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Another great week in
Staten Island!! Weeks are flying by faster and faster. It's crazy!!
From the beginning...
last Tuesday we decided to look up a few potential investigators and they lived
in the same area. So we parked the car and started walking! Fun time
walking in the humidity! haha we started talking to a Jehovahs witness who was
actually very nice and after about 20 minutes of us discussing scriptures
and beliefs, it started pouring! We laughed our way back to the car
as we became completely soaked and then of course once we get in the car, it
stops haha crazy weather but I really do love it.
Another amazing
experience was on Wednesday! The bishop gave us a list of three people who he
has never heard of but their records are here (it happens a lot) so we looked
up one of them and it turns out her husband has been working with us through the
hurricane relief organization that we do service for every week! the Lord
is definitely leading us to people who have been prepared. He respects mormons
a lot and loves what we do as missionaries. We just have to find a time when
they are both home (she's a flight attendant) so that we can start teaching
them!
We met with
Jessica again this week. One of the first things she said was, "so if
I"m going to be a member of your church, what rules or things do I need to
follow?" Holy cow. She is just so prepared and ready for this gospel. She
isn't quite sure about the whole no coffee thing but we are going to talk more
about it this week. Erina is going to Mexico for the next two weeks so we are
just praying like crazy that she will keep reading the Book of Mormon while
she's there. I know it's all in the Lord's hands. We just have to do our
part and share what we know is true. Which brings me to my new love....
One of my favorite
parts about New York is that the summer nights are full of fireflies!!! They
are the coolest bugs ever and last week I even caught one!! Silly? Yes. But I
am a missionary so of course I will apply fireflies to the gospel :) haha
What's cool about fireflies is that you can't see them very well until they
light up and a lot of the time they gather in a certain area or yard. As
you walk down the streets you will just see these little lights start flashing
all over and seriously, I feel like I'm in disneyland walking through a fairy
forest hahaha sorry. okay so how can we be more like fireflies? well first we
need to recognize the kind of light we have to shine. We have the light of
Christ! And it's so much brighter than we can imagine. 2nd we should not
be afraid to shine our light no matter how dark the world may be. The
fireflies only come out at night. We too should shine our light even when
others around us aren't shining theirs. Is this making sense? I hope so.
Another thing we can learn from fireflies is to surround ourselves with other
fireflies because that way our light will shine brighter together! I just
love fireflies. I love that the Lord has created animals and nature and other
things to help us apply the gospel and find light in this crazy world. Are
their things that bring darkness and unhappiness and sadness? of course! but
there are also so many opportunities for us to see the Light and share the
light and that's were true happiness and joy are found. Look for the
simple things around you that bring light. I know they are all around you. I
challenge you to also find the people the Lord has prepared in your path and
then help them stay on or get on the path that leads us back home to our
Heavenly Father. I promise you the Lord will be with you as you do so because I
know he is with me and every missionary and every member who bears witness of
His name. I love you!!! Have a happy 4th of july!
Love, Sister Meyer
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