Elder/Sister Meyers

Drummers and dancers

Our dear friend, Maljini, invited us to attend the Colombo Nawam Maha Perahera on Monday with her and another friend of hers, Theona. Theona has been teaching German here in Sri Lanka for twelve years. She will be returning to her home in England in a few months.
We loved Perahera. It was a huge parade. There were thousands of drummers, dancers, fire twirlers, three legged men dancing, Buddhist monks, Buddhas, and anything else that you might think of. There were 45 elephants in the parade. It was awesome watching all the lovely sites and listening to so many sounds. Many that were foreign to us.
The parade took 3 hours once it got started. This is the first time that we have been in such an enormous crowd. I think this is the biggest crowd that we have ever been in in our whole life. It was a very enjoyable and exciting time for us to experience.
We visited with Sister Margaret on Tuesday. She is a very small woman. She is less than five feet tall. She is always smiling. She doesn't speak much English but you can tell what she is trying to say to you. Her home was about an hour away from us. She had prepared some food for us to eat, Manoka (something kinda like a potato) and Sambal(coconut with chili powder and onions). I really liked both of them. Elder Meyers had problems eating the spicy Sambal. We enjoyed our time with her and she was happy that we had made the trip just to see her.
We continue to teach Brother Kumar. He has many problems in his life and is having a hard time committing himself. He is reading and praying and coming to Church. We are happy about that.
We are also teaching a family, Andrew, Ayoni, and Ann. They are a wonderful family. They feel they don't have time to read the Book of Mormon. We all know that they must read and find out for themselves if they are going to be converted. This week we gave The Plan of Salvation Discussion. I shared our experience with the death of Asher and showed them his picture. I told them that I knew our Heavenly Father lives, Jesus is the Christ and we have this wonderful Plan that will help us be reunited with those that have died. I could feel Asher's spirit as I shared this with this special family. We want to see them become an eternal family but they have to do their part in order for that to happen.
Saturday we had a terrible thing happen to our Sister Jasmine. Her husband beat her and she was sent to the hospital. We went to visit her. She was talking about going back to him. We encouraged her to pray and seek help from the police and her family. Elder Meyers gave her a blessing and another lady in the ward saw this and asked if he would pray for her, so he did. Sister Jasmine has two beautiful little girls. I worry about all of them but I guess this has been going on for years and Jasmine just keeps going back to him. She must be strong and make life better for herself and her girls. Our hearts are sad when we see things like this happening to those that we love.
After Seminary/Institute we had our monthly Faith in God Activity. The 8-11 year old primary children learned the 4th Article of Faith and everyone of them were able to pass it off by the time the activity was over. We also took all of the primary chairs outside and washed them as a service project. They had a blast working, talking, and laughing together. A few even got a little wetter than necessary. The activity ended with German Chocolate Cake being served. Everyone enjoyed the treat! Many had never had German Chocolate Cake.
Our message for the week:
Believe in God; Believe that he is, and that he created all things both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.(Mosiah 4:9)