Myersites vs. Dillonites

It's been a more slow week but it's been a great week!!!!

On Saturday I got to Skype a baptism for that old lady named Roxie in Mayfield!!!! Oh my goodness I love her so much! I was seriously dying she is so funny! She couldn't hear me from the iPad so whoever was holding the iPad would have to tell her what I was saying! And then when she wanted to say something to me she would lean in and talk really loud! Hahaha she is so great! It was so fun to see everyone in Mayfield! Sad, but good! I wish I could have gone up there but 3 hours is just too far away! I'm grateful for technology though!

This week has been filled with a lot of finding with not a lot of numerical success. Meaning, really no one was interested but we did have good conversations with people! But no new investigators :( BUT one thing that has been running through my mind this week was, "We are blessed BECAUSE of our efforts not THROUGH our efforts! And this was confirmed to me yesterday.

We were having companionship study and we got a text from this member in SLC. He said that his girlfriend was going to Vanderbilt and that she wasn't a member but wanted to go to church and needed a ride! So, we called this other member that goes to Vanderbilt and she picked her up and brought her! Her names is Charlotte and she is SO cool! Her dad grew up in the church but is inactive, but her dad's side are basically all members. She went to church a couple of weeks ago to the family ward but they suggested she go to the YSA branch but I guess she since she needed a ride and didn't know how to get a hold of us she asked her boyfriend how! She came to all the meetings and fit in so well with the branch! She seemed just like she was a member! Obviously, she has had experience with the church! She is going home to Atlanta this weekend but she said she would like to meet with us next week! WAHOO!! God is so good! I know that this came because of our great efforts in finding this week! We were blessed BECAUSE of our efforts, not THROUGH them!

Steven came to church yesterday! But that is because he was coming to say goodbye to everyone because he is moving to California...today! It was SO quick! Like no one knew about it and so he came was just like, "I'm moving tomorrow!" What?! We told him how to get ahold of the missionaries in California if he was ready to learn again. One day......

Devin wasn't there when we went to his appointment and hasn't answered our texts :( But we shall not give up hope!

Southern quote of the week: "Just hangin on like a hair on a biscuit!" :P

Carlos came to church also! We have had some pretty good lessons with him this week! Haha funny story we were having a phone lesson with him and he was confused about the Nephites versus the Lamanites and how they came about and stuff and I explained it and it made a little more sense and then I went into this crazy analogy and it was went something like this, "It's like if me and Sister Dillon got in a fight and separated from each other! And then it would be as if you took Sister Dillons side and y'all called yourselves the Dillonites and then Ivan (this RC that comes to lessons a lot) took my side and we called ourselves the Myersites. So it's like our team name!" Haha I am so weird but Sister Dillon was dying and Carlos was laughing....which is weird for him because he's just so quiet and doesn't really laugh out loud that much. Yep, I have weird analogies for like everything haha

We are having a lesson with Carlos at President Johnson's house this week and I'm super stoked! It's going to be so great! Carlos is really progressing! Slowly but surely! He is working through some things but nothing that's his fault or anything! I'm excited for him! Keep him in your prayers!

My ponderizing scripture this week is Alma 5:14 "And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren, of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced a might change in your hearts?" I love this scripture!

I read this quote this morning on that scripture that I just love!

“When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed…The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature…Yes, Christ changes men, and changed men can change the world" - President Ezra Taft Benson

I love that! If we truly are following Christ we are going to change! We are CHOOSING to change! And the Atonement of Jesus Christ allows us to do that! :)

Love y'all millions! Have a blessed day!

Love,

Sister Myers

Here's some pictures from the week!!!

1. This is Sister Herbert! She is in my district! We went on exchanges with the Bellevue sisters for like, an hour because they had met a few YSA so they wanted to pass them off to us! Sister Herbert is so great!

2. Sister Dillon, Patti (a recent convert that I just love to DEATH! she is so cool!), me (obviously) and Sister Peterson, or Alex. She was a missionary that served in the YSA! I didn't really know her that well but I knew her through other people! She's so awesome!