The Great and Spacious Building

June 20, 2006
Dear Family,

That's awesome that Elder Wells is in your general area. He has a really cool family.

How is Utah right now? Is the weather good? It is very very hot here. It has been over 90 degrees most days. I know it's not quite Phoenix heat, but it's pretty intense in a collared shirt and a tie.

I'm glad you're getting to read Preach My Gospel, mom. It is a good handbook. I'm also reading the Doctrine and Covenants straight through right now. I already finished the bible, and the Book of Mormon twice on my mission so far.

This week, we had some good success. Sister Harris reluctantly gave us a referral that she didn't know what kind of response would be met with. Her name was Patricia. We stopped by and made an appointment for Saturday morning. Then on Saturday, we came, and sister Harris was already there. Patricia is going through a nasty divorce and her husband had taken a whole bunch of their stuff and the house was a mess. So we helped them clean up a bit. We hooked up one of Sister Harris's old TVs and set up the sound system, and I figured out what was wrong with the computers. So we were able to do some good help for her. We also taught her a first discussion and are going to meet with her again and have dinner at Sister Harris's house. So, that's a great referral. People in crisis are great referrals for missionaries. The other great referral is teens Michelle's age. Michelle, if you knew how critical that age was, you'd probably do nothing but share the gospel with people you know. Do anything you can to bring nonmember friends home, to church, to seminary. Don't be pushy, but be firm and unwavering.
We also met with Chris again, and we met some other people. We're pretty busy checking back with people and teaching at nights. This week, we are double-booked every night; we need those exchanges. John Raney and John Moran are both doing excellent, still coming to church and reading and praying and meeting with us. John Moran is coming on exchanges this week; he was ordained a priest on Sunday.

On Saturday, we went to the Great and Spacious building, Saddleback Church for an adventure. We went to one of their services. It was definitely entertaining, and the pastor was a very motivational speaker. We were stared at by a lot of people, but many people came up to us and introduced themselves and thanked us for coming. There were a couple thousand people at the church during that service, and there are several services throughout the weekend. I wish everywhere we went, people would come up and meet us; we'd sure baptize a lot more easily. The holy spirit definitely made a welcome showing when we went to our ward on Sunday, though.

Happy Fathers Day, dad! I'm sorry I didnt' get you anything, but I was with you in spirit.
We taught a Hindu lady this week. It is pretty tough to relate to them, but she said she'd read through the Book of Mormon and we could come back sometime. That's about all we could ask for.

When we went tracting on Father's day, we did a "Happy Father's day, we're sharing a message about our heavenly father, may we come in?" approach with this lady. She let us in. Then she said, "I wasn't supposed to let anybody inside." Then we saw a big hand-written sign on the door that said "Mama, if anybody comes to the door DON'T ANSWER IT. PRETEND NOBODY'S HOME." so, I guess maybe she was a bit senile. She was the only one home, but we knew we had to make the message quick. We bore our testimonies about God as our loving heavenly father and asked her who god was to her. She looked around warily for a few seconds then whispered, "I think I met him once." I wasn't sure if she was crazy or what when she said that, but I asked her to explain. She said she died once when her exhusband was beating her and she was brought back to life in the hospital. she said she saw god. When asked what he looked like. She said he had long hair and was dressed like us. We asked if he had a body. She said yes. She said her mother was there and said, "You're not supposed to be here, you're supposed to be in Hell" and then she came back to life. Crazy, huh? We bore our testimonies about Christ to her and then left. It was very interesting.

That's about it for this week. Good luck on the bike tour, Mom. Keep up the good work, everybody. Stay safe. I love you all.

Love,
Elder Myers