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