Sarah Jane Meservy

Missionary work is fun.
it is fun for everyone.
you laugh, you cry,
you’re born, you die.
And sometimes you swat a lot of flies.
Missionary work is rad,
But sometimes I sure miss my dad.
I laugh, I cry,
I fall, but I try.
Sometimes I miss chick-fil-a fries.
Missionary work is great,
I’m almost always running late,
I laugh, I cry.
Tears of joy.
My companions have to dry my eyes.
Oh missionary work is fun.
It’s loads of fun for everyone.

    By Sister Meservy.Poetry, what a great way to warm up the phalanges.

Okay. Let’s see how fast I can tell you about the BEST WEEK EVER! 🙂

We were eating at our Ward Mission Leaders house this week.  This sums up his awesome family. He scheduled dinner for when his wife had just got home from a week at girls camp. We all sat down to dinner. With their crazy rad kids. And bare foot brother rippy says, “I just stepped on a hot dog.” We weren’t even eating hot dogs. 😉

Anyway. Good times.

We found a mouse in our house. Well… we’ve been hearing it for quite some time now, but we found it’s whole and it’s…. mouse droppings…. So we set up a nice mouse trap yesterday and I closed it on my hand like 5 times while we were putting the peanut butter on it. Let’s just say the last time hurt the worst and I have a blood blister on my PINKY. I’m not the mouse we were trying to catch.

Yesterday we were coming inside at the end of the day and we’d been running around, unable to talk to any new people. When I saw a woman walking outside. SO we quickly set our loads of stuff down in the house and ran outside. I started chasing after her, calmly, and Sister Huffaker said, “Do you have a Book of Mormon.” Not wanting to lose the woman I kept walking towards her and said, “No.” Then looked down at my hand and said, ” But I have fruit snacks.”

Needless to say, there’s a reason they teach us to share Book of Mormons. 🙂 Couldn’t even get her to stop.

Having Sister Rasmussen with Sister Huffaker and I this week has been one of the biggest tender mercies of my mission! 🙂 I think I have laughed, cried, and repented more this week than ever before. I LOVE ALL THAT MY MISSION IS TEACHING ME. I know with all my heart that Heavenly Father wants me to have joy. Sister Rasmussen is the perfect example of that.

Sister Huffaker has shown us a great example of Meekness this week as well. 🙂 When Sister R and I are absolutely crazy she tries to help us stay professional, but loves us despite our weaknesses. You wouldn’t think she was the youngest one of the bunch. 😉 The three of us have so much fun together though. We all want to work, and we all love the people around us and love each other. Sister Huffaker helps us be unified and come together as one. She is just amazing.

I am so grateful for BOTH OF THEM. 🙂 I’ve been so lucky on my mission. Ugh. It’s the best.

We were teaching a recent convert this week who has been out of town for 3 weeks. Turns out he got into some trouble with the word of wisdom again. We showed up and he was drinking some Iced tea.  Luckily, that mistake was in ignorance though, because he had 3 more glasses ready for us. He is a little bit stubborn, but so is Sister Huffaker. She asked him for his glass of tea, and poured it over the deck…. Just had to eliminate the temptation. Then I opened my Book of Mormon, and this is the verse I randomly turned to and read aloud, “but men drink damnation to their own souls” Mosiah 3:18.

Haha. We all had a good laugh about it and then had a great lesson on the blessings of keeping the commandments.

It’s been a great week. I may have been crazy… but I’ve been working hard and I am so grateful for this time. I know that Heavenly Father loves me so much. I am grateful for the Atonement.

I love y’all!

Love,
Sister Meservy

PS: I tickled Sister Rasmussen in the Bishops office. I told the Bishops kids that Sister Huffaker digs holes in the back yard, like a dog. And I was in a quad for a day. 🙂 not just a trio. Good Week.

I don’t know how to start a letter anymore. So hey.Our mini missionary this week was AMAZING. It was a major blessing to have her here in Nine Mile. And it prepared us for something great…

We got our transfer calls week. MY LAST TRANSFER CALL. I am staying in Nine Mile, which is the greatest news ever! Sister Huffaker is staying as well. However, we are also getting a third companion, SISTER RASMUSSEN! She and I came out together and I love her. She is going home for school in a few weeks so she won’t be with us forever- but enough time to have a blast! Two deaths in one transfer. I am so excited though. I love the members out here. I love the hilarious experiences we are having. And the amazing experiences.

This week we decided to go out to Ford. Y’all probably won’t know what that means, but it’s boonie. The roads we drove down made us feel like we were riding a buckin’ bull. And we were only driving like 3 miles per hour.

We saw a less active member of our ward and she was a hoot. I liked everything about her. She has had hip surgery twice on each hip… and she lifted up her shorts to show us her scars. Let’s just say we saw a little more than just her upper thighs. It’s times like that we’re grateful for a guitar and beautifully written Hymns to clear the way for the spirit to fill the room again. 🙂  What a blessing.

On Saturday, we decided to go around the back side of our area to get to our next destination because it would be loads less miles. I was excited because I’ve wanted to do that ALL TRANSFER. 🙂 However, we didn’t realized until we ventured out, that our map doesn’t show us the far edge of our area… Sister Huffaker was pretty tense about the whole situation, and she had good reason to be, but I FELT SO AT PEACE. So you know what I did?

I looked to the SUN! 🙂

Not sure where I learned to do that, but it worked great! If you know anything about the roads in Washington, you know that they are windy and don’t make any logical sense. Getting turned around was super easy, but I would look to the sun and say, we want to be going that way. 🙂 Soon enough we were headed towards a mountain and it didn’t look promising. However, I knew that the sun was behind us so we were heading east, so we kept going.  Sister Huffaker kept saying, “I really don’t think we know where we are going! This doesn’t seem right.”

But for some reason I knew that the sun would show us the way to go. Well, within no time we were in an area that was familiar to me and I knew we’d be back on our map soon. 🙂

It is an amazing thing to have a Savior, the Son of God, someone we can look to always for guidance and direction. If we always recognize the Savior in our lives we will be able to follow the plan our Heavenly Father has prepared for us. IT IS A BEAUTIFUL PLAN. He wants our happiness. Even when it seems we may be heading into a giant mountain- He will guide us around it, over it, or through it.  The Son of God will always show us the way to go. 🙂

I’m looking so forward to the next six weeks. 🙂

I LOVE YOU ALL!

Love,
Sister Meservy

#1: Ford . . ‘Nough Said’

#2: Mini Missionary! Sister Holland.

#3: Jessica Tenny. RM. 🙂 My bestie.

#4- Dallin?

#5- Elder Dowse. Homeward bound.

#6- Self Timer

 

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