Woo-wee! What a week!

So the most interesting thing that happened this week was that I went to the hospital........to eat food. Haha I just wanted to freak you all out. Someone make sure my mom didn't have a hard attack. It was so funny because one of our investigators, Hubbs and Martha Waller invited us to eat dinner with them at the hospital because for some reason they really like to eat there because they get a discount. And the food is actually really good. It was just so funny though that we went there just to eat. An no that was not the most interesting thing that happened this week :)

Okay so we've had some pretty cool moments this week! So every month there is this Methodist church that puts on this community and a lot of people we know go to it and this one guy we do
service with at the food pantry always invites. So this week we went over there with Beth. It was so fun. And we met the coolest guy - well Roberto and Guadalupe and the Elders met him but introduced us. His name was Jerry and he was this old man that spoke sign language and randomly Roberto like...knows sign language! It was so funny! He was seriously the cutest old man ever! I just loved him!! Anyway, after the breakfast, we were driving home with Beth and she brought up how she had been reading and stuff and she told us that she felt in her heart that the Book of Mormon was true! Wow!!! So we went and saw her yesterday and had a super awesome lesson with her! We talked about how what it means since she knows the Book of Mormon is true. It took a while to get it all sorted out. At first when we invited her to church she said she was going to try some other churches and we were super bold and talked about the priesthood and how if she knows the Book of Mormon then this church is true so she should go to this church. Then we committed her to baptism! She is getting baptized on September 12th! And by the end she was telling us how she was going to make sure she got up early enough to get to church next Sunday! Yahoo!!

So Sister Boekhout has this neighbor that is interested in the church. She was going to come to the baptism last week but her husband wouldn't let her so she told him she was going to church and so she came last week! I don't remember if I told you....anyway so this week sister Boekhout invited us over her dinner and then she invited Kris over and we taught her the restoration because she on the way home from church, she was asking questions about the church. It was a really good lesson! She seems interested in knowing whether or not the church is true! And sister Boekhout bore her testimony and it was so cool!

We had interviews this week!!! I LOVE interviews! And they went back to the old way of doing it where we get to have an interview with sister Andersen! Although, they still do it during district meeting. Anyway, my first interview was like that but they changed it after that. So that was so great. I love sister Andersen soooo much. President Andersen too. I learned a lot in this interview. This one was different than all the others and I'm not totally sure why but it was just cool! President Andersen is very inspired. :)

We have this new investigator named Josh that the Elders found and he's pretty cool! We finally met him yesterday and he is reading and praying about the Book of Mormon and he says he believes it's true...but we aren't sure he really understands what the Book of Mormon is but we are going to go back and teach the whole restoration and so hopefully that will help him understand. He seems sincere though - we invited him to be baptized if he knew it was true and he said he would of God told him that this was the true church. We'll see where that goes!

So yesterday after we got out of ward council this random guy walks into the church and we thought he must be a high council speaker or something because he looked like a member but no he was just this member that lives in Idaho and he was here on business. But you wanna know what he does? He cuts corn mazes! How random! All summer he just travels around and cuts out the mazes. And he has this GPS system that is super detailed...he says it can go down to an accuracy of 2 inches and that's how he knows where to cut. Also, this guy was just sooo cool and all about missionary work and helping people. He was so willing to go and wake up our investigators for us. Then he went out with the Elders after church.We're just like, "what? Who is this guy?!" He was super awesome. Sister Orchard and I decided he's probably one of the 3 Nephites, haha. Now some random woman who loves missionary work who's on business just needs to come out here and go out with US! The Elders are so blessed. Well, we are too but just sayin. 

Random thoughts of the week!:
1. Chiggers are terrible.
2. Me and Sister Orchard played pooh sticks this week. Both times epically failed. The first time we tried we dropped the sticks in and they just sat there. Lame. The second time we tried there was a
blockage of sticks under the bridge that didn't let anything by. Haha one day....
3. I've made so much zucchini bread this week. Yum!
4. The transfer Find-a-thon starts today!!! FIND ALL THE PEOPLE! :)
5. We ate tamales at Gaudalupe's this week and that was seriously the best thing that ever happened to the world. Gaudalupe's tamales are sooooo good. Oh my goodness I ate sooo much.
6. We contacted this guy who was a referral this week and the lady that answered said someone had requested missionaries for him as a joke. It was sad.

7. Today and tomorrow are supposed to be scorchers....and we don't have the car. Yikes. We are going to be sweaty hot messes and yet we still expect people to want to hear a message about Jesus from us. Pretty insane haha

So here's something kind of cool: so as missionaries we don't pay tithing but we do pay fast offerings. And seriously, when you pray fast offerings you get more dinners. Well this last Sunday me and Sister Orchard didn't have cash so we couldn't pay our fast offerings but we both said that when we got cash we would pay it. Well, this week we had a dinner every single day. Except Saturday...they had to cancel. We have so much food. It was just crazy and I was like, "wait,
and we didn't even pay our fast offerings!" But, then I thought about how we both planned to pay it and it just goes to show the God knows our hearts and he knew we would pay it and so even though we didn't do it right then he still blessed us. It reminds me of when Dad and I were going to miss the Trax we needed to get on if we got tickets for the way home (because our tickets had exported) and Dad said, "when we get to the end, we will buy our tickets." But I was so worried because I was worried we would get kicked off. And then the Trax patrol got on and checked our tickets but they didn't even look at the expiration time and moved on. And when we got off the Trax at our stop we bought tickets and then drove home. God knew we would and so he blessed us! Anyway, so that was cool. Except for the fact that I'm gonna get fat with all this delicious food.

We got to watch President Boyd K. Packers funeral this week. It was good! What a great man! I died when Elder Oaks said that he said, "I didn't come down here to break all the banjos in Utah county." Bahahaha classic! Also, my favorite quote from him that I heard at the funeral was "Let the pending items...pend." Sometimes we just need to wait and be patient when we are waiting for answers. They are pending and there really isn't anything we can do to speed them up. So while we wait are we going to be miserable and just wish we got answers and direction faster? Or will we exercise patience and faith and that the Lord will answer in His time?

I love y'all lots and I hope you have the greatest week!

Love,

Sister Myers

Pictures!

1. Picture Roberto took of us while using wifi on bikes...haha

2. Me and a baby chick

3. Zucchini...um heck yes!!!

4. Chiggers and my crazy awesome tan line....

5. Candid picture while eating a cupcake...hahahah so funny 

6-7 Just some fun pics with the STL's...I LOVE THEM SO MUCH...PS that jumping pic is on self timer and it took like 5000 tries haha

8. My Illinois picture I forgot to send last week! 

9. Selfie with Dave, the corn maze cutter, who came to church!