The anti-mormon basher makes a fool of himself

June 13, 2006

Dear Family,
How are you all doing? Good? Good.

Yesterday, I went back to the doctor's office about the cough that almost went away a month ago, but has been slowly coming back again. It seems that the antibiotics didn't kill the bacteria that caused bronchitis. Interestingly enough, the doctor said I have a borderline asthma that gets triggered when there's a bacterial lung infection. So, I got another antibiotic and an advair inhaler. The church insurance covered the antibiotic, but unfortunately, not the inhaler any more than 30 dollars. So, I'm sorry but there's another charge on the credit card. This should help, though. I guess the "gold mine" came to defray some other costs :P. If you need to take it out of my checking account go ahead and do that.

End of school, eh? It's that same time of year here too. People are very excited to get out and have a summer of freedom.

That's cool that Michelle is [possibly] transferring to Redmond High School. It's definitely better to go where the friends are.

Kyle is doing... okay. He should have started fasting last night. He hasn't got the answer yet. We're meeting with Chris again tomorrow. We visited him at his work, a Christian bookstore.
We're also teaching a couple named Stephanie and Isaac. I don't know how committed they are to finding out it's true, but we're teaching them anyway.

We went to a mission president's investigator fireside on Sunday night with brother and sister Saadeh and a convert of just under a year named Danny Jambon. Danny hits his 1 year mark in about 4 days, and he's going to get his mission papers right then. He's got such a fiery testimony; he went tracting with Elder Holt and was running from door to door. He's an awesome member. After the fireside, he went up to one of the investigators there and talked to him and bore his testimony. It was cool. One of the nonmembers there was actually an uninvited (and unskilled) anti-Mormon basher. When President Garner opened it up for questions, the anti-Mormon tried to run the show and pretty much made a fool of himself. If I was an investigator there, I'd definitely have a stronger testimony just because of the bad spirit emanating from the guy. I think everybody could tell when the Holy Ghost left that meeting. President Garner did a very good job of not arguing, just giving the right answers and keeping his cool.

One less-active family that we and the bishop have been working with is coming back to church now starting this Sunday. That's a success! (even though it was mostly the bishop)
So, it's going pretty well right now. Still no real great progressing investigators, but we're working on it. Keep praying for us to have success in finding the people who want to hear it.
We had a couple eating days this week. Wednesday, we had lunch, then an investigator took us out to lunch, then we went to do service and help a new move in and she had bought us double cheeseburgers (surprise) then we had dinner, then at my appointment with Jeff Evans he made me pizza bagel bites. That's consecutive appointments. Then on Friday, we had a dinner scheduling problem and so had to go to two dinner appointments. We didn't tell either of them. So, being a missionary is fun; we get a lot of crazy experiences.

Girls, seriously, keep passalong cards for mormon.org in your backpack. When you're asked about being Mormon, or anything, find a way to invite somebody to learn about what we believe. Pass-along-cards aren't for full-time missionaries, they're for members. We just use them sometimes too. But way to have missionary experiences. Keep being the good people you are, that's the best way to share the gospel.

Anyway, that's about my entire week. Thanks for the letters and the support. I love you all.

Love,
Elder Myers