Dr Who Mystery Solved

Sis Hudgens & Sis Davis

It is going to be weird going home to a new bathroom.  Hopefully dad won't make it so high tech I won't know how to use the shower!!  It has been a long week, or at least it has felt that way.  I suppose it is just as long as any other week!

Monday was really chill and we didn't really do anything.  I did get to catch up on my journal and letter writing though, so that was good I suppose.

On Tuesday we had zone conference.  It was really nice.  President Pingree gave really good training on pleasing God more than man.  It is so important to put God first and to not worry about if your decision will be popular, only about if it will be right in the sight of God.  It was just a really nice day :)  We then went to dinner at a members house.  While I was eating I looked at my hand and saw a mysterious purple dot.  I had no idea where it came from and I had Doctor Who flashbacks.  A short time later I reach for my water and there is another dot!!!  I am a little concerned by now and Sister Davis has noticed the multiplying dots on my hand, and the member notices us exchanging frantic looks.  She asks what the matter is and if there is something on the chair.  There was!!  There was some marker on the chair and when I would put my hand on it, it would rub off on my palm.  Doctor Who crisis averted.

On Wednesday we met with this 70+ year old lady named Grace.  She was a referral from a member in the Katy Mills ward.  She lives in that ward, but wanted sisters to teach her, so guess who the elders called?  Their favorite sisters of course!  This is a great woman.  She is mostly homebound with a lot of health issues, but when we taught her the Plan of Salvation, she said this is what she had been looking for all her life!  It was amazing!  We are meeting with her again this week and are going to ask her to be baptized. Only thing is, she is moving with her kids to the Czech Republic next month.  No idea why, the aren't even Czech, but it just means we will have to move fast and hook her up with the missionaries there. Hopefully they speak English...

Thursday was a long day.  We visited one of the beehives in the ward at the hospital.  She had to have surgery for an infected cat bite.  Apparently her cat got stuck and then when she tried to help it, it accidently bit her.  It didn't get better when they thought it should and when they took her to the doctor they said she needed surgery to get all the infection out.  Kind of intense for a cat bite, but that's the truth.  So we visited her in the morning since we thought she would probably be lonely.  We had a nice visit and we were able to give her some of the goodies that people keep giving us.  We think of it as giving it to someone who could use it more than us, not getting rid of all the junk food people give us.  We then went to the food bank to volunteer as usual, but they were having a yard sale fundraiser so we went outside and helped.  We mostly just made sure people didn't steal things.

Friday we walked a lot and saw some members.  We had dinner with the Cooks, one of my favorite families in the ward.  While we waited for the piaa to arrive I had a light-saber battle with their 8 year old son.  Pretty sure I won.  It was fun though :)   We then 

Mini Mission for Camille-- let's be clear, she CHOSE to sleep
 under our desk.  We offered her the couch.

  picked up one of the YSA in our ward, Camille for the 
 start of her mini mission.  So from Friday night to tonight, she is a missionary, one of us.  She has been going to appointments with us for the last few days and helping us teach.  It is weird to be in a trio.  Not quite sure how I feel about it.

On Saturday, guess what, we walked a lot again!!  We were low on miles since we had to go to zone conference.  We tried to conserve them as much as 

Mormon.org

 possible.  So we visited members, packed a lunch and ate it at the park, then we did some more chalk signs in the bayou.  We did it on one closer to the road this time and wrote "did u think 2 pray" and "mormon.org" It turned out really good this time and you can totally see it from the road.  Hopefully people actually see it and look at mormon.org.   Only thing is, usually when we do this chalk thing, we do it at like seven at night. This time we did it at one in 

Did U Think 2 Pray

the  afternoon.  Not our best idea.  Sister Davis burned her hand and Camille burned her feet, all from the cement. I was fine.  Felt bad for them though.  So we went to a members house and got some burn cream for them.  They are much better now.  We also had an appointment with Madilyn and we picked out the songs for her baptism and finished the lessons.  Things are going really well with her and she is a lot more outgoing now, it is great!!

Sunday, we had a few appointments, and we had two at the same time so we split up.  I went to teach one of the active families in the ward with Sister Cook and Sister Davis went with Camille to a fireside for all of the young women thinking about going on missions.  I had a good time with Sister Cook and she said that it came at a time when she really needed it, that studying for this lesson helped cushion some bad news she got this week.  So that was really cool!

Hope y'all are having a good week and that you enjoy the holiday!!  

Love Sister Hudgens