This week Hermana Stapley and Hermana Chambers had their
birthday on the same day, and they are companions, and we all got
invited to a surprise lunch for them with the Ramos family, who are just
the biggest hoot. In honor of their birthday, and the fact that we are
missionaries, Jorge, the one and only bought us all, yes all, new
shoes. I forgot to take a picture, but I will send one next week!
Priceless! They are real gems. It was also Sister Silva's birthday,
so naturally we made her a pink camoflage cake. We also made an
appearance at Jeffrey's birthday (five year old son of a recent convert)
and played soccer outside, because it was 80 degrees outside!
Whooohooo! I was grateful because I love birthdays and I love
celebrating, and I especially love suprises!
So I had a revelation this week, real
mission-changing, eye opener. So We started teaching two more families
with little kids recently, the Reyes (three girls ages 8, 11, 14) and
the Delgados (two boys 9 and 11). In my mission I have always joked
that I just teach children, and can't seem to connect with adults.
Which is not entirely true, but all my recent converts have been under
the age of 11, and Cristian will bring it up to 13 this weekend! Which
by the way as a sidenote, Cristian is getting baptized, and we couldn't
be happier. He came to conference yesterday and agreed to have his
interview between sessions, and it all went swimmingly. We are just so
happy for him. We still have to work out some timing details, and plan
the whole thing, so this week is going to be nuts, but so good! Any
who, as I was saying, I am just always teaching the ninos, and I had the
idea in my mind, that that wasn't a super productive thing to do for
some reason. But then I had a revelation, that it is the perfect thing
to do, the ninos need it too, sometimes even more. Christ spent so much
time with them, loving them, teaching them, blessing them. And me too!
I remember that almost all my best friends at home are ninos, my soul
sisters Eliza and Rebecca mainly, and they are going to grow up one day.
They all will, and they will all have a firm foundation if I can but
just help them understand simple truths. I am so happy, I am so
grateful that my Heavenly Father has blessed me with so many sweet
little spirits to work with and influence. I love my ninos so much. So
Cristian will bring it up to 13 years old, and then May 10th his best friend Ruben will bring it up to 16 years old! So I am getting into youth now too!
Conference changed my life. Also the fact that
Cristian and Ruben both came and listened and took notes made it that
much better! But mostly my life has been changed. There are too many
things that influenced me to talk about all of them. But one I
especially loved was by Dieter F. Uchtdorf about gratitude. I love how
he talked about making gratitude a way of life, and not letting anything
be dependent on it. Our circumstances should never affect our
gratitude. Sometimes we even express gratitude for blessings we haven't
received yet, and that is the hardest kind! But it is so good, it is
so sweet. Hermana Rosen and I had a couple of hard weeks, work wise.
We were just striking out and getting dropped and no one was really
progressing. It was hard, but then we realized how silly we were being
and tried to focus on everything we did have, all the people we were
teaching, and tried to put our efforts totally on them. And you know
what happened, we were blessed. We saw things differently, we grew, we
loved everyone more. I loved Richard G. Scotts talk about love. How if
we can help God's children have confidence in our love it will in turn
help them have confidence in the love that their Father in Heaven has
for them. I started making lists of how I could love specific
investigators more, how I could really show them the Saviors love.
Before conference I had a list of about 8 questions, and I have never
before received such direct answers to all of my questions. I am so
grateful for our prophet, for his love for us, and for his comforting
words and guidance.
Also there is an article about being happy in the
Ensign this month, and it changed my life, everyone read it, and then
look up all the scriptures in the Topical guide under happiness/happy,
and you will just have to be happy! https://www.lds.org/ensign/
Funny for the week: We had FHE with the mendez
family on Monday night and we made them play charades with gospel words
of coarse. It was Pinky's turn and he grabbed a butterfly stuffed
animal and held it up and gently brought it down on his head.
Immediatly Hermana Mendez screams "ESPIRITU SANTO!!!"(holy ghost), and
we all die laughing, it was descending like a dove.
I am grateful for prayer this week, for being close
to the spirit. Don't forget to say your prayers, be kinds, and to love
each other!
con amor, Hermana Myer
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