This past week has been pretty crazy. So ya'll know how transfers happened last Sunday and nothing happened for us?? Wellllllll....Tuesday Sister Sheldon and I got a call from President Pingree. In our area, they are trying to make each companionship a Spanish-English. This is to increase the missionary force over a certain area. That way we have 3 companionships over the 2 branches out here. President wanted us to change with the Spanish sisters so one of us would go to Sealy and the other would stay in New Ulm (applying to the Spanish sisters too). Does that make sense?? Well we got to talking with him and he didn't sound too sure of himself. as we kept on talking about how this would play out, he paused, and said, "Sisters, I think I just received some revelation. Scrap what I just said. You are both going to trio train." That is how we got our lovely Sister Diaz. (I will tell you more about her when I get to Thursday.) Now we are the 3 musketeer's.
After that near heart attack, we spent a lot of time the next couple of days trying to rearrange the room and therefore creating space for the new sister that would be coming! In retrospect, we now realize that when we were weekly planning the previous Thursday and when we were daily planning the night before, nothing seemed right. It didn't flow or work out as normally planned. It's amazing how God works. A little later Tues afternoon we went out and taught a few families that are struggling. It was wonderful to be able to share the "Look Not Behind Thee" Mormon Message on that wonderful New Years Eve. We happily let the New Year in with a...fantastic sleeping opportunity. We woke up the next morning at our regular time and wished each other a Happy New Year.
On New Years, we again spent a little more time clearing out space for our new sister coming on that Thursday. We were so excited and prayed that as she flew in that day she would be safe. We went to Columbus and visited the Nackos' and also spoke to them about the new year. We are all to not focus on the past, but to focus on the present! This message was so touching to me. Ya'll should go and look it up. :) Later that night, we went to visit Johnny and Sister Sheldon taught him how to use the Mormon messages and General Conference part of the site. I put my hair skills to use on Geanine's hair.
THURSDAY!!! This is when we got to go and pick up Sister Diaz!! (but we didn't know her name! We only knew she was from Central America area coming here to learn English.) President called us up to tell everyone about Sealy. Here, we refer to it as "God's Country", as I have said before. So we told the other missionaries that. Sister Diaz came up and we all hugged. We were SO EXCITED!!! She is 23 and she is from Honduras. She has known English for 6 weeks now!! How crazy! She speaks it so well!!
After that near heart attack, we spent a lot of time the next couple of days trying to rearrange the room and therefore creating space for the new sister that would be coming! In retrospect, we now realize that when we were weekly planning the previous Thursday and when we were daily planning the night before, nothing seemed right. It didn't flow or work out as normally planned. It's amazing how God works. A little later Tues afternoon we went out and taught a few families that are struggling. It was wonderful to be able to share the "Look Not Behind Thee" Mormon Message on that wonderful New Years Eve. We happily let the New Year in with a...fantastic sleeping opportunity. We woke up the next morning at our regular time and wished each other a Happy New Year.
On New Years, we again spent a little more time clearing out space for our new sister coming on that Thursday. We were so excited and prayed that as she flew in that day she would be safe. We went to Columbus and visited the Nackos' and also spoke to them about the new year. We are all to not focus on the past, but to focus on the present! This message was so touching to me. Ya'll should go and look it up. :) Later that night, we went to visit Johnny and Sister Sheldon taught him how to use the Mormon messages and General Conference part of the site. I put my hair skills to use on Geanine's hair.
THURSDAY!!! This is when we got to go and pick up Sister Diaz!! (but we didn't know her name! We only knew she was from Central America area coming here to learn English.) President called us up to tell everyone about Sealy. Here, we refer to it as "God's Country", as I have said before. So we told the other missionaries that. Sister Diaz came up and we all hugged. We were SO EXCITED!!! She is 23 and she is from Honduras. She has known English for 6 weeks now!! How crazy! She speaks it so well!!
Meet Sister Diaz!! She is so VERY loving!!
After our training meetings and mission office run, we headed back to the country, our wonderful 2 hour drive ahead of us. This gave us time to get to know Sister Diaz better. I am now trying to learn some Spanish and comprehending it much better!! That night we made a few visits and had our family history class that we are STILL trying to get up and going.
On Friday, we had our first district meeting. we now have the missionaries from the Katy 1st ward in our district so there's quite a number of more people. After mtng we went out to lunch as a district. We then went on splits with the spanish sisters so that we could get to know the Spanish branch better. We already know some because of Friday night volleyball, but it was great to meet a couple more.
Saturday we went up to Bellville. We got to meet this really old couple named John and Grace Mummy. John is 97 and Grace is 88. They are, like, THE CUTEST THING!!! they were SO funny. We saw them trying to take down Christmas decorations and realized that they probably needed some help. So, we pulled over, got out, and started trying to help them. They almost didn't want the help!! Nevertheless, we helped them. When we finished, John tried to pay us $35. We tried to refuse and eventually Grace ended out practically shoving it down my shirt!! Talk about Texas Women!! We did give it back to them and again tried to explain why. They were okay with it and accepted it back.
Sunday, after a longer day at church, we went to the Turners for dinner. After dinner, We went back to Bellville to teach Michele, but this time we had a member from the ward with us, Sister Amy Huber. They recently moved into the ward. We were able to commit Michele to baptism, but she said she'd have to pray on the date (February 8). Michele sees point A and point B and she knows she needs to connect them. She's just got to understand it fully. She's a book keeper just like you mom, and I think I know why I understand the way she thinks (because it's very similar to just like you). If you could have been there!!! Oh my!! The spirit was so strong!! She knows it's what she needs to do and she is so close. Hopefully she will accept the date and work for that goal. She is strong and ready!
I know that through Christ we can do all things. He is our maker and He wants to see us come home to Him!! I pray that ya'll will take a little time this week to be grateful. Pray to have His Spirit with you. To feel His loving arms around you. To "Look not behind thee." To remember Lot's wife.
--Sister Carling
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