Merritt, Shayden

Welp the hard part has happened. I've been struggling I'm not gonna lie. Defintely been the hardest week of life! My trainer left me, and my new comp is very different from Sister Boyack. It's been rough, but I love my new companion even though it's been hard!  I do know how important this work is! I understand the need for every bit of it. But it's so hard! I gave a sacrament talk on building zion through missionary work and I talked about how important it is. Satan tries really hard to stop this work, and he has been attacking me for the past week. And yeah I've really wanted to quit and to go home because it hurts. But I know I can't, which is why it hurts so much! I understand that this business of saving souls is serious, and we must do whatever is within our power to save our Father’s children. I'm weak right now, but I've noticed my testimony is stronger. Withing the past 4 days I've wanted to quit, but my testimony has been stronger than ...

Sooooooo this week has been insane, absolutely crazy!!  To start it off, last Monday Sister Boyack and I went sledding on a cardboard box with a garbage bag over the top of it. That was soo fun ahhah! Okay so we have been teaching this guy and his name was Bradley. One day out of the blue we get a call from Bradley and he was looking for a church. He said he's never really been religious and he wanted to come to church this next Sunday. We were thinking what the heck, God must really be blessing us by sending Brasley to us. Well a few days later we had another phone call with him and we were planning on teaching him the restoration. But no, homeboy didn't even know who Jesus was.  At this point Sister Boyack and I were thinking that this was a little weird, but we just kind of kept going with it. A few days later we had another phone call with him, and on our phone call we asked him questions and he just sat there, he doesn't answer he just sits there. We asked him if he...

Okay this week went by so so so fast. Like it's crazy, I've been out in the field for a month now, and a missionary for almost 2 months, like guys, my mission is almost over ;)       We had a day full of miracles this week, so I'm mostly just gonna talk about that day and what we did that day!       So it was a Thursday and we had district council that day! District council was very fun, and very needed! We went over all of our friends we are teaching and did roleplays. We then eat lunch together, so it's all really fun! After district council we decided to go see our friend Angel, she just moved here from Washington and she was a referral from the Elders that used to teach her. So we kind of decided beforehand that we were gonna invite her to be baptized, because on her timeline it said she had been taught all the lessons. Well we get there and start asking her if she knows what the restoration is.. she said no.... :( we had to change our game pl...

Hey everyone, I don't really have a lot to say today, I'm sorry!  A lot went on and it was a really good fun week! I'm still happier than I have ever been, I love working hard!  Haven't had a whole lot of success lately, but I'm being patient!  We got to go to the Bristol speedway and that was super cool! I'd never been to a speedway, it was huge!  I love my companion so much! We are just getting closer and closer, and transfers are coming up in like two weeks which is scary! She's been in our area for 3 transfers after this one, which scares me because I don't want her to leave me  I want to stay in the Marion/Abingdon area so bad!! We will see what happens though! Marion Virginia is so pretty! I love all the neighborhoods here, I would live here in my future life if it wasn't so far away from family! The houses here are decent sized and they have the biggest yards, which would be so much fun to have!  Something funny that happened this week was we ...

Hi lovers My week was good how was yours?       SISTER REDDERS This was the highlight of my week, Sister redder has the gift of discernment. Most of you probably don't know what that means, but the gift if discernment is when you can see spirits, hear them, and communicate with them. We went and had dinner with her and she talked to us all about her gift.  When we were there she told us that there was 6 spirits in the room. 2 over mine and Sister boyacks shoulders, 4 over by Sister Pack and Sister Goldbaum. I was shocked when she said this, I got the chills and they didn't go away. She told us that they were all kind of circling the room, trying to figure out why we were so curious about everything we were asking her. She explained that she can see them everywhere, they are all over, some good, some really bad. Most of the spirits she sees are there to bug her, they bug her to get there indexing done, so there temple work can be started. Sister Boyack asked...