So long Sparta.....

Well I am just flat out depressed and stressed. Depressed because I have to leave the greatest place ever that I love dearly. And stressed because it's transfers. Probably nothing more stressful than when you have to move your entire life in the course of about 2 days not knowing where you are going or who you will be with. All while trying to say goodbye to everyone you want to say bye to and still somehow prepare for the rest of the week while doing missionary work. Yeesh. 

Yeah so this is probs going to be short because I have too much to do than sit here and write a novel.

Oh yeah and y'all are probably wondering where I am going....well I don't know. I don't remember if I told y'all but they have changed the way they do transfers. So now they don't tell you where you are going or who you will be with, just that you are leaving or staying. And then everyone who is getting transferred goes to transfer meeting and they show all the different areas on a slide show and you find out where you are going. It's slightly insane. And don't ask me why they started doing that because I honestly don't know. Maybe they just want to try our patience or something.

Aaaaaanyway.......BENNIE GOT BAPTIZED!!!!!! What a better way to end in an area than with a baptism! I found him, taught him and baptized him. Then I leave. Definitely one of those people I was meant for! It was super fast because we did at 6 right before Stake Conference at 7 and so that was a bit stressful but it was fine. But it was really good. I sang while playing the piano because Bennie wanted me to. I'm not a fan of singing in front of people by myself. Also Bennie went and bought a suit and he wore it for the first time. Aw he looked so good! 

Stake conference was awesome! Elder Pino of the seventy who spoke in one of the Sunday sessions of General Conference came! Wow he is so funny. I was seriously dying. Also it was interesting because he had an interpreter because he prefers to speak in Spanish. But he can understand English and sometimes speak it. I guess hearing and understanding is different than speaking. But anyway, both the adult session and the morning session were really good! I didn't get the chance to meet him though which is a bummer. 

Here's an awkward story. So one of the members called us this week and told us that one of her coworkers said that Charles and Dewanna's (previous investigators if you remember them) son had passed away and I was just so sad because I love them so much! And one of our potentials is the daughter....who would be married to the son that died. So we told her to tell us when the funeral and stuff was so we could go see Charles and Dewanna there. So she told us there was a viewing that evening from 5-8. So we went and got a card and I wrote my testimony of the Plan of Salvation in it and then that evening we went to the funeral home in town and went to the viewing. So we get there and we walk in and I don't see ANYONE I know. Not a soul. So I'm like, "Are we in the right place?!" And so we look at the name and it's "Gregory Goines" And I'm like, "Oh I thought his name was Charles....what?" But I wasn't sure so we went back to the car and called the member and she looked up the obituary to find out the name of his parents and yeah...it wasn't Charles and Dewanna's son. Same last name and same fathers name but not the one we know. Her coworker had just heard Goines and she knew that this member had gone to see Charles and Dewanna with us and so she thought it was the same one and oh it was just such a funny slash awkward situation. 

In other news Bobby and Crystal's dog is getting giant. Also Sister Laws and her new comp will probably have to drop them soon if they don't get their acts together and keep commitments. 

I really don't have any more updates. We haven't seen a lot of our main people this week. It has been insanely busy. 

Here's some random thoughts:

1. I hate saying bye. 

2. I get to talk to my family in less than one week! 

3. It's getting hot and humid and I'm certainly not a fan. 

4. Nail polish does come out of rugs very well

5. A slushy sounds really good right about now...not sure why 

Uh....yep that's about it. I don't really have anything else to say nor do I really have time to. Oh yeah but first I just wanted to share a couple of things I learned from Elder Pino at ward conference. He talked a lot about the work of salvation and he talked a lot about how we all need to participate in the work of salvation. For example in the home we must be teaching doctrine so our children will grow in the gospel and then they can do work for the dead and do missionary work. Teaching our children and raising them in the gospel is part of the work of salvation. He also talked about how we all need to be in harmony when doing the work of salvation. Otherwise it's like a bunch of different people all singing a different hymn at the same time. Not good! We have to be in harmony and all be working together in order for the work of salvation to be achieved.

Anyway, that's all I remember without my notes. 

I love y'all lots!

Love,

Sister Myers

PS Pictures!

1. Me and Sista Laws after stake conference

2. My and Lyers (bobby and crystal's dog)

3. Bennie's baptism!

4. Our district!

5. Just a sample of the beautiful garden's of that old couple we always help. And that's just a tiny piece! And no, Tennessee is not THAT green yet. It's just a filter...but it's getting there!