How is everyone!? I hope you all are doing well! How exciting that Mike is getting ready to turn in his papers :) What an exciting time! I love being a missionary even during the ups and downs!
Well this week wasn't too exciting. I tried goat on Monday though! It was good :) Have any of you tried that before?
This week was a little slow but it was still good. I had an interview with President Smith (the mission president) on Tuesday after or Zone Training. It was really good. Nothing too scary :) He is a really nice man! It is always fun when we get to go to a Zone event because that means we get to leave Madison and go to Tallahassee for the day. We never really get to see any missionaries because our area is far away from everyone so it's fun to get to interact with everyone when we go to Tallahassee. We didn't have many lessons this week because most of them fell through but one that we did have was that we went to go see a less-active who is older and can't hear or see very well. His son lives with him and when missionaries usually go to his house he doesn't usually stay in the room but this time when Sister Bunderson and I went he stayed and listened to us and was talking to us. We are hoping that we can continue to go there and to teach him. He isn't a member even though his parents were strong members in the church until they got old and it was hard for them to go to church. The son's name is Keith. That was one of the highlights this week was being able to have Keith listen to us.
On Wednesday night we were supposed to have dinner and a lesson with some people in our area but they called us the morning of and let us know that a fugative was running loose around there house and that the cops were surrounding their area. They didn't want us to go out there and they were also on lock down so that wouldn't have been a good idea to go out there anyways. They leave in the middle of nowhere so that was a crazy situation they were in. We still don't know if they ever found the guy.... I sure hope so! haha.
For sacrament meeting on Sunday the missionaries in the branch all spoke and we did some musical numbers. I talked about the blessings of the Atonement and how we need to share them with those around us because some people don't realize what they need to do to receive those blessings that we have. I talked about how many people think that they just need to confess that Jesus is the Christ and then they are saved by grace alone but that it is such a blessing that that is not the case! That we have to work and be obedient to be able to be saved and be able to make it to exaltation. It's so important that we have the opportunity to use our agency to choose to follow the example of our Savior because if we didn't have to work to be saved or to return to our Heavenly Father then what would be the point of this life? There would be no point in doing what is right if everyone could return to heavenly Father without trying. It was really neat to study that topic because it is something that alot of people in the south believe. But it is a huge blessing we have and I never realized that before! Another blessing that we have from the Atonement is that we can be with our families for eternity. That also requires us to work hard and do what is right. Because of the Fall of Adam there were two conditions brought into the world, spiritual and physical death. We could not overcome these without the Atonement! We are very blessed to all of the opportunity to be resurrected and united with our bodies. We are also so blessed to not have to pain for Adam's transgression and that we are only responsible for our sins. How great it is that Christ performed the Atonement so that we could overcome the two conditions that Adam brought into the world. There is so much to the Atonement that many people don't comprehend. I don't even completely understand it. I'm so grateful for Christ and all that he did for each and everyone of us. I know that he loves each one of us as well.
I can't think of anything else that really happened this week that is very exciting to share. Maybe next week I'll have a good story! I hope ya'll enjoyed the pictures. Sorry that they are a month or two late...... whoops! Have a great week!! Be good and an example to everyone around you!
I love you guys!!
Sister Merrill
| This was our district last transfer. Elder Nelson (the district leader), me, Sister Bunderson, Elder Perkins. This transfer it is mostly the same except that Elder Nelson was replaced with elder Christianson. |
One day this week we had a lot of time so we went walking around town to try and talk to people. No one was really out but this was a really pretty path we walked down :)
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| This was that same path but with us in the picture. This was actually a pretty warm day outside. |
| This was from around the beginning of January... but it was when our heater wasn't working and it was freezing outside! So we dragged our mattresses into the kitchen and slept with the oven on to 500 degrees haha. It was a party! |
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