July 28, 2014 — “Willie the First, Willie the Second, Willie the Third, and so on. . . “

Dear Family,I am in an amazing ward. I especially realized this when everyone went on trek and I missed them SO MUCH. How am I suppose to leave this place? Guess I’ll cross that bridge when I have to and for now I’M JUST GONNA KEEP ON SMELLING ALL THE PRETTY WILD FLOWERS. . . . Are you breathing the carbon dioxide I’m turning into oxygen?Sister Huffaker and I are still singing for everyone and feeling the spirit every day! It’s amazing. We had an amazing lesson with a couple that a member in the ward sent us to go see. They have met with missionaries before, but they let us come in and sing to them.  Little did they know the spirit would fill the room and we would teach them part of the restoration. It was amazing. I was really scared to invite them to be baptized for some reason, but the second I decided I was going to no matter what I felt like the spirit just took over completely every word that I said. I am so grateful for the guidance of the spirit in this work. Mr. Miller wants to be baptized, and his wife is willing to pray about it. MIRACLES.

On exchanges with Sister Knowlton in Nine Mile we went to sing for another referral and she said we could come back and teach her our unique message about the Restoration of the Gospel! So we came back later this week and two of her good friends came over. It’s amazing to see how the Lord just puts us where we need to be and lets us meet people who will listen. We had a great lesson with Ron, Nita, and June and they are all going to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it.

We also got to teach some more youth this week. Kids we met on the street who know members so they said we could come back and teach them. That was an amazing lesson and they agreed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it with a real desire to know if it’s true!

Well, folks, it’s true- SO BE PREPARED FOR life changing MIRACLES in these peoples lives.

“And if ye shall believe in Christ ye will believe in these words, for they are the words of Christ. . . . And if they are not the words of Christ, judge ye– for Christ will show unto you, with power and great glory, that they are his words, at the last day; and you and I shall stand face to face before his bar; and ye shall know that I have been commanded of him to write these things, notwithstanding my weakness.” (2 Ne 33:10-11)

We even met a drunk man named Willie this week who already had a Book of Mormon. We taught him about it for a second and when we asked if we could say a prayer he said, “Of course, but we’ve gotta go to the front step because when we pray we pray for the house and everyone in it, right? I know how this prayer things goes. See- I’ve been doing my reading.” Sister Huffaker asked him who should say the prayer and he responded with who we should pray for: His Dad, Willie. Then he told us about how his dad’s name is Willie, his grandpa’s name is Willie, his name is Willie, and his sons name is will. He held up three fingers and said, “THAT’S FOUR WILLIES- AND WE ARE ALL ALIVE.” It took him a minute to come back from that tangent, but we agreed with him that family is very important and then he let us pray. We walked away laughing our heads off, and then met a family that invited us to their bible study next week. 🙂 We’ll see how that goes. 🙂

We’ve really had an amazing week. Our investigator, Bozhi, got to go on the Trek this week and she had a good time! She said she really felt the spirit and I think it was a great way for her to get ward fellowship.

Kelsi was at church yesterday and she was a huge example to everyone. In young women’s they asked the girls about the things that set our church apart from other churches and Kelsi raised her hand and said, “Modern day prophets,” and then later added, “Ordinances for the dead.”

SHE IS AMAZING.

She text-ed us last night and asked us if we would PLEASE pray to help her choose a date to be baptized. She is so sweet and SO prepared.

How did I get so lucky to be here? Not sure.

🙂 I love my Heavenly Father. I love you all. Family. Friends. The whole lot of you.

This is Christ’s Church. It brings us peace and joy in this life and in the life to come!

Love,
Sister Meservy