Merritt, Shayden

Hey everyone, I had a very good week this week! We worked super hard this week and I've been exhausted, but also I'm soooo happy! We didn't have anyone at church yesterday and we didn't find new people to teach, but we worked so hard! I know that God will guide us to those he needs us to see! We had two days this week where we had two dinners right after each other. It was brutal! I absolutely hated it! I think I gained 45 pounds in one night! Thanksgiving was good! I'm thankful for all those that have ever loved me, or my family, or my friends! On Saturday night we had a friendsgiving with a bunch of people our age and they weren't members, it was interesting because I didn't really feel like a missionary, I just felt like I was hanging out with friends. It was super fun though!  On Thanksgiving we played in a turkey bowl and it was soooooo much fun! I love playing sports  I have been quoting the first vision a lot recently and it's super spiritual, I l...

Its been a good week! It's been the bussiest week of my life. I have never worked so hard in my life. I am so exhausted every day, when I hit the pillow, I'm out. It's great! So I got transfered to the Bearden YSA area and the Bearden area is one family ward and the YSA is all of the Knoxville and Cumberland zone so we really have a big area and a lot to do!! We have been super super super busy! And we are on the social media team so we have to do lots of that too so that's absolutely crazy! We make ads for people to sign up to meet with the missionaries. So it's all so fun! My new apartment is awesome! It's really big and I love it! I have my own bathroom which hasn't happened yet on my mission! The only negative is that we don't have a washer and dryer so that is sad! We are teaching some really fun people! I don't know them all yet, but I'm learning and getting to know more and more about them! Miracle in BEARDEN The other day a member texted ...

Wow this was an absolute quick week! It was very good too! Last Monday we went to Panther Creek Park and played volleyball and ultimate Frisbee and then we were gonna go back to the church to play card games, but we wanted pizza. So we were all arguing about who was gonna buy the pizza and Elder Hales (senior missionary) walked over with his arm in the air with $40 in his hand. We love the senior couple! They are the best! We went to a lesson with them this week and then after that we went to see this inactive member and Elder Hales introduced us as his daughter's, it was the sweetest thing ever :)  We went and did service for sister King on Thursday and she is my most favorite person ever on the planet! I love that women with all of my heart! We raked her 3 million leaves in her front yard! She also made us pancakes and they were huge! It's was good!  We heart attacked the sisters in our district this week. We just wanted to let them know that we are very grateful for them so...

Hey y'all! I hope you had a good week! I had a great week, it went by pretty fast! I'm just gonna tell you about some highlights that happened this week. So to start off spiritually, Sister Erekson and I fasted this week, but we did a 24 hour fast instead of a skip 2 meals kind of fast. I thought it was gonna be so hard, but it wasn't that bad. I know why though, I prayed for strength to be able to go through this full fast. Something that I have learned recently is that we can receive strength through the enabling power of Jesus christ. So that's been cool We found this awesome family this week, they are literally soooo cool. We made a new goal to find a new progessing teaching pool. And we have done a lot better at finding this week. One day during daily contacts I felt urged to just start messaging as many grey dots that seemed somewhat promising. And we texted this lady named Maria, we got talking to her and asked if we could come share a message with her and she wa...