BIG NEWS!

BIG NEWS EVERYONE!!! Carlos is getting baptized THIS SATURDAY!!!!! Oh my goodness after 5 months and him wanting to wait until January miracles occurred as you heard last week (thanks to President Johnson) and Carlos is going to get baptized! He is so excited and we are too! It's crazy though because we set the date with him and he was praying and praying about it and this last week he said he got an answer through a dream! He dreamed he got baptized into the Mormon Church and God was telling him it was right. Crazy! We are so stoked.

Pray for him though (and us)! Satan's gonna be whipping out his big guns! He already tried when we found out that another ward had booked the building ALL day for a Christmas party at 6:30pm (our baptism is at 11am). But don't worry we got it all worked out so it's all good! :)

Also funny story about Carlos. Well, kind of indirectly about him. We were having a phone lesson with him on Thursday night and he was telling us something about...well I don't actually know because while he was talking we suddenly hear this rattling at our door of someone trying to get it. And I saw that the door was unlocked and I'm panicking and thinking "Why the heck didn't we lock it?!" (We like ALWAYS lock the door even if we are home) and sister Johnson goes to like brace herself against the door but Sister Dillon holds her back and it was this intense moment of waiting/panicking for those 2 seconds until we saw who was coming into our apartment. It's okay everyone it was just the other sisters! Our door WAS locked, they had just used their key to come int because they thought we weren't there. Okay and what makes this story so funny is that Carlos was talking that whole time and we were so quiet about it that he had no idea. And I went outside to tell the other sisters what happened because they were so confused and Sister Dillon hurried and grabbed the phone when Carlos finished and was like, "Yeah Carlos! That's so awesome!" Or something like that. It was so funny but so scary haha

Also, we are staying together another transfer! Wahoo!! We totally thought Sister Dillon was leaving! She'll be here for 7 1/2 months! Oh yeah but unfortunately our car is transferring! I'll miss Shadrach! (yes that is his name!) Now we will be sharing with some other sisters in our district (not the sisters that live by us though). But it's a 2015 car so that's a plus! :) I am sad Sister Richardson is leaving us! She's transferring to Utah! :) And I secretly really hope that Sister Orchard takes her place because that would be the BEST!

Well here's quick update on the peeps:

Nathan - well because of some miscommunication and some struggles that weren't anyone's fault, both the times we tried to meet with him it fell through so that is a bummer. But he got together with Alek, the member that he gets along with so well and they read the Book of Mormon together and it brought him a lot of peace! So that's good! And Alek invited him to church and he said he would come for the first hour! Sweet! Keep him in your prayers though! He has a lot to work through right now!

Charlotte - we haven't gotten to meet with her this week because she was gone for thanksgiving BUT she texted us this morning and said that the conversation with her parents went better than expected! Man we are so excited to meet with her so we can hear about it!

We are teaching this girl named Amelia. Matt, this member introduced us to her because they are really good friends and we had dinner with Matt and her and she is so awesome and pretty interested! We have an appointment with her at Matt house tomorrow evening! We are pretty excited for that!

So we've really been working on asking for referrals from people and like this whole last transfer we have been asking for referrals from EVERYONE! But we like, would never get like any. And people always say the same thing. "No I can't think of anyone." or "I don't know anyone around here." or "I can think of a lot of people" but then they don't give us anyone! Dah! Well, the past couple weeks we have been getting 3-4 referrals and they were even from us asking for them specifically and I was wondering why. Then this week we got 7! And they were like GOOD referrals (don't get me wrong all referrals are good but not all are created equal). And I realized it was the situation of blessed BECAUSE of our efforts not THROUGH our efforts again. We have been asking and asking and asking and now finally we are reaping! It's been cool to see! And we already got another one today! Blessings! God is so good!

Well I'm going to wrap this up but I just wanted to let y'all know that I know the gospel is true, I know the Book of Mormon is true and I know that God loves all of us! Keep on truckin and remember: it's a great day to be alive and an even better day to be a missionary! Keep sharing the good word!

Speaking of missionary work #ASaviorisBorn video is so fantastic. I always feel so pumped after I watch it. Share it with your friends! That's a great way to share the gospel! :)

Love y'all lots!

Love,
Sister Myers

Here's some picture for y'all!

1. Happy Thanksgiving!! We went contacting at Centennial Park on Thanksgiving asking people what they were grateful for! :) And talking about how we are grateful for the gospel! That was fun!

2. Thanksgiving selfie

3-4 Some Thanksgiving jumping selfies haha the second one kills me 

 

 

Let the mighty miracles roll on!

Wow what a week!!! Life as a missionary is the BEST!!!!! 

 

Okay y'all want to hear the CRAZIEST STORY OF YOUR LIFE??!!!!

Okay I don't know if it will be the craziest of your life but seriously, prepare to be amazed! :)

Okay I really hope this makes sense in the way I explain it. So the elders had this investigator named Bailey that we contacted and she gave us her number to contact her of a good time we could meet. So a few days ago Sister Johnson texted her and asked her if we could meet and she said yes and we set up the time for Saturday morning. Well, we wait the church on Saturday morning and this girl walks in and says, "Hi, I'm Bailey! I'm here to meet with the Sister missionaries!" Okay but get this: this is NOT the Bailey that we talked to. I was legit SO confused. I was like, "How did the Elders investigator Bailey give us the number to another Bailey who was also interested?" What?! So we just rolled with it and had a lesson with her and it was an AWESOME lesson! We did How to Begin Teaching and taught the restoration a little bit and even invited her to be baptized if she knew the message was true and she said yes! Wow she was so prepared! So then at the end I asked her how we got her number and she said she had referred herself on Mormon.org.

Then it dawned on us. We had received a referral from HQ for a girl named Bailey Higgins and we had called her and texted her and never got a response so we assumed she wasn't interested or something so we just dropped her. Well, a few days ago Sister Johnson, when she went to text the Elders investigator Bailey, texted Bailey Higgins, thinking that the Bailey in the phone was the Elders investigator Bailey. Yeah, really confusing but if you understood that whole story then you should be dying because that is INSANE! God is so good everybody! And to top it all off, we contacted the Elders investigator Bailey, and it turns out she couldn't meet anyway! :)

Okay here's another cool story. So we planned to go street contacting by Belmont (college) because there are tons of YSA walking around there all the time. Well, when we got there there was a street preacher guy who was yelling at everyone about how if they don't repent they will go to hell or something like that. Like he was legit holding a sign and bible. I know, sounds like a movie or something! So we decided not to street contact around there because we didn't want anyone to think we were associated with him. So we went to Centennial Park instead and we went over to a guy on a bench and ended up talking to him for like 45 minutes about the gospel and he was asking so many sincere questions that were totally awesome! And then we tried to get his number to meet up with him again because he had so many questions but then we weedled out of it and said he would call us if he has questions (and he was really sincere about it though). We have been praying he will call. He was so awesome! We hope a Best Two Years story happens with that! :) That would so legit!

OH MY GOODNESS CARLOS SET A BAPTISM DATE!!! December 5th!!!!!! Wahoo!!! We had this super awesome lesson as President Johnson's house and it was so cool because at first he was still like not going with setting a date but we all like bore our testimonies about asking in faith and how the gospel will bless his family and then we invited him to be baptized on December 5th and he said yes! He is acting in faith right now. He hasn't received an answer for that day yet but I believe he will! If not, that's ay-okay :) We love him anyway!

We also had a super great lesson with Charlotte this week! We taught the plan of salvation and it was just such a powerful lesson! We also talked about her Book of Mormon reading and she says that she was received her answer that the Book of Mormon is true and that the church is true! We invited her to prepare herself to be baptized and she said yes! Although, we did not set a date because we didn't feel like we should yet. We wanted to wait until she made sure it would be all good with her parents. She went home on Friday and she said she was going to try to tell them on Sunday (yesterday) so we'll find out hopefully soon if she did. We have been praying and fasting that that all works out so keep her in your prayers because if that goes well, we are going to set that date faster than butter falling off a hot biscuit!

We've had quite a few other cool little miracles this week! It's been so great! The members of this branch are so awesome! We are so blessed! When we went to church yesterday we had 1 dinner this week, on Thanksgiving. And after church we had a dinner every night (except today because we crossed off Monday's haha). God is good! Well, the members are good! :)

I'm trying to think if there's anything else I want to say about this week!

Gratitude everyone. Gratitude! (obviously since it's thanksgiving)

Last night I decided to start writing a gratitude list and previously I have just done a list of 100 things I'm grateful for but I decided I want to do as many things as I possibly can. My ultimate goal is 1000 things by the end of the week. I'm at 657. It's been so cool because since Ive done more than 100 things I've realy been thinking about EVERYTHING I'm grateful for so now I keep seeing things I'm grateful for and it's been so incredible! I just started the list last night! I have a lot to be grateful for! And still more! The list of things that Heavenly Father has given me is infinite! The list of things Heavenly Father has given YOU and ALL of us is infinite! He loves us so much!

I hope y'all have a blessed week and a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Love y'all!!!!

Love,

Sister Myers

We really didn't take many pics this week...hahah but here are a couple from district meeting this week....the AP's came and the ZL's who usually aren't there were there so it was a HUGE district meeting...legit half the zone so basically it was a zone meeting! Crazy!

Also I just got to see Sister Oldroyd! Oh my goodness best day of my life! I love her SO much! We only saw each other for a minute but that's better than nothing!!!! 

 

 

How is your heart?

Wow wow wow this week has jam packed with lots of goodness...and craziness! And miracles! And this! And that! And lots of things!!

Well "let's get this show on the road! Cricket get the bag!"

Soooo hm where to begin. Well let's start with the awesome miracle of the week! We were tracting this one apartment complex on Tuesday and we tracted into this guy who said he was an inactive member from Utah (but he's been in Tennessee for a long time). So we just kept talking to him and he invited us in. (Okay side note: it was a miracle in and of itself that we are in a trio so we were able to go in!!) So he asked a few random questions about what we do with inactive members and we told him our purpose is to help everyone come unto Christ. And then wow THE SPIRIT...he opened up at that point and told us he was actually excommunicated. But he said that as he has been attending other Christian churches he said this "Regular Christianity just doesn't compare to Mormonism. It's like basic math vs. Algebra. Mormonism has all the answers." Then he talked about how his culture is LDS and he still believes all of the doctrine. We ended up talking to him about the Atonement and the spirit was so strong! Then he said he wanted to go through the process to come back to church and be re-baptized!!!! WOW! THEN he told us about how he had sold his car last week and how he had pulled out a Book of Mormon he had in there and so it was on his mind this week! God is just sooooo good! In case y'all didn't know! :)

So we had Zone Conferences this week and oh man they were SO good! Elder and Sister Zwick (he's from the 70) came and wowie I was just blown away! And I got a picture with him so he could send it to Sheralee (my YW's leader who is his secretary) so that was fun! I just love them! Anyway, I don't have my notes with my so I'm trying to remember some of the things that I learned! One of the things we talked a lot about was simplifying and intensifying! Elder Zwick taught us this new way to teach a lesson so that we can "teach a simple lesson, invite the spirit and then get out".  It is pretty cool and we have been using it so I'm excited to see how it will help the work move forward!

Also a common question that everyone who trained asked "How is your Heart?" They talked about how our hearts must be in the right place and we must become true disciples of Christ and purify ourselves so we don't have any dry rot in our spirits that will hinder the Spirit from helping us in the work of Salvation! It was super good!

Also our musical number went really well! I wish it wasn't too big to send because it was so great! The sisters sang so well and they were right on key the whole time! :) And most importantly the spirit was so strong!

Oh man I wish I could remember more of what we learned off the top of my head but my brain is just going a million miles an hour right now with emailing, and p-day and the busy week and ahead and so on!

Okay so do you want to hear a funny story of the week/ embarrassing moment?

Well, once upon a time we were tracting yesterday evening and we tracted into this man and when we talked to him he told us that he didn't know English. So, I recognized him to be a Hispanic and so I proceeded to introduce ourselves in Spanish. Nope, not Hispanic! Oh it was so awkward! He was from Nepal but my goodness he looked Spanish! So we tried to talk to him but the language barrier was such a struggle. And then he invited us in as we were trying to tell him bye so we walked in for a minute. And he was telling us to sit and so we tried to tell him that "we are about to leave" and he's all "Bathroom?" "No, we have to go drive home." "Oh my son he is out right now but when he come home he give you ride." Agh the language barrier struggle!! Hahaha but we finally were just like, "Well bye!" As we like walked towards the door and then he got it...hahaha such a struggle!

I felt better about thinking he was Hispanic when our district leader who is a Spanish missionary told us he's done that soooo many times haha

Well, now for a quick update on the peeps!

Carlos is doing just great! He's been taught everything at this point and we are still trying to set a specific date! Oh and get this we were teaching him the Plan of Salvation again this week and at the end we were bearing our testimonies and stuff after we did he was like, "And I too know that the Plan of Salvation is real." haha YES! It was so awesome! This week we are having a lesson with him at President Johnson's house again and we are going to kneel down with him and pray about the date and then wait till he gets an answer! Pray all goes well!

We didn't get to meet with Charlotte this week on account of Zone Conferences but I'm sure we'll see her this week!

Nathan dropped off the face of the earth and we haven't heard anything from him which is really weird for him...even when he's been disinterested he usually texts us back...hm....hopefully we will hear from him soon!

Well, I'm thinking that's it for this letter!

My ponderizing scripture for the week is DC 64:33-34. Oh man I just love this scripture! I may be doing small things but I am laying the foundation of a GREAT work - as long as I give my heart and a willing mind and I am obedient! Simple, yet so essential! I love the gospel and I love my Savior Jesus Christ. There is nothing better than being an instrument in the hands of God in bringing souls to Christ. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I love it with all my heart and soul. I know Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and that he restored Christ's church back to the earth. I know that my Redeemer lives! And I know that He loves each and every one of us with a perfect and unconditional love that will never end!

 

 

Y'all have a blessed week!

Love y'all!

Love,

Sister Myers

Picture time of course!

1. Sister Dillon just takin a nap in the back haha

2. Elder and Sister Zwick and me :) I just love them!

3. Just driving to Zone Conference! :) It's nice to be wearing sunglasses where you can't see your eyes because then it looks like you are looking at the camera but you really aren't! haha 

 

My life has been changed....by ice cream!

So this week has been slow but full of miracles! I am looking back on the week and I was just thinking about how we have just done a lot of finding with not lots of numerical success but we've kept busy. BUT despite that we've seen some awesome miracles.

The first miracle is that on Saturday I did 700 calf raises and this morning I did 1000 calf raises. Wowie.

Okay so let me update you on Nathan! He's progressing! Slowly but surely! And he has a long way to go but that's okay! We had a lesson with him this week and it was a pretty good lesson! He is a lot like Alma the Younger in Alma 36 and so we gave him that chapter to read. Also, here's some background: last week in our lesson (I think it was last week) we invited him to come to church and he straight up said no because he feels like people will judge him. So this week we didn't even mention church. Well, yesterday near the end of sacrament meeting we looked back and saw that Nathan was there!!!! OH MY GOODNESS YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW MUCH OF A MIRACLE THIS IS!! I only you knew Nathan! Anyway he ran out and left right after it ended (probably so he wouldn't have to meet anyone) And we asked a member of the branch presidency if he saw him come in and he said he wasn't sure but it was either right before or right after the sacrament. Oh my goodness! So then we texted him and asked him what he thought of it and he said that he felt a lot of peace there. And he told us that he read Alma 36 and he also felt a lot of peace while reading that! AH! Peace is what Nathan needs!! God is so good!

Charlotte is still going strong! She was able to come to all of church yesterday and we had a lesson with her this week and she's just still so prepared! Its so amazing! She had a few questions this week about controversial issues in the church but we helped her to understand those a bit! And the member that was with us that she's good friends with said he would show her some articles on lds.org about it. I love our members!! We have some really awesome ones!!! :) Anyway, Charlotte's going to talk to her family about getting baptized when she goes home for Thanksgiving (means we have to wait a bit...but oh well) so we are excited for that!

CARLOS!! Oh my goodness GUESS WHAT?!! Carlos said he wants to be baptized at the beginning of December!!!!!!!!!!!!! AHH!!!! So exciting! It was seriously a miracle. President Johnson invited him to meet with him in his office yesterday and Carlos went and I don't know what President Johnson said but at our lesson last night Carlos just plopped the news on us! I almost fell of my chair! The lesson is tentatively set for December 12 but Carlos is praying about it and he wants to make sure President Johnson is there for it and he said he would be gone a few random days in December. But it doesn't really matter when! It's better than the New Year!!!

Also here's a funny story. And it may not be as funny since you don't know Carlos but yesterday in our lesson we were talking about different President's Carlos knows, like President Andersen, President Johnson, President Watson (that's the stake president) and Anne Parkes was jokingly like "Even President Obama could be at your baptism" And we just laughed about it and then later we were talking about Carlos's baptism again and what day it would be and Carlos was like, "As long as President Obama doesn't baptize me." Hahaha we literally died. And it's so funny just because it's Carlos!

This is super random but there's a Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream place and Anne Parkes took us there after dinner once this week and we got a pint to share of Salted Carmel Blondie ice cream. Wow. Life changing I tell ya.

This week we have zone conferences and Elder Zwick from the 70 is coming! Sweet! We'll see if he remembers me from all the times he came to our young women's! Anyway that should be so cool! Also President or Sister Andersen...or someone...wants us to do a musical number with the sisters in our district for that so it will be good! I am attempting to arrange some music for it myself and so we'll see how that goes. But anyway we are doing the words of Nearer My God to Thee and I Need Thee Every Hour to the tune of I Need Thee Every Hour. The meters are a little bit different but it still works!

Well I'm going to wrap this up! We are headed to the church so I can practice on a piano for the musical number!! Oh but wait! My ponderizing scripture is Alma 29:9, "I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory in it. I do not glory of myself but I glory in that which the Lord hath commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I be an instrument in the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy." I glory in being in the service of the Lord! It's truly the best thing in the world! I wish I could do it forever because just like Alma is truly is my joy!

I love y'all lots! Have a blessed week!

Love,

Sister Myers

Pictures!! (Of course!) :)

1. No parking or standing

2. We went on exchanges this week! Our STL's are the greatest! I went to Nolensville with Sister Osborn in the middle! She's great!

3. No parking or standing

4. Cool locomotive

5. Centennial Park...so pretty! 

 

 

Halloween #2!

Well this week went by SO fast! It was a good week though!

So last Monday we decided we wanted to carve pumpkins for Halloween....so we did! We took some pretty funny pictures which I will send! Haha and one of them that I will send...well we laughed at if for seriously probably 5 minutes and every time we look at it we just can't help but laugh....And when you see it, just so you know, I was not scared in any way shape or form...and I didn't mean for it to look that way hahaha I'm laughing just thinking about the picture....Also, my pumpkin, I mean for it to just have a normal smile but I made it kind of crooked and so now it looks like a hick pumpkin from the south. Fitting.

Some other fun stories from the week was that we had to stay in for Halloween - we had to be in by 6 pm. So we did some weekly planning during that time and then we watched - get this- Together Forever. Bahaha #classic. We were dying. What a great wholesome way to spend Halloween. Also I dressed up for Halloween with part of a costume I found....

So, for the people now!

We had this crazy day one time this week where all these weird things just kept happening to us! Haha this is so funny. So we were going tracting at this one apartment complex and Sister Dillon was telling us how she had tracted it before but since that was in the summer there were probably new people there. Then as we were tracting she was telling us a story about this crazy guy she had met. She said he had a really heavy accent because he was Muslim and he would just go on and on about the weirdest things. Well, guess what happened? We tracted into him. Haha we were there for like 30 minutes listening to him ramble about the government and children and just weirdo stuff. And we kept trying to leave so many times and we didn't know how we would get out of the situation and we were praying for a way to get out and all of the sudden this giant woodchipper truck thing turned on like right by where we were so the men could chop the wood or whatever and it was so loud that we couldn't hear him hardly (not that we could even really understand him before that) and so we were able to get away. Blessin.

Then right after that we tracted into this guy named Sam and he was normal, don't worry but it was so random because he said that he was watching a movie so he didn't really want to talk which is usually an indication that people aren't interested but we asked if we could come back anyway and he said, "Uh yeah sure! Can you come back tomorrow, like right at this time?" Um...yes! Haha it was just so random!

Then right after that we were walking into McDonalds so we could figure out where an LA lived and we met this old man and he started talking to us and he ended up showing us all these random things he had, like a National Geographer magazine about something or another and his whole family history written out! Haha we gave him a family history card. And he just kept talking and saying how he just wanted to keep us (haha) and then he went away on his motorcycle. Oh classic. It was the weirdest day.

Charlotte!!

We FINALLY got to meet with her this week! And oh my goodness she is so prepared!!! She has been watching General Conference since Oct 2012 and she did MOTAB Mondays with her little sisters. Also, she has read half of the Book of Mormon and she even has one of those really only versions that's light blue with angel Moroni on the front. She has never met with missionaries before because her parents wanted her to wait until she was 18. So she hadn't ever prayed about it because she was afraid if she came to know it was true then she wouldn't be able to do anything about it! We invited her to pray about it! Although, I think she already knows its true. And the member that was with us that is friends with her was like, "It sounds like you already know it's true. You just need some confirmation." It was so cool. I'm so excited for her.

We didn't set a baptism date with her or anything though because she knows it's ultimately her goal but she just wants to make sure it's totally okay with her family, because she loves them so much and they do so much for her and so she doesn't want to rock the boat or anything. She'll get there though!

Nathan is doing pretty good! We planned on teaching him the Restoration but it turned into a lesson on prayer. He doesn't REALLY know how to pray and so we focused a lot on that. He has a lot of other things going on that will keep him from progressing but we are working with him on that. He will be a slow progresser but it will come. Alek, the member we usually bring is SO good for him. He is seriously such a miracle because Nathan just connects with him and Alek totally understands him because he used to be in the same situations. I'm so grateful for the wonderful members here!

We are having another lesson with him this week at Alek's house also with another member and so hopefully that will go well! Pray for Nathan though, he needs a lot of them!

Well, that's all that I really have for this week! There hasn't been a lot of crazy stories or anything to tell! :)

But I will leave you with my Ponderizing scripture! John 15:16 "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask the Father in my name, He may give it you." President challenged us to Ponderize this scripture this week and I was thinking a lot about this and I really love this scripture! God calls us to do his work and to work in his vineyard so that we can bring forth fruit, that our fruit should remain. This makes me think about the section in PMG called, "No effort is wasted." The fruits of our labors will remain and are never wasted when we are in the service of the Lord and called by God - even if we can't necessarily see them right away...maybe they are like potatoes growing in the ground! :)

I love y'all lots and I hope y'all have a fantabulous week! :)

Love,

Sister Myers

1. Brace yourself...this is the picture I was talking about hahahaha

2. Imitating our pumpkins

3. Hi. I'm Mat.

4-5. My Halloween costume