It's been a pretty fantastic week!! :) We have met lots of great people and seen lots of cool miracles!
Okay I'll tell you about all the cool people that we met :)
The
first is this guy named Tim! He's so cool! The Elders tracted into him
and referred him to us. So we went and visited him and set up a return
appointment. Then we went back this last Saturday and he came outside on
the porch to talk to us and he was re-looking over the pamphlet that we
had given him and he saw the picture of the Book of Mormon and he was
like, "Oh y'all read from this book?" And then he was asking us all
these questions about it and asking if he could have one and we were
just like, "Wait hold on let's start from the beginning." So we taught
him the restoration and he kept asking questions that were just going to
be answered so we just told him to keep listening. Then we finished and
he was like, "Oh that makes sense!" And then we invited him to be
baptized when he knew it was true. And he said, "Yes! Definitely! As
long as I know from God that my previous baptism was not correct." He
totally gets the priesthood!!!! WOW!!!!
Yesterday
we were waiting for a member to pick us up to go on exchanges and we
were trying to decide what to do so I was like, "let's just knock a
couple houses." Well the first house we knocked on BOOM! We met this
young dad and he said we could come back and talk to him and his family
(him and his wife and two young children) and he said his wife has been
looking for a church. BOOYA!
So then the member
that took us out, we went and tried some people and then we went to
Guadalupe's to visit her for a bit. So we were sharing a message with
Guadalupe and Roberto and someone knocked on the door so Roberto went
and got it and then went outside. So then we shared a message with
Guadalupe and then we went to leave and we went outside and Roberto was
talking to his friend Anthony. Then Guadalupe followed us out the door
and she pointed to Anthony and was like, "You teach him" And then
Roberto was like, "yeah you want to hear about the church?" And Anthony
was like, "yeah okay" so we talked to him a little bit (except it was
like 9:25
so we were going to be late so we didn't talk to him long) and we gave
him a pamphlet and got his number and he said he would meet with us to
learn more and come to church! Wow!!!!
GUESS
WHAT?!!!! Jim and Sheila Rider from my first area came to visit me and
took us out to lunch!!!! Oh it was the greatest thing ever! I just LOVE
them sooooo much!!! We had such a good visit and they are just the
greatest! They drove like 4 hours and stayed over night in Paducah to
see me! They also saw other family and stuff on the way to and from but
still they drove that far! I just love them.
We
are going to drop Beth this week. We went and visited her with Sister
Collins and Sister Vaca and Sister Vaca told us she thought that Beth
was just in it for the company because she has zero desire to come to
church or be baptized. We had been thinking that so it just kind of
solidified our thoughts. It will be hard to drop her because we don't
know how she'll take it because she just loves us coming over.
So
I don't think I told you about her but there's this investigator we
found named Roxie who is so old and she's just the funniest lady. Well
we started by doing service for her and then we started teaching her.
Well we've been giving her pamphlets because she just loves them. She
keeps saying, "That is the most interesting thing I have ever read!"
Well we invited her to church and she said she wanted to come but she
didn't have a dress. So we found some old dresses in our apartment and
we took them to her. And oh man it was so funny because we helped her
try it on but it was over her clothes and she's like 85 and the struggle
was so real. Hahah but SHE CAME TO CHURCH! That's the first
investigator that's come to church in like a transfer! It's been so hard
getting people to church! She just loved church, except she couldn't
hear any of it, but she still loved it.
I
taught Gospel Doctrine...by myself yesterday. And I had that morning as
preparation. The struggle. It was fine though because the lesson was on
"Live in the Spirit" so it was pretty easy to get conversation
going...or at least I was able to talk a lot. No one really wanted to
talk so it was pretty awkward. Also Sister Orchard wasn't there because
we were basically on exchanges because she went with Roxie and Sister
Taylor to take Roxie home. So yeah that was interesting.
The
Elders had another baptism this week and there were so many
missionaries there because I guess they had been taught for a long time.
But their story is cool because they were waiting to get baptized
because they wanted to get baptized when they go back to Mexico in 3
years. Then they overcame that and decided they would be baptized but
wanted to do it in a river. Then they were struggling with tithing. Then
a baptist preacher guy kept giving them anti. But they just kept
working through it and it was all good! :) Haha they are so cute! Their
names are Roman and Eloisa.
Random thoughts:
1. Everyone has been sick this week!!!! It's insane. Left and right someone's sick.
2. It's cooling off! (at least right now it is) it was like...60 this morning when we walked outside. Crazy.
3.
We saw Frank this week. He's as crazy as ever. I'm going to send a
picture because he is sooo funny. He made himself look really crazy in
the picture. He looks more normal than that haha
4. I took
pictures with two inmates when we were doing service at needline - the
food pantry. The inmates go there to do community service and they are
the nicest people ever, but anyway so we took some funny pictures with
them. I'll send those.....if my iPad decides to send pictures
today.......
Well that's all for this week I think!
Elder
Escalante asked me to train next week in district meeting again about
how the Atonement will help us to become better missionaries. I am
really excited to study about it because I just love the Atonement and
becoming a better missionary because man I need all the help I can get!
:) But anyway I was reading a talk about the enabling power of the
Atonement - I've read it many times before because I just love it. I
want to share a quote from it that I just love, hopefully I haven't
shared it before! "Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve
Apostles said, “I suspect that [we] are much more familiar with the
nature of the redeeming power of the Atonement than we are with the
enabling power of the Atonement.” He suggested that most of us
understand that Christ came to earth to die for us, to pay the price for
our sins, to make us clean, to redeem us from our fallen state, and to
enable every person to be resurrected from the dead. But, Elder Bednar
said, “I frankly do not think many of us ‘get it’ concerning [the]
enabling and strengthening aspect of the Atonement, and I wonder if we
mistakenly believe we must make the journey from good to better and
become a saint all by ourselves through sheer grit, willpower, and
discipline, and with our obviously limited capacities.”"
I love the Atonement and I love my mission.
Hope y'all have a fantastic week!
Love,
Sister Myers
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