Monday, November 9, 2015

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! 
 




 

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