37th Email: 2nd Week in Milton

So this week we did exchanges with the Portsmouth sisters, and I got to go to Ohio! It's a beautiful state. Looks about the same as West Virginia... we had a good time! I was with Sister Williams, and she's great. She came out on the mission at the same time as me, but I never met her! Also, we exchanged on our hump day (9 months) so that was fun to celebrate it together. It was a great exchange. Those sisters have been having a hard time finding new investigators, and we were able to find and teach this really awesome guy, and we met several people who said we could come back. Miracles always happen on exchanges! I love it!

So, Sister Wines and I were having a pretty slow week, and the mission had a goal for every companionship to find three new investigators during the week. It was Thursday and we hadn't found any, so we were getting a bit stressed. We had a lot of potential investigators that we kept trying, but none seemed too promising, and all of our plans weren't working out. We weren't sure exactly what we should do, but I just wanted to go out and do something, anything, so I said that we should just go tract a random street. So we did! We turned left here and right there, and decided to start knocking on this one street that was a dead end. Sister Wines said, "how long are we going to knock?" And I said, "Until we find a new investigator!" Haha It's easy to have doubts when tracting because you can knock door after door for hours with no success, but for some reason that day, I felt 100% confident that we were going to find a new investigator. I just felt so good about it. So we knocked. Heavenly Father must have directed us to that street, because we only had to knock on six doors, and behind the seventh door were our new investigators! They are an older couple, and they are the nicest people ever! They invited us in, and were very receptive. It was such a neat experience. Then, yesterday, we still hadn't found our third investigator, so we went back to the same street and kept knocking doors, and guess what? We found someone else to teach in the house right next to the couple we had met a few days earlier. What a great little street!

Lots of Love,

Sister Myers

36th Email: 1st Week in Milton, West Virginia

Whelp! How is everyone? Good? Good! I'm doing great. I am currently in Milton, West Virginia with Sister Wines, who is from Vancouver, Washington, and she was actually in my ward up at BYU-Idaho! Pretty cool! Milton is pretty sweet. I like it a lot so far. The people are great, the scenery is BEAUTIFUL, and I just love being a missionary. I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother's Day. I did! It was so good to talk to my wonderful mommy! If you didn't tell your mother you love her, go do it right now! She deserves it!

There really are a lot of great people here. Our ward mission leader is the bomb, and we're teaching some pretty great people. Everyone is so friendly here. I love it!

Sorry it's short today! Busy, busy, busy!

Love,

Sister Myers

35th Email: Last Week in Morgantown

This week was really great! It consisted of meeting a dog that I'm pretty positive is part polar bear, trying to take a selfie with some lambs (they refused to cooperate), pulling over on the interstate on the way to MLC so Sister Christensen could relieve her stomach, and the best zone meeting ever, where we had a life-size board game in the gym complete with a two-foot tall die and rolls of toilet paper being thrown at the players from the sides. It was so fun!! And there was a point to it, I promise! We talked about covenants, enlarging our vision, and being purified. It was really good. Something I love about teaching groups of people is that sometimes what we prepare and present isn't necessarily what they hear or learn. The spirit comes in and teaches the individuals.

 Oh, and yesterday we found out about transfers! Sister Christensen and I will both be leaving Morgantown tomorrow (there isn't enough work to do on the university during the summer since all the students are gone, so there will just be the Elders here). I will be going to a little old town called Milton, West Virginia, and my companion will be Sister Wines. I'm pretty stoked! Sister Christensen actually served in Milton for 3 transfers before she came to Morgantown, so she has been telling me all about Milton. Basically it's going to be awesome! I'm going to miss Morgantown, though. Transfers are always bittersweet.

Well, I hope all is well with everyone, wherever you are! LOL! (Lot's of Love)

Love,

Sister Myers