Moving Out of Mayfield!

I am sad today because I am leaving Mayfield! I love Mayfield tons and I'm going to miss all the wonderful people here! I'm also sad because my mission keeps going faster and faster and I'm getting on the low end of the scale for how long I have left.....ugh

This week has been great though! I don't know how long this is going to be though because I have a ton of things to do and I don't really feel like writing a lot but maybe once I get going it will be better. 

First off, I don't even know if I have told y'all about Roxie! She's this 85 year old lady who is SO funny. Oh my goodness I love her so much! We tracted into her like, last transfer and did some service for her and stuff because at first she said she wasn't interested. Well, then we got to teaching her and she has come to church for the past 3 weeks and she's getting baptized in the beginning of October! We gave her pamphlets every time we would go and do service for her and after she read them she would say, "That's the most interesting thing I've ever read!" Haha but we didn't know how much she was comprehending. Then she said she wanted to come to church....oh my goodness I just remembered that I have talked about her....oh well...haha well anyway, she's been reading the Book of Mormon and this week we taught her the Restoration, like actually taught it to her with the cups and stuff and we invited her to be baptized at the beginning of October and she said, "Well, I've already been baptized but this one feels better!" Haha we asked her if we believed God would restore the true church of Jesus Christ back to earth and she said, "Oh I know it's true!" Haha she is so great! I hope I'm close enough I can come back to her baptism!

Amy and Bill Powers came to church this week and they seemed to really like it! I hope they keep on coming! Maybe i can come back for his baptism! They are great :)

Got sick this week! It's going around. For the like the entire week I could not stay asleep at night! I've been so exhausted. Then I just felt terrible on Saturday (cold symptoms, exhausted, just generally sick) so Saturday night the Elders were going to come give me a blessing.....then Sister Orchard in the evening on Saturday got so sick, but her symptoms were like, stomach flu symptoms. So she decided to get a blessing too. Well, must have been a trial of our faith because after our blessings we went to bed at like 9, but Sister Orchard just lied down on her bathroom floor for 3 hours because she thought she was going to be sick, and I tried to sleep but I literally could not! Then there was a cockroach in my bed! GROSS! Sister Orchard finally went to bed at like 12:00 and fell asleep. But I didn't fall asleep until like 12:30 or 1 and didn't really even sleep. We were zombies in the morning! It was a struggle. But last night, for like the first time in like, gee a week or something I slept like a rock!!! Woot!!!!!! We decided it was Satan because two investigators came to church!!!!!!! :) haha JK

Randoms:

1. No one here knows what a knock knock joke is...seriously we tried telling knock knock jokes to a couple of people this week and they just didn't know what to say. 

So we did it to Roberto and this is what happened:

Us: Knock knock

Roberto: Mormons are here

Haha then we did it to Mary and this is what happened:

Us: Knock knock

Mary: (No response)

Us: You're supposed to say "who's there?"

Mary: Jesus

Haha seriously no one knows what a knock joke is, it's so funny. 

2. I tried grilled egg plant. it was delicious

3. I'm a nut. In a rut. I'm a nut, in a rut, so what?

Well to make up for this rather terrible letter, here's a lovely spiritual thought: Remember how I was training on the enabling power of the atonement? Well I want to talk about one thing I learned.

So Elder Bednar gave Mosiah 24 as an example of the enabling power of the Atonement (this is when Alma and his people are under the rule of Amulon and they ask God to help them and he comforts them in their afflictions) well, one might wonder why that would have to do with the enabling power of the atonement, which helps us to do and become good. Well, let me tell you!!!

Look at Mosiah 3:19 to you: "For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." Wouldn't you say that being as a child, submissive..........would be the attributes of a someone who has done and become good? 

Okay now listen to what Elder Bednar says: "As we progress in the journey of mortality from bad to good to better, as we put off the natural man or woman in each of us, and as we strive to become saints and have our very natures changed, then the attributes detailed in this verse increasingly should describe the type of person you and I are becoming. We will become more childlike, more submissive, more patient, and more willing to submit." Now jump back to Mosiah 24:15, "and they did submit cheerfully and with patience to all the will of the Lord" Alma and his people were not only comforted but they became better people through the Atonement. So when we use the enabling power of the atonement to comfort and strengthen us, we are putting off the natural man and submitting ourself to the Lord. So really, whenever we use the atonement, in any way, we are becoming better. 

Well, love y'all lots!

Love, 

Sister Myers

Here's some pics, hopefully they go through! If not....too bad. Maybe I'll send them next week. There were so many to choose from since I took a lot of pictures with people...

1. MYERS FOR THE WIN

2. Bodyguards