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| One Year Mission Anniversary! With Sisters Brown and Possin and Sis Wahlen |
Sounds like an eventful week. I am glad your car is
working and that everything is worked out. I still don't know what I did
to make such an impact on Brother Whittmore's granddaughter. I just
wouldn't try and force her to learn if she wasn't ready. Let her figure
out the consequences for herself. Tell Heidi I expect to get my skirts
back when I come home. She has never wanted to wear my clothes before, I
don't know why she wants to now! Did I suddenly get more fashionable?
Monday was a good day. I always love Mondays. What missionary or missionary family doesn't? after all of our
P-day fun (which involved us sitting in our apartment writing letters and
catching up on house work,and spending forever trying to print pictures at
Walmart), we had dinner with the Getschers. We get there, knock on the
door, and no one answers. We go down the steps, put some letters in the
mail box and try again. Still no answer. We decided to give them a
few more minutes and we wait in our car with the air on. Thank goodness
for air conditioning. I am sure it was inspired by God. There are
many days where you step outside and you become instantly sticky with sweat and
you can just be standing there and feel it drip down your back. Not very
appealing.
So, anyway, we waited in the car and it wasn't but a few minutes
until the family arrived. We had a lovely pizza dinner and then said our
farewells since they are moving on Friday. We then went walking around
and met some really cool people. One that was interested in a church tour
and another that accepted a Book of Mormon and told us we could come back.
I think she let us come back because we passed the dog test. She
said her dog only barks at bad people and that we must be good since she didn't
bark at us. We then went next door to the Guzman's and though Sister
Guzman wasn't home, we sat on the porch with her daughter and some water while
we waited for her to come home. It started raining, but you couldn't tell
because the water evaporated almost as soon as it hit the side walk. It
was an awesome day!
Tuesday was an adventure. We had planned to do the
lawn of one of our investigators. Her lawn was a bit out of control and
we were happy to help. So we called up the elders and a guy in the ward
who was working with Shirley before his mission and we set off! Only
thing was, Shirley called us that morning and said that she didn't have any
equipment. So we called Alex, and he said he had some, but he couldn't
transport it because he rides a motorcycle. We then loaded an edger and
some clippers in our little Ford Fusion, but we couldn't manage to get a lawn
mower in there. Note to all, you can fit a toddler's toy car in a Cruze,
but you can't fit a lawn mower in a Fusion. We go to Shirley's dropped
off the equipment, then we went to a near by member's house and asked if we
could borrow their lawn mower. She said yes and take two of her children
too. So she dropped of the lawn mower and her two oldest children, and
we, the elders, and Alex all got to work! The edger ran out of gas before
we could finish, but it looks a lot better now. We are going to get the
young men to organize themselves and finish the front yard and start on the
back.
Our dinner canceled so we wen tot this super awesome sandwich pace
called Which Wich and went about trying to find 25 people to talk to. As
we are walking around the park I get the most amazing and wonderful text ever
from the elders back in Katy 4: Rucker has a baptismal date for Tuesday.
I seriously did the happy dance right in the middle of the park. I
could not stop smiling. We also got 25 ITL's that day! We actually
got at least 25 everyday this week except for Monday and Sunday. It was
amazing! Rucker's date has been moved since then and it is now for
Saturday. Saturday will not come fast enough!
On Wednesday, we helped a lady in our wad clean her house.
Sister Wahlen cleaned windows while I dusted and got the cobwebs off the
walls. It was a fun way to spend the morning. We were also able to
see the really cool neighbor of one of our members. Her name is Dolly and she
has and quite the interesting life. Last time we saw her we left some
chapters from the Book of Mormon on forgiveness since she asked how it was
possible when someone has hurt you so many times. When we went over she
told us that she read over what we left her several times and each time
something else stood out. She just thanked us for the scriptures again
and again. It was so sweet and it testified to me that the Book of Mormon
really can help us solve our problems and live the doctrine of Christ. It
was just a super awesome day :)
Thursday! Official year day. We spent most of
the day in the apartment doing weekly planning and updating our new map since
the old one is now in three pieces. After weekly planning we went to
Sonic (which is right by our apartment) and got milkshakes for happy hour.
A much needed pick me up since we weren't having dinner until 7. We
then took a member from our ward tracting with us. She leaves for her
mission to Argentina in November, so this is great experience! We did
church tours at 6 since someone told us they would come, but they didn't. We were able to talk to lots of people though!
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| One Year Anniversary Cake |
We then went to dinner at the Parkers, our usual Thursday night place. Sister Parker is recently reactivated, her husband isn't a member, and her daughter is a recent convert. It is a pretty great household. We had chicken watermelon salad for dinner. It sounds really gross and I was worried at first, but it actually tastes really good. We left dinner and we had to find just one more person to talk to. We were kind of freaking out and wondering where we could go. Sister Wahlen said she felt like frozen yogurt, but didn't want frozen yogurt, so we went to the frozen yogurt place. There was a trader Joe's right next to it, so we decided to go there instead and we got to talk to a really nice girl there and she seemed pretty interested, so we gave her a card. The Lord works in mysterious ways. Never ignore a frozen yogurt prompting. Then we came home and saw the Oak Ridge sisters leaving the mailbox. They live in our apartment complex and came out the same time I did. They invited us to come to their apartment and celebrate our year day with cake, ice cream, and balloons which one of their mom's had sent them. It was really fun!
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| One Year Anniversary Party |
Friday was district meeting and President Mortensen
came to ours. A little intimidating. I think our district leader
elder McKell was about to have a heart attack before the meeting started he was
so nervous. He did great though and we all learned a lot. We then
had some lunch and went to meet with the bishop of the first ward to talk about
the work in the area. We had an awesome meeting with Shirley and then
tracting and dinner. It was 8:30 at night and we still needed 4 more
people to talk to and we were running around with our heads cut off again
trying to find 4 more people. After visiting the Kroger and the CVS, we
managed it and felt relieved going home.
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| It's really HOT here! |
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This squirrel was just laying there. It was creepy.
Another one charged us.
(Tamra- I posted that for you to remind you of those squirrels in Idaho)
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Sunday was awesome as usual. The second ward had ward
conference so that was cool. No time for lunch this week though, that was
kind of a bummer, but that just means I had extra room for dinner! We had
a great dinner and then went to Autumn Leaves and sang. A less active
member of our ward brought a guitar and mixed things up a bit, it was really
neat. We then stopped by a super awesome part member family and she fed
us second dinner. It was too good not to eat.
I hope life is good and all is all, that y'all are reading
your scriptures and praying everyday!
Sister Hudgens
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| Bow Ties are Cool-- from my One Year Anniversary Party |
