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| Put Your Face in the Book of Mormon |
Well, I get to email today! Yay! It was a good
week, but with transfers today I am a mess, but I will get to that later.
Last Monday was good. I spent most of my P-day making
a Restoration puzzle for a lesson with a recent convert. The lesson went
really well, so I was glad. We also stopped by to see an older lady in
our ward. When we visited she said missionaries hadn't been there in 15 years!! We were glad we stopped by and we are going to make sure
that doesn't happen again.
We were planning and getting ready for bed
when we hear an alarm go off. It sounds like a car alarm so, we aren't
that worried. It keeps going on so I went outside to make sure it wasn't
ours. Only thing was, it got quieter as I went outside. I am
standing, staring at the parking lot, when a woman from the floor above asks if
I can help her because the alarm in her apartment won't turn off. I told
her I would be right back, ran to get Sister Wahlen (got to stay with your
companion!), and we went to see if we could help. I crawled in the air
vent and tried to disconnect it, but I couldn't so we ran outside to see
if we could find a maintenance man. Just as we walked out, we found one!
He came in, put in the code, and the alarm turned off. Everything
was so quiet after! We then turned our attention to the woman. She
had just moved in and I could tell she was shaken up. She was a little hard
to understand because of a thick Eastern Europe accent, but we talked with her,
calmed her down, and got to know her a little bit. I attribute the whole
thing to the Spirit. I was prompted to go outside where she found me and
we were able to go outside just when the maintenance worker was driving by.
It was amazing.
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So sad she is going home! But happy for her
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On Wednesday we did service at this horse ranch that does
therapeutic riding for mentally handicapped kids. We moved furniture and
equipment and cleaned in anticipation of the lessons starting next week.
It was lots of fun! We went tracting with a member and we met this
guy named John. He saw us and immediately told us to come in, sit down,
and gave us some water. He then told us lots of stories that jumped
around a lot and in the middle of all that told us he had been to Temple
Square, read the Book of Mormon and found some good revelation in it. He
was a really funny guy though! It was Sister Wahlen's official 18 month
mark, so we went to Sonic before turning in with the Oak Ridge sisters to
celebrate.
Thursday morning we helped a service missionary serving from
our ward to go through and pack up her things because she is moving. It
was pretty fun. Missionaries are experts at getting rid of stuff and
packing since we move so often! We got done sooner than the lady she
lives with expected, so she took us all to lunch! It was great, she is so
nice. We then went home and did weekly planning. It was really
heart breaking since we both knew it would be Sister Wahlen's last. It has
been her last everything all week, so that has been hard.
Friday we had zone meeting and learned about some of the
cool changes happening in the mission. President Mortensen is holding
monthly meetings in different parts of the mission each
month, so that will be cool.
Maybe I will bust out my flute again. Too bad I don't have any
music. I will have to find some. We tracted and visited people all
day and then we came home and switched things up to go on exchanges.
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| The last time The Woodlands 1 and 2 are together! |
I was in Conroe all of Saturday with Sister Harrison.
Conroe is very country and mostly opposite of the Woodlands! In the
morning, our appointment fell through, but we walked around the apartment
complex and talked to three people and got return appointments with two.
We had some lunch and then got a little lost trying to find our way to
our next appointment. We helped this lady clean her house and then read a
little of the Book of Mormon with her. She fed us some soup around three
which is good, because we were so busy the rest of the night that we didn't get
time for dinner! We got lost again and went almost all the back to the
Woodlands.
We tried by someone, but they weren't home, so we went to go
see if some one else was home and they were. We were able to sit on his
porch for about an hour talking with him. Some Jehovah's Witnesses had
come around a few weeks before and given him a little booklet, so we went
through it with him and explained some things, read to him out of the Bible,
and taught him how to pray. It was awesome! We then met with
another lady and taught her the Restoration and she just soaked it all in and
it was great! She saw exactly why we needed a prophet today and was so
glad to hear that there are prophets! It was great. We then had to
speed back to the church for a lesson, but they never showed up. So we
grabbed my things and made our way back to The Woodlands to switch back. I was
so glad to be back. As good as any exchange is, I am always glad to be
back in my own area with my own companion.
Sunday was a little bit crazy. We have been told that
we shouldn't go to both wards because we are stuck in church all day and don't
get enough time to go out and do work. So we went to all of first ward
today and second ward sacrament meeting. First ward was great. They
had a special sacrament meeting all about families and the theme continued
through out the day. It was great. Second ward was also awesome and
some really great things are happening with the members there.
After we
left church we went to a park and did our studies and then went tracting.
The last house we knocked on this lady let us right in and talked to us
like she knew us her whole life. We were afraid we had tracted into a
member by accident again. But no, she wasn't a member. She was really
interested in hearing our message and we have an appointment to see her
Tuesday. We did our usual singing time at Autumn Leaves and then we took
pictures with a member family. That night Sister Wahlen did some more
intense packing and we found out that the elders serving in our ward were being
transferred. I am so upset!! Don't take my elders and my companion
from me! (it got worse, but I am getting to that).
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| P-Day w/ Elder Blakham, Siste Wahlenm and Elder McKell |
I was determined to make Sister Wahlen's last P-day the
best, so I organized a P-day potluck, assigning everyone to bring things that
started with the letter "P". So we had pancakes, pringles, pop, and peach
and pina collada popsicals. It was lots of fun to get together as a
district. Too bad we waited so long! It was lots of fun. Our
dinner appointment canceled, so we decided to have frozen yogurt and french
fries for dinner since neither of us was too hungry. Bad
move, we both
felt a little sick later, but nothing too bad. We then went contacting
before an appointment with a member. We had a little FHE with her and
then we went to a recent convert's house so Sister Wahlen could say goodbye.
It was a late night for all!
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| P-Day w/ Elders Thomas and Schinn |
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| New Companion Sis Heaps |
Now today. Today was hard. A lady from the ward came and took us to breakfast at IHOP (good) and then took us to transfers.
Sister Wahlen got all ready to go home (bad) and I found out my new
companion is Sister Heaps (good). She was in my zone in Klein, so I
already know a bit about her. She is going to be really good here. She is one
of the Sister Training Leaders for the zone, so I will be going on exchanges a
lot! (not sure if that is good yet). I also found out that they split the
area and now we only cover second ward (bad). I am so overwhelmed!!!!!!
There are brand new elders in the first ward, I have a new companion, and
the area has split. I know have to figure what to do about dinners and
investigators and who we can work with and who we cannot. I have already
burst into tears twice this morning. poor Sister Heaps, she is getting me when
I am a wreck!!! Everything will be ok, but I am just going to be crazy
for a few weeks until we figure out how everything is going to work now. Please
please please pray for me!!!!!
Love the crazy, emotionally unstable,
Sister Hudgens
