This week was super awesome! A lot of good things happened :)
Well
we had zone conferences this week and that was pretty great! The first
half of the meeting was trainings and stuff and I especially loved
President and Sister Andersen's training. They wanted to focus on Christ
because that's what Christmas is all about and so they read "The Living
Christ" but between some of the paragraphs we same some hymns about
Christ (several of them being Christmas songs) and it was so powerful. I
am so grateful for my Savior Jesus Christ. I know He lives.
Also
at zone conferences we got trained on what many like to call "the black
boxes" or "the Holy Ghost". Haha yes we got a driver accountability
program installed in our car - which is actually a program called the
Teenage Eyewitness Program or aka the Tiwi. But yeah basically it tells
you if you are driving too fast, not wearing a seatbelt, or driving
aggressively (turning sharply, going over bumps too fast, stopping and
starting too quickly). It actually isn't that bad. It never talked to me
until I forgot to log in and so I just had to stop and log in and the
other time was when I went 11 in a church parking lot. We called our
Tiwi, Simon. It seemed fitting :)
So
this week we met this pretty awesome couple named Hal and Chanel and
had a really great experience with them! We knocked on their door and
they let us in and we started talking to them and he told us some of his
concerns about religion and fortunately we were not any of those things
he was concerned about and it really peeked his interest. He especially
loved how focused on helping people we were, not getting numbers or
money. We taught him a basic version of the restoration and set a return
appointment. But the thing that was pretty cool was that Hal kept
saying that he saw us walk up to that apartment building and he wondered
who we were and he really wanted us to knock on his door and said he
was just waiting until we came! Cool! We had the appointment yesterday
but they had something come up last minute. They live really far away
though so we are probably just going to send other missionaries there
now (they aren't YSA anyway).
Oh okay and Kyle? He's sooooo awesome!! We had our appointment with him on Wednesday and he actually called us on Tuesday from some random phone because he hadn't got a phone yet to make sure we were still on for Wednesday! So we went on Wednesday
and had such an awesome lesson!!! Kyle is really searching for truth!
He is so excited to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. And he
really wants to understand! We were teaching him about the apostasy and
he didn't quite understand as much as he wanted to and so he was like,
"can I just read this page of the pamphlet again?" And so he proceeded
to read it out loud and then by the end of the page he like had an
"ahah!" moment and he totally got it. The spirit really helped I'm sure!
Man it was just one of the best lessons ever! Also we invited him to be
baptized and he said yes and then he was like, "yeah I wasn't sure if
you were going to like bring a preacher guy or something with you if I
wanted to be baptized but I was just confused because my sink's pretty
small...." What? Haha and he said it so seriously and it took us a
second or two to register what he was saying haha. I guess baptism was
already on his mind!! We set up a return appointment for Saturday at the church but he didn't show up but we think he just forgot. He got a phone and texted us on Sunday saying he was sorry and we set up a new appointment! :)
We
had stake conference yesterday in the Nashville Stake. It was really
good! Elder Wilford W. Anderson (the guy that gave the Music of the
Gospel talk a couple conference ago) came and spoke to us and wow I just
love how he speaks! He just speaks with the spirit so much and he
teaches so simply and clearly! It was so cool! And guess what? Charlotte
came on the Saturday night and Sunday morning session! And we didn't even invite her! And Elder Anderson talked about the gospel of Jesus Christ in the Saturday
night session and it was just so perfect for her. Also one of my
favorite parts was when some primary kids (4 of them) went up and bore
testimonies of the Book of Mormon. It was so cool and so powerful! Then
Elder Anderson called one of them up and asked him questions about FHE
and reading the scriptures as a family and stuff and oh my goodness it
was so funny. The kid looked SO nervous. I mean imagine being 9 and a
member of the seventy calls you up and questions you on a bunch of
things. It was so great haha
Carlos
is just doing as great as ever! We had a lesson with him last night and
it was such a good lesson! We talked about the restoration but we like
focused on missionary work in helping others know about the restoration
and it was just cool. Carlos is so awesome! He's already sharing the
gospel and was even trying to get his friend to come to the lesson that
vey night but his friend couldn't! But yeah he's just so awesome! We set
a member date with him though so in two weeks we will have a referral
from him! :)
Well
here's some random side notes. It was like 74 degrees yesterday so
that's cool. Snow will be a big adjustment! Also it's been finals and
finals continues into next week so everyone and their dog is studying.
Then they are all going home for Christmas. Good. This is going to be an
interesting few weeks coming up here! haha #tractingfordayzzzz
Well
that's actually all I have for you today! I have to get pictures
together that the mission office is asking for so I've got to get
working on that :)
My
ponderizing scripture for the week is more like just a pondering
scripture because I've already memorized it! It's 1 Corinthians 16:14
"Let all your things be done with charity." It reminded of the
scripture in 1 Corinthians 13:3 where it says if you do things without
charity then its basically worth nothing. We must be doing things out of
pure love! That's when they will really count and when us and those we
serve gain the most happiness!
I love being a missionary and I love y'all lots! Have a great week!
Love,
Sister Myers
1. Just a tracting selfie :)
2. Mr. and Mr. Claus...aka Pres and Sister Andersen - love them! :)
3. THE best white elephant gift ever!!!
4. "Honey where's the steering wheel?" "Oh I think we left it on the porch!" "Oh okay let me just go grab it!" hahaha so funny
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