"Shrek! I'm looking down! AH!!"

Wowie Kazowie it has been a crazy week! :)

 Last week we went hiking to this cool waterfall and then we went on a suspension bridge! It was sweet! Apparently it is the one that they use in the movie "The jungle Book" (the live one obviously). Haha it was awesome. When I was on it I just kept thinking about Shrek haha. "Shrek! I'm looking down! AHH!" Classic movie.

So funny story slash adventure of the week: So on Monday we were out with Jaleta and we had to go back to the apartment to get something for someone we were teaching and we got back and all of the sudden Sister Sumbot is like, "I don't have the keys! I left them in the apartment!" Yeah she locked the keys in the apartment because she just locked the bottom lock which you can lock then just pull the door shut. So we still went out and taught and then came back and we were like, "So what now?" So we call the land lord...twice...no answer. So then we're like, "Welp, we'll just have to sleep at the other sisters apartment!" (They live next door) So we called president because you have to get permission...and he didn't answer and so I was in the middle of leaving a message and the phone died! Ah the struggle of our phone. Luckily we could just call from the other sisters phone. And even though our phone is so ghetto Jaleta just happened to have a charger that fit it and so we were able to charge it (also if we hadn't been able to charge it it would have been awful because for some reason our phone can't turn off and so it will just keep doing this little jingle telling you that the battery is low and then it tries to turn off, but can't so it turns back on and does the jingle again...its sooooo annoying...so yeah we were able to avoid that...)

So remember Keesha? That lady in Walmart with the crazy child? Well we went to go to her address today and it did not exist. Well, the street did but the house number didn't so we knocked all the houses on the street and this guy named Carol answered. He is a way old man and we told him about the church and gave him a restoration pamphlet and the Book of Mormon. When we went back to our car after checking the other houses he was sitting on his porch reading the pamphlet! Wahoo! Welp maybe we were supposed to meet Keesha so we could find him. Who knows. But we keep praying we will run into her at Walmart again. But yeah that day we were struggling with addresses. We tried contacting this new member in the branch that is less active and we went to the wrong address and ended up talking to this random old lady. Not sure how we even mixed up the address because we were supposed to go to 318 but we went to 328 and we even said, "Oh look here's 328". Boy we are dumb! She wasn't even interested but maybe we lifted her spirits or something.

So I got on Facebook this week...that was cool. :) I can be friends with whoever but I just can't follow you...unless you are another facebook missionary or are in my mission boundaries...but y'all can follow me and read my super deep doctrinal inspirational posts. Haha jk they will probably be really dumb and cheesy but whatevs. 

So there was this sweet Nativity Festival in McMinnville this week where our church and other churches got together and they have nativities from all over the world and artwork and stuff. And they had volunteers who did a live nativity. And wow it was awesome. We got to go there twice (we could go as long as we had investigators) and it was soooo pretty. Also we took a Christmas card photo...yeah watch for our Christmas card that I'm going to mail to y'all. It's the best Christmas card you will probably ever see. For reals though.

We watched the First Presidency Christmas Devotional yesterday and oh wow it was awesome!! I loved D. Todd Christoffersons talk! Oh the story about the little boy just made me cry!! Also I loved the music!!! :) :) :) We get to sing in sacrament meeting on the Sunday before Christmas. That has nothing to do with anything but oh well, I was talking about music. Also Ashlee came to it!!! We have been trying to get her to church for forever and to no avail, but she came to this and that's a big step!!! Of course the only people watching it at the church were us, the other sisters, the elders, Clem and Ashlee, and the other sister's investigator. So really no one but still it was awesome that she came! And she didn't even come with Clem! Clem got there and we were like, "Where's Ashlee?" And he said that he tried to go get her from her Aunts but she didn't want to go because she wasn't dressed up. We were like, "No!" And then when we sat down we saved her spot...rather jokingly...and we were like, "We have faith that she will come!" And Clem was like, "She's not coming." Sister Sumbot was like, "I have faith!" "She's not coming." Haha. It started and then after the first speaker...here comes Ashlee!!!!! We pretty much died!! :) Her aunt dropped her off! Clem probably convinced her aunt to bring her or something. But wow it was crazy.

Oh yeah and funny story: So we were watching the broadcast and it stopped at one point in the middle so we had to refresh the page. We ended up not watching it live anymore...and then at the very end...in the middle of the prayer it stopped again and we all just sat there with our heads bowed for literally 1 whole minute. That is a long time....then we all just kind of burst out laughing and we stopped it and said our own prayer. Oh technology....haha

Guess how many member present lessons we got this week?!! 14!!!! Ah! That's so good! That's the most I've gotten in one week my entire mission!!! Seriously!! :)

Welp, that's pretty much it for today! That was super scatterbrained but whatever. I'm over it. Something I learned this week is to read verses in the scriptures very carefully or otherwise you feel really dumb. This morning I read Moroni 8:12 (go read it for this to make sense) and I thought it was saying that God is a changeable God and a respecter of persons and I was like, "Nuh uh! I just read in D&C the other day that he isn't a respecter of persons! And of course he is not a changeable God!" And I was thoroughly confused and then I read it again and I was like, "Wow I am dumb." It was funny though. Haha

Well, love y'all! Have a blessed day!

Love,

Sister Myers