I am not even sure where to start. So first of all we are having a baptism this Friday
or Maria, Keyla, and Ester, and they are just progressing like crazy.
They are so excited for their baptism, loving church, and eating up
every lesson. It is just fun. They are such sweet girls and we are so
so so happy for them.
We have a cute pregnant
investigator, Cinthia, and her nine year old daughter, Nicole, who are
just awesome. Cinthia is super cute, but opinionated, sassy, strong,
you know, my kind of person, and just gets it. They had missed a couple
weeks of church, so we taught them about the Sabbath day, and bam there
they were Sunday.
We
met a serious, black, Dominican man, named Nino this week when we were
looking for a former that I taught last year. He is super intelligent,
and we teach him one principal, and hes like ohh yes that makes sense.
He came to church this week and afterwards he said "that was really
positive, and I will be coming next week". He is sweet.
The
cute branch here is doing so well, they are all just started to get
excited, and starting to figure it out. We even meet in the chapel
now. It is just so fun to see all of my gente and to see how they have
progressed over time. The Chavez family is doing wonderful, I just get
emotional thinking about them. My cute cute cute people.
So the area is rocks.
So now for the Richmond Adventures. First on Wednesday
we had sisters meeting, with all the sisters in the mission. It is
always the best meeting, because we get to talk about feelings and also
eat salad together. Me and Hermana Rosen trained on Faith and Esther.
It was a real tear jerker. We taught about "self talk", and having
faith in God and faith in our potential as divine daughters of him. It
is just so important to me that ever sister understands her worth, and
how much our father in Heaven loves them. So this self talk thing is
cool. What you do it you read your patriarchal blessings and create a
list of "I am statements", por ejemplo, "I am patient". So then you
make a list of 5-8 I am statements. Then everyday you make small goals
of how you can be each of those things, and as you act, those I am
statements literally become who you are. It is sweet. Anyways the
meeting was awesome, and afterwards all the Sister Training Leaders went
back to presidents house to have dinner before we went out on splits
with sisters in the area. Then we stayed over the night in the mission
home because the next day we had a Sister Training Leader training
meeting. We had way way way too much fun. We got up early to play
sports with president, and just had a big sleepover, followed by another
amazing meeting the next day. We were spiritually and physically
exhausted, but happy, so that was good. Then we spent that evening in
our own area, but then Friday
we turned right back around to go to Richmond again, more specifically
Chesterfield, because our cute cute precious Elba was getting baptized!
She is a dear investigator, that Hermana Rosen and I taught together,
and I taught for the whole 6 months I was there. She had a few
challenges before she could get baptized, but she always knew it was
true, and now she gets to have the blessings. We were just thrilled,
and there were a ton of missionaries there who had all taught her, it
was a sweet experience. Our member dropped us off at the baptism, so we
spent the night again at the mission home...but on our way to the
mission home the member let us take a stop to see our cute favorite
Cristian, and Ruben! We were about in tears, and they were just as
happy to see us. We were very blessed. The next morning President and
Sister Wilson drove us back up to Harrisonburg, because they were
conducting interviews.
I just have to
talk about President and Sister Wilson for a sec. They are my heroes.
We have spent a ton of time with them recently, and I just try and soak
up every bit of advice from them that I can. Sister Wilson just does
her own thing, and President Wilson loves her to death. I really feel
like President has helped me to grow my desires to be good, to follow
the commandments, just because it is the right thing to do, and for no
other reason. He just makes me want to be better. I love and respect
them both so much. On Saturday after the interviews they took us out to dinner, and we had a wee of a time. I love them dearly.
Sunday
was awesome, like I said, everyone came to church, so we were happy.
This morning we also got the privilege to see the movie "Meet the
Mormons". It was awesome. Apparently 70% of people that watch the
movie want to talk to the missionaries. So I don't know if it is
playing at home, but get people there. It is just very informational,
really helps you see who we are, and how diverse we are, even with the
same beliefs.
I am happy here in the
Harrisonburg, really really loving it. I am just so happy to be a
missionary, so have such a great purpose, and I know that through the
Lord that I can accomplish all he wants me to. My Heavenly Father in my
best friend, and I know he will never let me down. Isn't that just
fun. I love love love you!
Besitos, Hermana Myer
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