Howdy from Woodville where it's colder than I would prefer. This has been an eventful, exhausting, wonderful week... we'll see if I can remember it well enough to write about it.
Monday was a fairly normal preparation day- our 1st in weeks!! We were so excited to have that and to be getting transferred. While vaccuming our car though... we did manage to lock the keys inside of it. If anyone knows why a Malibu would lock itself w/ the keys sitting inside- please let us know, because we sure can't figure it out. Luckily Bro. T* D* doesn't live too far away, so we walked to his place and he came to the rescue w/ his car unlocking tools and skills. The D* family also fed us for dinner that night- we just love them.
Tuesday we had a really good morning making visits and tracting some... not so much because it was very fruitful, but because we were very dilligent. It just felt good to keep going even though it was hard. Then after lunch we had to go to Beaumont for a Dr.'s appt. for Sis. Mapa. I also asked to have a blood test run that I was supposed to do as a follow up to my ER visit... and ended up having several tests done and being at the Dr.'s for many hours. Some of those test came back abnormal which stressed me out a bit. After leaving Dr. Stovall's office (at least I get to see the Stovalls, that part is always fun) we grabbed some dinner at Taco Bell. Then we met up w/ the Beaumont Elders so I could get a blessing of comfort and so we could return something of theirs that we had. We got back to Woodville pretty late that night, so we were happy we had such a productive morning.
Wednesday we spent a pretty big chunk of time helping an elderly couple take down their VAST collection of Christmas decorations. We then stopped by the nursing home to visit some sweet members there. We did some fun tracting after that before heading to C* H*'s for a lesson. C* has a long ways to go, but the Spirit is really helping us to discern his needs and help him. We went to the G*s' for dinner. They fed us chicken spaghetti. After dinner we met our investigator J* W* at the church for a lesson w/ E* O*. We taught the Word of Wisdom and she really soaked everything up. She really wants to set her life right.
Thursday we met E* and J* at the church along w/ Bro. L* and Bro. D* who gave J* a priesthood blessing to help her quit smoking. We had a brief lesson w/ her after and it was so great. We LOVE her and are so grateful that the Holy Ghost allows us to teach her so effectively. She's progressing so much and is still very excited about her baptism currently scheduled for the 28th of this month. After that we spent a couple hours weekly planning and being interrupted by lots of random things we had to take care of. We ate some lunch and then hit the road for Beaumont. We had to stop at AutoZone and get "Gertie May" some new wiper blades and then go back to Dr. Stovall for another follow up visit for me. This visit was slightly less nerve racking and shorter. All in all Dr. Stovall still wants to figure out some things, but I've still been feeling just fine and am going to be just fine. After the Dr. we went to Chic-fil-a for dinner, which was quite delightful. Then we met up w/ young single adult member in Beaumont, Sofia Gawu. She took us to visit some people the Elders asked us to visit and we had a great time! The only person we ended up being able to meet w/ was Sis. Schafer of the Beaumont 1st ward, but it was such an uplifting "this is where the Lord wants us" experience that it was alright w/ us. Then we headed to the Hayes home to spend the night. (We stayed to work in Beaumont and spend the night, because w/ my Dr.'s appt, and Friday meetings it didn't make sense to go back to Woodville. President Moldenhauer approved us to do all of this.) Bro and Sis Marshall and Jill Hayes are old family friends and we had so much fun catching up. Even though they agreed to let us Woodville Sisters stay in their home and I even talked w/ Sis. Hayes to verify when we'd come over, they didn't realize it was me til we came. It was a really fun sneaky surprise!
Friday we got up, got ready, enjoyed breakfast and more chatting w/ Sis. Hayes. (Bro. Hayes had a surgery to do at 7:30 so we just got to see him off.) We had interviews w/ our mission president at 8:00... but we were misinformed about the location so were a little bit late... we were waiting for him in Beaumont and he was waiting for us in Port Arthur. We drove to Port Arthur, had our interviews, companionship study, visiting w/ missionaries, district meeting, and training meeting w/ all of Beaumont and Orange Zones. All of that was pretty edifying and awesome. We stopped at a BBQ place in Evadale for lunch w/ a few missionaries heading back the same direction as us. Then we got back to our area and did some tracting and visited a couple of members. That night we attended the Spurger HS basketball game to mingle w/ the community. That was fun and effective. I crashed w/ a migraine that night when we got home and was happy to be back in Woodville.
Satuday was filled w/ productive work and Spirit led lessons. We saw the Lord's hand a lot that day.
Sunday was great because J* came to church! And I spoke in Sacrament Mtg. and it wasn't too bad! And we ended up being led by the Spirit to places we needed to be. And Sis. S* fed us AWESOME sloppy joes for lunch. And we had dinner at the D*'s home where we ate chili and watched the CES fireside w/ some YSA's and J*! And we played a game w/ all of them and it was so perfect for J*.
It was A GREAT WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love you all!!! Our Savior lives and loves us. God is our loving Heavenly Father and He desires our happiness. Trusting in and courageously following His will brings about miracles!
*~Sister Pilmer~*
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