Welcome to another miraculously spectacular week in
the life of Sister Myers in the Tennessee Nashville Mission, Green Hills
YSA. Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride!!
We
had a great start to the week when we were determined to get a
baptismal invite every single day. It was the zone goal to have one each
day and last week, sadly, we got none. But we recommitted to the goal
and were bound and determined to succeed! So Monday
we embarked to find out baptismal invite! The first one of the night
came when we followed up with this guy we had met a couple weeks back!
He basically said no but that's okay, because all we're here to do is
invite!
Anyway, so then we went to try to
contact this LA member and decided to knock the apartments that were
around her because we didn't really have much to do. We knocked into
this girl named Amanda and she let us in! We taught her most of the
Restoration (it was kind of scattered but good because it was more of a
discussion) and then we invited her to be baptized and she said she
already had been. This is typical in the south. So we
re-explained/taught the Priesthood and re-invited her and she said if
she felt from God that she should then she would! She is so awesome! She
was talking at one point about her belief in the Bible and she
basically said that she believes that we can learn from all the stories
in the Bible but we don't necessarily have to live everything in it
these were basically her words, "I mean, I believe that the 10
commandments like not killing and stuff are definitely still valid
today, but I think that we can wear jewelry and use musical instruments
and stuff. That was just during that time that it was important not to
do that." I was thinking, "Who are you?" So then we talked about
modern-day prophets and how they lead and direct us to know what God
still wants us to do and what we don't necessarily have to do...if that
makes sense. Anyway it was so cool. She's awesome.
That
leads me to another cool miracle that came from that. So me and Sister
Dillon decided that we were really going to try to follow the spirit
this week and so we decided that any good thought we get that we think
could be a prompting we should just do, because all good things come
from God. Then, on Saturday
we went to go try Amanda again and she wasn't home and so we tried a
couple of other people we knew over there but none of them answered. As
soon as we were done trying the people we knew, I had this thought that
we shouldn't leave this area/complex until we talked to someone. But I
pushed it away and we went to go try this less active. Well, in the long
drive just to get out of the apartment complex I was in this state of
arguing with myself as to whether or not we should knock some doors
before we left. But I kept driving and finally I just turned around and
told Sister Dillon I felt like we should go tract. I don't know why it
was such a struggle just to decide that because me and Sister Dillon
both said we would just go with whatever prompting the other had. But
anyway, we went and I went straight to this one building I thought we
should tract and we knocked that building and found 2 new investigators!
And they are like, pretty solid!!! Some of the people we meet are just
kind of so-so I guess you could say but these two were awesome! God is
good. Follow promptings people.
So here are a few more miracles that came from exchanges this week!
So
I stayed in the area and Sister Miller came here to Nashy with me.
Well, me and Sister D planned for us to go tracting after we got back
into Nashy and we had written down 2 addresses of apartment complexes we
could go to. So me and Sister Miller decided on the 2nd one, and prayed
about and both had the thought that we should do the first one. So we
put it in the GPS and went there and it wasn't even an apartment
complex, the address was off or something. So then we drove around for
like 2.7 seconds and both said to each other that we should just street
contact (because there were tons of people around). But, then in the
process of finding a place to park, we found the apartment complex! So
we knew that we just thought we should street contact so we would have
to find a place to park and therefore find the complex. So we went there
and it was one of those apartments that's like a hotel, where you have
an outside door and then the doors to the apartments are on the inside
and they were locked! But then we saw one was propped open so we just
went in. Haha so we knocked and found this awesome girl named Chelsea!
She was pretty solid! Then we met this guy named Conrad that wasn't
interested but he said we really made his day because he is going
through a lot. Then after a series of events we realized that we
definitely knocked at the hospital residency...for patients and people
in medical school. Awk. Welp, I know we were lead there so I don't
really care. But we laughed about it like the whole rest of the day and
Sister Miller was like, "Well I hope we didn't contract some sort of
disease!" Haha
So then another miracle was that
we tried this LA that me and Sister Dillon had tried and she actually
answered and let us in! We talked to her for like 45 minutes and oh my
goodness she was just so awesome! I just love her! And the thing that
was so cool was that her sister is in the ward that Sister Miller is
serving in so she totally knows her sister! Crazy! I'm not sure if she's
really interested in returning to church any time soon but we she's
super awesome and a great artist! (She showed us some of her art!)
And
here's yet ANOTHER miracle from exchanges! So this week, Sister Dillon
and I have been bound and determined and committed and whatever else to
talk with everyone! I trained on that this past Wednesday (and I'm doing part 2 of the training this Wednesday,
I asked Elder Denhalter if I could do it in 2 trainings because there
was so much I wanted to talk about that I couldn't fit it all!) and so
when I was with Sister Miller we were tracting an apartment complex (not
the hospital one haha) and we saw this guy getting ready to paint a
fence or something but we kept going and Sister Miller was like, "We
should have talked to him." So on the way back he was still there so
even though he was like painting and awkwardly on this hill we waved him
over and talked to him and he was super interested! He isn't YSA but we
told him other missionaries would come visit him and wow, he was just
so cool! God is good! When you talk to everyone God will definitely
place people in your path!
Are you done hearing the miracles of this week? Well too bad because I've got more!
So
yesterday Sister Dillon and I were planning to go park contacting at
Bicentennial Park. But when we put it in the GPS is took us somewhere
weird, like, not the park. So we didn't know what to do so we prayed.
And we both had the thought to go to Centennial Park. So we put that in
the GPS and start going over there and on the way we found Bicentennial
Park! (God works in mysterious ways, I'm telling you) So we went there
and it was funny because we pulled up and after we prayed and before we
got out of the car I was like, "Maybe we had to come here for someone
certain. Like that guy." And I pointed to some random guy on a bench
nearby. So we go and talk to him and actually had a really good
conversation with him and gave him a Book of Mormon! He wasn't really
interested in learning more but he said he would look over the BOM. So
then we kept walking around found this other guy named JD and had
a super awesome conversation with him. He basically taught him the
gospel of Jesus Christ and briefly the restoration and he was really
interested. Sadly, he did not have his phone on him and could not
remember his phone number so we have no contact information for him but
he said he would definitely call us. And we committed him to call us. I
really feel like he will. Who knows though. But I know we were supposed
to be there to talk to him. He was kind of eccentric but definitely
searching.
Okay, now this one is awesome.
So
yesterday we were doing our companionship study and Sister Dillon had
felt like we should call and invite this one guy, named Nathan to
church. Nathan is this guy that Sister Dillon met on the bus and then he
moved but he moved back to Nashville and then called us! What?! He said
he was praying and thought of us so he called. We haven't been able to
meet with him yet. But anyway, we called him and he said we wanted to
come! So we set up a ride and everything. We went with this member to
pick him up. But here's the really weird part...he was just weird. I
don't even know how to describe it. It was like, he wasn't interested at
all....but obviously he was. It was such a weird situation and me and
Sister Dillon keep wondering why she was prompted to invite him and why
he came. I don't know, God has a plan but it was just an odd situation.
ALSO, Anne Parkes's (this super awesome member that is basically just
the coolest person ever) brought her friend to church AND Carlos came!!
Yahoo!!!
Speaking of Carlos! It was a cool miracle that he came to church this Sunday
because the primary from the Green Hills family ward came and did their
primary program for us and it was super awesome because Carlos actually
has 2 girls but he only gets them every other weekend and we've been
trying to get him to go to a family ward when he has his girls (not in
Green Hills but the one by where he lives) and I feel like it was so
great for him to see what his girls would be learning! We'll see what
comes of that. Also, this week Carlos, at the end of a phone lesson said
he was praying about his baptism date! WHAT? So this week we had a
super awesome lesson where we asked him the baptismal interview
questions without telling him, like in a roundabout way and then invited
him to pray about November 7!!
We had prayed about it and we felt good about it so now we'll see if
Carlos feels good about it too! He is so ready. There's something
holding him back. Ivan, his recent convert friend who referred him, and
even Carlos himself said there's something he has to work through. The
trouble is finding out what it is so we can help him! But, maybe I'm
just supposed to learn patience.
Well, I'm
just going to wrap up with week of miracles in a bow and send it off
because I'm running out of time. The Women's conference was SO good and
I'M SO STOKED FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!
Sorry
there's no spiritual thought. Just remember that God works in mysterious
ways, follow promptings and never forget that God is good.
Love y'all lots!
Love,
Sister Myers
Here's some pictures to enjoy
1. #bejealous #nashypride
2. This was out best jumping picture but we both look crazy haha
3. After exchanges at Baja Burrito...I purposely ruined the smiling picture haha
4.
I was joking that I didn't know how I should hold my BOM to take a
picture and so I was being funny and sister Dillon snapped this
one..haha
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