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

25th Email: 8th Week in Morgantown

The Morgantown Zone is doing great things. (Pretty soon Morgantown will be Mormontown ;)) A couple weeks ago we started doing this really cool thing called "paying your dues." When you pay your dues you knock on 5 random doors and then stay in that area for 30 minutes. A lot of the time as missionaries, God directs us somewhere, maybe to a particular door, not necessarily because there's someone behind that door we need to talk to, but someone next door or walking down the street who needs us. We do that 3 times a day, so a total of 1 1/2 hours. Yesterday, Sister Larkin and I were paying our dues, and we weren't having much success. No one really wanted to talk to us, we only had 5 minutes left, and it was starting to rain! Perfect! haha so we stopped and said a prayer. We asked Heavenly Father to help us find someone new to teach, because that's been something we've been struggling with lately. Guess what happened next? We knocked on one more door, his name is T--, and he wants us to come back. :D This church is true, and God is a God of miracles!! It was really neat. And so many missionaries in the zone have been telling us about their "pay your dues" miracles. It's insane! So yeah. I'm pretty excited for this transfer.

 

Morgantown wants it to be spring. I can tell. It's trying so hard! But it's not really working. I really can't complain though. It was almost 60 degrees the other day, and it's February! Crazy! Winter is so short here, and I've heard this is the worst winter Morgantown has had in a long time. I guess they don't usually get as much snow as they have this year. I like it though.

 

Anyways, I don't have much else to report, except that I love being a missionary, and I love the gospel. I love it! It's perfect and brings me peace.

 

Lots of Love!

Sister Myers

24th Email: 6th Week in Morgantown

So...this week has been exciting! It's transfer week, which is always fun. So that's why I didn't email on Monday. Transfers are on Thursdays, so P-day gets pushed to Wednesday so people can pack their things if they're being transferred. But once again, the snow likes to throw things off here, so transfers got pushed to today, and then it got pushed back again, so it'll be tomorrow. So yesterday was actually P-day, but the library was closed because of the snow, so I couldn't email until today. Does that make sense? Oh, and I'm staying in Morgantown with Sister Larkin. Yay!! :) I'm really excited for this transfer. It's going to be great! Also, for some reason the library is only open until 4:00 today, and we didn't get here until 3:30, so this letter's gonna be short! But it's fine, because my next P-day is in a few days. Oh, but the library is closed on Monday too because of President's Day. So I guess I'll be emailing on Tuesday! Gah! Haha anyways, I love all of you, and I love being a missionary. 

 

Love, 

Sister Myers

 

P.S. T-- knows the church is true and she wants to get baptized. Life is good. 

23rd Email: 5th Week in Morgantown

Hello! :) Another wonderful week has flown by. I can't believe it's almost time for transfers again! I think Sister Larkin and I will probably be staying in Morgantown, but who knows!

Well, I'm running short on time today...silly computers only let me stay on for an hour....so this'll be short today. Oh, and the Library was closed on Monday because of the snow, and we have had a CRAZY busy week, so that's why I'm emailing on a Thursday. We had a couple great lessons this week. It was so great to finally have some appointments that didn't fall through! :D We had a really fun lesson with this guy named J--. He knows the Bible really well, and we were just jumping around all over the place in the Old and New Testament while we taught the Plan of Salvation. It was so fun! I definitely want to know the Bible better than I do though. Ah! There's just so much knowledge I want to be in my brain, but I don't have the time to get it in there! I told Sister Larkin I might just stop going to bed and start studying through the night so I can read everything I want to.

Well, I hope you all have a grrreat week and remember who you are and what you stand for! Love you!

 

Love,

Sister Myers