Hey y'all.
Last Monday, I got a big chunk of my quilt done. It's looking pretty awesome. All I need to do is the border and the star (the hardest part!!).
Tuesday we did service like...all day long!! It was pretty great :) We visited this 93 year old lady (Jonnie) and helped clear off her back porch and trim back some bushes with Sister Jarnagin. After that we had lunch out at the Gouges where we got to help with the pecan harvest. They only have 14 trees. It'll be fun to help them out with that. :) That afternoon we had various different things to find new investigators and that evening we had dinner with the Jensen's!! Brother Jensen got to visit my family on Friday and Monday and took back some stuff for me. My family sent me back a wonderful package. It was great. :)
Sister Carling with package from home!!
Wednesday morning we went to Freedom Hill. We came in the nick of time to help them out in the re-sale shop. It's always a blessing to know that the lord with guide you where you are needed! That afternoon, we did some family history with Anne Robinson and were able to help her find some more family. Kruze village is always great. I love being able to sing for them. It makes me smile quite a lot. we did some more visiting of members in the ward. That night we got to visit some girls who go to Blinn. They are awesome! I really thing that they will be a great tool to bring with us to different appointments and lessons. Correlation ended the night.
Thursday we had exchanges and I went out to the Caldwell branch. It's teeny tiny. I say teeny tiny because the average attendance in like 30 people. It's a really hard area, but the member's are amazing.
Friday we exchanged back at district meeting. I didn't really realize how much I just loved Sister D and with transfers coming up and all...I really missed her. That day we did some service at New Beginnings. I'm not sure what else happened that afternoon. That night we had dinner with the Moore's. They are awesome. I am going to enjoy getting to know them more!! HA! That reminds me!! That night we had to finish weekly planning and as we were closing, Sis D was praying. She said "We're grateful we got to know the Moore's more." I just bust up laughing. Somehow that was hilarious to me. I couldn't stop. The deeper I get on my mission, the more I laugh. I've come to learn that laughing is the best thing in the world. I love it. Sister D and I are pretty much always either laughing...or moo-ing at cows. It's pretty fun :)
Saturday we went contacting at the Flea market.We got to see a few ward members and invite a few other people to learn more about the restored gospel. There was this one lady who talked me into buying a stamp for a dollar...Sister D and I are still trying to figure out how she did it....It's a cool stamp...a cactus...it's just that I have no stamp pad or anything. after that we got lunch and headed to the church to get it ready for family history. That afternoon we had decided to go to downtown to do some contacting...little did we know that they were having a beer tasting downtown. We turned around about as soon as we started walking. We went to the neighborhood we were going to have dinner and did some tracting. They Young's fed us that night. They are very sweet. That night when it was too late to go tracting, we baked some brownies and wrote cards for some members in the branch. It was super duper fun :)
Sunday we had meetings, church and studies. That afternoon we went adventuring (aka-trying to find people on the branch list). That night we had dinner with the Knox. They always crack me up. When we got home we finished our numbers, Sis D had a conference call, we called our district leader and gave him our numbers and then at 10:26 we called our Zone leaders back to find out the transfer info. Elder Hunter and Sister Davis are leaving Brenham :( BUT!! It just means that each of us get to grow and to learn. (Being positive here...)
I am going to miss Sister Davis. She is awesome. But i am excited to gain new friends and experience through this whole learning experience. Thanks yall for all the love and support. Yall don't know how much help we feel and strength we receive out her.
"Y'all be blessed, okay?" (an old black man told us that as we were walking into a store...)
PS- Mariah got baptized last week!! Here she is with Robert (who also got baptized), her parents and some of his family:
--Sister Carling
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