Hello! How is everyone? Good? Good. Life's great!
Seriously, I've just been thinking a lot lately about how great life is. My testimony of God's plan for us has been strengthened a lot, and I'm so grateful for it! I love that we often call it the "plan of mercy." It really is! God is so merciful, and the fact that he is brings ease to my mind. I know that I can trust him, and that as long as I am striving to follow him, things will all work out in the end. All we have to do is endure our lives well. And he will be there with us, helping us every step of the way! More proof of his great mercy! Anyway. The future is bright, and nothing in the world can dim my hope in Christ.
This week has been good. We keep seeing the Lord's hand in the work, and it's awesome! On Saturday, we had an appointment to visit with a part-member family. The appointment fell through, which totally caught us off guard, and so we had a moment where we were at a loss of what to do for the next hour and a half (I know, I know, we should always have a back-up plan...). Anyway, we started talking about what we could do. We'd already used a lot of our miles that day, so we wanted to stick close. We could go to the library and do an hour of mormon.org time...we could visit members that live close to us.... Then we had a better idea. First of all, rewind. A few weeks ago, Sister Tuckett and I sat down with the map and we decided to pick several streets that we would keep in mind for tracting in the future. So we each picked a few, and then, we prayed and asked Heavenly Father to prepare the hearts of the people on those streets for when we would meet them. Fast forward. We decided to pick two streets to go tract, and we hopped in the car and went on our way. We got to the first street, and as we looked down it we thought, great. This isn't even a real street. We couldn't see anything but a gravel road with trees on either side. But we thought, why not. Let's check it out. So we parked the car at the end and started walking down the road, and we finally got to the end, where there was only one house! Just our luck...we picked a road with only one house! Anyway, we knocked on the door, and you guessed it...out came our new investigator. We talked to him for a little bit, and he was pretty interested, and we couldn't set up an appointment because he wasn't sure about his work schedule, but he gave us his number so we could call him. Anyway, it wasn't anything super spectacular, but I know, without a doubt that God was involved. I don't know how he does what he does...maybe we were inspired to chose the road we chose because the guy we met was already ready, or maybe the Lord started preparing him after we chose it...I don't know! I just know he's here and I love it.
We are still having a hard time getting our investigators to church. It's so tricky when people have legitimate reasons why they can't come! But that's going to be our focus this week. Getting them to church. Our investigators are progressing in other ways though, and it's great. The other day, we were doing our weekly planning, and we were making a "know, feel, do" for our investigator, R--. A "know, feel, do" is simply when we think about and discuss what our investigator needs to know, feel, and do, and then we tailor our lesson to that. R-- has been doing great. He reads the Book of Mormon all the time, and he really likes it, and he accepts everything we teach him. We decided that we want him to know that the Book of Mormon is true. We think he already knows it in his heart, but we want him to come out and tell us. We decided we want him to feel inspired to act. He has the understanding, and now he needs to just get up and go. We've talked about baptism, and we know (and he knows) that that's his next step. And then the "do" for him was to act. Come to church. Commit to be baptized. Anyway, we were planning on seeing R-- that day, but I don't think it was even an hour after we made his "know, feel, do" that he called us. He told us that he'd been reading 2 Nephi 31 (talks all about the doctrine of Christ--faith, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end), and he knows he needs to change. he told us he knows the Book of Mormon is true, and that this is the path he needs to take. He has some concerns though--he knows it's going to be hard. So he's hesitant. But we got so excited! God was in our planning session and he knew what we wanted for R--! It was seriously so cool! We haven't seen R-- since then, but I can't wait to see him this week. He's getting there. He knows the Book of Mormon is true, and he knows he needs to act. Ah. Such a miracle!
Anyways, I love you all! Go be missionaries and take the gospel to all the world in whatever way you can! Remember, many are lost only because they don't know where to find the truth. Let's show them where it's at!
Love, Sister Myers
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