Wednesday, May 4, 2011

May 2

Howdy from Woodville,TX where it is SO much warmer than Utah!  (I currently love that... but I know as the heat and humidity REALLY set in I may have slightly different feelings ;D )  It's actually been a pretty hard week, but Sister Bouwhuis and I have tackled it together w/ faith, and have learned a lot.  I'm short on time today... so this may be lame, but I'll try.
 
Monday we had a sweet zone p-day in Vidor.  Megan O* came w/ us and gave us a ride, and we all had lots of fun.  The D*'s fed us a yummy dinner and then we went to visit Sis. Frankie C*.  Frankie was really sick, so we sang hymns to her while we waited for Bro. D* and Bro. K* to come give her a blessing.  Her blessing was powerful, and she's doing much much better now. 
 
Tuesday we rode our bikes up to Heritage Village for service and lunch, then up to the nursing home for our weekly visits.  We biked over to the library to spend our weekly hour on mormon.org and then rode around trying to visit w/ investigators.  We were able to see a few and contact some cool people.  The M*s gave us money to go out to dinner since they had to go out of town, so we decided to try La Enchilada.  It's really close to our apt. but I'd never been there- it's delicious.  We enjoyed our meal, contacted a couple of people and then met Sis. D* who gave us a ride up to Spurger.  We had a lesson w/ Bro. and Sis. S* and then Sis. Nita B mock gave us a ride over to Odomville.  We had a lesson w/ Chanice at the Odom's home.  Megan and Betty O* were both there and shared wonderful testimonies.  It was an effective lesson, but Chanice isn't really searching yet... seeds have definitely been planted though that she will remember and turn to in the future.  She's such a great girl, and we're happy to know her.  The Odoms gave us a ride home after.
 
Wednesday we drove to Kingwood for Sisters' training.  It was an AWESOME edifying, spiritual, fun, meeting and we enjoyed some great lasagna for lunch.  There are 7 sisters from our mission going home this transfer, and since we're all crazy girls it was a little emotional too.  After the training we went to the mission office and said our farewells to Gertie Mae, our redneck Malibu w/ a dying transmission. We drove home in a very nice Corolla.  We named him Cordell... like Cordell Walker- Texas Ranger.  I know my brother doesn't believe cars should have boy names and he's not alone, but don't knock Cordell- he's tough like Chuck Norris, don't mess.  The G*s had us over for dinner that night and fed us delicious meatloaf, mashed potatoes, salad, and carrot cake for dessert. 
 
Thursday we did a whole bunch of weekly planning as well as visiting and teaching investigators and less-active members.  We had dinner w/ the s (Tolly and Connie) who fed us ribs and potato salad and zucchini and apple pie for dessert.
 
Friday we had district meeting in Jasper which was an awesome learning experience.  The Spirit really helped us learn and grow as a district.  We all went to the awesome Novorosky's restaraunt for lunch.  We all loved our food- my bacon avacado grilled chicken sandwhich was fairly amazing.  We went to contact a media referal we recieved on the way home.  Turns out the address is the jail and he really is in jail... but the guard happily agreed to deliver a Bible, Book of Mormon, and some pamphlets to him for us.  That was interesting.  That night Sister S* picked us up and took us to her home for dinner where we had awesome baked potatoes and chicken and salad for dinner.  Afterwards she took us to the highschool where we participated in the Relay for Life and had some awesome contacting.  We had a lot of fun there and it was way effective.
 
Saturday we had Sophia come up from Beaumont and work w/ us for the morning.  (young single adult girl preparing for a mission- I've mentioned her in the past)  All our plans fell through, but we did go visit Frankie and Donna and then go tracting, and it was great.  Sophia is absolutely incredible and is going to be such a great missionary.  We went to lunch at Subway before she dropped us off at the church and headed back to Beaumont to take a final.  Earl Wayne and Linda O* picked us up and took us to dinner at Senor Torro's that night and that was great.  After dinner they dropped us off at the church where we met w/ Sis. Anna M* and two of our new investigators Eddie and Tanya L*.  We had a church tour that was quite awesome and spiritual.  Eddie and Tanya accepted the invitation to prepare for baptism on June 4th.  They are an amazing family.  We're REALLY excited about them. 
 
Sunday everyone we're working w/ struggled and ended up not coming to church... except for Frankie C* who came for the first time in years!!!  We were so excited about that!!  Church was great and afterwards Karen Martinez, a sweet 8 year old in our branch, was baptized.  Sis. Bouwhuis and I were asked to sing "When I am Baptized" at the service, and it went really well.  We went up to Warren and Ivanhoe that afternoon and had visits and lessons w/ less-active members.  We had dinner at the D*'s- yummy enchilada casserole, and then went to visit Frankie and Donna again.  Frankie felt so good about coming to church, and is planning to continue coming.  She's doing awesome.  We also stopped by Tanya and Eddie's w/ Sis. D*, and had a great short lesson w/ them. 
 
I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!! Our Savior lives and loves us.  This HIS church restored to the earth.  The Book of Mormon is the word of God.  I love you all!!!!

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