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| Sisters Heaps & Hudgens |
I am glad you got my card!! I was hoping I timed it
right and you would get it on your birthday. The day before is close
enough.
Last Monday was good. Not super eventful. We did
the regular P-day stuff and I wrote lots of letters. My hope is always
that the more letters I send out, the more I will get back. Doesn't
always seem to work out that way. That night we tried by a less active
with one of the YSA's in the ward. We pull up and get out of the car, and
a car pulls out of the driveway we are going to visit. Instead of walking
up to it we turn around and walk the other way and as soon as it rounds the
corner we turn around, only to find out the person we wanted to see was in
the car that just left. All around awkward.
On Tuesday I had the most intense and awesome personal study
of my life. I began the book of Ether in the Book of Mormon. My
mission president had said in a recent zone conference that whenever someone
goes up the mountain in the scriptures, it is like going to the temple.
Read Ether chapter 3 with that thought, and your mind will be
blown. Mine was. I couldn't wait until companion study to tell Sister
Heaps what I learned. After studies we went to an old people home and
joined a group from the ward that was singing. It was fun. The
place had all these animals all around. Dogs just wandering around.
It was pretty cool. We spent the rest of the time until dinner
walking around, trying potential investigators and less active members.
Before we went home for the night we dropped off cookies at the apartment of an
investigator we hadn't seen for a while.
Wednesday we volunteered at the horse ranch and spent most
of the time picking paddocks. In other words, cleaning out the manure.
That evening we went tracting and found a new investigator named Molly.
She is the sweetest thing!!!! She is so nice and just looking to
strengthen her faith in Christ. She even offered to make us lunch when we
came back on Friday.
On Thursday we volunteered at the Interfaith food bank and
then did weekly planning. We finally got all of the 1st ward stuff out
and got it all ready for the elders. Took a while, but we got it done!
We then went to dinner with one of the recent converts and
had the next new member lesson with her. She is a talker, so it went longer
than expected, but it was mostly on topic :)
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| They didn't ride
horses in medieval Texas, they rode armadillos |
Friday was a super amazing day! We went to an
appointment with a less active we had tracted into a month ago and brought a
member with us. It was amazing. She had gone through basically
everything he had. Their stories were so similar! The way they met
the missionaries, their falling away, unanswered questions, and reasons for
their desire to come back were almost identical. It was a great
appointment and she did most of the talking and we were simply there as guides
when he had a deeper question. It was awesome!!!!! We then had
district meeting and our appointment with Molly. She is so sweet and so
ready to learn. That was also a great appointment. Afterwards we
went tracting and contacting. It was a super awesome day.
Saturday was the ward boating activity, so we figured most
of the members wouldn't be home. As a result we tried by less active
members and tracted for most of the day. We did get in to see one of our
investigators though. She is quite the talker too and I am pretty sure
she talked for a hour and a half straight without stopping to take a breath.
It was good though because she expressed how much this church has helped
her and her grandson, whom she is caring for.
We went tracting that night
in some apartments trying to contact our 25 people. The 25th door was
golden!!! This woman opened right up and let us in and was so nice.
Her son was adorable as well. He offered us something to drink and
before we left he gave us a cute little hand puppet he had made for us.
It was the sweetest most adorable thing I have ever seen. I am so
excited to go see her again next Saturday.
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| Hand puppets |
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| Hand puppets |
Sunday was good. Good talks and great lessons.
One of our investigators even came to church!! I love it when they
do that :) Our dinner calendar has been a little empty as of late so we
had dinner at the church. I am pretty sure it is because Sister Heaps is
gluten-intolerant. It is fine though. I am however, getting a
little sick of peanut butter and jelly. Have any lunch on the go
suggestions?
After our dinner we went to Autumn Leaves and then took a
girl who is leaving on her mission soon to an appointment with a guy we had
tracted into the night before. It was great! Bob is so prepared.
He went to the St. Louis temple open house a few years ago and
requested a Book of Mormon. He was just so open and had lots of questions.
It was a really good appointment. Afterwards we talked to the girl
we took with us for a while about all the things she was worried about going on a
mission. She feels like Satan is hitting her so hard right now and feels
farther away from God than she ever has been. That is what Satan does.
Every time something good in our lives or for our lives or others is
about to happen, he tries to tear us down so we won't receive those blessings.
Some times I just want to give him a swift kick, but then I remember he
doesn't have a body to kick and I do, so I am at peace.
Today when we came to the computer lab it was full so we
switched things around and went grocery shopping first. Sister Heaps convinced
me to buy the HEB brand Moopotamia milk, it is the best thing ever. It takes like
vanilla ice cream. I am in love with this milk. I am sad that we
don't have HEB in California because no other milk will ever live up to it.
That is all.
I love being a missionary!!! It is so amazing!! This
church is true!! The gospel is true!!! The priesthood authority and
Christ's original church has been restored to the earth in these latter
days!!!! Do you know what that means??? This is the best news
ever!!!
Sister Hudgens
