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| Volunteer fun at the neighborhood fall festival with Sis Wahlen | |
I love the email, so don't worry about what you're writing. I don't usually have anything
exciting to write or remember what I want to write, so this week I made a list
from my journal.
So last P-Day we had a white elephant exchange and a pinata. All my idea.
I decided to take charge since the week before was lame. It went really well
and the missionaries used it as a way to get rid of all the random junk that
accumulates in missionary apartments. One sister brought a bunch of photos of
herself that she didn't want since she is going home this transfer and a set of
elders brought the leftovers they got after a member took them to lunch. Sis.
Wahlen brought a skirt she didn't want, and just like we were hoping, an elder
picked it up. He begged someone to take it because he feared what would happen
if the senior missionaries that do apartment checks would think if they saw it
there. Some sister was kind enough to take it off his hands.
I got an In-N-Out
gift bag. It had a pen, a pair of socks, and a signed picture of Elder Bladh
rocking out
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| Add that how the pinata died! |
on the mop. He is from California too and his grandmother sent him
a bunch of stuff. There is only one In-N-Out here, and it is in Dallas, so I
guess some of the California elders are going through withdrawals, especially
Elder Itow.
The pinata was kind of a bust. The string kept breaking so we had
to keep re-tying it. It also had confetti in it, which we didn't realize. We
gave up
tying it and decided to throw it in the air to hit baseball style. We
tried it on one elder whom we knew would be a bit violent. We were right. He
hit the pinata and broke the stick in half. Luckily no one got hurt.
On Tuesday we had lunch with a less active like we always do. She made us
this shrimp Alfredo thing, and you know how much I love shrimp. So when she went
out to the garage to get us some water (no one drinks Texas water, it is gross),
I put all the shrimp unto Sis. Wahlen's plate. She got a little sick from
eating a double portion, but I got to avoid the shrimp without hurting anyone's
feelings!
We had many adventures this week taking the secret passage into Gleannloch
across the railroad tracks. As
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| Waiting for the train |
we were coming back one day, we saw a
train in the distance. Great. So we just waited for it to pass, but it stopped
three cars short of clearing the path for us. So we waited a bit, then picked
up our bikes and stopped at the end of the train, waited, then sprinted across
the tracks with our bikes.
On Sunday, there was a huge rainstorm in the
morning. As a result, when we went to cross the tracks that day, there was a
stream running across the only path. Luckily this had happened to me before so
I knew what to do. You put your bike as far as you can reach, then step on the
peddle and glide across to the other side and hopefully you don't lose your
balance. I made across fine, but Sis. Wahlen lost her balance and stepped in
the water with one foot. I felt for since I did that the first time I tried. A
few minutes later she almost crashed her bike. It kind of slid out from under
her, but she managed to step out, remain standing, and keep her bike from
falling hard. We decided we would get a ride home since I didn't trust her to
bike home. Another cool bike thing, I am developing the skill of ridding
without holding the handle bars and I am getting pretty good at it. I can even turn
now!
We had Zone Conference on Thursday. We got to meet together with all of
the other missionaries in the surrounding area and get instruction from
President and Sister Pingree, his assistants, and some others. We were late
because we got lost, but we luckily
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| My tan line |
didn't miss much. We had a great time, felt
the Spirit and received inspiration for our area. The American Sign Language
elders gave a short workshop on how to introduce ourselves in sign language. So
know I am learning bits of sign language and Spanish. I can do a door approach
in Spanish now and I am getting the sign alphabet down. And I thought I was
going English speaking!
On Friday we had dinner at Chili's. A member took us. Her children were at
their dad's and she didn't feel like cooking. It was fun and hopefully people
saw us and wondered. We meant to leave a pass-a-long card with the check, but
forgot.
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| The Hoffs had a great costume! |
I love you all and invite and encourage you to talk about the gospel
everyday. You don't have to teach a lesson to someone, but just mention Church
and drop
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| Happy Fall Y'all! |
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Mormon words all the time. Then people will know who you are and what
we believe. They may ask questions or not, but they will know they can.
Love,
Sister Hudgens
