SUBJECT: On my mission I ate dinosaur. . .
Dear Family and Friends,
Oh man. Talk about having good family and friends. 🙂 THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU for all the responses this week. 🙂 I love you all. 🙂
So, I got to go to the temple today three people told me they knew Grandma and Grandpa Meservy. SO COOL. One worker lived in their apartment, and Linda Butler is related to me… Closely… I don’t know how but she’s my aunt? haha. That’s what she said, and I loved her. So it was way cool to see her in the temple.
I love the temple.
Well…. this week has been wonderful. I cant believe it’s my last week before transfers. If I get separated from my companion I will figuratively cry. 😉 But really- I LOVE HER. 🙂 We have so much fun together. And she likes to remind me that she is such a blessing to me. To which I respond by reminding her that I am really funny. and she loves me. 🙂
Sorry I haven’t sent pictures- I’ve got some good ones! and some great videos. I’ll send my card home soon. 🙂
This past Saturday my companion and I sang How Great Thou Art at a funeral. It was a funeral for a less active man in a part member family. His wife has taken the lessons on and off for over 30 years. She is wonderful, but not a member… yet. Anyway, at the funeral- the chapel was almost full and there was ONLY ONE MEMBER THERE. So we sang for a chapel full of non-members. It was such a cool experience. At the end of the funeral a man stood up and went to the piano and just started playing and singing a blues song he wrote, to add to the service. He had long black hair and was wearing big aviator sunglasses. All in all it was a great experience. But pray for this family. I love them.
My companion and I have been sick. Which is always fun. 🙂 haha… Just colds though, so we are surviving. And still loving life. Much reason to rejoice, and laugh at ourselves. 🙂
Yesterday I met some members of the RLDS Church… and by met, I mean taught… They are struggling because their church just decided gays can be married by the priesthood… Crazy. They don’t want to leave their church, but they don’t want to stay. I have a really good solution for them… but the husband isn’t really open to my solution… 🙂 I read some of The Family: A Proclamation to the World with them… and bore testimony… and talked. 🙂 THEY ARE WONDERFUL. Pray for their hearts to be softened. They are so lost right now and need some direction. While we were there, the wife asked her husband to sing for us, and then asked me to sing with them [good thing I actually enjoy that sort of thing or that would have been embarrassing… :)] So he and I sang Amazing Grace together. . . He had a lovely voice. 🙂 He’s singing in their church meeting on Sunday. They said they might come to church in a couple weeks. Just pray.
Missions are wonderful and the Church is true. God is so aware of each of us.
Again, thank you for the letters. I love getting them. 🙂 I love you all. 🙂
I take it your waiting for the Humor? Well I’ll try to be quick…
My companion and I went to visit a man we were almost teaching… his friends were outside his house so we decided to invite them on a church tour as well… then they asked us to go get pizza with them. my companion said we only could if everyone came. they said, “that’s a lot of pizza…” haha… obviously disappointed.
Then as we were teaching them about Heavenly Father, one of the guys explained that he had a hang over, to which my companion responded, “I hear ya.” For the record- she’s never had a hang over and doesn’t know what it feels like. 🙂
Good times. Good times.
I love you all. 🙂
Quick thought from last conference:
Speaking of missionary work Elder Andersen said to all, “The Lord needs you now more than ever to be an instrument in His hands. All of us have a contribution to make to this miracle… Our desire to share the gospel takes all of us to our knees, and it should, because we need the Lord’s help… I promise you, as you pray to know with whom to speak, names and faces will come into your mind. Words to speak will be given in the very moment you need them. Opportunities will open to you. Faith will overcome doubt, and the Lord will bless you with your very own miracles.”
THIS IS SO TRUE. Trust the Lord. He is preparing miracles for you, He needs you to act. 🙂 Us missionaries need you as well. This work goes nowhere without the members of the church. 🙂
Thanks for all the love and support.
My mission is amazing. I love it more and more everyday.
“I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” (Philippians 4:13)
Love,
Sister Sarah Jane Meservy