Tyler, the 9 year old missionary

August 29, 2006
Dear Family,

How are you doing? I'm doing pretty well. I hope the physical therapist is helping dad. It's a big relief to know what's wrong and that he will be able to get help for it. I'm glad the food storage is helping out. Hooray for food storage. Someone asked me about food storage this week, actually, so I'll be happy to tell them how it's helping our family.

Next week, Wednesday is P-day for us, so don't expect a letter until then.

Last week, we had people at church just because invitations were extended. We have new spiffy invitations to church that we gave to all the youth we could and committed them to inviting a friend to church.

Yesterday was zone conference, it was really good, and gave some good motivation. Zone conferences give such a high to the work. Also, last night we went to the stake presidents house for dinner and a gospel discussion about the Abrahamic covenant and the spirit of prophecy. It was really good, and now we're ready to go out and convert some people.

We contacted 5 referrals this week. One of them was a media referral, and the person hadn't lived there for 6 years. Just so you know, it really wastes the missionaries time when you call the number pretending to be somebody else just to get the missionaries over there. The right way is to go through the referral phone number.

Nadre didn't end up coming to church. Nobody did. But it's okay, we're still working hard and trying to find people to teach and helping the members make invitations and get out of their comfort zone.

We taught Sunday school to the teenagers on Sunday. It was really interesting. I wanted to tie them all up and tape their mouths shut. Good Sunday school teachers are really admirable and hard to come by.

Anyway... honestly not much of note happened this week. Just a lot of knocking on doors and trying to find people.

OH! One thing did happen that was real interesting. We got a referral for a 9 year old from the Kirtland visitor's center- Tyler Feist in our ward had referred this kid named Noah, the visitor's center had called, and the dad agreed to let us come over. So we had Tyler (also 9) write his testimony in the front of a Book of Mormon and come over with us to take it to him.

Noah is Jewish, and unlike most jews we meet, his family is VERY observant. He and his dad were wearing yamakas; and it was their Sabbath so they didn't have any lights on and had nothing in their pockets. I really saw an illustration of the law that Christ fulfilled, or rather the strict hedge about the law that was the law of Moses. Too bad they didn't have the spirit of prophecy, or they'd know that Jesus Christ is the messiah they've been waiting for. Noah didn't accept the Book of Mormon, but they were complementary about Tyler wanting to share what he believed. I told them that this was Tyler's idea, and we didn't push him to introduce us to his friends, and they were really nice about it. I asked him a bit about what they believed, testified a bit, and that was that. A little weird, yes, to have somebody not interested at all to let us in, but good all around. Now Tyler has to find somebody else to give the Book of Mormon to.

Well, that's about it. I hope you all have a great week. I love you all.
Love,
Elder Myers