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