hey y'all.
Monday we made our spoon handle rings! they are so cute. Brother Bigg's helped us out by letting us use his stuff and actually forming the circle. Then we drove all the way to bellville (from the very top of our area to the bottom of our area) for dinner with the carliles. I love Sister Carlile. She is one amazing lady!! I have loved getting to know her the past week or so. She is always experimenting with Gluten-Free food for me. The past week i've gotten lasagna, really good bread, 2 pies (which i shared with people) and pizza. This branch loves it's missionaries!!
Tuesday we did service all morning and into the afternoon. That afternoon we did some finding because a lot of our plans fell through. It had been raining all day long. but when we got out of the car, it magically stopped. It was pretty cool. After we got to the church to do family history with Priscilla. It was great to be able to help her!
Wednesday we had a lesson with Alma. She's doing great. Then we did some of our planning since we had an appointment with Tricia on Thursday. After a little planning, we went to Kruze and had another Family History appointment with Sister Tieman. It was funny because he forgot the time and we were waiting and when we called to remind her that we had an appointment, she said "I was wondering when you were going to call. What time did we want to meet?" I love old people.
Thursday we had a busy day. We met with Tricia and had lunch. Sister Carlile came and lunch was all GF: Potato leak soup, grilled cheese, homemade bread and pie. It was a lot. It was also SO yummy. And i got some recipes. I love getting recipes. I have a little collection going on. after that we headed to service at Gazebo and then tried to go out and do some follow-ups on potential investigators. Dinner was with the Millsap's and the kid's couldn't stop talking about snakes, all 5 of them had a hard time stopping. Let me tell yall this: Sister Davis hates snakes. She had a dream about them that night. I'm pretty sure it was more of a nightmare. After Dinner we were headed to the church and in a bit of a hurry to get to the church when, of course, the train caught us. So we called Janice to let her know we'd be late, but Janice was expecting us to come to her house...like 3 housed behind where we were stuck. So after the REALLY SLOW train passed us we turned around and went over the tracks...again. After that mis-communication, we scheduled another time to meet with her to do some family history. THEN we drove to the church, not in a rush because that is bad. Nobody showed up to sports night because it was the fair all week. That's what made this week a little tricky. So we finished planning for the week.
Friday was pretty full. We had district meeting and we were invited to help at an event at Gazebo (Were we got to have an awesome talk with the director of activities...scheduled an appointment at her house this week!!) and after that we did some finding and we got to talk to some awesome people. (We got 17 contacts. It was pretty amazing.) For dinner, we ate with the Jensen's and Priscilla (It was awesome as usual.) and then brother Jensen picked up Jordache and we met at the church to teach a lesson (Family History) and also for Jordache to have his baptismal interview! It's awesome. Also the definition of "easygoing" is it's not that it's not hard, it's that the going is easier. The Lord is there to help the going be easier. We will still have hardships but they wont be as hard.
Saturday there was a "Hot wheel's and Hot Dog's" Derby that we were invited to. It was to test out the new pinewood derby track that they got. Sister Davis got 2nd/11 and I got 3rd/11 in our division (we were put in with the youth category because of the lack of youth). over all I got 7/9 and Sister Davis got 9/9.
We then were able to help one of the Brother Pearce' with learning how to do family history. He was able to go in and to explore and read a couple stories. It was pretty awesome. After that we did some contacting and then headed out to dinner with the Beard's. They are awesome. They just moved out here from Cypress and they have a 23 yr old daughter with Down's. She's pretty adorable. They just built the house out here and it is pretty cool. I like it a lot. On the way back into town, we almost died. I really mean it. As we were driving down the 109 to connect to the 36, and we were at the tracks when the light turned green. I figured it'd turn yellow before we got there so I slowed down some but it didn't. So I kept on going. Sister Davis screamed and pointed and I looked over to see what it was and hit the breaks. Hard. Inches were what separated us from the truck and trailer that cruised on by from my side to the passenger side at about 60 mph. Had I gone any faster or not slowed down...I probably wouldn't be here today. We pulled over and I cried. God had saved us. His angels hit the brakes because I've never felt them lock that hard. We were pretty shaken up from that experience. I haven't really told anyone about this experience until now. Looking back it was REALLY scary. Thank you everyone for all the prayer's in behalf of missionaries. They don't go unanswered. I can testify of that.
The Derby Winners!!
Sister D and I with our cars. They were awesome. We are awesome.
We then were able to help one of the Brother Pearce' with learning how to do family history. He was able to go in and to explore and read a couple stories. It was pretty awesome. After that we did some contacting and then headed out to dinner with the Beard's. They are awesome. They just moved out here from Cypress and they have a 23 yr old daughter with Down's. She's pretty adorable. They just built the house out here and it is pretty cool. I like it a lot. On the way back into town, we almost died. I really mean it. As we were driving down the 109 to connect to the 36, and we were at the tracks when the light turned green. I figured it'd turn yellow before we got there so I slowed down some but it didn't. So I kept on going. Sister Davis screamed and pointed and I looked over to see what it was and hit the breaks. Hard. Inches were what separated us from the truck and trailer that cruised on by from my side to the passenger side at about 60 mph. Had I gone any faster or not slowed down...I probably wouldn't be here today. We pulled over and I cried. God had saved us. His angels hit the brakes because I've never felt them lock that hard. We were pretty shaken up from that experience. I haven't really told anyone about this experience until now. Looking back it was REALLY scary. Thank you everyone for all the prayer's in behalf of missionaries. They don't go unanswered. I can testify of that.
Stake conference was on Sunday. Here's a few things that I learned:
- You have the power within you to astonish the world.
- If you don't engage you're just revving...wasting a lot of time and energy. Get your spiritual clutch engaged.
- The best thing to do to protect your family is to bear your testimony to your neighbor in your own home.
- The Lord's wind is continuous. (Ether)
- Pray. Act. Be happy.
- "Part-time" missionaries wear a name tag and "full-time" missionaries don't.
- Lift where you stand. (or bloom where you are planted.)
That night we went to go get trained on family history at Sister Carlile's. She's (again) amazing. I feel like she knows everything...because she kinda does. We got to make pizza and she made a GF pizza dessert. We got to talking about quilts and we are going to make one. It's a surprise at what kind it will be. Just expect it to be awesome. YAY FOR THINGS TO DO ON P-DAY!!!
Today we got the fabric for the quilt. Let me just say that it will be super cute.
I also got a haircut. It's almost to a bob. It's pretty cute.
Ps- Conference is going to be different!!! http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865610540/LDS-conference-talks-may-be-given-in-native-languages.html?pg=all
--Sister Carling
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