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 :)
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