God is good

What a week everyone! Here in Nashy it's a real party in the YSA.

Okay so here's a funny story: so we had interviews with President this week and I decided I was going to be real funny and tell him I hated my companion and then I was going to proceed to tell him that he should probably leave us together for a long time so we can learn how to get along. Haha but President is a clever guy and caught me in my guile....so I told him I hated my companion but before I could proceed he got really serious and was like, "What's wrong? Do we need to do an ET (emergency transfer)?" THEN he proceeded to pull out his little notebook (that he always has at interviews so he can take notes as needed) to write stuff down and I was like, "No, no, no, President I was kidding." And then he just smiled and was like, "I know." Haha I got pranked from my own prank! I love that guy!

Here's an interesting fact: President told me that there will be 0 sisters coming in at this next transfer! AH! What's happening to the sister missionary population! He said there will be many whitewashes. Crazy.

I went compus cantacting this week! Or I guess I should say campus contacting! Sister Dillon said compus cantacting and now I can't call it the actual name because I keep saying that! Anyway, it was good! Definitely not what I'm used to! But yeah we found some good people, there was this girl that had headphones in so we just asked her if we could give her a picture of Jesus and she kept walking (but still took the picture) and then we keep going and all the sudden she turns around and takes out her headphones to ask us about our church and stuff because she's looking for a church family. Cool! God is good.

I got sick again this week! Yeesh! Not sure if God is trying to teach me something or if I just don't know how to live healthy. But yeah, I'm pretty sure Saturday night was the worst night of my entire mission. Or maybe even life....it was horrible. I went to bed Friday with a headache and woke with a sore throat and had that all day. By Saturday evening I was in BAD shape. Headache, sore throat, stomachache/nausea and congestion. The kicker was that it kept me up ALL night. Every time I would fall asleep, I would feel so sick I would wake up. Every 15 minutes. Longest night of my life. Anyway, Sister Dillon is the greatest person ever and I finally woke her up at 1:00am and we prayed together and she did everything she could think of to help me slash sat with me for like 30 minutes while I bawled my head off then I fell asleep from 2-3 and the cycle started all over again.

In the morning as soon as 6:30 hit BAM called the Elders. They graciously came and gave me a blessing and I felt the same, but I was promised that I would feel better as the day went on and be back to full energy by the beginning of the week. So I went about getting ready and by 8 I was so exhausted, so I slept while Sister Dillon studied and then I felt like 89% better. But it came and went, but by the time church started I felt basically fine, except general cold symptoms. Don't know what happened there but goodness gracious I'm grateful for the priesthood. On the bright side I had the best sleep on my life last night!

Anyway, now back to the missionary work:

Steven is......I don't know what he is. He needs some prayers. He has had a lot of bad things happen to him and it's made him pretty bitter. But he wants to know that God is there and is living and active in his life, not just watching his life play out. He reads the Book of Mormon, he prays, he comes to institute and FHE every week (hasn't been to church in a while though) and still hasn't had a spiritual experience. He asked us to pray for him to have a soft heart so he can find happiness. He is so sad. Pray for him.

Carlos is so awesome! We taught him the Law of Chastity this week and that was so great. It was Sister Dillon's first time teaching it and she did so great! She is seriously such a good missionary I can't even handle it. Anyway Carlos is just the best. His baptism date is still at New Years or around there but hey, it's better than nothing! He'll just be that much more converted! But yeah, we are hoping he'll just decide he doesn't want to wait that long :)

We had Zone Meeting this week and that was great! Always a great meeting. Missionary meetings are the greatest.

We had a stake service project on Saturday where we went to an Elementary school where we painted the walls and did mulching and gardening and other random things with Hands On Nashville and it was a lot of fun. Also I finally got to meet the branch president, President Johnson, who actually used to be in the mission presidency, but got released in April. He is the best. Him and his wife were actually in Utah (including visiting a daughter in SoJo!) and doing some sort of biking race thing or something from Logan to Jackson. Crazy. They love biking apparently! He is so cool though. I just LOVE him already! Also he is so missionary minded and so the branch council and everything is super awesome! 

Well that's all for today folks! Hope y'all have a wonderful week! But first, let me leave you with some spiritual goodness.

I found this quote from a talk called "The Essential Role of Member Missionary Work" -

"With a prayer in your heart, talk to everyone you can. Don’t prejudge. Don’t withhold the good news from anyone. Talk to everyone, and trust in the promised power of the Spirit to give you the words you should say. Let them make the decision to accept or reject your invitation. Over time, the Lord will put into your path those who are seeking the truth. He is the Good Shepherd. He knows His sheep, and they will know His voice, spoken through you, and they will follow Him."

Everyone need the gospel - which is why we must share it! When we talk to everyone we can about the gospel, then God will trust us and he will put people in our path that are prepared to hear the message! And sharing the gospel isn't hard. I attached a PDF that's 50 ways to share the gospel and it's so cool because it shows that sharing the gospel isn't necessarily inviting someone to meet with the missionaries or giving them a copy of the Book of Mormon, although those are GREAT ways to do missionary work. Sharing the gospel is easy, especially with the help of our Savior Jesus Christ. I'm going to go missionary on all y'all and invite you to look over it and find 5 things you will do to share the gospel this week! (But don't do all of them from the same section)!

And don't forget that God is good.

Love y'all lots!

Love,

Sister Myers :)

Pictures! :)

1. Some cool building in downtown Nashy

2. Batman building!

3. "Hello Mr. Horse would you like here a message about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ?"

4. The zone! I think it's funny to see the difference between the Elders and the sisters...the Elders are like, all over the place and the sisters are just all in the same spot but doing funny stuff haha

5.  In the baptismal font...haha