Merritt, Shayden

Okay y'all, so Christmas eve was probably the best day I've ever had as a missionary! Something that really stuck out to me that day was that we went and saw all the families in our ward that have missionaries out serving, it was the sweetest thing ever. It was really emotional for them because we told them "we wanted to stop by because we know you're missing a missionary, so we thought we would bring you some missionaries" They were all so happy, but it was also a very emotion moment for them. I'm grateful for the things I get to do as a missionary.    I was emailing my president If it wasn't for my Savior this work wouldn't exist. I'm full of gratitude. My heart is filled with the lord's love for every single person I come in contact with, pretty cool how that works. I just know the Lord would do ALL he could to teach these people about the gospel if he could. It's funny though because he can, he's just using us as his tools to do the...

This week went by super super fast! It was a really good week and a lot of funny things happened!!   One funny thing that happened this week is kinds gross lol but my brother said I had to put it in my weekly so here you go.  So we had been out all day and we went to a members house for dinner and we really had to go pee. Well I let my companion go first and then I went, well the toilet wouldn't flush. I was freaking out because this is my absolute biggest fear, for the toilet not to flush. Well I was sitting there for a while trying to get it to flush and it wouldn't. Ugh so I decided just to grab the toilet paper that I used out of the toilet, kind of disgusting... I know. But it's not the first time I've had to have pee on me (long story, ask triston if you want to know) anyways so I did that and threw it away. Other part of the story is that this toilet was a bidet. I have never used one of those, so while I was trying to flush the toilet I was messing with the b...

Okay this week was super good!! We got so much done and it was a quick week! One of the days this week I got to go back to Morristown and film the district that is there. I got to see homegirl Sister Erekson, I absolutely love her! She's an amazing missionary and I love her so much! It was fun to see people there that I love and so it was such a fun day!  We have two friends that we are teaching and they are reading in the book of Mormon and there are in Mosiah chapter 13, for those that don't know that much about the BoM, it's like the middle of the book. I have never had friends that I teach read that far into the book! They also really want to get baptized which is cool, but...........they have to get married first though:)  Yesterday in the YSA I was sitting next to this girl that I love so much and a guy came up to her and asked her out because he said he needs to get out of the house. SHE SAID NO! Haha it was real awkward! I felt bad for the girl and felt bad for the ...

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you had such a good week! My week was crazy busy and crazy fun and crazy tiring and crazy spiritual. So all around CRAZY. Heres a miracle that we saw this week: MIRACLE IN BEARDEN! So we had a little lesson with our friend Kyndra today! We went over the restoration again and that was awesome, but the best part is that she has read clear up to JACOB 5. How crazy is that, but it gets better... Her fiancé that we have never taught, is also reading the Book of Mormon on his own, HE IS ALSO ON JACOB 5. #scripturepower.  That was cool, I've never had one of my friends read that far in the book of Mormon! We went and interviewed a bunch of kids in a different ward on Thursday and it was so fun! I was the one to ask them all questions and they were all so cute! Some of the questions were "have you been naughty or nice this year? What nice things has Jesus done for you? How do you feel on Christmas morning? How does Jesus make you feel?" things like tha...