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