Monday, June 22, 2015

Trainer in Training


First of all.....shout out to my daddy! Happy Father's day to the best daddy in the world - at least for me because he's the one that Heavenly Father sent me to so he's obviously the perfect father for me....even though he's not perfect....and wears super out of date clothes....

 This week has been INSANE! Actually just really long. Man the first week of the transfer especially with a new comp or anything just lasts so long.
 
We had transfer meeting on Tuesday and that was busy! We had to leave at 6 in the morning because it's a 3 hour drive and both me and Elder Myers had to be there by 9 so we could be in the trainer meeting. So we went to that....and after that we go to the meeting with the trainees also....but before that I had to run and practice the song I as playing the piano for in transfer meeting then I hurried to the meeting....also it was weird to be in that meeting because I had never experienced it as a trainee since our flight was delayed and we just basically went straight into transfer meeting.....anyway......so then I got my trainee! Sister Orchard!!! She's so cute! She's older than me - 22 and from West Bountiful Utah. Anyway it was a great meeting and super nerve racking. Also that was the LAST time I'll see Sister Oldroyd before she goes home most likely! She's going home in the middle of the transfer because of school and I probably won't be at the next transfer meeting. Oh my goodness saddest moment of my life. Oh I just love her and I'll miss her tons! Also I'm going to miss Sister Phillips a lot! She was such a fun companion! (Not that Sister Orchard isn't fun but I could just be my super weirdo self with Sister Phillips haha)
 
So I definitely think I am training because secretly I need some serious training myself! Trainer in training! Sister Orchard is a super awesome missionary who is already way better than I'll probably ever be. Seriously I ain't even exaggerating or saying that. Pretty much she doesn't even need training. Just needs to learn the rules and she's set! It has been super interesting to me though because I forget that everything is so new to her! Like, fireflies for example! Her reaction to them was classic and it made me remember when I first saw them haha! Also she's such an awesome missionary that I honestly forget like all the time that she's in training and doesn't know how to do different things in the area book and what not.
 
Okay update in the investigates! (Wow! I'm a poet and I didn't even realize it!)
 
We set a date with George!!! SEPTEMBER 5! We saw him on Monday before Sister Phillips left and we invited him to be baptized and set a date!!! It's kind of a softer date because it's based on whether or not he comes to know the church is true by that point. But he's doing everything so I'm not worried about it! He's come to church for like 3 weeks in a row now! Yesterday we hadn't heard from him in the morning when we called/texted so we didn't know if he was coming so on our way to church we drove to his house and knocked on his door and his roommate answered and said he was asleep.....and he was just on the couch right there so we totally just woke him up and we're like, "You coming to church George?" And he's like, "Oh....uh yeah...." So then we left and his ride picked him up 15 minutes later and he came to church! WOOT! Also he reads his scriptures basically every day! He told us, "Yeah I read a little every day....not very much but a little bit." And I'm thinking, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?! If every investigator did that we would probably baptize nations!" Haha he's super awesome!
 
Frank is.......Frank. Haha he's super hard to teach because I really don't understand him at all. He'll say something about how he's feeling about what we are saying or make a comment and then I repeat it back to him to make sure I understand and apparently I never understand. It's super frustrating. Also we will probably have to drop him soon because he didn't come to church and he hasn't texted us back when we have texted him the past couple of days....so that's just...sooo awesome......I think he's lost any fire he had though. He just doesn't see how the gospel can help him and the Book of Mormon especially. Even though he told us he will read it, I just don't know how much his heart is in it. And it's sad because he's had a lot of cool experiences thus far I guess he just down plays their importance or something. I don't really know for sure.

Okay so there's this less active named Tony Jones. Oh man I just love him. He's just this giant teddy bear that you just can't not love. Haha he seriously kills me. But he won't come to church! But, we had a super awesome experience this week with him! We drove by his house and I saw that he was home and I felt like we needed to see him. But stupidly I just kind of ignored the prompting and thought how we needed to try to see Bruce right then. So we are on the way to Bruce's house and I just kept feeling like we should see Tony so I told Heavenly Father that if this Bruce wasn't home when we would go see Tony. (Okay right now it totally sounds like I'm being super not humble and I'm like trying to negotiate with God but it really wasn't like that haha). Well, Bruce wasn't home so I went straight to Tony's. Well we get out of the car and right then the Elder come out of his house and I'm thinking, "Great so the Elders just saw them so maybe we shouldn't see him." (Yes I was definitely second guessing) But I told that to the Elders and how I had thought I had a prompting to go and Elder Myers was like, "Hey! If you received a prompting then you get yo-self up there right now!" Haha and I was like, "Okay, okay!" So we go and Tony lets us in and this other member - Brother Christensen was there too. So here's the cool part: Turns out that Tony had asked the Elders to come to help him with moving something at his house and then when they were about to share a message with him Brother Christensen showed up. Then right after the Elders showed up, we came! And it gets better: the Elders shared several scriptures and quotes and talked about how God is focused on who we are becoming and how we have to just keep on trying and stuff like that. Well, not even knowing what the Elders had shared and having had a lesson planned for him for 2 weeks (we just had never had the chance to see him in that time) we shared about the enabling power of the Atonement...and basically how it helps us try. The Elders told him what, and we told him how. And he said it was exactly what he needed to hear. It was so cool! And the whole time we were there he just kept saying, "Are you sure y'all didn't plan this!?" Haha...Nope! Anyway, then he was just super inspired to come back to church and he was like, "I am going to be at church on Sunday no matter what!" And when he commits to doing something like that....he'll do it! Haha but that sneaky Satan knows that so guess what happened? He got sick (courtesy of Satan incorporated) so he couldn't come to church!!! Dahhhhhhhh!!!!!!
 
Rained all day on Friday. We were inside a lot of the day because of weekly planning but like no one was home or really wanted to see us and so we walked around a lot! I was squeezing out my skirt by the end of the night! It was crazy! Guess that's what happens when you tract in the rain for like an hour and half! Also no one was interested so that was no bueno. Esta bien though! We will find some peeps soon! Speaking of finding, we have done a whole lot of working on cleaning out all the random people in our area book. It's been cool because some of them have actually still been interested even though it was a long time ago that they were first contacted! At this on potential, we met their mom or something and she is pretty interested! So you never know!
 
Random thought/moments of the week:
1. I definitely had bread that was baked in a corn husk....like tamale bread. It was super delicious. Also Guadalupe layered it and it was like wheat and white bread....so good!!!!
2. The other night I killed two spiders and BOTH of them had hatching egg sacks on them that you couldn't really see so there was an explosion of baby spiders! Nasty! Luckily most of them stayed on the napkin so I just hurried and chucked it in to the toilet...but man two in a row?! Also I killed a large cockroach...and a baby one.
3. We scratched our car on a curb the other week and so now we have to get it fixed (they like to keep mission cars super nice) and apparently it's going to take like 5 days! So we have to take it in today and then apparently it will be done on Friday. What on earth?! Yeah that makes no sense....maybe they are just super busy or something but man.....no car for either of us for the whole week!
4. Riding bikes is the best way to go. Walking is terrible in comparison.
5. Had a drunk guy tell us he didn't want to talk to us because he was drunk and he wouldn't remember anything anyway. Man I was super grateful. Talking to drunk people is basically 100% ineffective
6. A different guy who was high called us Normans and said we don't live life. Well last time I checked I was on a mission and it's the best time I've ever lived so I'm pretty sure I'm living life to the fullest.
 
One of the departing missionaries at transfer meeting said 2 things that I just loved:
"You guys are all your own bomb.coms because we are all different websites...."
"If people rejected the most perfect person that God could ever give, of course they are going to reject you." I've had to teach this principle a lot to Sister Orchard this week. People will reject you and that's just how it is. Sometimes no matter what you say or how much you try to bring the Spirit, they still may choose not to accept. And it may have nothing to do with you. Jesus Christ was perfect. The PERFECT missionary. He knew EXACTLY what to say and when to say it. And yet he was still rejected, even despised. I have to remind myself of this because a lot of times I blame myself when people don't choose to accept our message. And yes, sometimes it could be me, but that's not always the case. I know that I just have to do my very BEST and Christ will make up the difference.
 
I love y'all lots and I hope y'all have the best week! :)
Love,
Sister Myers
 
PS Pictures!
1. Sister Oldroyd and Orchard were talking about people Bountiful (they are both from there) and I just smiled for the picture haha
2. Biking selfie...we look soooo good haha
3. 3 greenies! :) We also ate green jello. It was classic.
4. The family tree - 3 generations! :)
 



 

Monday, June 15, 2015

Mayfield is going GREEN!!!


(Sorry about the weird formatting. Transitioning from an email written and sent on an iPad to a blog presents some problems!)
 
So......I'M TRAINING! We were at Sister Phillips departing interview
on Thursday and after it was over we were talking for a minute with
President and Sister Andersen and all of the sudden President is like,
"I'm going to do something a couple days early." So my brain starts
reeling and I'm trying to figure out what he's going to do as he just
stands there and looks at me for a second. I'm thinking, "is there a
birthday soon? No all of ours have passed...what is coming up
soon?....OH MY GOSH TRANSFERS!" And I'm like "No, no, no don't do it!"
And he's like, "Will you?" And I'm still like "No, no, no, no oh my
gosh no" (for the record I wasn't literally saying no it was more my
form of shock in the fact that I was really training after everyone
kept telling me I would train) and he's like, "will you train?" And I
was like, "well, I told you in my last email that of you asked me to
train I would get over my pride and whatever and say yes...so yes."
And that was that.

Also, here's another twist. Elder Myers is also training. And so is
Sister McDonald in Fulton (the other companionship in the district).
haha and Elder Myers and Sister McDonald are both going home next
transfer so our distinct will literally be 3 greenies, 2 people about
to die and then  me awkwardly in the middle. Haha the Elders are going to
go put green balloons and streamers and stuff at the church for
district meeting and we are making green jello and the other sisters
are doing something to do with green. Oh man it's going to be so
funny. I'm sure out district theme will be something green.

Speaking of district themes: we took district pictures and our theme
was "the walking dead" since out  of the 7 missionaries in our
district, 3 are dying this transfer and 2 are dying next transfer. So
we got t-shirts that had to do with either surviving or dying and took
pictures...man I will send one because they are so funny.

Anyway....in other news WE FOUND FRANK!! He was at a hospital in
western Kentucky for like 8 days and it's so dumb because we had
called that hospital to see if he was there but the lady had hung up
on us because we had to keep asking her what she was saying because
she was not talking very clearly. So yeah that was frustrating.
Although, don't know how much longer we will be teaching Frank. He's
kind of not super into it anymore. He tried to drop us this week
because he said he didn't "hear his dad" in the Book of Mormon like he
does in the Bible so he didn't want to read it. But the thing
is...he's only read literally 20 verses. That's all. And we were like,
"No Frank!!! You are not going to give up that fast! This is new! You
are really going to just give up like that after reading 20
verses?!!!!" Needless to say we were able to commit him to read more
before he just gave up on it. But if he thinks he won't hear God in it
then he won't, so we don't know where that will go.

George is doing so good!!!! He's been keeping all the commitments we
extend! He's been to church the past couple of weeks, he came to the
branch movie night of Meet the Mormons, he went to the baptism the
Elders had, he's been reading the Book of Mormon and we've had some
good lessons with him. We know he's pretty sincere because he comes to
church despite the fact that he gets super antsy being that quiet and
reverent for that long. He comes from a loud background I guess you
could say. He says it'll take some getting used to! We are just so
grateful he didn't give up! Man he's awesome! Also he loves Joseph
Smith. He was talking about how he feels like he relates to him (based
off lessons in church) and so we read some of JSH with him and the
spirit was SO STRONG! He like almost cried. We are hoping to set a
baptism date with him soon...actually we are going to invite him
tonight!
We've had a lot of opposition through this week. "Courtesy of Satan
incorporated" as Sister Phillips says. Jaide dropped us and that was
pretty sad. Apparently something we have said must have bothered
her but she didn't ever voice it to us. When she dropped us she just
said her dad didn't like her talking to us or something like that and
that she was going to try a different church. But then, interestingly
enough, Jaide is friends with Amanda, the mom of the family the Elders
baptized and she went over there and was asking Amanda all sorts of
questions. Amanda had the elders come and they calmed her down.
Hopefully she comes back to us soon.
Also we got hard core anti-ed last Monday evening. The elders met a
girl and she was asking questions so she was referred us. We had tried
to meet with her but it fell through so we texted her Monday and she
got all crazy and was saying how she had been talking to her preacher
and he said the Book of Mormon is blasphemous and all this stuff and
we just invited her to just pray about it and if she had any questions
to just ask, no strings attached. Well she asked about polygamy so we
figured she decided it was okay to just ask questions. Nope, she was
just trying to open it up to give us more anti. It was horrible. Then
she told us that we were following a false prophet and should
re-evaluate our lives and to never text her again. Yeah.........but
hey, there's actually a semi-good ending....she texted us a few days
later and said she was sorry for the other day and that it was her
super anti-Mormon cousin who was texting and she didn't have a problem
with us. Then she asked us some good questions that she wanted to get
our view on and our beliefs were the same on it and so we were able to
end on a good note.

Funny story: we were walking the other day and these 2 kids, probably
like 11 and 9 or something come up to us and told us they knew us
because of this other girl we teach. So they ask if we give out
books and stuff. And we say yeah and the 9 year old boy got super
nervous and he was like, "um...I want to..."and he looks at his sister
(we assumed they were siblings) and he's like, "aw man I'm scared" and
we were just confused and his sister super matter-of-factly is just
like, "He wants a book." So we're like, " yeah of course!" And we gave
them each a pamphlet. Haha it was so funny.

Here's my only random thought for today: Humidity is terrible because
literally you are just sticky all the time....
Well, I've got to go for now because today is a BUSY day. It always is
right before transfers, especially when your comp is going home. I
have a spiritual thought though. This week I did a training about
perfection. Since there are a lot of missionaries going home, I felt
prompted to talk about how by the end of your mission you are NOT
going to have overcome your weaknesses. Alma 34 says this LIFE is the
time to prepare to meet God, not just your mission! And even more, the
footnote for 'life' goes to Alma 40:14 where it talks about the spirit
world. So we aren't even going to have overcome our weaknesses and
shortcomings by the end of our earth life! Then I was reading this
talk and I found a quote that fit so perfectly with this: it's in a
talk by Marvin J. Ashton called "On Being Worthy" and he says...well
actually he quotes Joseph Fielding Smith who says, "Salvation does not
come all at once; we are commanded to be perfect even as our Father in
heaven is perfect. It will take us ages to accomplish this end, for
there will be greater progress beyond the grave, and it will be there
that the faithful will overcome all things, and receive all things,
even the fulness of the Father’s glory. I believe the Lord meant just
what he said: that we should be perfect, as our Father in heaven is
perfect. That will not come all at once, but line upon line, and
precept upon precept, example upon example, and even then not as long
as we live in this mortal life, for we will have to go even beyond the
grave before we reach that perfection and shall be like God.” We can't
keep focusing on how far we have to go...because we all have a long
way - and we will just get discouraged. - and discouragement is not
from God. He wants us to realize how far we've come and look forward
with faith that through Christ, one day we will be pure and clean and
worthy to enter into our Heavenly Father's presence.

Love y'all lots!
Love,
Sister Myers

PS I'm on my iPad but I'm going to attempt pictures....everyone just
pray really hard that they work! Haha...
1. District pics! Sister Tangatolakepa, Weeks, McDonald, Phillips and
me then Elders Myers and Berryhill. Classic.
2. We won the find-a-thon!
3. Sister Phillips forgot she was wearing a t-shirt and so we went
out....luckily she realized it before we even got to the car...haha so
this selfie came about...except I was on the phone so it's just a
really awkwardly posed picture....
4. Walking dead vs. survivors




Monday, June 8, 2015

"Do you have tissue?!! Tissue! Tissue! Tissue!"

Well I don't have any clever beginnings to this letter sooooooo I'll just jump right in! 

We had a Find-a-thon this week: basically just a competition between the companionship in our district to find people!!! It made the week go fast because we were extra busy trying to find! And we won! Although, we kind of had an advantage because the Elders had a baptism this week so they were SUPER busy with that, the other Sisters actually have awesome solid investigators and we have like no one so we are basically contacting potentials and finding people all the time anyway! We just got points for different things each day like teaching lessons and stuff like that. But we also had a daily bonus challenge which made things interesting! Then yesterday we did double jeopardy where we had to do all the bonus challenges in one day! We had to:- Use a monkey fist as an object lesson 
- Quote Toy Story
- Find with a member
- Sing 
- Contact someone after 8:30
- Find someone with the same last name as a celebrity

Anyway.....it made the week really interesting! :) Oh here's a funny story. So one of the things that gets us points is if we get an epic door rejection. Haha so the other day we were tracting and we knocked into this lady and she comes out of her house to talk to us. We told her who we were and she was like, "Girls, I really appreciate what y'all are doin but I have my own church and I am happy with it." So we talk to her about her church for a minute and then we just started talking about how we believe in Jesus Christ (because a lot of people think we don't) and she's like, "I'm old enough to believe in Jesus!!!!!!" And then she ran inside and we were just standing there awkwardly. It was super weird. Then as we were walking back by she was like, "Don't go down that street over there! Y'all could get robbed!....Do y'all need a dollar?" And we're like, "No we are good! We don't accept money!" And she's like, "Oh okay! Bye I love you!" It was super strange haha but so funny. But people of the south are like that haha

We dropped Rosetta on Friday. It was pretty sad because she wanted us to keep coming by, but probably just because she likes us. Well, maybe it will get her to do something. 

On the bright side George came to the baptism on Saturday and church on Sunday! He was getting pretty antsy at church because of how quiet it was, and I think he's just not used to quiet peaceful places because where he lives is not exactly quiet and peaceful. But anyway, he said it was something he would "just have to get used to". So sounds like he's going to stick with this! :)

So there's a recent convert named Mary and she is black and also super sassy and it's so funny. But anyway, so we go to visit her this week and her friend Regina shows up and she was telling Mary all this awful stuff that her boyfriend was doing to her and all this terrible stuff and Mary was like, "Girl you need to get in church!" And Regina was like, "I am in church!" And Mary was like, "No you not! You need to get in the right church!" And we were just sitting there cheering in our heads like, "Yeah Mary! Testify!" It was so funny. Then Regina was crying and saying how she didn't really know what to do and she felt like she had too many sins in her heart to have forgiveness and so right then I pulled up the Mormon Message "Reclaimed" and showed it to her and she just bawled while watching it. It's seriously amazing to see how receptive people are when they have the desire to change. They feel the Spirit so much more! Which makes so much sense because the gospel is all about desire. We have to have the desire to change in order for Christ's atonement to work in us, we have to the desire in order for us to gain faith, and we have to have the desire to learn in order for us to be able to learn what God wants us to know! Desire is SO important! This gospel is a gospel of choice not force! 

Random thoughts:
1. It has been sooooo humid this week....and hot....man...I think it's going to be like that again this week. I may melt.
2. Transfers are this week and I'm pretty sure I'm training.....oh my...
3. So I definitely wiped bird poop on my face this week. Definitely not on purpose but you should have seen how confused Sister Phillips was when I was like, "Do you have a tissue?!! Tissue! Tissue! Tissue!" Oh it was the funniest thing of my life. Not really. For the record this is what happened: we had sat down to look out our area books and I somehow got some bird poop on the back of my hand when I sat down and I went to wipe my nose or wipe sweat off my face or something and I was like, "What is this wet stuff?" Then I didn't want Sister Phillips to see and so she thought I was like bleeding or something....oh man....you bet I used a lot of hand sanitizer. 
4. A drunk girl tried to tell us that celebrities know more than everyone else because they are rich and famous......uh....okay then
5. Our branch is still ridiculously small. Yesterday me and Sister Phillips taught primary, the Elders taught gospel principles (and they would have taught Spanish gospel doctrine is more Spanish people had shown up) then I played the piano in primary while Sister Phillips taught Young women's and oh man.....insanity. WE NEED PEOPLE TO MOVE IN! 
6. We got to watch Elder Perry's funeral. It was really good. My favorite quote form him is, "I've never had a bad day in my life." That is a great thing to live by. 

Anyway, that's really all I have for this week! Pretty short! Oh yeah, part of that family got baptized this week! 4 new members of the branch! They will be a great asset because like I said, we need more people! :) 

So I was thinking about how I could become more humble because I am definitely not.... and I was reading my scriptures this week in 3 Nephi 12 and I had written a quote a in my scriptures some time ago and it said, "How does one get humble? To me, one must constantly be reminded of his dependence. One whom dependent? On the Lord. How remind one's self? By real, constant, worshipful, grateful prayer." (President Spencer W. Kimball). So this week I have been trying to do just gratitude prayers and man it's amazing to see how much I really do depend on my Heavenly Father and how much he does for me. ESPECIALLY as a missionary! This work could not go forward without Him. And I'm learning more and more about that every day. Gratitude definitely works. 

I love y'all lots! Hope everything is going well wherever you are! :)
Love,
Sister Myers

PS Pictures! (I'm on a computer today so this should actually work!!!)
1. Me and Mary's grandson. He wanted to wear my name tag and he is just adorable
2. This is Garfield....a very fat cat. He doesn't look that fat in the picture but oh man....if you could see him
3. Mary's grandson loved hearing about Book of Mormon stories :) His face is classic. I look terrible but whatever haha
4. Us and Cadiz sisters at the baptism :)
5. That is a monkey fist :)
 
 

Monday, June 1, 2015

That awkward moment when.....

.....when I can't think of a good title for this email.....
Man this week has been super weird. So many crazy weird experienced
and just a lot was happening!

Bennie in my last area went to the temple this week!!! Oh my gosh I am
so excited for him!!
Okay so we went on exchanges with STL's Monday to Tuesday and we had
an appointment with this less active family that I had never met. So
that was interesting to go there....and know basically nothing except
what sister Phillips told me. It turned out super well though. Oh yeah
and craziest thing...so we walk in there and Sister Dollman was like,
"You look so familiar."
And I was like, "hm...I don't know why..."
And she was like, "Were you ever in Nashville or Murfreesboro?"
"Yes actually!"
"When were you there?"
"July to November"
"I think I saw you there! My sister Katrina got baptized in the
Blackman ward (Blackman elders were in our district) but she got
baptized in the Murfreesboro building." So my brain starts reeling and
the I remember the Elders talking about Katrina in district meeting
and how they could help her progress towards baptism! And then I
remembered that she got baptized but I didn't actually go. She must
have seen my picture up in the building! How crazy is that! So I like
followed her to Mayfield haha. Oh and the Blackman elders did too!
They were the ZL's last transfer...so they were like, right here!
Crazy!

Here's another crazy moment that happened. So we were going to do some
service at this food line place but they had a ton of volunteers so we
decided to just go tracting because...well mornings are hard to fill.
So we go to this one place and we see this lady standing outside her
house so we go talk to her. Not interested. But as we had walked to
her house we saw another door that was open, with the screen door
shut. So we went there and they let us in. So this lady is talking
about how her mom just moved in with her. She had been previously
staying with a girl named Anna. Back story: we have an investigator
named Anna and we had tried her but her neighbor said the person she
lived with was moving so she was too. So anyway we ask her last name and
it's the same person! This lady's mom was the lady Anna had lived
with! So I asked where Anna went (yep we missionaries are stalkers)
and she told me where she was so we're going to knock that
place and find her! Or find her at the grocery store she now works at!
Man it was just the craziest thing! Oh and the nurse that was there
taking care of the mom had met Sister Phillips and her previous comp!

Man we went LA finding this week and we found this lady and she showed
like zero recognition to us and so we were asking her about her
membership and stuff and she said something like: "I go to (so and so
church) now and we are happy. I just sent a letter recently to take my
name off your church." And so we were asking her about if she was a
convert and stuff and she was saying how she converted in the 90s and
she was like, "I was just confused at the time." How sad is that?! Oh
man when we were driving away we were just like, "Man! That is so
depressing!"

Frank.....we had a long conversation with him this week and he was
super honest with us. He told us he doesn't believe in Jesus Christ and
doesn't believe that Jesus Christ loves him. We bore our testimonies
of how much Christ loves him and what he went through for him
and he didn't believe us. We asked him if he wanted to know that and
he said no. Based off our talk with him he just has no desire to know
that because he feels he has been let down so many times in his life
that Jesus Christ doesn't care and if he did he would have rescued him
by now. We talked all about how to help him and we just want to help
him feel the spirit so he'll have that desire to know. God can only
help us if we desire. We only gain faith through desire. He loves
music and so we were going to sing to him. Unfortunately, Frank is
missing. Like not the dropped off the face of the earth, doesn't want
to talk to us type of missing. Like no one has seen him for 3 days and
he left his dog, meds and clothes with the people he's staying with.
Pray for him. He's very lost and has a lot of emotional problems.

On the bright side we had a great lesson with Jade! Well, we showed
her the Will of God and she loved it and we talked a lot about how we
just have to trust in the things that God sends our way because he's
making us into the people he wants us to be. And God is perfect so he
has the perfect vision for us. We also decided that we needed to show
her that the Book of Mormon truly applies to her. So we had her open
up to a random page and see what God wanted her to know right then. Oh
man she opened up to 3 Nephi 3/4. Oh my gosh....of all the places she
had to open up to, it had to be there! Man. Thank heavens for the
spirit because we were able to relate it to her...I don't even
remember how and she was blown away. She is just a sponge. It's so
cool. It's just so hard to teach her because her life situation is
insane. I don't know how she survives....

Oh my goodness so yesterday we were out really far in the country to
contact a referral and we were sitting there waiting for some elders
to call us back with some information about another referral and I was
like, "well, should we just knock some doors while we wait?" And
sister Phillips was like, "well we could just drive back into town
because we know the general area where the referral is and we'd have
to drive through town anyway. So I was like, "okay that's fine." So we
start going and sister Phillips was like, "Oh man maybe we need to
tract some of these. We can't come out here for nothing." And I'm
like, "Well you're super good at following the spirit so when a house
sticks out to you lets knock it!" So we are driving for a bit then she
suddenly stops at this house. So we get out and knock it and there's
no answer. So then as we are leaving the Elders call. So I answer and
then all of the sudden a lady comes out of the house! So I like...hung
up on them basically and we talked to this lady and oh man she is
soooo awesome! She totally loved the idea of finding Jesus Christ's
original church on the earth and she was happy for us to come back and
she seemed interested in coming to church! But man we just connected
with her super well it was insane! Then after we left Sister Phillips
was like, "the Spirit just told me that she is one of the people that
you and me were supposed to find." Sister Phillips had gotten a
blessing at the beginning of the transfer that said there were people
prepared specifically for us and we have been wondering who that was.
We found her! It was a super cool experience!

I don't think I've ever talked about Bruce, but he's a recent convert
as of last year and we've been working with him a lot! He struggles
with the word of wisdom and we've been trying to help him come to
church! The elders came and gave him a blessing to help him with the
word of wisdom and he said that afterwards he "felt the temptation and
desire to do that leave me completely" man it was so cool! And he came
to church! Wahoo! But he like disappeared and went home during Sunday
school or priesthood. Not sure why but we are just so happy he came!

Here's some random things:
1. I got offered a cigarette by a 6 year old this week....what is this
world coming to?
2. Corn on the cob with sour cream and Parmesan cheese on it is oddly
super delicious....
3. Fried stuffed Jalapeños in an eggy tomato soup is super delicious.
4. Taught primary yesterday. They have literally 3 leaders in
primary...the branch president to usually has to teach the kids. But
yesterday was Branch conference and so the stake leaders wanted to
meet with the branch leaders and wow it was just the craziest day of
my entire existence...not really...but really
5. We practically had a flash flood. It was crazy...well it wasn't
that bad but the road we were by was definitely flooded....I'll send a
screenshot of the video I took.
6. I'm so sad Elder Perry passed away. That is so sad. He set apart
President Andersen....man I want to know who the new apostle is! :)
the elders are hoping it's someone Spanish like Elder Pino....haha

Well that's it for today! Sister Phillips told me a quote yesterday
"Feet are made moving forward, not backward." Sometimes we just have
to realize that we just have to go forward! Lot
went forward, Lots wife looked back and she turned into a pillar of
salt. God does not want us to look back. Despite how imperfect we may
be we just have to repent, look to Christ and move forward!

I love y'all lots!
Love,
Sister Myers

Pictures!!
1. Plan of salvation key chain...that is like the greatest thing I've
ever heard
2. A dog followed the Elders to district meeting. This picture kills me
3. Sweet pics at the Ohio river! I took one of sister Phillips and
showed her how to do one for me!
4. A white person, half black person and 2 Spanish people....all the
same color...what?
5. Flooded road...hard to see in this screenshot though....


(Kaylee's mom here. Some of the pics didn't come through. I only got 2, 4, and 5. )