The YSA tri-force begins!

So here's a funny story for you. So this week the YSA Elders in our branch got a call from President that they are getting closed down and we will be taking over all the YSA (this is not the funny part...we were sad about that). So then we were talking about how there is only one sister coming out this next transfer. She was supposed to come out 2 transfers ago but she got sick and so she's coming out now. So we were all saying it would be super great if we trio trained her (which we REALLY wanted to do, not gonna lie) and so we were thinking about that.

So then on Saturday after studies we went over to the other sisters to get some stuff out of their car and we jokingly told them that we were trio training and they were like "Really? Are you lying?" And we were like, "yeah!" Haha and then they were like, "Aw...dang you got us excited!" So then we left and not 10 minutes later President called us and asked us to trio train!!! Man we were so excited it was unreal! So then we decided not to call the sisters and tell them and so when transfer calls came they were like, "Liars. Man you got us good." Hahah because they thought that we really had gotten the call and just pretended like we were kidding! Hahahaha it was classic!

But yeah TRIO TRAINING!!!! WAHOO!!! And guess what? She's from Canada how cool is that? And we know all this because Elder and Sister Dunn told us hahaha they are so funny I just love them (they are a senior couple in the office that go to our branch). Yeah so we spent like 2 1/2 hours this morning doing some rearranging slash cleaning of our apartment getting ready for our new companion!! :)

This week is going to be soooo busy! The elders have a baptism planned on Saturday for this one investigator and so we are going to have to work on setting that up and getting him interviewed and see him every day and all this stuff but it's gonna be good. His name is Thomas and he is SO smart! Haha we were talking to him yesterday at church and we asked him how he was and he said he was really really tired because he was up most of the night researching for a Bill that he is writing. Like legitly writing. As in at some point it's may be put in Legislation or whatever it's called. I was just blown away! He is so cool though. And he referred himself to meet with missionaries and the Elders have basically just taught him all the lessons in meeting just a few times and he's ready to be baptized! We are pretty excited for that.

Carlos is doing great! We had a lesson at President and Sister Johnson's house this week and it was really good! We taught him the Word of Wisdom and he is already living it. He even told us, "It's a good thing that you taught me this today because I have not been doing good on my exercising and eating healthy and stuff so this is like, good motivation for me to be better." Hahah if you only knew him and could hear him say that!!! Oh he is so great. He probably won't get baptized until the end of the year but we are okay with that. We don't want to rush anything and he'll just be that much more prepared when that day does come!!! Keep praying for him though!

So remember Devin? We had met him and then went back for the appointment and he wasn't there and he didn't respond to our calls or texts. Well, this week we decided to try him and he answered and it turns out he was asleep because we had caught him write after work and he had to go out of town right after that so he was getting some rest or something like that....and we had the wrong number! Hahah I decided to check the number with him and I'm glad I did! So yeah we set up an appointment with him for this Tuesday night so that should be good!

Still doing a lot of tracting! We have found some pretty solid people this week! Unfortunately none of them are YSA! But hey, everyone needs the gospel!! So we're going to be going on a few exchanges with other sisters this week to do some pass off lessons and stuff so that'll make the week even busier!!

Okay so here's a cool miracle! We took this recent convert, Patti, with us to try a less active named Kelly in Franklin who no one really knew anything about. Well she answered and didn't seem super open but then guess what? Kelly's mom was there and she's really active and so she kept the conversation going and at one point she was asking for Patti's number or something for something else an that clever woman gave Patti Kelly's phone number too and Kelly was just like, "uh okay" Haha but it was just so cool because Kelly really just needs fellowship. She doesn't have any friends for family in Tennessee. She's from Utah and went to BYU and on a mission and everything but her job paid for her to come out here and she's not the most outgoing person. And Patti just loves everyone so we are really happy that Patti will be able to do some fellowshipping for Kelly!

Next week the Nashville Tribute Band is doing a fireside in our building for the YSA and the Murfreesboro YSA and so that should be good! They are doing their new "Redeemer" CD and I'm super stoked!

So was looking for a scripture this morning to ponderize for the week and I felt like I should look in Romans. So I kind of scanned through it and found Romans 15:4. I just love it!!! "For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope" Oh man I just seriously love that! Hope definitely can be gained through the scriptures! They were written for our learning and so that we could have hope! Hope in what? The answer is in Moroni 7:41 "And what is it that ye shall hope for? Behold I say unto you that ye shall have hope through the Atonement of Christ." Christ's Atonement is infinite and eternal and no matter how dark the world may seem, the light of Christ always shines brighter!

Sorry this letter is so all over the place!! My brain is really scattered today!

I love y'all so much and I hope y'all have a blessed day!

Love,

Sister Myers

Here's some pics for you!

1. Elder and Sister Dunn, me and Sister Dillon and the Elders (Elder Johansen and Barrus)...#YSAforever

2. The district! It was such a great district!

3. Our rap album cover

4. Our trio training selfie 

 

 

Myersites vs. Dillonites

It's been a more slow week but it's been a great week!!!!

On Saturday I got to Skype a baptism for that old lady named Roxie in Mayfield!!!! Oh my goodness I love her so much! I was seriously dying she is so funny! She couldn't hear me from the iPad so whoever was holding the iPad would have to tell her what I was saying! And then when she wanted to say something to me she would lean in and talk really loud! Hahaha she is so great! It was so fun to see everyone in Mayfield! Sad, but good! I wish I could have gone up there but 3 hours is just too far away! I'm grateful for technology though!

This week has been filled with a lot of finding with not a lot of numerical success. Meaning, really no one was interested but we did have good conversations with people! But no new investigators :( BUT one thing that has been running through my mind this week was, "We are blessed BECAUSE of our efforts not THROUGH our efforts! And this was confirmed to me yesterday.

We were having companionship study and we got a text from this member in SLC. He said that his girlfriend was going to Vanderbilt and that she wasn't a member but wanted to go to church and needed a ride! So, we called this other member that goes to Vanderbilt and she picked her up and brought her! Her names is Charlotte and she is SO cool! Her dad grew up in the church but is inactive, but her dad's side are basically all members. She went to church a couple of weeks ago to the family ward but they suggested she go to the YSA branch but I guess she since she needed a ride and didn't know how to get a hold of us she asked her boyfriend how! She came to all the meetings and fit in so well with the branch! She seemed just like she was a member! Obviously, she has had experience with the church! She is going home to Atlanta this weekend but she said she would like to meet with us next week! WAHOO!! God is so good! I know that this came because of our great efforts in finding this week! We were blessed BECAUSE of our efforts, not THROUGH them!

Steven came to church yesterday! But that is because he was coming to say goodbye to everyone because he is moving to California...today! It was SO quick! Like no one knew about it and so he came was just like, "I'm moving tomorrow!" What?! We told him how to get ahold of the missionaries in California if he was ready to learn again. One day......

Devin wasn't there when we went to his appointment and hasn't answered our texts :( But we shall not give up hope!

Southern quote of the week: "Just hangin on like a hair on a biscuit!" :P

Carlos came to church also! We have had some pretty good lessons with him this week! Haha funny story we were having a phone lesson with him and he was confused about the Nephites versus the Lamanites and how they came about and stuff and I explained it and it made a little more sense and then I went into this crazy analogy and it was went something like this, "It's like if me and Sister Dillon got in a fight and separated from each other! And then it would be as if you took Sister Dillons side and y'all called yourselves the Dillonites and then Ivan (this RC that comes to lessons a lot) took my side and we called ourselves the Myersites. So it's like our team name!" Haha I am so weird but Sister Dillon was dying and Carlos was laughing....which is weird for him because he's just so quiet and doesn't really laugh out loud that much. Yep, I have weird analogies for like everything haha

We are having a lesson with Carlos at President Johnson's house this week and I'm super stoked! It's going to be so great! Carlos is really progressing! Slowly but surely! He is working through some things but nothing that's his fault or anything! I'm excited for him! Keep him in your prayers!

My ponderizing scripture this week is Alma 5:14 "And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren, of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced a might change in your hearts?" I love this scripture!

I read this quote this morning on that scripture that I just love!

“When you choose to follow Christ, you choose to be changed…The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their environment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature…Yes, Christ changes men, and changed men can change the world" - President Ezra Taft Benson

I love that! If we truly are following Christ we are going to change! We are CHOOSING to change! And the Atonement of Jesus Christ allows us to do that! :)

Love y'all millions! Have a blessed day!

Love,

Sister Myers

Here's some pictures from the week!!!

1. This is Sister Herbert! She is in my district! We went on exchanges with the Bellevue sisters for like, an hour because they had met a few YSA so they wanted to pass them off to us! Sister Herbert is so great!

2. Sister Dillon, Patti (a recent convert that I just love to DEATH! she is so cool!), me (obviously) and Sister Peterson, or Alex. She was a missionary that served in the YSA! I didn't really know her that well but I knew her through other people! She's so awesome!

Who keeps flipping the weather switch?

So this week the weather decided to take a random turn and get cloudy and cold with several rain showers/misting all week! We had to bundle up! It was so weird though because it was like literally all at once! Then yesterday it switched back to being nice and sunny. Um what? Nashville weather is CRAZY! Kind of like Utah weather I guess haha

Okay, this week was a great week! It was really long but also went by super fast! It's been crazy!

So remember that Michael guy that we miraculously met last week? Well we saw him this week with a member and had a super awesome lesson with him! We taught a lot of the restoration and talked so much about prophets! He had so many great questions and you could tell that he just really wanted to know! It was so cool!!

Also, we met this REALLY awesome guy named Devin! We were planning to go tracting and the traffic and bus system was taking forever so we ended up at the place we were going to go tracting like, 30-45 minutes later than we wanted to be. BUT while we were tracting Devin's apartment building (like the first building we got to) he came home from work and so we would not have met him if we had been there at the time we wanted too! God is so good! He was super interested and we have a return appointment with him on Thursday!

Okay and here's another cool miracle that at first was really a struggle. On Saturday night, we had like, nothing to do. All our plans fell through and Saturday night in YSA is such a struggle. No one is available. And it was freezing so street contacting was not an option. So we decided to just hard core bus contact. But, we BARELY missed the bus because of the cross walk. So then we literally had nothing to do. We just stood there for like 5 minutes. Then we decided to pray because, you know, inspiration and stuff. So we pray and just keep standing there. I saw this guy across the street that was walking and I was hoping he would cross the crosswalk but he didn't so my thoughts of talking to him were dashed. So then we kept standing there and I noticed the same guy was now sitting at the bus stop of the bus we had just missed, and I knew the bus was not going to come for another like 45 minutes so I was like, "lets go talk to that guy!" So we go and Wow! He was so cool! His named was Templeton and he asked us all sorts of awesome questions like what we do if we had no fear, and a time when we've prayed the most (if we wanted to share) as well as our favorite scripture. We shared some from the Book of Mormon and he was astounded. Like, that's the best way to describe it! He just kept saying. Wow. That was an amazing scripture! (It was Ether 12:27 that Sister Dillon shared) and so we kept talking about the Book of Mormon and a bit of the Restoration and it was just sooo cool. And right after we got his number the bus came. Perfect timing. God is SO good!

A lot of people have been dropping us slash we have had to drop a lot of people this week. Steven is taking a break from the Book of Mormon and praying, but he went to the priesthood session of conference and came to the Sunday afternoon session. But I'm pretty sure it was because of food and the social aspect. Oh well.

We also had a lesson at Anne Parkes house with this investigator named Tessa. I might have mentioned her. But yeah she was very honest with us and said that there were things about the coming forth of the Book of Mormon that she just couldn't believe. She has trouble reading the Book of Mormon and she doesn't go by feeling to come to know that something is true. She has to believe it logically first or something like that. It's difficult to explain. But yeah that was sad. She is so awesome though. Maybe one day. But in the mean time we are still finding good people like Devin and Templeton. And this week we have the car so the slow week should pick up!! :)

Okay well I am running out of time because the internet was being a struggle at the beginning. But hey, I LOVED CONFERENCE!! It don't have any of my conference notes though so I don't really remember much. I loved Elder Holland's and Nelsons. And I am so stoked the Elder Renlund is a new apostle. I met him and he is just so awesome! I'm so excited for Elder Rasband and Stevenson also!!! They will be so great!!!

I loved the Ponderizing talk!!! My scripture is 1 Corinthians 3:16-17! I just picked a random one from PMG!! :) Share with me your ponderizing scripture!! I want to hear them!

I know President Monson is a true prophet and that God speaks to us today through his servants! I know the Book of Mormon is true!!! I love it so much!!! And I love y'all so much!!!! Sorry for the shortness of this email!!! :)

Love,

Sister Myers

Pictures:

1.the struggle of nightly planning

2. us seesters

3. I believe in Nashy!

4. Us and Sister Crawford! I just love her! She went home this week :(

5. Bundled up in the rainy cold!!

 

 

Miracles!!!! - just because God is GOOD

Welcome to another miraculously spectacular week in the life of Sister Myers in the Tennessee Nashville Mission, Green Hills YSA. Fasten your seatbelts and enjoy the ride!!

We had a great start to the week when we were determined to get a baptismal invite every single day. It was the zone goal to have one each day and last week, sadly, we got none. But we recommitted to the goal and were bound and determined to succeed! So Monday we embarked to find out baptismal invite! The first one of the night came when we followed up with this guy we had met a couple weeks back! He basically said no but that's okay, because all we're here to do is invite!

Anyway, so then we went to try to contact this LA member and decided to knock the apartments that were around her because we didn't really have much to do. We knocked into this girl named Amanda and she let us in! We taught her most of the Restoration (it was kind of scattered but good because it was more of a discussion) and then we invited her to be baptized and she said she already had been. This is typical in the south. So we re-explained/taught the Priesthood and re-invited her and she said if she felt from God that she should then she would! She is so awesome! She was talking at one point about her belief in the Bible and she basically said that she believes that we can learn from all the stories in the Bible but we don't necessarily have to live everything in it these were basically her words, "I mean, I believe that the 10 commandments like not killing and stuff are definitely still valid today, but I think that we can wear jewelry and use musical instruments and stuff. That was just during that time that it was important not to do that." I was thinking, "Who are you?" So then we talked about modern-day prophets and how they lead and direct us to know what God still wants us to do and what we don't necessarily have to do...if that makes sense. Anyway it was so cool. She's awesome.

That leads me to another cool miracle that came from that. So me and Sister Dillon decided that we were really going to try to follow the spirit this week and so we decided that any good thought we get that we think could be a prompting we should just do, because all good things come from God. Then, on Saturday we went to go try Amanda again and she wasn't home and so we tried a couple of other people we knew over there but none of them answered. As soon as we were done trying the people we knew, I had this thought that we shouldn't leave this area/complex until we talked to someone. But I pushed it away and we went to go try this less active. Well, in the long drive just to get out of the apartment complex I was in this state of arguing with myself as to whether or not we should knock some doors before we left. But I kept driving and finally I just turned around and told Sister Dillon I felt like we should go tract. I don't know why it was such a struggle just to decide that because me and Sister Dillon both said we would just go with whatever prompting the other had. But anyway, we went and I went straight to this one building I thought we should tract and we knocked that building and found 2 new investigators! And they are like, pretty solid!!! Some of the people we meet are just kind of so-so I guess you could say but these two were awesome! God is good. Follow promptings people.

So here are a few more miracles that came from exchanges this week!

So I stayed in the area and Sister Miller came here to Nashy with me. Well, me and Sister D planned for us to go tracting after we got back into Nashy and we had written down 2 addresses of apartment complexes we could go to. So me and Sister Miller decided on the 2nd one, and prayed about and both had the thought that we should do the first one. So we put it in the GPS and went there and it wasn't even an apartment complex, the address was off or something. So then we drove around for like 2.7 seconds and both said to each other that we should just street contact (because there were tons of people around). But, then in the process of finding a place to park, we found the apartment complex! So we knew that we just thought we should street contact so we would have to find a place to park and therefore find the complex. So we went there and it was one of those apartments that's like a hotel, where you have an outside door and then the doors to the apartments are on the inside and they were locked! But then we saw one was propped open so we just went in. Haha so we knocked and found this awesome girl named Chelsea! She was pretty solid! Then we met this guy named Conrad that wasn't interested but he said we really made his day because he is going through a lot. Then after a series of events we realized that we definitely knocked at the hospital residency...for patients and people in medical school. Awk. Welp, I know we were lead there so I don't really care. But we laughed about it like the whole rest of the day and Sister Miller was like, "Well I hope we didn't contract some sort of disease!" Haha

So then another miracle was that we tried this LA that me and Sister Dillon had tried and she actually answered and let us in! We talked to her for like 45 minutes and oh my goodness she was just so awesome! I just love her! And the thing that was so cool was that her sister is in the ward that Sister Miller is serving in so she totally knows her sister! Crazy! I'm not sure if she's really interested in returning to church any time soon but we she's super awesome and a great artist! (She showed us some of her art!)

And here's yet ANOTHER miracle from exchanges! So this week, Sister Dillon and I have been bound and determined and committed and whatever else to talk with everyone! I trained on that this past Wednesday (and I'm doing part 2 of the training this Wednesday, I asked Elder Denhalter if I could do it in 2 trainings because there was so much I wanted to talk about that I couldn't fit it all!) and so when I was with Sister Miller we were tracting an apartment complex (not the hospital one haha) and we saw this guy getting ready to paint a fence or something but we kept going and Sister Miller was like, "We should have talked to him." So on the way back he was still there so even though he was like painting and awkwardly on this hill we waved him over and talked to him and he was super interested! He isn't YSA but we told him other missionaries would come visit him and wow, he was just so cool! God is good! When you talk to everyone God will definitely place people in your path!

Are you done hearing the miracles of this week? Well too bad because I've got more!

So yesterday Sister Dillon and I were planning to go park contacting at Bicentennial Park. But when we put it in the GPS is took us somewhere weird, like, not the park. So we didn't know what to do so we prayed. And we both had the thought to go to Centennial Park. So we put that in the GPS and start going over there and on the way we found Bicentennial Park! (God works in mysterious ways, I'm telling you) So we went there and it was funny because we pulled up and after we prayed and before we got out of the car I was like, "Maybe we had to come here for someone certain. Like that guy." And I pointed to some random guy on a bench nearby. So we go and talk to him and actually had a really good conversation with him and gave him a Book of Mormon! He wasn't really interested in learning more but he said he would look over the BOM. So then we kept walking around found this other guy named JD and had a super awesome conversation with him. He basically taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and briefly the restoration and he was really interested. Sadly, he did not have his phone on him and could not remember his phone number so we have no contact information for him but he said he would definitely call us. And we committed him to call us. I really feel like he will. Who knows though. But I know we were supposed to be there to talk to him. He was kind of eccentric but definitely searching.

Okay, now this one is awesome.

So yesterday we were doing our companionship study and Sister Dillon had felt like we should call and invite this one guy, named Nathan to church. Nathan is this guy that Sister Dillon met on the bus and then he moved but he moved back to Nashville and then called us! What?! He said he was praying and thought of us so he called. We haven't been able to meet with him yet. But anyway, we called him and he said we wanted to come! So we set up a ride and everything. We went with this member to pick him up. But here's the really weird part...he was just weird. I don't even know how to describe it. It was like, he wasn't interested at all....but obviously he was. It was such a weird situation and me and Sister Dillon keep wondering why she was prompted to invite him and why he came. I don't know, God has a plan but it was just an odd situation. ALSO, Anne Parkes's (this super awesome member that is basically just the coolest person ever) brought her friend to church AND Carlos came!! Yahoo!!!

Speaking of Carlos! It was a cool miracle that he came to church this Sunday because the primary from the Green Hills family ward came and did their primary program for us and it was super awesome because Carlos actually has 2 girls but he only gets them every other weekend and we've been trying to get him to go to a family ward when he has his girls (not in Green Hills but the one by where he lives) and I feel like it was so great for him to see what his girls would be learning! We'll see what comes of that. Also, this week Carlos, at the end of a phone lesson said he was praying about his baptism date! WHAT? So this week we had a super awesome lesson where we asked him the baptismal interview questions without telling him, like in a roundabout way and then invited him to pray about November 7!! We had prayed about it and we felt good about it so now we'll see if Carlos feels good about it too! He is so ready. There's something holding him back. Ivan, his recent convert friend who referred him, and even Carlos himself said there's something he has to work through. The trouble is finding out what it is so we can help him! But, maybe I'm just supposed to learn patience.

Well, I'm just going to wrap up with week of miracles in a bow and send it off because I'm running out of time. The Women's conference was SO good and I'M SO STOKED FOR GENERAL CONFERENCE!!!!

Sorry there's no spiritual thought. Just remember that God works in mysterious ways, follow promptings and never forget that God is good.

Love y'all lots!

Love,

Sister Myers

Here's some pictures to enjoy

1. #bejealous #nashypride

2. This was out best jumping picture but we both look crazy haha

3. After exchanges at Baja Burrito...I purposely ruined the smiling picture haha

4. I was joking that I didn't know how I should hold my BOM to take a picture and so I was being funny and sister Dillon snapped this one..haha 

 

 

God is good

What a week everyone! Here in Nashy it's a real party in the YSA.

Okay so here's a funny story: so we had interviews with President this week and I decided I was going to be real funny and tell him I hated my companion and then I was going to proceed to tell him that he should probably leave us together for a long time so we can learn how to get along. Haha but President is a clever guy and caught me in my guile....so I told him I hated my companion but before I could proceed he got really serious and was like, "What's wrong? Do we need to do an ET (emergency transfer)?" THEN he proceeded to pull out his little notebook (that he always has at interviews so he can take notes as needed) to write stuff down and I was like, "No, no, no, President I was kidding." And then he just smiled and was like, "I know." Haha I got pranked from my own prank! I love that guy!

Here's an interesting fact: President told me that there will be 0 sisters coming in at this next transfer! AH! What's happening to the sister missionary population! He said there will be many whitewashes. Crazy.

I went compus cantacting this week! Or I guess I should say campus contacting! Sister Dillon said compus cantacting and now I can't call it the actual name because I keep saying that! Anyway, it was good! Definitely not what I'm used to! But yeah we found some good people, there was this girl that had headphones in so we just asked her if we could give her a picture of Jesus and she kept walking (but still took the picture) and then we keep going and all the sudden she turns around and takes out her headphones to ask us about our church and stuff because she's looking for a church family. Cool! God is good.

I got sick again this week! Yeesh! Not sure if God is trying to teach me something or if I just don't know how to live healthy. But yeah, I'm pretty sure Saturday night was the worst night of my entire mission. Or maybe even life....it was horrible. I went to bed Friday with a headache and woke with a sore throat and had that all day. By Saturday evening I was in BAD shape. Headache, sore throat, stomachache/nausea and congestion. The kicker was that it kept me up ALL night. Every time I would fall asleep, I would feel so sick I would wake up. Every 15 minutes. Longest night of my life. Anyway, Sister Dillon is the greatest person ever and I finally woke her up at 1:00am and we prayed together and she did everything she could think of to help me slash sat with me for like 30 minutes while I bawled my head off then I fell asleep from 2-3 and the cycle started all over again.

In the morning as soon as 6:30 hit BAM called the Elders. They graciously came and gave me a blessing and I felt the same, but I was promised that I would feel better as the day went on and be back to full energy by the beginning of the week. So I went about getting ready and by 8 I was so exhausted, so I slept while Sister Dillon studied and then I felt like 89% better. But it came and went, but by the time church started I felt basically fine, except general cold symptoms. Don't know what happened there but goodness gracious I'm grateful for the priesthood. On the bright side I had the best sleep on my life last night!

Anyway, now back to the missionary work:

Steven is......I don't know what he is. He needs some prayers. He has had a lot of bad things happen to him and it's made him pretty bitter. But he wants to know that God is there and is living and active in his life, not just watching his life play out. He reads the Book of Mormon, he prays, he comes to institute and FHE every week (hasn't been to church in a while though) and still hasn't had a spiritual experience. He asked us to pray for him to have a soft heart so he can find happiness. He is so sad. Pray for him.

Carlos is so awesome! We taught him the Law of Chastity this week and that was so great. It was Sister Dillon's first time teaching it and she did so great! She is seriously such a good missionary I can't even handle it. Anyway Carlos is just the best. His baptism date is still at New Years or around there but hey, it's better than nothing! He'll just be that much more converted! But yeah, we are hoping he'll just decide he doesn't want to wait that long :)

We had Zone Meeting this week and that was great! Always a great meeting. Missionary meetings are the greatest.

We had a stake service project on Saturday where we went to an Elementary school where we painted the walls and did mulching and gardening and other random things with Hands On Nashville and it was a lot of fun. Also I finally got to meet the branch president, President Johnson, who actually used to be in the mission presidency, but got released in April. He is the best. Him and his wife were actually in Utah (including visiting a daughter in SoJo!) and doing some sort of biking race thing or something from Logan to Jackson. Crazy. They love biking apparently! He is so cool though. I just LOVE him already! Also he is so missionary minded and so the branch council and everything is super awesome! 

Well that's all for today folks! Hope y'all have a wonderful week! But first, let me leave you with some spiritual goodness.

I found this quote from a talk called "The Essential Role of Member Missionary Work" -

"With a prayer in your heart, talk to everyone you can. Don’t prejudge. Don’t withhold the good news from anyone. Talk to everyone, and trust in the promised power of the Spirit to give you the words you should say. Let them make the decision to accept or reject your invitation. Over time, the Lord will put into your path those who are seeking the truth. He is the Good Shepherd. He knows His sheep, and they will know His voice, spoken through you, and they will follow Him."

Everyone need the gospel - which is why we must share it! When we talk to everyone we can about the gospel, then God will trust us and he will put people in our path that are prepared to hear the message! And sharing the gospel isn't hard. I attached a PDF that's 50 ways to share the gospel and it's so cool because it shows that sharing the gospel isn't necessarily inviting someone to meet with the missionaries or giving them a copy of the Book of Mormon, although those are GREAT ways to do missionary work. Sharing the gospel is easy, especially with the help of our Savior Jesus Christ. I'm going to go missionary on all y'all and invite you to look over it and find 5 things you will do to share the gospel this week! (But don't do all of them from the same section)!

And don't forget that God is good.

Love y'all lots!

Love,

Sister Myers :)

Pictures! :)

1. Some cool building in downtown Nashy

2. Batman building!

3. "Hello Mr. Horse would you like here a message about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ?"

4. The zone! I think it's funny to see the difference between the Elders and the sisters...the Elders are like, all over the place and the sisters are just all in the same spot but doing funny stuff haha

5.  In the baptismal font...haha