it's bigger than Sparta but I just love it to death! There are so many
great people here! And a lot of Spanish people....hence why there are
Spanish Elders here. And we are all in a baby district. It us, the
Elders and the trio of sisters in Fulton. It's super weird. And guess
what my DL's name is? Elder MYERS! What?! Weird. And it's super awko
taco because people in the branch keep joking about how we have a
senior couple now. Or they'll be like, "If you got married then Sister
Myers wouldn't even have to change her name." Okay....weird! Anyway so
that's awkward but kind of funny.....
Anyway my companion is SIster Phillips and she's from West Jordan. She
is seriously the cutest person ever and she has the BEST facial
expressions! We are seriously laughing all the time. Also she's half
black and but she acts super white. And I'm like really tan and so we
are basically the same color so that's funny. Anyway, she is dying
this transfer so I am killing someone! Weird! That also means I'll
have to take over Mayfield and so that's a little bit crazy but it'll
be great! :)
Here are some random thoughts:
1. I got sunburned this week....good
2. We share the car....and we just changed how we share it so we have
it Sunday through Wednesday and they have it Thursday through
Saturday. They gave us more days which is really nice of them.
3. Mosquitos are back and I've already got like 6 bites....good. good good.
4. I don't know any Spanish
5. Darn humidity is back. Darn.
6. We live in a house and I have my own bathroom - score!
7. We have the TINIEST BRANCH I HAVE EVER SEEN!!! Seriously there was
maybe 30 people at church...and it was a good day. Also it's kind of
cool because we have Spanish people so the Elders had to like...sit in
back and have the little mike and translate and all the Spanish people
had headphones. It's kind of cool! Also we have a building which is so
weird because Sparta's branch was way bigger and we did not have a
building....
8. I had to speak in church yesterday so that was fun....
9. SISTER SUMBOT IS MY STL!!!! YEEEEEESSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week was super crazy! Like so many odd things happened! For one
thing our phone was acting up and so we called Sprint to get it fixed
and we were trying to figure it out and it took 3 HOURS!!!! Ugh! And
we kept having to hang up and call the phone person in the mission
then call back but we would get a new person and then they would ask
us the same questions and all of them tried to fix it in the same
way....but that WASN'T WORKING!! So then we were going to just master
reset it but it needed some passcode and we didn't know it and neither
did our mission phone guy so we just had to get a new one. But the guy
in the mission office disconnected our phone and got the new one set
up so we were without a phone for like 2 days. And that as a
missionary is a STRUGGLE! Yeah we had to use the Elders phone so
much....because we had to coordinate getting the new phone...without a
phone...and it's just struggle central. They were probably more
relieved than us when we got our phone.
Okay here's a funny slash good slash crazy story. So we had this
referral for the son of a woman that the sisters used to teach and his
name is George. So we finally get in contact with him and he's super
awesome! He read the Book of Mormon while he was in jail and he is
really hungry for the gospel and getting relief from his guilt from
sin. You can tell! So we gave him Helaman 5 and some questions and
told him to read, pray and write like it talks about in Power of
Everyday Missionaries and he agreed to do it and said we should come
back in like 2 days and talk to him about it. So we go back but he's
not there. So we try to the next day and he's like had a couple of
really bad days (he didn't tell us the details or anything so we don't
know why) and so he hadn't read at all. So we were like aw man and
then no joke he literally said something like this, "I just....really
want to know how I can build a better foundation on Christ." I
thought, "Well if you had read the chapter!" haha but I showed him
Helaman 5:12 and he was just like, "Oh. I really need to read this
chapter don't I?" Haha and we were like, "yeah." and then we invited
him to church and he was totally going to come to all 3 hours! But
then he texted us in the morning and said he would make it because he
had to move out or something like that....so that's sad....we haven't
really talked to him since sooooo yeah.....we'll see how that goes.
Well today is a weird day. Lots of stuff happening. We had to go to
the hospital because our recnt convert is having surgery so she wanted
us to be there when she went down and then when she wakes up....so we
have to go back there pretty soon....but yeah her name is Mary and she
is black and seriously the best person ever. And she has a huge family
that's all in the area. We taught her grandkids the other day (well we
told them some Book of Mormon stories) and there were like 9 of them.
It was insane.
Mothers day was great! TALKING TO THE FAMILY WAS THE BEST THING
EVER!!! Woot! Yep...nothing much to say about that! :) I just love em
all! Also we made a mother's day card for another recent convert named
Guadalupe and she is the best. She just fills in the empty spaces on
our calendar. And she lives just down the street from us across from
the Elders so that's nice! Except she really only speaks Spanish
sooooo I really can't communicate much with her....but her 2 sons
Roberto and Luis (Roberto is also a RC and Luis isn't a member) know
English, like they are fluent so they just translate. Also Sister
Phillips knows quite a bit so she can do basic communication. And I
just sit there really lost....haha it's awko taco.
Well, that's really all I have to say for this week! I'm sure I'll
have lots of good stuff next week! Also I forgot my scriptures but one
thing I wanted to share was his quote: "One cannot forget mother and
remember God, one cannot remember Mother and forget God." Our mothers
were given to us so that we could learn and grow and become more like
our Heavenly Father! God does not make mistakes! Our mothers may not
be perfect but they are the perfect ones for us!
I love y'all lots and I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Sister Myers
PS Pictures!
1. Awkward selfie of me and Sister Phillips
2. Someone had like a million cats...and that's not even all of them....yuck
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