This letter should be an interesting read...haha Also y'all
probably got so excited because you were like, "Baptism?! What?! They
had a baptism?" Well, yes, we did a have a baptism but that was for an 8
year old :) Which is still great...if you're into that whole
'salvation' thing and living with you're family forever...you
know...that stuff... :)
It's already week
6!! Ah!! What if I was transferred? Wowzers!! I really don't know what
will happen! Also I've been here for 4 months now! Wow! Time flies! By
the end of the year I will be 1/3 of the way through the mish! Insane!
You
wanna know something that I did yesterday that is really embarrassing
slash really funny? So we were walking down the hall at church yesterday
and we came to a T and we were going to go right but I just looked left
to see if anyone was in the hall and saw a couple Elders in the
district sitting there....and so I waved at them. The problem was, at
this point I had already started walking the other way and so I wasn't
watching where I was going and I pretty much ran into some random guy.
And the Elders and Sister Weeks were dying. Then I was dying slash
apologizing. Luckily I didn't actually run into him but it was a close
one! And now those Elders probably won't ever let me live that one down.
Haha
We went on exchanges again this week
and I went to the Spanish area again! It was so much fun! And they
taught me how to say, "Hi we're missionaries from the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints" Haha and it was so funny because Hermana
Holman - whenever we talked to someone...even if it was just some random
person on the street or someone we tracted into. She would tell them
that I didn't know Spanish and was just practicing it and then I would
say it to them. So awkward but good I guess. I'll probably never forget
how to say that. Also, I learned other random things like, "Nice to meet
you", "Sorry, I don't speak Spanish", "I'm Sister Myers", oh yeah and
my favorite: how to say "why". Okay there is a story behind this. So
when we were in lessons - spanish lessons - I would just have to sit
there and pretend I knew what was going on because I don't know a lick
of Spanish. So would just listen to the words and one word that I kept
hearing was por que and I thought that was so fun to say and so pretty
much all the time now I just randomly keep saying "por que!" Even though
it makes no sense because it just means "Why". Yeah I'm weird.
We
had zone meeting this week and that was sweet! Zone meeting is always
the best! Then after that Lisa McIntyre's (our recent convert as of
June) son Andrew's baptism, like I said at the beginning. Andrew is the
cutest and it was just a great baptism! :)
Jim
Rider came to church!!! Yay!!! Sheila didn't but that was because they
slept through the alarm and Jim almost didn't even make it! But we were
glad he was there at least. :) She said she would come next week
though.
Apparently there was like a taboo out
for missionaries last night or something haha because last night from
6-8 we seriously just tried people...as in we went to their
house...knocked...no answer...knocked again...no answer and then tried
another investigator. Then we were even trying members and pretty much
not a soul answered! Or if someone answered the person we were looking
for wasn't even home! Haha we tried this one guy 3 times!!! We had tried
him last week and he said that that day was just crazy so to come back
next week and so there we were...yeah we tried him and 6, then at 7, and
then again at 7:30 - and at 7:30
his car was even there and the lights were on that time and he still
didn't answer - so that was a struggling situation slash interesting
night because then at that point we literally had no one to see and so
we did what we missionaries call the "obedience walk" because we can't
go in until 9...until at like 8:20
this couple in our apartment complex texted us back and said we could
come by...so we did. They are great back ups. Haha it was just a
struggling night. But hey, it was still good. It was just funny. Oh yeah
and then we were talking to Elder Nez (the district leader) when he
called to get our numbers for the week and we told him about how we
tried people for like 2 hours and he said that the same thing happened
to them that night so there really was a taboo out for missionaries!!! ha! Is taboo even the right word? I don't even know.
I
have learned something this transfer...well this week... that I wanted
to share with y'all. I've sort of alluded to this a little bit in past
emails but pretty much - well this transfer has been extremely difficult
- for a number of reasons. Just...so much. I won't bore you with the
details.
But anyway...last Saturday and Sunday - in particular I just found myself in this cloud of ....darkness, discouragement, sadness, etc...yeah...not good.
I'm not sure what happened between Sunday and Monday but I woke up on Monday
morning and just decided then and there that that day was going to be a
great day! And every day there after! It was like night and day. As
soon as I decided that I was going to stop wallowing in my own self pity
of "woe is me" I was able to just be happy. I mean, it wasn't like we
were being disobedient before and all of the sudden we were or
something...the area was just not doing so well....and this week the
area still wasn't doing so well but it was a great week!!! Our numbers were the lowest this week of the whole transfer. But I just thought, "I did my very best this
week to try to invite others to come unto Christ." And you know, even
though I obviously wasn't perfect, and I made plenty of mistakes, I
still found comfort in knowing that I was still a successful missionary
because I was committed to "find, teach, baptize and
confirm people and...help them become faithful members of the Church who
enjoy the presence of the Holy Ghost." (PMG 10 "A Successful
Missionary")
And the thing that is so amazing
about this is that I know that I could not have learned this in any
other way or circumstance! I needed to be in this area, with this
companion, in this really difficult time, in order to learn this.
Earlier in the transfer I just kept saying, "Why? Why? Why?" And I was
just like, "Alright Heavenly Father! I know this is a test but when is
it going to be over?" But the thing I was failing to ask myself was
"What am I supposed to learn from this?" Something that I always ask
myself... And guess what?! Now I have learned it!! But the thing that
makes it even more interesting is that it wasn't like after I learned
the lesson that miracles happened and we were taken out of our
trial...it's still here - but now we can be happy about it!
Man
I don't even know if that made sense but I just had to tell y'all
because it was so awesome! And hopefully it will help someone who reads
this in some aspect of their life! At least I pray that it will :)
Anyway, that's all for this week! Love you all!! :)
Love,
Sister Myers
P.S. Here are some pictures from this week! ;) The first one is of me
and Hermana Holman and the other is of me and Lisa and Andrew at the
baptism :) Love them :)
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