Companion and I

30th Email: 13th Week in Email

Well, this has been a fantastic week! My new companion, Sister Christensen, is awesome. I love her! She's from Grantsville, Utah, just graduated high school, and has been out for about 5 months. She's an incredible missionary, and I'm so stoked to work with her.

Story time! So once upon a time Sister Larkin and I rode the PRT (Personal Rapid Transit...It's a cool thing that's pretty much like a roller coaster that carries students across Morgantown because the campus is really spread out) with a girl from the University Ward because she wanted us to come with her to the student health center. There were two other people on the PRT--Robyn's professor (who we sat by and talked to on the ride) and another girl sitting on the other end (who we didn't end up talking to at all. Then, a few weeks later, I'm on an exchange with Sister Herzog and we're trying to find a creative way to find investigators, so we just decide to ride the PRT! It's perfect because people are stuck in this little box with you for like, 8 whole minutes. You can teach the whole restoration! Anyway, Sister Herzog and I are waiting at the PRT station, and a voice comes over the intercom that says the PRT is broken down (which I guess happens a lot) and it won't be there for a while. We decide to wait for a little bit, and while we're waiting, more and more students start showing up. So we're standing by this big crowd of students and I see this girl with a baseball cap on. She keeps looking at us, and I keep looking at her, and I get the feeling I need to talk to her, but how do I do it? I can't just walk up to her and single her out like that in front of all these students...gah! So I didn't talk to her. She got onto the PRT, there wasn't room for us, and we left. The rest of that day I kept beating myself up for not talking to her. I'm such a chicken! Okay, now fast forward another month or so. I'm with Sister Christensen, it's her first day in Morgantown, and we're street contacting on campus. We're just walking around, and all of a sudden, I see this girl!! I've got a Mormon.org card in my hand, and there is NO way she is getting past me without talking to us. So we talk to her and it turns out she was the same girl on the PRT the first time that we didn't talk to! But...she totally listened to our conversation with Robyn's professor about missionary work and what we do as missionaries and she told us she wants to know more about it! Long story short (too late...) we got her number, and we're going to meet up sometime. Ah!! Heavenly Father is so cool!!

Anyways, it's been a great week. We met some awesome people, had some great lessons, and I'm just really excited to be a missionary right now in the hastening of the Lord's work!

We All Love Pictures!

Reading Alma on Alma Street

Oh, ya know, just hanging out with Elder S. Gifford Nielsen.

No big deal.

29th Email: 12th Week in Morgantown

Whelp! It's the end of another wonderful transfer! I've been in Morgantown for about 3 months now, which is crazy, and I'm staying for the next transfer. Sister Larkin is headed down to Cave Spring, Virginia, which is in my old zone! I'm going to miss her a lot. I love her! These last few months have been so awesome. It's so fun! It's been cold, and crazy, and hectic, but I love it here so much. My new companion's name is Sister Christensen...I've never met her, but I've heard she's pretty awesome! She'll be here tomorrow sometime.

The work's going pretty great! There's just something different about serving here at the university. I thought it would be super hard to even teach anyone because it's hard enough to balance school, work, and social life without throwing in religion, and it is hard, but there are some people here who are so ready for the gospel, and it's the perfect time in their life for them to find it. It's been so cool to see. Ah. I love it!

So Lily's decided to get baptized on April 4th! She is so ready, and we're so excited. That's going to be a great week. MLC (Mission Leadership Council) on Monday, missionary booth on campus on Thursday, Baptism on Friday, and General Conference on Saturday and Sunday! I can't wait for Conference. It's such a great way to introduce people to modern prophets.

Well, my camera is no longer alive, so I'm sorry the blog has been so bland lately, but Sister Larkin is a doll and she copied all of her pictures of us from her camera to a flash drive, so now I can put some pictures up!

Have a great week!

Love,

Sister Myers

28th Email: 11th Week in Morgantown

Happy St. Patty's Day, everybody! Apparently this is a big drinking holiday here in Morgantown, so things'll probably get a little crazy tonight...good times! Good times!

Anyway, this last week was pretty good, surprisingly. We thought it was going to be super slow because it was spring break, so most of the students were gone, but it wasn't bad at all! We were able to stay busy and find people to teach, so I can't complain!

We had a super awesome fireside yesterday. (Side note: most people are super confused when we invite them to a fireside and then tell them that it's inside and there won't be any fire. Why is it called a fireside anyway?) So we called it the "Finding Truth and Light" fireside, and we just had a few people speak about their conversion stories. It was so good!!! A couple students from our ward spoke, a lady from one of the family wards spoke, and then, *drumroll*....our investigator, "Lily" [I'm going to give my investigators fake names from now on], spoke!! It was so perfect! She has such a sweet story, and she bore her testimony and talked about why she wants to be baptized, and it was just wonderful! I love her.

Well, I hope you all have a great week. Thanks for the love and support. Y'all are the best! :)

 

Love,

Sister Myers

27th Email: 10th Week in Morgantown

What a great week! The Zone Meeting on Friday went really well. We focused on the heart. Every missionary needs to have their heart, not just their might, mind, and strength in their mission. The other missionaries gave some really good comments and shared what the spirit was teaching them, which is what made the meeting so great. As leaders, we can prepare a super great, spiritual message, but it's only beneficial if it touches their hearts, and it did. We ended the meeting by talking about how important our missions are for us individually. It seems like we almost always talk about how we're just supposed to be serving others...you know, you're supposed to "forget yourself and go to work"...but sometimes we forget that our missions are for us too. So President Pitt is pretty cool. He's a dentist, and guess whose dentist he is? The one and only Elder Jeffrey R. Holland. Anyways, he's pretty good buds with Elder Holland, and President Pitt shared something with us that Elder Holland told him right before he came here to be the mission president of the WVCM. He said, "President, if you do this right, you just might save your own soul." D&C 18 talks about how great your joy will be if you bring one soul unto Christ. What if that one soul is yourself? Our time as missionaries is sacred. We're aren't just bringing other souls to Christ...We're working out our own salvation! 2 Nephi 32:9 says that if we pray to the Father in the name of Christ (if we do this right) "he will consecrate thy performance unto thee, that thy performance may be for the welfare of thy soul." I'm so grateful for this time I have with the Savior to figure out who I am, who I want to be, and who He wants me to be. I want to be who He wants me to be.

 

On Saturday I was on an exchange with Sister Stevens. She came out with me and she's serving in the Morgantown 1st Ward. It was a great exchange! We went with the University Elders to a huge apartment complex and pretty much just knocked on doors all day. It was so fun! We had a little competition that made it even funner. If someone said we could come back, we got one point, and if we were able to set up a specific return appointment, we got two points. It was a pretty close game but...we won! Haha I have seriously never had so much fun tracting. It was a blast. We knocked on about 130 doors, only 18 people answered, but 7 said we could come back! Those are pretty good odds. So fun. It was perfect weather too. Couldn't have been a better day.

 

Whelp! I love you all, and I hope you have a great week! Happy Pi Day on Friday! Feel free to send me a pie in the mail.

 

Love,

Sister Myers

26th Email: 9th Week in Morgantown

As usual, I'm emailing on day that is not Monday...haha who would have guessed? It pretty much snows once or twice a week, and almost always on P-day. That's just how we roll in Morgantown. So the library was closed on Monday, we had MLC (Missionary Leadership Council) on Tuesday in Sissonville, and I went straight from there to Bridgeport for an exchange. We couldn't email on Tuesday or Wednesday, so here we are on Thursday! :D So fun.

 

It's been a good couple of weeks though. I pretty much love being a missionary. It's definitely been the hardest, but greatest thing I've ever done in my life. Super cliche, but it's true. I'm learning so much and growing in ways that I wouldn't be able to without serving a mission.

So last transfer when I was first a STL, we had a Zone Meeting where we taught about the "Fourth Missionary." Awesome talk. Super motivational. Then at MLC, President Pitt and the Assistants told us what they want us to base our next Zone Meeting on. Can you guess? The Fourth Missionary!! Haha we were definitely inspired to use it last time. I'm excited to talk about it again and look at it from a few different angles.

 

Well, not much has changed...Life's pretty much the same old same old... The snow is melting, but it'll probably be back soon... I love Morgantown...I love my companion... I love the gospel.... and the Church is STILL true.

 

Love,

Sister Myers