Merritt, Shayden

Hi y'all :) I had a good week! Something awesome that happened this week was that Leigh and Scott came to church. First awesome thing about that is that us and two other members got them to commit to coming. Second awesome thing is that the Sunday school portion of the meeting was a Linger longer and soooo many members went up and introduced themselves to Leigh and Scott.  Third thing is that Leigh and Scott are low on money right now, so they haven't eaten much recently, but they got fed really well at the Linger longer Fourth is that we hardly even talked to them at church. (I know that may sound a little bad, but it's not don't worry) the members literally took care of them the whole time they were there. Our ward is so awesome and soooo missionary mindset here, I love the Bearden ward! They are awesome missionaries! I think a big thing that I have seen the Lords hand in is blessing my family and answering my prayers. It's crazy how quick I've seen answers to...

Happy Monday everyone, hope you all had a good week this week!  My week was not great but it also wasn't horrible! My sweet companion hasn't been feeling too well this week and so we have laid low almost all week! We definitely got to bond and grow closer as well as rest up, so there are ups and downs to the week. An awesome miracle that we saw though was that we got to have a lesson with our friend Kyndra! We haven't had a lesson with her in almost a month. This was seriously so awesome! KYNDRA IS IN ALMA 40 in the book of Mormon! As soon as we got there, she pulled out her book of Mormon to show us some verses she's liked. We talked a lot about having faith, prayer, and leaning on God during our hard times. Kyndra said that she had stopped reading the book of mormon and her life started to go downhill. She said that she started thinking back to what helped everything go right and she said it was the Book of Mormon! So she pulled it out again, started reading it, and c...

This week was a blast, I loved it!!  We got to go to Cookeville this week to film for the social media page! It was like a two hour drive but it was fun to go to that side of the mission. We spent the whole day filming people's testimonies! IT WAS THE BEST! The Spirit was super strong all day. Yay for testimonies Since we're in Knoxville, we're at the mission office a lot. I made it a goal to have all the senior couples be my besties and man oh man mission accomplished. I love them with all my heart. The senior couples are such a blessing. I LOVE THEM!! We had exchanges this week and I got to be with Sister BOYACK! SHE was my trainer and she is seriously such an amazing missionary and I love her so much. We talked lots about memories from exactly a year ago now which was when we were companions and we had the funnest exchange haha. I love all the missionaries I get to serve with, they inspire me so so much. The TKM is filled with such great people and I'm so grateful to...

Hey y'all...:') This week has literally been the funnest week ever!! I loved every minute of it. We had so many awesome lessons this week and the birthday was a blast.  I just love being a missionary. The message we share is so sacred and special. I am the happiest I've ever been and there's no other place I'd rather be. Tennessee is literally the promised land. I'm forever grateful I get to serve here!! I've met the best people, served with my bestest friends, and have grown so so so much!!! I am just feeling so thankful!!! We had an awesome lesson with Leigh and Scott this week! We had dinner and a lesson with them at brother and sister Chuggs house and it was really well, but I'll admit that it was really long. We taught them the plan of salvation and that was all really new to them. Leigh asked us what will happen to her family when she gets baptized and sealed in the temple what will happen to her family. Then we had to explain Temples. They were as...

Something I've learned this week is that God sends blessings when we work for them. They don't just come, yes of course he wants to bless us and send us all the love he can give us. But that's not how it works haha I wish it did. I know that God sends us blessings when we put in effort, whether that be praying, serving, or just loving on people. I know that God is just waiting to bless all of you, in fact he is wanting to bless all of you! It's his job! He loves you and so do I! Heres a cool story from this week: me and Sis Erekson went to go find someone who lived in an apartment complex on Saturday. We showed up and the apartment number we had just did not exist. I joked that if Heavenly Father wanted us to knock on a door, it was going to be hot pink. Then sis Erekson joked it would have Disney decorations all over. We got walking around and it came time for our dinner appointment so we started heading back to the car. On our way back, we saw an apartment that was to...