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| Huntsville Cemetery |
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| Sam Houston Monument |
Ok, I don't have lots of time today. We won the zone
competition and the mission surprised the zone activity on us today. We went
to Huntsville and looked at the Sam Houston statue, saw some other historic
stuff, and then the elders, some sisters, and President jumped a fence and
played soccer while Sister Mortensen, Sisters Liljenquist, Bates, Neidirt,
Davis, two of the Mortensen daughters, and I went and looked at the antique
shops in historic Huntsville. It was fun but took longer than expected!
So brief week in review. We got cornered by the
mission president and after talking with us and promising blessings, he
committed us to find (tract) between 6 and 8. We saw a part member family
and then asked if she knew anyone's door we could knock on. She said she
didn't know anyone, but pointed to a house and said they were new. So we
knocked on her door and she was on the phone. Usually that is the point where
they tell us to leave, but she hung up the phone and invited us in. We
were able to teach her the Restoration and she is awesome!
On Tuesday we helped the Klein Oak elders with one of their
investigators. June struggles with depression and since Sister Liljenquist does
too, she said we would go talk to her. When we got there June was sitting
in a dark room crying. An hour and some awesome talks later, she had
stopped crying and when we left she was smiling and she looked like a totally
different person . We helped a recent convert bake for a bit and when we
went tracting that night no one opened their door. All except for Kurtis
(I keep trying to call him Craig, but that is not his name). We were
able to talk to him for 20 minutes and he seems solid.
On Christmas Eve we saw a less active, had a lunch
appointment, weekly planned and then we did some caroling. Didn't work
out quite like we thought, but now we know.
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| Christmas Day with Sis Liljenquist |
On Christmas day we took our gifts to the Ruckers and opened
them with their family. I love the bracelet and the box. The other
package you sent still hasn't come yet, so you might want to check on
that. We then had breakfast of pancakes and deliciousness. We then
went to another member's house for second breakfast and games. We played
Mormon charades and I beat children at checkers. Then I got to talk to
the best family ever and that was great. We then went to the house we
were having dinner at and were there for the rest of the night because dinner
wasn't ready for a long time. So we got to make awkward small talk
for a few hours. Good Christmas though.
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| Skyping Selfie |
On Friday we had district meeting. Then we tried by a less
active/recent convert family. We were able to have a good talk with them
and make a plan for them to come back and go to the temple. They have so
much promise! We had dinner at home and then we did some tracting and saw
a member and made plans to get the YSA sisters in contact with her daughter.
We saw some investigators and recent converts on Saturday
morning and then stopped by potentials. We then went to see a member and
while we were there our dinner canceled. The member we were visiting said
we could stay for dinner and that was awesome. We ended up being there
for a long time, but it was good for her.
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| Missionary Gingerbread, the blue candy represents the Book of Mormon |
Sunday we had our missionary meeting and ward council. It is
freezing in Texas now (not really, but 42 is pretty close). Lots of rain
and cold. Luckily we were at church :) We had good lessons and meetings and then we had a good appointment with an investigator the sisters
hadn't been able to meet with in a month. She is studying the Book of
Mormon on her own, footnotes and index and everything, it is pretty
awesome. We then were able to have dinner and then go out with a member
to an appointment with one of my favorite investigators. She totally
needs the church, she is already making changes in her life and she is
awesome! She is totally getting baptized, she just doesn't realize it
yet.
Well, thanks for being awesome family! I talked to
President and he said I have to move my application into his inbox, so I will
see if I can figure that out today. Love you!
Sister Hudgens
