Some good potentials

Aug 22, 2006
Dear Family,

How are you doing? Is dad doing okay? Dad, I appreciate you taking the time to write me; I'm glad to hear from you.

Elder Peterson met Stass, eh? I don't really even know an Elder Peterson. Heh. Maybe I'm forgetting somebody. There are two elder Petersons in the mission, but I don't know any of them that would be in Ventura.

I'm sorry the pain is still going. I've been praying hard for you this week, dad. I hope now that the girls are home they're taking good care of you and making you velveeta macaroni and cheese, just how you like it.

That's cool that you got to be there and testify to Scott. Is he coming to church? My old companion, Elder Holt says that seeing the Testaments was a big part of his conversion. While he was investigating, he still wasn't sure about everything when he took a trip to
Salt Lake City and visited temple square. During that movie was the first time he RECOGNIZED feeling the spirit, and after that he knew he had to be baptized. It took him a lot (his parents weren't real supportive) to be baptized, but now he's a great missionary.

This week, we taught a Hindu man who is the Harris's neighbors. (The Harris family is like the missionaries family in the ward. They have two boys out on missions, in Australia and Argentina.) We have met him several times before, at ward activities and a scout thing, and just going to their house to talk to them. He was interested in meeting with us, so we went over and talked to him about the ten commandments because he wanted to know about them. He likes talking to us and says we can come by anytime. which is a lot, since we're always working on referrals for sister Harris.

On Thursday morning, we taught a new investigator named Jill at Sister Feist’s house, only to get a call from Sister Feist that afternoon saying that Jill was too concerned about what her family might think and that she didn't want to meet anymore. *sigh* what can you do?

We taught Mary again twice this week. she's working her way through the Book of Mormon; she's in 1 Nephi 10. She's actually understanding it really well so far, and she keeps asking "what's going to happen to those naughty boys?" Heh.

We started a zone fast on Saturday night for missionary work in our ward. Sunday night, we were fortunate enough to have the entire zone come to help with a tract-out, since our ward's work is going slow right now. So, for two hours, we had about 10 companionships in the area looking for people. We got a LOT of good potentials found from that, so we're really excited.

We're working on Alex, the 10 year old kid, through the scouting program right now. The mom, yes, does want to let Alex get baptized, but she has to take him to church first and that's out of our hands. Scouts is a good way to get him in with the boys his age, though, and we're definitely working on that.

This week, I taught a man named Nadre for the second time. The first time I had a high priest named brother Scott, and they had a very good connection. This week, I had a priest with me on exchanges. Nadre really wants to meet with Brother Scott there, and he really wants to come to church with his son this week. Potential, potential is everywhere, but these people have to take the steps themselves. All we can do is invite.

We helped a lady in our ward clean her house this week, and something amazing happened - I was grateful that I grew up doing chores. That house has 6 kids and it was SUCH a mess. Now our house wasn't always perfect, but it was pretty good, and I'm suddenly thankful for that. It's so hard to even stand being in a place with so much stuff lying around, much less live there. We did some good service, but it hardly made a dent in what had to be done. The weird thing is, nobody even asked us to do that, we just felt like we should go to this certain family's house (which we hadn't actually seen the inside of) and ask how we could help. You know how sometimes you can't tell if a thought is your own or if it's the spirit? Well, if the thought tells you to go do something good, it's probably the spirit. And even if it's not, at least you do something good. So, when you get an impression and don't know which it is, and it's good, just do it.
That's all the time I've got. I love you all. I'm praying for you, Dad.

Love,
Elder Myers