Monday, September 4, 2017

This week was a good one but for sure different. So to start off I got a call from President saying that he needed my help with the new American missionary. The new missionary is from Alaska and he's had some health issues since he has gotten here. So I was asked to stay and help him this week and to see what he was experiencing. It was only his second week so he really didn't know any of the language so it was pretty funny to help him. But I got with him and realize that he has pretty bad asthma. And it was just getting worse and worse in the heat. So every day we talked with doctors and the pres and other people to keep them updated. I learned a lot from him this week. I learned a lot about the culture of Alaska. But, in the end, they decided it was best if he were back to the city and try working there where the air quality is better. So he went back to the city. But it didn't really help, who he is going back home to Alaska. It was pretty sad to see, but he is a happy dude so I'll work out.

But, now for me, I will be in a trio until who knows when. But it is great because I have double the amount of investigators to work with. And we found a ton of good people to work this week and  I am excited. But that's how my week pretty much went.

Love,Elder Meyer

Can't wait to see the all miracles God has in store for me

August 28, 2017-

Part 3 of the training sesh.  So this week I found out I will be training another new missionary for the 3^rd time in 3 consecutive transfers.  It’s going to be great.  I have already worked with him for about 3 days and realized he for sure is the most quiet of the 3, but it will be great.  

So this week Andreza committed to be baptized which was dope and another boy named Jorgie.  So we will be baptizing them this Sunday.  Andreza was awesome she accepted to be baptized after the first lesson and Jorgie also.  It was for sure a miracle after working so hard last transfer and not seeing the results I was looking for.

Other than that nothing else really happened other than I stayed in the same area and I ate McDonald’s for the first time in a few months which was good.  I really am looking forward to cranking out another transfer in this area.  And can’t wait to see all the miracles God has in store for me.

Love,

Elder Meyer

Birthday week!

August 21, 2017-

To start out, this week was great.  My birthday ended on a crazy good note.  We celebrated all Sunday and Monday, then Tuesday was my year mark and then today some members are setting up a little fiesta for me.  I love the people here.  They hook it up fat for birthdays.  I feel like everybody in the town knew it was my birthday.  It was classic, we were walking down the street and this girl that works in a restaurant shouted out my name and said “parabens” (congratulations).  Then two different groups of people threw a surprise party for me, it was funny.  

It was a great week to be real.  But the best part was when me and my comp got stopped by a lady in the middle of the street and she told us to go and talk with her daughter.  So we went and met her daughter.  She is super cool.  She is 24 and a physical therapist.  And so we started talking with her about everything and long story short, she came to church with us and loved it and was super interested the whole time so we are planning on getting her lined up for baptism for the end of this week.  It was the miracle of the week for sure.  And so we found our golden investigator after a few weeks of hard work.  

By the way, thanks for all the birthday wishes.  I loved it.  But that’s how my week went.

Love,

Elder Meyer

The complaints about walking stopped

August 14, 2017-

Well, I am 20 years old and have been out for 1 year on the mish.   My birthday was dope, woke up at 6 to go to each of our investigators homes to bring them to church.  No one wanted to go, so no one ended up coming.  After church our lunch fell through, so we had nowhere to eat.  But luckily enough one of our recent converts hooked it up fat with some couscous, hahaha I wore a pair of flip flops, and then later tonight we will head to one of the elder’s houses to have a BBQ and play cards and sleep there.  So I am hoping the night will be pretty fun.  

Also, I have been out a year.  The fastest year of my life.  But the same time the longest year of my life.  I am not going to lie, it was for sure not the best year of my life but it was the year I learned the most and became the closes to Christ.  

But any ways this week nothing really happened other than one thing.  Me and my comp found this dude that is paralyzed from the waist down.  He is 19 and in a wheelchair and one of the coolest guys I have ever met.  When he was 12 he got shot and became paralyzed.  We found him when we were walking down his street, he was just chilling out front.  So we began to talk with him and we heard his story.  It was awesome and humbled me so much.   I was always complaining about walking but when I met him the complaining stopped because he would kill to walk again.  But that was my week.

Love,

Elder Meyer

Goals this Week

August 7-

Another great week of sweat, hard work and more sweat.  It’s already hot enough here but for some reason it’s getting hotter which I did not think was possible.  For some reason this week, when I was sweating buckets and almost dying of heat stroke, I thought about Jamba Juice and remembered all the good times there.  So who ever is reading this do me a favor and go buy yourself a Jamba and enjoy it, haha.

But anyways, we worked a lot this week.  We had a goal of contacting over 150 people and challenging 30 to be baptized.  We ended the week with contacting 170 people and 40 challenges to be baptized.   But with our luck only a few came to church.  It was classic.  We found 7 boys that are all over 12 years old and they came with us to church, it was funny.  Out of the 170 people we invited, everyone agreed to come, but most didn’t show up.  It’s funny cause everyone wants Christ in their lives but they want an easy way and don’t want to go to church they just want to hear our lessons.  We taught like crazy.  We taught 8 people who lost a family member recently, about the plan of salvation, and all 8 understood and loved our message but their pridefulness took over and they didn’t want to accept our religion, cause they are catholic but don’t even practice.  And our best investigators, Nayada and Angelo had a bunch of great questions during our lessons.  We taught them everything with so much spirit.  They love our church and love us and have so much desire to be baptized.  But they just need a few more days to make the final decision.  So we decided to fast for them.  Me and my comp thought everything would go perfect cause we fasted for them and almost died of thirst.  Sunday arrived and boom, they didn’t even come to church.  I don’t know if it’s just me or God likes to work in mysterious ways.  We spent the week with them,  them telling how much they love us, the spirit they feel with us, and then almost crying every time we left.  We decided to do a good thing and the opposite of what I wanted happened.  Haha, I don’t know what he is teaching me but it’s definitely something.

But that’s how my week went.  I love being a missionary and I love the struggles that come along with it.

Elder Meyer

"Miracle of the Day"

July 31-

Another week of miracles.  This week me and my comp were focusing on “miracle of the day” saying when times got tough we looked at our miracle of the day and just laughed everything else off that was going wrong.  Had we realized that literally every day in the field you can have a miracle.  It is just the way you look at the miracle it could be the smallest thing and not even look like a miracle, but it is.  It is just your perspective and how you look at it.  

Our biggest miracle of the week was when we were teaching this family about the restoration and they were paying super close attention.  And when we explained about the three things other churches don’t have it clicked in the dad’s head.  And he had no doubts.  Sunday came along and he and his wife and his kids showed up right on time 8:00 in the morning.  And they liked every minute of it.  We are preparing them to be baptized this Saturday.  It really was a miracle how we found them, taught them, and helped them understand perfectly without doubts.  It really shows that God has his children prepared for us and at any given moment he will guide us to them.  

I love this work, and I would not change a thing in the world to have my mission be different.  I am so grateful for my challenges, and how my challenges are making me rely on Christ more and more.

Until next week.

Love,

Elder Meyer

Man I Love the People Here but They're Making Me Fat

July 24-

What’s up, another week filled with miracles, ups and downs, and stuffing my face with food.  One of the miracles this week was that we met this girl that has lived across the street from missionaries I think for over two years and she had never talked to them until we said hi to her and introduced ourselves and everything.  She asked us for a Book of Mormon to read and marked our next visit.  So during our next visit we were teaching her and her husband about how they can be married and sealed for all time and eternity.  And she got all emotional and was telling us how she has visited a lot of churches but really has never felt anything until the moment she was talking to us.  Then she started getting emotional again and telling us the amount of peace she gets when we are around her.  It was amazing.  Our next visit we are planning on marking them to be baptized, I am pumped.  It really was an incredible miracle, it’s just what we needed.  

And why I said stuffing my face because people here love to serve you food.  So after church Sunday I ate from 12 – 8 it felt like.  Man I love the people here so much but they are making me fat.  

And about the ups and downs.  We had a baptism marked for Saturday, a 25 year old that quit smoking and was super prepared to be baptized.  We showed up at his house Saturday and he was gone.  And his grandma was telling us how he doesn’t want to be baptized, but we know she was lying.  So we went back but he wasn’t there for 2 days.  It was sad but at the same time, it’s God time and clearly it’s not Ismail’s time to be baptized.