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
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