The Week With Lots Of Highs And Lows

Hello everyone! Hope you are all doing well! This week was pretty good and we were super busy and had lots of lessons and tours where the spirit was so strong and we made like 3 different people cry so that was cool. Had a meeting with Elder Bednar which was so so good! We also had some pretty sad moments this week too. None of the people we had on date are going to he baptized this month which is a big bummer. It sucks when you come to love someone you are teaching and they just don't follow through or don't wanna be baptized anymore. Buttttt we are starting to teach some new people and there are still tons of positives! Even when people slam the door in your face, or tell you they aren't gonna be baptized even though you already planned everything and reserved the font, there are still so many happy moments.

We saw a MASSIVE rattlesnake Tuesday night when we were finding at a park. It was like 3 feet long and just slithered across the path we were walking on. My comp had literally said she wanted to see a snake not even 5 mins before and then a huge rattlesnake popped out of the bushes. It was crazy. We also found 2 scorpions outside our house using little black light flashlight which was kinda freaky. 

We had a service activity where we helped at a triathlon and it reminded me of when my family would do triathlons when I was a kid and made me miss running a little bit. On the way over I got my first aggressive driving from tiwi. Hit the brakes a little too hard oops. But for those of you who don't know, tiwi is the little machine that the mission puts in missionaries car to make them drive safe and beeps at you if you speed or drive crazy. 

Saturday we had a meeting with the one and only Elder Bednar. It was so awesome and I feel so lucky that I was able to go! He let people from the crowd ask questions and him and some members from the quorum of the 70 helped answer them. The meeting was for perspective elders but we took one of our friends so we got to go too. His name is Sebastian and he is blind and sells brooms on the side of the road and he is so cool and nice. It was so cool to be in the same room as one of the apostles and learn from him. He said some things that were exact answers to my prayers and questions recently even though the questions that were asked were different from my questions.

We had a lesson with this guy named Juan yesterday and when he found out we were 19 and 20 he immediately said "what are you doing right now?" and then really wanted to have a lesson with us so we scheduled a lesson and went with some elders in our district cuz we were scared he was gonna be creepy. He was chill tho and we are gonna keep meeting with him. It was a super good lesson and he asked questions literally word for word from PMG so we had the answers ready to go. 

There's were lots of sad moments this week too, like when we found out the family we've been teaching is no longer going to be baptized this Saturday. That was a huge bummer but hopefully some day they will come around. On Wednesday we drove 25 mins to knock a grey dot and pulled up to the house and there was a HUGE Trump flag waving in the wind and my comp goes "probablemente Inglés" but we still knocked it and it was an english lady who said "thank you" and then slammed the door in our face. I've recently learned that english people are way meaner than spanish people when we knock doors haha. 

Some tender mercies from this week are a lady came into the vc and bought us ice cream and an old man paid for pur groceries even though we told him we have money, he insisted on paying for us. Everyone is so generous and it makes us feel super lucky and grateful to be missionaries, even though it's not easy, it's worth it. We had transfers on tuesday, everything stayed the same but we got a new car and it has been so fun to drive! There's lots more but those are just a few. 

My spiritual thought for the week is gonna be a quote from the meeting with Elder Bednar so you guys are probably the only people who weren't in that meeting that get to hear this quote. He said "we leave the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost doesn't leave us" and I like that because I have never thought of the Holy Ghost like that. I've always thought the Holy Ghost leaves us but it is our own thoughts and actions that make us not be able to feel the spirit. But regardless of how far away we may feel from the Holy Ghost, it is always there, even if we can't feel it. We can always access it as long as we are worthily seeking the blessings that come from it and if we have a desire to become better.

Ok love you all and hope you have a great week! Feel free to send me a letter cuz letters are cool or send me an email and I will respond when I can. I love hearing from you all!

Address

Sister Avery Dyer
2525 N 32nd St
Mesa, AZ 85213

- Hermana Dyer





Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Christmas On The Mish And No More Lights!

Image
Hello everyone! Espero que tuvieron una buena navidad! Miss you all! It was a fun and crazy week. Christmas on the mission doesn't really feel like Christmas but it was still really fun. We had our last day with the Christmas lights and not gonna lie I was ready for it to be done. It was so so fun and there were tons of miracles but it was super tiring. Also it's almost 2025 now which is crazy! We were in the vc a lot this week and I saw so many people I know! We got to give out lots of book of Mormons as usual, some in crazy languages which is fun. Also explained the temple a lot which never gets old. I love the temple so much. After pday ended last week we filled in for some sisters who were sick and couldn't come into the vc so we weren't even supposed to be there that night but I saw two families I know and it was a huge tender mercy. God knew I needed that.  On Christmas we went to the Porters who are a senior couple at the vc and we watched escape from Germany and...
Read more

"You Could Explain Yourself A Lot Better If You Spoke English"

Image
Hello everyone! Hope your week was fun and you all had a good Halloween!  The title of my email is a quote from one of our lessons from this week with a guy we just met named Erick. Absolutely brutal comment. But it was funny and made us laugh. I guess my spanish skills aren't as good as I thought...but regardless of how bad my spanish was, the lesson went really well! Which is awesome and we were super grateful to have a real lesson and we have high hopes and lots of good goals for this transfer. We also had a awesome visit with Raquel. We dropped cookies off and heart attacked her a while ago but just haven't been able to get in contact with her for a long time so this was a knock or drop and on the third knock she opened the door and let us in. She's the sweetest old lady ever and she said that everytime she talks to us she feels really peaceful and that we are like her nietas or granddaughters and her angels. She's so awesome!  We dressed up as elders for the ward h...
Read more

Christmas Zone Conf And Miracles!

Image
Hola a todos! Espero que todos hayan tenido una buena semana!  Ya casi es Navidad! Christmas is in 2 days but it's still 75 degrees haha. Arizona is crazy. I am so so tired from Christmas lights. Fighting the urge to fall asleep every time I sit down somewhere. Ive also gotten so behind on journaling rip. But the holidays are fun so it's worth it. Knocked so so many doors this week. Had a friend named Diego come to church yay! Overall a great week! We had zone conference on Tuesday and it was so fun! We did a live nativity, had a "snowball" fight, ate good food, and got to hear lots of good spiritual messages. In our zone breakout we talked about how we can truly rely on Christ and give all our struggles and trials to Him and how He can help us through them. I love zone conference and it's always exactly what I need to hear. We knocked tons of doors this week and had some silly interactions but saw lots of miracles. We were knocking these apartments at like 8pm an...
Read more