors center! haha, ;) but we are really excited for the pagent! what a great oppertunity it will be to feel of the spirit and get people on temple grounds! it will be huge and LOTS of people attend every year! :) sence we are sharing the working nights with the tempe mission not all of the missionaries will be able to work but i will have the oppertunity to work twice, the 13th and the 20th! it will be great! :)

we have a crazy week coming up, besides all of our apts we are teaching we have ZDM meeting next monday, so our pday will be on Tues, this is the meeting where all the missionaries in the zone have interviews with president! we are in charge of getting all of that put together and planned out so we will be getting that going this week! :)should be fun! we have a great zone and they are alot of fun to work with and serve! really good, hard working missionaries! makes things alot easier thats for sure! haha

We are having alot of fun and are really looking forward to moving the work forward inour area and zone this next few weeks. we are working aweosme together and really enjoy it so it will be great!

thank you so much for all you support and all thaat you all do in making possible for me to be out here and enjoying this expirece! it truly is remakable and i am learning so much! one of the greatest things about being a missionary is being able to interact with so many different families and people. you really learn what you want in life, in a family, in work and pretty much everything else that really matters! thanks for making it work! i love and miss you all so much but think about you often and your always in my prayers! hope you have a wonderful week and get lots done. get some sun and be safe and heathly! take care.

Love

Elder Dalan Lerwill