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| Bubbles! |
This week was really good. I am happy to have Sister
Goodrich as my companion, she is great. We get along well and have a lot
of fun together. We love to laugh!! Monday was a pretty tame
day. We did all of our p-day tasks and then went to the Drexell building
and played card games with another set of missionaries. Then we had
dinner at the Davidsons and I had my first meatball sub ever. It was
delicious, with homemade marinara sauce. We then went to visit a family
and they had a non-member friend there. Poor kid is going to think we are
stalking him. We talked to him at church yesterday, and we saw him again
today. We aren't, I promise! We then had a lesson with another
family we are teaching because their son is turning 8 soon. It was a
pretty good day.
On Tuesday Sister Goodrich started physical therapy.
Her knee caps are too high on her legs and cause her a lot of pain while
walking. The physical therapist is really helping with it though.
Plus we get to talk to a non-member whenever we go!!! That is at
least one every week, which is often more than we usually get to talk to.
We don't run into many people that aren't members. No one is
outside because it is too hot/humid or they have fled for a month. Seems
to be a common theme around these parts. After the therapist we came
home, studied, ate lunch and then went to an appointment with one of our 8 year
olds. We then tried visiting people before dinner, to no avail. Why
is no one home!!! Don't they know that the missionaries are trying to
uplift, encourage, inspire, and bless them? It is ok though. We find
things to do. We dinner with the Larsens again and afterwards we went
home so that Sister Goodrich could do her exercises. The doctor says she
has to do them three times a day, so I make sure she does them. Then we
went to the priest's activity. We were invited to come and talk about
preparing for missions. It was a good night.
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| Temple Day |
Wednesday we woke up at 4am in order to pick up a set of
sisters and get to the temple by 6:30am for a special session with our mission
president. Made for an early morning! We got to the temple and I
realized that I had forgotten my temple recommend. Luckily the temple
president was able to get it all settled and I could go in. That would be
terrible to go all the way over there so early in the morning for nothing!
We had a session with President and Sister Pingree and a bunch of other
missionaries and then afterward we had a special meeting with the temple
president in which he explained a few things about the endowment session.
It was a great experience and I hope that I can remember everything I
learned!! We then commenced our travel back to Katy, stopping for lunch
along the way. We then came home and took a little nap. If I was
going to have to function and drive all day, I needed it! Then we did our
studies, and went to dinner at the Kjars (say care). Brother Kjar likes
to smoke meat as a hobby, so we had a really good dinner, then a lesson
afterward. We were able to see a family where the mom is semi-active
afterwards and it was a good visit. A very long and productive day!
On Thursday we visited a few members, volunteered at the
food bank, walked around the mall so I could try and introduce Sister Goodrich
to our potential investigator and awkwardly ran into the elders (Sister Davis
and I always wondered when that would happen), and did our weekly planning,
nothing too exciting. Friday we went to another physical therapy session
for Sister Goodrich, had a lunch appointment and a lesson with a member family,
and just visited more members. If you don't realize by now, we visit a
lot of members here since we don't have very many places we can go to contact
people. We love the members and encourage them to do member missionary
work. If they give us their friends and family to teach about the restored
gospel of Jesus Christ, then we won't have to bother them all day! I
don't think we are a bother though and I know the members are really trying to
help us. That night after we got home Sister Goodrich sat on her bed and
told me her life story and I in turn told her mine. Good bonding time and
we get to find out why each other is the way we are.
On Saturday we helped a part member family move. My
arms are still sore, but it was good. There were a couple men from the
ward there along with the elders and they were all surprised that I was working
as hard as I was. I was not just going to sit there and do nothing!
Of course I was going to help. We then went home, had lunch and
studied, then a member picked us up so that we could go to Conroe for the
baptism of three people Sister Goodrich taught in her last ward. It was
really nice. On the way home the member bought us dinner and we decided
to eat outside. While we were eating we say two guys, Keith and Raul,
from our apartment complex that we have talked to about the gospel a little
bit. We didn't even know they were friends! We had given Raul a
Book of Mormon and were following up. Then Sister Goodrich said that
Keith could read it too. He said he didn't have one, so we ran and got
him one and he said he would read it in a week. I hope he actually does!
Sunday was another missionary farewell. We are going to have
a lot of those in the coming months. Are there any missionaries being
called from our ward? Anyway, the talks were good, and the boy who is leaving
was very good at laying it all out for anyone who wants to serve a mission what
it was they needed to do. A girl also spoke on the roles of women and it was
very good. The youth in this ward are so strong! After church we
ate lunch, studied, and then went out. We were able to visit with
members, have dinner and then go to the open house/farewell for the soon to be
missionary. Then we stopped at the Claunch home and talked with them for
a while. They always seem to make non-traditional food and Brother Claunch
made this really good smelling Chinese food, so we had a little helping for
second dinner and it was really good. First dinner was really good, and
so was second. Sometimes I wish I had two stomachs so I could eat all the
delicious food!! Alas, I don't, so I will just have to be content with
portion control.
Have a blessed week y'all!
Sister Hudgens
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| Had to take a picture- you don't see this on a license plate souvenir in California |
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We saw a chicken in one of the neighborhoods in our area.
I almost hit it because it was crossing the road!!!!
So now I know
why the chicken crossed the road...to get to the bayou!
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