Sister Kaylee Myers: Utah Weather, Zone Conference and of course...AMAZING MIRACLES!!!

Sorry this is like...10 years long but if you have time...read it because there have been some seriously amazing miracles this week! :) (They are the 2 giant paragraphs haha)

Well as you can see from my subject line there has been a wide range of schtuff going on this week! Yesterday was the most bizarrest thing...(that's not even a word but I don't care) all day it was like Utah Weather! There was pretty much no humidity at all, and it was really cloudy all day and so it was like 70 degrees. Needless to say tracting was a breeze! :)

A frog jumped on Sister O this week. In the middle of a lesson on someone's porch. It was was chillin on her skirt! It was pretty funny. Not sure why I thought of that but yeah....

Also we had Zone conference this week and that is pretty much the best thing ever! 6 hours of training from the Mission President and the AP's! It was seriously such an awesome day!!! You know you're a missionary when you absolutely love 6 hours of training haha. ;)

WE GET TO GO TO THE TEMPLE ON FRIDAY!!!! YAY!!!!! I'm seriously so excited. It's only been like 2 months since I went and I'm this excited haha

Jay is doing good! We had 2 super awesome lessons this week with him! And the reason they were so awesome was because we did object lessons/really interactive things in both of them and it really made a big difference!! So if you have any ideas for object lessons, interactive things, or activities to demonstrate gospel principles please tell me!!! I would love to have them not just for Jay but for other lessons as well!! Anyway, we taught him the Plan of Salvation and we all drew a part of it on a piece of paper after reading scriptures and we had him lay it out on the floor after to see if he remembered and he got it perfectly right. Then we asked him about each part and he did perfect!!! When I asked him how we get into the Celestial Kingdom he was like, "Uh...you get baptized, repent, make covenants with God...and um visit the Temple I think." Oh my goodness! Jay!!! He's pretty much already a member. He just retains the stuff we tell him so well and so now we are just trying to get that desire to be baptized in him! He keeps commitments and comes to church and everything so now he just needs a desire! He's super awesome though! We've just been praying for him like crazy!!!

Bill was our other progressing investigator...well kind of....he was progressing in every way except coming to church. We didn't get to see him this week and we deicded that since he isn't progressing we'll probably have to not see him and visit him in a few weeks, which is really too bad but you know, what can you do?

2 GIANT MIRACLES FOR THE WEEK!! Seriously! The second one is probably the biggest miracle I have seen on my mission thus far!

Okay so the first one:

On Monday we planned to do a bunch of follow-ups in this one area and so we went over there to do them and we decided to just drive around the neighborhood a bit to see what we could tract later. So we turned on this one street and Sister O was just like, "We need to tract this." So we did. We did a bunch of houses and pretty much got nothing. And then the last house we got to we knocked on and this guy came behind us and was like, "Hello? What do you want?" It scared us so bad. I guess the front door didn't work. Anyway, he was this huge red-head that frankly was pretty scary looking - and smoking. And then his 8 year old son came out and we were talking to them and the Dad said he didn't go to church but his wife and son did. So we talked to the son for a few minutes about it and gave him a picture of Jesus. Then as we were leaving the wife came over and she was so nice. She told us about how she went to some church and she had only been there for 3 months. So we asked her if we could teach her a little bit about what we believe and she was really willing and so we did. It was getting dark and so I couldn't see her expressions or how she was taking it, but the spirit was so strong. It was insane. Then we gave her the pamphlet and stuff and asked if we could come back and she said yes (and so did the husband, he was listening in) and then we asked if we could pray with her. Sister O said it and she offered a beautiful prayer and the spirit just intensified. Afterwards the lady, Danielle just hugged and through tears she was just like "Oh please come back! And please be safe!" It was so amazing.

Then the next day we prayed to know where to tract and we both had the impression to go to the same area. So we went to the street right by Danielle and started tracting. Again, we pretty much got nothing until the last house. So we knock on the door and this little boy, about 4, answers and his mom hurries up behind him (this is important for the story). She comes out and leaves the kids inside and we start to talk to her and she seems really interested in listening. She (her name is Renee by the way) told us that she had just stopped going to her church because it was becoming corrupted and also she works a lot on Sunday's and so it's hard to go to church. So we taught her the Restoration and at one point, not sure when in the conversation she told us, "It's interesting that you two showed up right now because just a few minutes ago I was praying at my sink asking God to give me a sign, a reason to move on. I didn't even hear you knock on the door but all of the sudden my 4 year old runs to the door, and he never goes to the door when someone knocks or rings, and he said, 'Mom! Mom! Someone's at the door' and he started to open it and I said, 'Wait don't open it! You don't know who it is!' And he kept opening it and just said, 'Mommy it's okay.'" It was just the most amazing thing. And it doesn't end there. When we talked about the Book of Mormon she asked for a copy and I explained it to her and showed her the introduction and she started to read it right there...and she couldn't put it down!! We just had to stand there and wait for her to read it! She said that she was going to start reading it tonight and read it tomorrow when she was going to be at doctor's appointments and stuff! We set up a return appointment for this Wednesday! God is so good!!

Okay this isn't as amazing as those miracles but we found this new couple this week that we are teaching! They are Tanner and Aly and they are so great! We actually tracted into Tanner like 3-4 weeks ago and he said we could come back in a few weeks because he was going to be busy because he was getting married and had the honeymoon and stuff so now we went back and taught both of them! They both are Church of Christ but they seem interested. I'm not sure if they really are interested or if they want to just learn about what we believe - if that makes sense. We have just been praying for them like crazy this week that the spirit will touch them!

We just need progressing investigators!! We have found all these amazing people and had these amazing things happen but it usually lessons stop after like...the first lesson, or people want to listen but they won't come to church, or read, or pray or keep commitments! Ah!! We'll get there though! :)

Okay here's your spiritual thought for the week! So we had a training a few weeks ago on how to better obtain the Spirit and one of the things we talked about was vocal prayer and how praying vocally really helps you be focused and know that you really are talking to your Heavenly Father. We also talked about how after you pray you should sit and ponder and write down feelings and impressions that come into your mind. Sister O and I have been going into separate rooms at night and doing that and it is seriously so amazing! It has really increased my relationship with my Heavenly Father and after I just sit on my iPad in the little "notes" app and just write down thoughts that come into my mind and it's just so amazing! Just something that I would suggest that y'all do! Here's a quote by Spencer W. Kimball where he pretty much tells us that any prayers that are appropriate to be vocal, should be vocal! "Pray is such a privilege - to speak to our Father in Heaven. It was a prayer, a very special prayer, which opened this whole dispensation! It began with a young man's first vocal prayer. I hope that not too many of our prayers are silent, even though when we cannot pray vocally, it is good to offer a silent prayer in our hearts and in our minds."

Sorry this letter is like 9 years long. I just had a million things to say!!! I hope y'all have an amazing week! Love you!

Love,

Sister Myers :)