Friday, May 20, 2011

May 16

Howdy from Woodville, TX where am I SO in love with missionary work, it blows my mind.  Seriously, it's the coolest thing ever. 
 
Monday was a pretty normal p-day, just getting lots of important stuff done and relaxing a little.  We watched "Legacy" at the D*'s while I dealt w/ some school stuff online.  Preparing for my future post-mission life is really strange, but the Lord is helping me not to stress about it or dwell on it.  I'm grateful for that.  We had dinner w/ the L* family that night.  I love them so much and so grateful for their faithfulness and examples.  They fed us some great lasagna and salad and grapes.  We laughed and talked about how eating and visiting in their home is like a little piece of Utah.  We also had a great post-mothers day discussion about the power of righteous women.  We also visited Frankie and Donna that evening and had a great lesson w/ them.
 
Tuesday we biked out to Heritage Village for service, but they actually didn't need us that day.  Then we got a phone call from Bro. Scott M* telling us he was doing some work at the home of a less-active member that was hard to get ahold of.  He figured it would be a good excuse for us to drop by and visit if we stopped by because we saw his "Service by Scott" truck outside.  We decided to act on his inspiration and we biked all the way down to Colmesniel to just that.  It took us about and hour and a half.  He was still there when we arrived though and we had a great little visit and lesson getting to know Sis. Rosalyn S*.  Then we did some tracting in Colmesniel too, and visited the M* home for a little bit.  We passed by a home where a mother and her son from India smiled and waved, so we stopped to talk to them.  They didn't speak English...  but the woman excitedly called her husband who does speak English and had us talk to him.  If he's home next time we're able to stop by, we will talk to them some more.... The son was probably about 5... and he started yelling at us all of the sudden and as far as I could tell cursed us in Indian...is that what you call the language they speak in India?  I feel so ignorant. He did a lot of spitting in between the cursing... that's probably bad right?  I have no idea what really happened, but the mom really liked us.  We laugh everytime we replay the scenario- you probably had to be there.  It was a pretty hot and humid day, so we did a whole lot of sweating, though the ride back to Woodville was a little shadier and breezier... w/ more uphills...  We felt pretty accomplished after all that biking and talking to people.  The McC*s fed us dinner- pork loin roast, boiled potatoes and green beans fresh from the garden, and turtle pie for dessert (the kind w/ caramel and chocolate... though I would not be shocked to be served actual turtle in this area). 
 
Wednesday we spent our hour on mormon.org.  It's the best.  We had lunch w/ Frankie and Donna who made us a delicious pot roast, w/ mashed potatoes and gravy and corn and rolls.  They also made brownies to eat for dessert while we played a game of Farkle.  We had a great lesson w/ them from the Book of Mormon.  In the afternoon we went up to Spurger and went tracting for a couple of hours before making visits to Papa S*, and Grampy O*.  We had dinner w/ Earl Wayne and Linda O*.  They fed us yummy spaghetti (w/ deer meat in the sauce- YUM!) and texas toast and salad and chocolate pie.  Odoms rock.
 
Thursday we dropped by to visit the W* family.  Ayisha was the only one home/awake and she was really sick.  We had a short little visit w/ her and told her to let us know if she needed anything and that we'd check on them in a few days.  We made some copies and the church and tried to visit a few more people.  We made our weekly stop at the nursing home- good stuff :)  We grabbed lunch at La Enchilada- so good, and then headed back to our apt. to get weekly planning done. The G*s fed us dinner that night- pizza and salad and fresh baked chocolate chip cookies.  We had a great lesson w/ them also about the importance and value of righteous women. 
 
Friday was district meeting in Jasper.  Our zone leaders came too.  Sis. Bouwhuis and I led a discussion together on the principle of love.  We all went to lunch at Subway after.  We spent the afternoon working in Dam B / Town Bluff area tracting and such.  We visited the R*s- an awesome part member family and had a great lesson w/ them.  We scheduled a church tour w/ them for this week. We have some cool new potential investigators and had a great time out working in the sunshine.  It's been sunny, but surprisingly cool for this time of year here... basically perfect weather that would probably seem hot if I was living in Utah. 
 
Saturday was a hard day, but we handled it together.  I love Sister Bouwhuis.  We did find some really cool new potential investigators while tracting.  And I did enjoy some of my favorite ice cream- Bluebell Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough- so it wasn't a bad day, just hard.  We also had a good visit w/ the C* family. 
 
Sunday we had church- awesomeness.  We helped teach the lesson in priesthood on missionary work.  The bretheren in our branch our so supportive of our efforts.  We ended up teaching youth Sunday school at the last minute and that was fun and went well.  In Sacrament Mtg.  we had a guest speaker from the Stake High Council- Bro. Robert Pontius.  For those of you who aren't my immediate family and don't know, he's the dad of two of my best childhood friends in Beaumont who are both out serving missions now.  That was cool.  We also had 5 different lessons after church all of which were very effective, but I don't have time to write about.  It was a great week!  I'm so very grateful for the guidance of the Holy Ghost helping me to accomplish the Lord's will in this great work.  I'm just an instrument.  I'm amazed what the Lord is able to do w/ me as I surrender my heart and will to him.  I love being a missionary!!!  And I love all of you!!!
 
*~Sister Pilmer~*

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