Monday, January 4, 2016

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!

Well everyone, this week we hit 2016 and I hit my 18 month mark. Time has FLOWN! I can't believe I'm at this point....it's so weird.

But anyway, on to business!

Because it was New Years we got to have SUPER PDAY!! What does that mean? P-day all day long! And we got to watch G-rated movies and a few other approved movies! The only movies we ended up watching were The Best Two Years which was HILARIOUS as a missionary!! And The Other Side of Heaven! I just cried a bunch in that one! I love being a missionary! But other than that we just ate a lot of food and played games and partied with the other sisters in our district! It was so fun!

Let me update you on all our lovely YSA peeps!

Baylee is doing great! We had a couple of lessons with her this week and she's doing well! She's still just trying to figure out if the Book of Mormon is true! But she's working on recognizing the spirit which is good! She knows her Bible very well and is very intellectual so we are trying to get her to get off that just a little bit to really be able to feel by the power of the Holy Ghost that that Book of Mormon is true.

Kyle is faaaantastic! We had a really great lesson with him this past week! Carlos came with us as his first member present! And oh goodness he was so awesome! He had so many great insights and answers to Kyle's questions! It was so cool! And we just had the most awesome lesson about the gospel of Jesus Christ and you can tell that this is really what Kyle wants! And he came to church and he's just progressing so well!! :)

Charlotte and the other Bailey are still out of town :(

Nathan is doing pretty well. He hasn't really been keeping his commitments very well though...and he seems to be losing interest which is a bit of a bummer. We may be dropping him soon if he doesn't start to do something. Tomorrow we are having a lesson with him and we are really going to see if we can help him to have the desire to progress and let him know that if he's not willing to act we may not be able to teach him anymore :(It'll be a bummer but hey, when we close a door then it means that God can open another! Literally!)

So one of our members gave us a referral to his coworker who wanted to meet with us. Well we met with him on Monday and on Saturday. His name is Josh. Well...he's interesting. I don't even know what he is. For one thing, he really knows his Bible and and he's VERY skeptical of the Mormon faith. I'm not sure he actually wants to know if the church is true...but more to understand why we believe certain things because it doesn't say it in the Bible or it goes against what the Bible says and whatnot. It's been pretty horrible but he wants to meet with us and he came to church yesterday and he's reading the Book of Mormon so it's just a bit of a struggle. But they way he puts things....man it is hard. Our lesson with him on Saturday caused me to pretty hard core question everything that I believe not going to lie. It was really hard. The dark cloud is doubt is really overpowering. But I pulled through. I knew my testimony would win, even in the midst of doubt but...man it's just so hard to explain how it feels. But I'm good now! :) And now I'm just not sure how on earth to teach him. It's just interesting because we brought out recent convert named Ivan, who is SO solid, and he said he was almost exactly like Josh is. So I have hope for Josh but just no idea how to go from here!  We are just going to pray really hard.

Sorry that this letter is pretty lame! Not that much happened this week but next week's will be good!

I just want y'all to know that I know that this church is true! I know that the Book of Mormon is true and I love it more than anything else! I love my Savior Jesus Christ and I know that He lived, died, and that He lives so that we can return to live with our Heavenly Father again. And I know that he suffered for, and died for us because He loves! I love the scripture 2 Nephi 26:24: "He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for He loveth the world, even that He layeth down His own life that He may draw all men unto Him." Christ is waiting with open arms for each and every one of us! And He wants us there in his arms.

Have a wonderful week! :) I love y'all lots!
Love,
sister Myers

Here are some pics from the week! :) It was being weird so I hope they are the ones I wanted!
1. Me and sister Aiono! She goes home a couple days early on Saturday! 18 months!
2. Us and the Dunn's and the Montgomery's! The Dunn's are leaving!!! SAD!!!! And the Montgomery's are replacing them! I love them all!! :)
3. Us and the Dunn's! :)
4. Playing the laughing game!
5. This was our New Years Eve dinner! YUM!
 


 

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