HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY HOLLY!!
Last week was spring break week here, the weather has been bipolar yet again, and it is also the Houston Rodeo time...Man!! do I wanna go to a good ole' Texas rodeo!!!!! Looks like I'll have to come back and go sometime.
Monday night was interesting. This man was very concerned for Sister Wahlen and I...all in all, he thinks we are going to hell because we worship Joseph Smith and not God. He told me LOADS of things about my faith that I had no clue about. We talked for about 5 minutes, the other 40 were spent being reprimanded for our faith and not following the one true God. It was a little crazy. I had a headache by the time we were through and my head was swimming a little. We went by Sister Jordy's for our scheduled appointment a little late because of it. We were all able to laugh a little at our experience once we sat down and thought about it.
Tuesday morning we went to Maggie Dryden's. The little quote I was able to get from her is that, "there is no fence sitting". How true it is!! Man cannot serve 2 masters!! Your actions determine who you serve...God or Satan. There is no middle ground. The rest of the afternoon was spent visiting potentials and trying to invite people to learn more about the gospel. We talked to 14 people and none said the were interested. They Lord's timing is perfect and I guess it's none of their times.
Wednesday morning we went tracting in the neighborhood just north of our on Boudreaux (boo-dro). We walk through the construction site of the 249 to get there...I'm sure we put a smile on people's faces each time we do. ANYWAYS. People told us they were good with Google and their internet. They had no need for help. After lunch, we went up to the top of our area. This is like walking through the fores...woods! (Just for you Forrest.) The houses are big and if feels like I am walking down a country road up in Payson. Talk about beautiful!! There's this one community and we have a member who lives up there...the Hoff's. We were scheduled for dinner with them and went up early to try and contact people. People just aren't interested in family history up there or something. Those who were home (about 10) said thanks for the info and to have a good day. Dinner at the Hoff's was excellent! It made up for the whole day. They have quite the personality and one of their daughters is contemplating a mission.
Thursday is our planning day as usual. Somehow we ended out planing AND starting to reorganize the area book. This took a little while longer than planned...but it needed to be done. We got a long list of potentials to go through. We visited a couple members and dropped off a gift to Michelle for her birthday. She's now 14. We haven't been able to see Henry and his family at all the past 2 weeks because they have been busy.
Friday we had district meeting. we talked about the Word of Wisdom more. It's amazing what you can learn from that. If something specific is bad for your body, like gluten in my case, then you shouldn't have it! It's that simple. Little enlightenment on that subject. We went tracting again. Seems like nobody is home hardly ever but it is what it is. It was Aly Macie's birthday and we dropped by a gift to her. So excited for her to get her mission call!! We had dinner at the Malo's and each of us was able to share our testimony on the restoration of the gospel. It was powerful.
Let me say this about Saturday: It rained and poured all day! Quite the adventure when you have planned to be biking and visiting potentials all day. None of them seemed too concerned we were out in the rain. One of them told us to never ever contact her house again...that was exciting. None the less it was a really good bad day. Riding in the pouring rain is pretty fun. We stopped by Sister Loredo's and she was so mad at us for being out in the rain! But hey!! We're doing the service of God! She ended out driving us home because of the rain. It was time for dinner anyways. We had dinner with Sister Canfield and we were able to change out of our wet clothes and into clean dry ones. After a wonderful meal, we went out to meet our neighbors on the other side of the street. Everyone was more than willing to talk to us so long as we were just neighbors...not missionaries. We were able to give our phone number out to a few people. We were going up to this one door and there was this man sitting in a truck in the driveway. He rolled down the window and said, "can I help you?" We introduced ourselves and he said his name was Juan Milan. He's lived all over the north-east. He also ended out telling us that he is looking for a church...HAPPY DAY!! His personality is so fun and humorous. He'd fit right in the Parkway ward. We were able to give each other a pep-talk and boost each other's spirits. needless to say we have an appointment with him and his family later this week. We cannot wait! THAT is the power of "Juan". One person made all the difference.
Sunday night we had gluten-free blueberry-chocolate chip pancakes at the Hayden's. They were amazing!! We had FHE at the Baker's after that and learned more about prayer.
This afternoon we are getting together with the zone. I have never done this. It'll be a new experience. I mean I did spend 3 months in the middle of nowhere...next to nothing...but whatever!
If you're not wearing green...consider yourself pinched!!
Have a blessed day ya'll!!!
--Sister Carling
PS - Johnny get's baptized on Saturday!!
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