Merritt, Shayden

Hey y'all, I don't really have a ton to update you on, my comp got sick on Tuesday and so we were inside up until Saturday. Which that sucked...bht it's over now. Funny thing about Tuesday my comp was THROWING uppp lots... She got it bad haha I got yelled at a couple times (note to self, don't talk to sis AC when she's sick) I felt real bad for her though, I was pretty worried about her! On Wednesday there was this moment that was real memorable for me and idk why. I was studying on the floor by the door to our deck. I opened the door and it was about 68 degrees, the sun was beaming down on me. It was heaven on earth (except there was no beach) idk it was something about warm weather, the sun, my scriptures and some solid classical music to study too haha. I got to see sweet sister Erekson on Wednesday also and that made my heart whole. I just love her with all my heart, she's for sure heaven sent  Saturday I got to go on exchanges and that was awesome. Sister F...

Hey everyone,    This week was nutz    So not a whole lot happened, just one big thing happened this week and it affected us the rest of the week haha. So we have a crazy neighbor. Her name is Brenda, Linda or Debra. On Tuesday she tried to break into our apartment at about 9:45 at night. Luckily our door was locked so that she couldn't get in, but she would ring our door bell 7 times knock 30 times, try to open the door for about 30 seconds then she would go back into her house and slam the door. Super scary so we talked to our mission president and some other people like our landlord about it.    But then Homegirl literally assaulted somebody outside of our apartment and we watched it all happen. We called our mission president and figured out what we should do and we called the police station and gave our report.     So we were supposed to get a new apartment but aparently Brenda wasn't taking her meds so she was going insane. Now there is some...

Wow what a crazy week!! So I moved to North Carolina this week and I love it here! I'm surrounded by mountains in this area and it makes me soooo happy, reminds me of home (of course the mountains aren't as big here, but they will do). Saying goodbye to those that I love in past areas is so hard. It's like I get part time families in each area and then I have to say goodbye. It's tough, but it's also the best thing in the world. I love all those that I've met and I'm so grateful for the time I got to spend with them:) Last Monday our district went to Raising Cane's for lunch and then we we to the institute building and played some ping pong. It was super fun, I love that district.  Sister Martinez came to Knoxville to take us to get ice cream. I love that woman, she is one of the best things God has ever made. Tuesday was the day of goodbyes, saying goodbye just drains me, not one of my favorite days. We had the weirdest dinner appointment ever. This cut...

Hey y'all it's been a really good week this week, it went by quick. A couple of bad things happened to me this week though, I'll tell you about them! First things first, I fell in the shower one morning. I'm okay, it didnt hurt too bad, but my body is/was sore after. A really really cool miracle that happened this week is this HOLD UP, MIRACLE IN BEARDEN... Y'all will never guess what happened to us today hehe:) So today in my personal study, I was studying a children's song called God's Daily Care and one of the scriptures it had with it is psalms 68:19 that scripture verse says Blessed be the Lord, who daily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Selah. When I first read that I had no idea what Selah meant, so of course I looked it up on word web. Jump to later in the day, we were visiting someone who had been taught in the past and we were actually standing at her door for a while. Well the ladies daughter and her friend answered the doo...