Sister Meservy’s Letter from February 3, 2014
Subject: “Can we get a pronunciation guide?”
Hello! Wow. I am the LUCKIEST MISSIONARY IN THE WORLD. I have an amazing companion. An amazing ward. A missionary minded Bishop. A missionary minded ward, really. It’s all just great and I get to be a part of it. WHY AM I SO BLESSED?! I just don’t know.
Now don’t get me wrong. It’s not easy. BUT it is amazing. I got to exchange up to Greenbluff and while we were teaching one of their investigators he said something quite profound. “Sometimes you’re gonna get stuck in the toilet. And someone is gonna take a picture and bring it up again and again. You get to decide how to react.” Then he looked at me and said, “You have lots of laughter lines. You would react well.” SO my friends. I’m in good shape, according to John. 😉
I’m also in good shape because our investigators are AMAZING.
Gemma decided she wants to be baptized WHICH IS HUGE. I love her family so much. More news to come on her soon. 🙂 Keep her in your prayers.
Here in “Smile” we have dinners with members EVERY SINGLE NIGHT. So… I am eating far more than I am asking for. Let’s just say…. I might get a little portly. Haha. Wait. That’s a joke because WE DON’T HAVE A CAR throughout the week. Which means we get to hike up a mountain in the snow. WHICH brings me to some great miracles of the week.
On one snowy and frigid day this week, Sister Busath and I hiked up to the Prairie to get some teaching in. Turns out nobody wanted to talk to us. for 4 hours. So we had a lot of good times making tracks in the SNOW. Haha. Then we decided to pray because it was getting far too cold and we wanted to find someone/ get inside someones house. Well… a couple minutes later… a random man pulled over just to talk to us because we looked like we were having such a great time. We were.
Anyway… He wasn’t a member, and doesn’t want to be YET, but it was great to talk to him and his kids. When he pulled over he didn’t even know we were missionaries. I know that was an answer to our prayers because it definitely gave us the strength to keep going. And it gave Sister Busath the strength to get a little crazy. haha.
Remember how I told you we like to pull our car over to talk to people? And run across the street? Well now Sister Busath waves down cars. 🙂 Especially when we walk around for 4 hours and meet NOBODY because nobody wants to be outside in the cold weather. Then she really gets good at flagging people down, asking for directions (that are needed) and then we start a nice gospel conversation. Almost everyone we talked to was SO nice. 🙂 One man just said, “I don’t know where that is but I have no doubt you two will find it. I’ll pray for you.” then he drove off. That was as harsh as it got. Haha. What a joy. Nobody can really be mean to two happy girls freezing their toes and noses off. . . .
It all worked out though.
We got to go to Ward Council for the first time in this area- which was a blast because there were 4 missionaries there. IT IS AWESOME TO SERVE WITH THE ELDERS. Elder Lindsay and Elder Lloyd are basically the coolest. It’s fun to have elders to teach the men and sisters to teach the women. and it’s just fun to be working together. I feel like every success of theirs is a success of ours. 🙂 “But I do not joy in my own success alone, but my joy is more full because of the success of my brethren,” Alma 29:14 I feel that.
One of the things that means a lot to me is that in our ward mission plan, our Bishop has asked the ward to pray for each of the missionaries by name every night. 🙂 So they are putting our names on the program every week. I can feel an extra strength being here- I KNOW that this ward is serving along side us. It is an amazing feeling. Pray for your missionaries. They need it. 🙂 When they were talking about it in ward council this week they said, “Can we get a pronunciation guide for the sisters?” Haha. It’s great to have a companion whose name is just as hard to pronounce. 🙂 I love sister Busath.
I love this gospel. This week I have been extra grateful for the Atonement and how I can apply it daily. I need my Savior, and I love him. I promise he loves you all.
Keep the Faith.
Love, SISTER MESERVY
#1- We drew each other without looking.
#2- We like the snow. 🙂 and walking.
#3- That’s me. (Sarah)
