So
this week was SOOO long!!! Wow. It didn't feel that long during it but
if I think back to what happened I'm like, "That was THIS week?!! No
way!" Yeah it's been a weird week. Last week we taught 42 lessons,
total, which is really crazy. Everyone was like, "How?" And we didn't
know...and this week taught 17....wow....that's the missionary life
though...
Aaaaaanyway.....Bennie
is doing pretty good. We are just teaching him everything. We taunt him
the Law of Chastity this week. I've never taught the Law of Chastity my
whole mission, I've only role played it. So yeah that was just dandy.
Oh and you wanna know something crazy?!! So on Saturday we were going
to meet Bennie and so we met him at Hardee's (Carl's Jr. In the south)
and when we got there he was reading the Book of Mormon and we were like
"Cool what are you reading?" And he was like, "Oh that chapter you
assigned me." And we looked and he was reading 3 Nephi 11 and we were
like, "What? We didn't assign you to read that..." And he showed us a
pass-along card he was using as a book mark and it was not one we gave
him. It had this other random number on it and it wasn't one that we
knew. So we called it and no one answered. So then we were looking at
the Book of Mormon and we thought it looked really old...it couldn't
have been that worn if it was the one we gave him. So then we were
looking at it and we looked inside and saw it said Elder Stout and Elder
Burnham! What? "Bennie! Where did you get this! Not from us!" "Oh
uh...I don't know" "Do you remember Elder Stout and Elder Burnham?" He
thinks fro a minute. "Uh yeah I remember them. Nice guys. They talked to
me quite a bit." What? Are you kidding? Then later the number called
back and it was this random guy in Nashville who had had the number for
over 4 years...so these 2 Elders were here over 4 years ago. Wow. More
to this in a minute.....
Oh
so also, Bennie bore his testimony on Sunday. That was...interesting.
We were so worried about what he was going to say. We thought he was
going to bring up crazy ideas. He talked about relatively normal things
and then....oh gosh. He was like, "Last thing let me pray." And then he
prayed. Oh it was so awkward. No one knew how to react. Could have been a
lot worse though.
So
guess what? We set a baptism date with Ashlee! Wahoo! We talked to her
about baptism on Tuesday I think it was...anyway, we asked her about
what she thought and stuff and we talked about praying to know if she
should be baptized. Then we talked about the Spirit and how it will
testify to her about baptism and if it's right. Then we all knelt down
and she prayed and asked if she should be baptized. Then we sat there
for 1 minute and just paid attention to how we felt. Then we asked
Ashlee how she felt and what that meant. She said she felt really good
and that that means she should be baptized. So then we had her set a
baptism date! March 20!! Woot!!! Unfortunately, we aren't sure if that
will happen because she won't come to church because she always goes to
her moms on the weekend and her mom hasn't started going to church yet.
We shall see. We shall see.
So
we walked in the rain yesterday. The whole time. We were soaked all the
way through. It was crazy. Then it snowed this morning. What? it was
like 50 yesterday and its like 25 today.....oh Tennessee.
We
had like no food on Saturday..like we ran out and we were like, "Oh
man. It's fast Sunday tomorrow and we have nothing." So we were like,
"Well we'll just pray that someone brings us food tomorrow." We get to
church and guess what? Someone had brought us meatball stew (wow that
was sooooo good), homemade bread (PS the best bread ever) and coconut
cake (wow...good thing it's February). Wow it was so good.
We
had interviews on Friday!!! I just love interviews with the mission
president! They are just so enlightening! So he was talking to me about
how no effort is wasted and he was told a story about the previous stake
president and how he had first met the missionaries when he was 8 and
his grandma and parents weren't interested and he didn't care. Then in
like...the 60's or something he had gotten married and he was actually a
hippie...like full on and he saw 2 Elders walking down the street and
so he gave them a ride and they accepted and he remembered how he felt
when the 2 Elders talked to him when he was 8 and he accepted the
message and they were both baptized! Then later, he was a stake
president! And to this day he doesn't remember a thing about those 2
missionaries! And so really, no effort is wasted. So the thing that's
funny about this is that then the next day the thing with Bennie and the
Book of Mormon happened and so it was just cool because it was like a
"No effort is wasted" moment that happened to me personally! We are
going to talk to the mission president and see if we can get some
information on those 2 Elders so that we can tell them!
Today
we are at Jaleta's house and she showed us how to shoe a horse! I even
got to pull out some of the nails! It was sweet! Too bad we couldn't
ride her. It's freezing anyway so it didn't matter. it wouldn't have
been that fun anyway! But I'm attaching some pictures from the
experience! :) Well, just me and Sister Sumbot and the horse and stuff.
Also guess what? Jaleta is going on a mission!! WOW!!! I'm just so
excited for her!
Well, I don't really have anything more to say for this week! :) Hope all is well wherever y'all are!
Love y'all!
Love,
Sister Myers
1.
The district! From left to right top: President Anderson, Elder Tracy,
Elder Fenwick, Elder Smith, Elder Westra, Elder Smith, Elder Harrison,
Elder Lim. Bottom left to right: Sister Anderson, Sister Laws, Sister
Hess, me, Sister Sumbot, Sister Lim
2. Me, Sister Sumbot, J and the Sweet Pea! :)
3. Me and Sweet Pea ...oh and Molly :)
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