BAPTISMO!! :)

Well everyone, Carlos got baptized!!! Oh I am just so excited for him! It was seriously the most baptism ever! It couldn't have gone more smoothly and the Spirit was SO strong! And Carlos, man he is just so happy. He couldn't stop smiling! And after he got the Holy Ghost yesterday he was just glowing even more!! Haha he told us on the phone Saturday night, "I try not to smile too much but it's really hard." Haha oh you can just tell how happy he is! He was so ready! I wish y'all could know how incredible Carlos and his testimony is! You would be ASTOUNDED!!! You know what he said on the phone that I just loved?! "I know that it won't be easy but it won't be as hard as it used to be." Amen!!!

The rest of Saturday was pretty LAME in comparison to Carlos's baptism! Oh but hey a pretty cool thing happened on Friday. So okay, it was the weirdest day of our entire lives. Like seriously. There was quite a bit of opposition but it was cool because Heavenly Father like, used it to do his work! That sounds odd but this is what happened! So we had finished weekly planning and we were leaving the church with the other sisters and the sisters got a call from a former (they had been calling formers in weekly planning). Well we ended up being on that phone call because it was this guy who just bashed us for like 30 minutes. It was awful. He wasn't like rude, he was "nice" about it (if that's even a thing). Well, he was being nice enough that we didn't just want to hang up with him but every time we tried to end the call he just kept on going. But finally we got him off the phone. But now we were leaving later than we wanted too. So we caught the next bus to go out to this place that we were going to knock and on a connecting bus that we were on this guy sat next to me and I started talking to him and long story short, by the end he had a Book of Mormon and a pamphlet, and we had an address and return appointment! (Btw, I just have to say that he LOVED Moroni's promise. He got SO excited when I read that to him and he was just so happy to have us come talk to him!) Miracle!! And we wouldn't have met him if that former hadn't called the sisters and been talking forever! Do you see how God just used the opposition to fulfill his work?! God is so good!! HIs name is Kyle, btw.

Okay so we met with Charlotte this week! Here's the update on her family. So her dad is supportive and so is her mom! Although, her mom just wants her to make an informed decision and wants her to keep going to church and institute for a couple of months to make sure it's what she wants to do. Yeah she's been watching conference for like 3 years, I think she knows!! But yeah she said she would get baptized tomorrow if she could! She really wants it! But hey, it'll make it that much more worth it when she does get to the font!

Oh and here's another awesome thing about Charlotte. So yesterday in relief society they were talking about visiting teaching and they split off into groups where everyone met with their visiting teaching supervisor and they talked about who was visiting teaching who and who their partners were and whatnot. Well, Annemarie, the RS President was talking to Charlotte and she's like, "We need to get you some visiting teachers!" And Charlotte was like, "yeah that would be great!" and then Annemarie was like, "And someone for YOU to visit teach!" And Charlotte said, "Yeah! I would do that!" Well, she's just a dry Mormon now...already about to get a calling basically haha so funny. I love Charlotte!

So the Christmas devotional last night was AWESOME!!! I loved it!!! I especially loved Elder Bednar's talk! It's so interesting to hear the story of Christmas from the point of view of the Book of Mormon because usually we are so focused on the New Testament point! Don't get me wrong I love Luke 2 but it was just a really great talk!! And I loved how he talked about how Christ is the light and that all the beautiful lights at Christmas time should remind us of our Savior! And then I was thinking about Christmas lights and how they shine so bright when it gets dark. This is just like our Savior, He brings light in the darkness - beautiful light that gives us happiness and hope!

Well that's all I got for you today! We aren't emailing as long because we are praciticing for a zone conference talent show! I am in 3 acts! I'm playing the piano for 2 and us and the other sisters are doing a rap together. Yes, I said a rap. It's pretty awesome not gonna lie haha. Speaking of raps we met this guy who calls himself King James on the bus who rapped his whole story about coming to know Christ. It was SO cool! Nashy is the best....just sayin!

Well I hope y'all are having a blessed week and that this week brings lots of Christmas happiness!!! :)

Love,

Sister Myers

Pictures:

1. So this Asian girl gave us this soy milk drink and we took a video of us trying it...that is a screenshot. Just so you know I'm actually covering my mouth because I'm laughing...it wasn't THAT bad...haha

2. Carlos with us, President and Sister Andersen, President Johnson and Sister Case (sister Dillon's previous comp)

3. This is the picture we took after our very weird day on Friday....haha classic

4-5 More pictures from the baptism! The guy in the suit is Ivan, he is also a recent convert and introduced us to Carlos! :)