Monday, September 22, 2014

Tracting is like a box of chocolates....you never know what you're gonna get

So I'm not really 100% sure why I put that as the subject line...probably because it's true. Yesterday we were tracting and we get to this one house and we knock and this dog inside barks...and this does not sound like a small dog. Sister O and I just looked at each other with wide eyes. Then we hear this yelling on the inside, "Thor! Get back! Go on! Thor!" And then the door opens and before the person could say anything...all of the sudden the most giantist dog I have like ever seen comes bounding and gives this way mean bark as it practically jumps on me. I literally thought I was going to be eaten by the dog right then! That was probably the scariest moment of my whole tracting life. I actually screamed...it was quite embarrassing. And, it made for a good ice breaker because then for like a whole minute we were all just laughing/I was trying to calm my heart rate down......yeah can you imagine if that dog had eaten me? Sister O would just have to call up President and be like, "Uh...President? My trainee got eaten by a giant dog while we were being obedient and doing our hour of tracting..." Haha not really but we had fun joking about it....

So you know how we have been struggling to get progressing investigators and stuff? Well everyone must be because we had a mission-wide fast this week for all the missionaries and all our investigators! It was awesome! I am so excited to see the miracles that come from it! 

We almost ran over a opossum the other day. That was interesting........(Arielle what the heck is the grammar for that? Is it "an opossum" or "a opossum"?)

Remember Sister Morris? We went and visited her this week and she came to church on Sunday! Wahoo!! She is working towards getting her temple recommend again and reading her scriptures and praying! Awesome! She gave us a gift card to a restaurant with a note that said, "Thanks for saving my soul." Aw!!! She is the sweetest! I seriously love her to death! But yeah, it's cool to see someone reactivate! :) We'll still keep visiting her to make sure she stays active but yeah - she's doing great! :)

Renee is awesome! We've only seen her once since our initial contact but this last lesson was super awesome! We basically just answered her questions and talked about the Book of Mormon. Also, we showed her the Gospel Library app and she got SO excited about it! And when I showed her that it would play for her she was even more excited! Then as we left (PS we were on the porch) we could hear her listening to it. Then she was texting us a whole bunch of questions about it later! We told her we would answer them when we saw her next! Pretty cool though! :) PS technology is awesome! :)

I saw a frog pounce on a bug and eat it. That was pretty sweet. Also I saw a spider the size of Africa that was had the coolest spider web. Also it was really colorful. Like yellow and black and red and some other colors. It was crazy! I wanted to look at it longer and or take a picture because I am really weird, but it was while we were tracting in front of an atheist household so that might have been a little bit weird. Sorry that was totally random. I remembered the frog because it happened while we were on Renee's porch (haha where the frog jumped on Sister O...frogs must like that porch) and then I just randomly thought of the spider.....not sure why I just explained why I wrote about that....I am so bizarre in case you didn't know.

Terry!!! He didn't come to church last week...I think I already told you about that. But yeah that was sad...so we went to go see him on Friday and his son, TJ answered and we had a discussion with him and invited him to church (Terry was already asleep) and he was super genuine and said he would seriously pray about it and come if he got an answer. He didn't come. That was depressing. We haven't had a single investigator at church the past 2 weeks. Not even Jay....we aren't sure what's going on with him. We haven't seen him in quite a while. 

But hey guess what? We set a baptismal date! It was with this investigator named Skip! I don't think I have ever talked about him. He has been taking the lessons for several months now and he is practically already a member! We teach him lessons and it's seriously like teaching a member...there's like not much for him to learn! He hasn't been baptized yet because he lives in an awful environment that makes it really difficult to live the Word of Wisdom. Also he is Roman Catholic and that has been a major part of his life. He has had several baptism dates to work towards. We are praying that this will be the one! But he still has quite a ways to go. He was telling us how if he gets baptized he could go to the Roman Catholic church and the Mormon church....oh my.........

And before I go, here's a quote that I was reading this week that I just love! It's by Jeffrey R. Holland so brace yourself! :) "In the gospel of Jesus Christ you have help form both sides of the veil, and you must never forget that. When disappointment and discouragement strike - and they will - you remember and never forget that if our eyes could be opened we would see horses and chariots of fire as far as the eye can see riding at reckless speed to come to our protection. They will always be there, these armies of heaven, in defense of Abraham's seed." Gah! I love that! We will always have help! Sometimes it's hard to see these armies coming to our aid when the adversary is so prevalent. But if we can remember the divine help that we get every day it will give us great strength! God is going to win! As Elder Holland also said, “The future of this world has long been declared; the final outcome between good and evil is already known. There is absolutely no question as to who  wins because the victory has already been posted on the scoreboard. The only really strange  thing in all of this is that we are still down here on the field trying to decide which team’s jersey we want to wear!”

Well, that's pretty much all I have for this week! :) I hope y'all are having a week as interesting as mine! Hopefully you haven't been attacked by giant dogs though. :) 
Love you!!!
Love,
Sister Myers

P.S. Here are some pictures from this week! They are just kind of random. These pictures pretty much define the south - beautiful country and everyone loves Jesus.



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