Hola mi familia!
Spring is
springing here in Virginia, and oh boy is it making me happy. I forgot
to get a picture before we came in but I will get some this week.
Bloosoms are popping up everywhere. It is so fun! It has been raining
all weekend, but it is nice and sunny today. We are still working on
the temperature, but it will come.
This week has been awesome. On Monday
we had another AWESOME family night with the Mendez family, just the
joy of my life. It was really great for Hermana Rosen, a little parting
gift. And boy how I miss her, she is a good one, a reeeeally good one.
On Tuesday
we went to transfer meeting which was very bitter sweet. They switched
transfers around so now the departing missionaries go to the meeting.
Hermana Carn and Elder Harris both bore their testimonies, and changed
my life. It just made me want to be a better missionary, to talk to
everyone, to change as much as I can, and just love everyone to death.
It really just helped me gain a new perspective. My new compy comp is
Hermana Hiebert. She is a real gem. She is from Canada, and has been
out one transfer longer than me. She has spent her whole mission until
now in Charlottesville, so she is going through some big changes. She
is a champ. She actually reminds me alot of Jessie Agle, she has some
of the same mannorisms/attidute, I can't quite figure it out, but all I
can say is Jessie Agle! So that is just fun. She is awesome, she
thinks outside of the box and has brought a new perspective to the area,
so that is just fun.
But like I said after the meeting on Tuesday
i just wanted to be different, to be better, happier, all the things,
so I just did it! I talked to literally every human I saw all
week...white, black, hispanic, you name it. And It just made me happy.
Sometimes is hard when everyone falls through or no one is home or you
can't find any cute hispanics, but I just changed my mind about it. It
was so happy. I am so happy. And we even got 6 referrals for the
Engligh Elders and 4 for the sisters. I just love being a missionary.
I love being happy and friendly and confident, I just never want to
leave!
We had two grande miracles this week! First things
first, Christian and his bff Ruben (16 yrs old) came to church, AND they
know it is true, and they are both going to be baptized. I about died
of happiness when I saw them walk in the door, I really just wanted to
hug them, but I restrained...but just barely! They are just the cutest.
The second miracle was on Saturday.
We had an appointment that fell through but we had a member with us,
so we decided to go check on a refferal that the english elders had
given us, always a little sketchy. So we get there and these two jolly
men named Orangel y Jorge let us right it. We went in a chatted with
them for almost two hours. They are obessed with miracles and God and
they just chatted our ears off. We told them a little about the plan of
salvation and eternal families and they were floored, they said that
that is what they have always wanted. They were awesome, and we invited
them to the baptism that was going on at the church that night, because
they both work at another church that happens to be at the same exact
time...sad. But then they came to the baptism, and loved it! The boy
who got baptized is named Luis, he is 17 and just the coolest. He has
such a strong testimony and just loves the gospel already. It was
perfect!
The funny for this week happened in a Mexican
Restaurant called Pepes. We are paying at the front, and just chatting
with the little guys there (because we love to have the chats in spanish
and then invite them all to church) and the guy asks me if I want to
work there, and I say "no podemos porque somos misioneras(no we can't
because we are missionaries)"...but he thought I said "no podemos porque
somos prisioneras(no we can't because we are prisoners)", everyone was
just staring at us all confused and then we all had a good laugh!
The General Relief Society meeting also
changed my life. I still have some more pondering to do, but the main
message I took away was love your sisters. Use them, cherish them,
serve them. And I want so badly to be Christ-like enough that people
can see him when they look at me. They talked about how after baptism
we are changed forever, and I want to live up to the covenants that I
have made. In one of the songs they sang one of the line was "I will
live to serve the Lord". I love that I really would love to be a
missionary for the rest of my life. Right now I truly am living to
serve the Lord, and I want it to change me, change the rest of my life.
I know it is worth it, and I know it is the only smart thing to do.
This gospel is so happy and so true and so perfect!
I love love love you all very much!
con amor, Hermana Myer
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