My trick got ruined......

 Soooooo I was originally going to start my letter like this: "I'm a wreck. We got transfer calls yesterday. I'm whitewashing and training a new missionary in Dunlap. I sort of knew I was going to get something like this because President clued me in that I was going to get a challenge when we had interviews with him." Then I was going to say "JK!!! That's what my companion is doing!" Yeah Sister Sumbot is leaving me to whitewash and train. Wow!! She is going to do so good! In other news, Sparta B is closing and so now there will be one set of sisters in Sparta! Sister Laws, who is in Sparta B will be my new comp! She was in the MTC with me. And Sister Hess is going to Christiana!!! Ah!!! That's my place!! Anyway so it's going to be weird to just have the 2 of us. I knew they were closing down Sparta B this transfer or next though. They are putting a cap on all the missions in the U.S. to 200 missionaries and opening more missions. So yeah they are closing down some areas. I also thought I was going to have to take over my area and Sparta B...by myself. President made it sound like that in interviews. This is a lot better in many ways. It's going to be difficult to get things all organized and stuff though....haha I'm in for a busy week!!!

Okay sorry TMI...none of you probably care. Haha okay....this week. Hm. It's been a weird week. We met this guy named Bobbie and it was crazy because he was like, "okay I have a question for you....and I've asked so many preachers and they just can't answer it." So we are thinking, "Oh no...what's he going to ask?" but obviously we are like, "Alright we'll see if we can answer it." And then he went on about how when Jesus Christ was on the earth he healed people and the apostles healed people too. Then he asked why no one had that power. And we were just dumbfounded. Wowie. So we taught him the restoration and he was like, "Thank you. That makes so much sense." He said he would come to church but he works. And we actually know his friend and we talked to her yesterday and he said he was studying the church more. Wow. He's awesome.

We got this awesome referral from a member of the branch counsel and we went and knocked and this lady named Diana answered and her daughter in law was there, Kristin. Oh she was so nice. They talked about how they just moved in there and they had come from Spencer (small town right by Sparta where a lot of members live) and they know most of the branch (because pretty much everyone that lives in Spencer are all Grissoms and they are related). Also, she said she is looking for a fresh start. We took Jaleta over there (she is a Grissom) and she knew the daughter in law (Kristin) because they went to school together and Diana's granddaughter went to day care or preschool or something from Jaleta's mom. So many small world moments here. They didn't come to church but they are super open and just so awesome. :)

We've been doing a lot of less active/inactive finding. We did for like 2 hours one day (there is a lot of driving involved) and out of 4 we went to find, only 1 still lived there. The others addresses just like didn't exist....like the house didn't exist. It's so annoying.

So here's a really cool experience we had this week: on Wednesday we planned to go to mutual if Ashlee came and then we planned to go see Megan, a less active - the one who stopped smoking. But then Ashlee couldn't come...then Megan cancelled. And then we tried this other less active but they said not tonight. Then we had NO ONE to see....and 3 hours. So we prayed to know what to do. We knew that Bennie had probably already gone up the mountain to go home so we didn't think he would be available to teach, but we decided to call him anyway, turns out he was at his friend Dixie's house - in town. And she had just gotten out of the hospital and was going through a lot. So we told Bennie to ask her if she wanted to meet with us and she said yes! So Bennie brought her to the church and we taught her about trials and stuff and why we have them. We also taught her a little bit about the Book of Mormon and gave her one to read. Then Bennie, after we gave her the Book of Mormon was like...bearing testimony of it!!! He was like, "I haven't read much of it....but what I have read I know is true." Oh it was so awesome!!!

Also yesterday we were talking about the Church of Jesus Christ today (last week it was the church of Jesus Christ in former times) and Bennie, sometime randomly in the middle of the lesson just leans over and says, "You know, I think this is the true church." WOW!!! He's awesome.

So we've officially become stalkers. But anyone who has been a missionary has so really it's not that weird. Let me explain: remember Kyler? Jaleta's friend? Well he got a job in Sparta at the Huddle House and we were like, "What?!" So this week we keep driving by it to see if he is there and we talk to him and stuff. Oh it's so funny. Then this week wee were going to meet Bennie there but he was late, but it turned out perfect because Kyler came in to work a little early and so we got to talk to the both of them! Woot! Haha but it's just so funny because we look like such stalkers.

Well....that's pretty much it for this week. I'm sending a picture of me and Ashlee and Sister Sumbot and also a picture of Bennie and Kyler at the Huddle House haha.

Sorry this is kind of a lame letter...today is crazy.

Love y'all
Love,
Sister Myers