Hope that your Christmas
was as well blessed as mine and that your New Year's Celebrations will be filled with fun
and goals. Mine is. I'm trying to climb up this slope I'm going down...it's not
working very well. Time just keeps getting shorter and shorter.
This week was great! I
got to talk to my family. I LOVE THEM!! Other than that...this week wasn't too
different than most...other than the fact that we didn't get stopped by any
trains (This town is split in half by the train tracks...it can make things
difficult).
Y'all kinda heard about
my week last week...hmm...
Tuesday evening after I
sent my email out, we went to the Beggs for dinner (Turkey). and the Ermis' to
help set up their family mission plan. They gave us each a cute gift!! It was a
box of fruit, awesome lotion, and a cute little Texas charm necklace!!! :) We
LOVED it!!!
Wednesday we had an
appointment at Alma's (Her Coffee maker broke!! She saw it as a sign from God
that is is her time to now quit coffee and nothing is going to stop her from
the temple!!!) service at New Beginnings, caroling at Brice & Kalisa's
(Kalisa really thanked us for stopping by. I felt so loved!), another turkey
dinner at the Chapdelaine's and caroling with them. We dropped a little Secret
Santa (Elder Fa'a ruined it by putting in their Christmas card haha! Oh well!)
Thursday was CHRISMAS!!
:) That morning we went over to the Jensen's for breakfast (WAFFLES!!!)
Jordache and the Jensen's kids were there (minus the 2 on missions). It was so
great!! Lunch was with the Crawfords (a 3rd turkey dinner!!) and after we went
to the Moore's for dinner...home-made Fried chicken!!!! :) YUM!! and then a
great skype with my family!! Thanks for all the gifts that everyone sent! I
really appreciate it!! I loved them all!
Christmas at the Jensen's with Jordache!
Friday Happy Birthday Mom!! We had district meeting and weekly planning and finding and visiting Sis Jackson and more finding and then dinner with the Knox family. The whole family was there! It was awesome!
Saturday Happy Birthday
Marin!! Sister Sheldon (who went home earlier this month) came back to Texas
and gave us a quick hello!! We went finding (it was freezing cold and raining
all weekend) and had lunch and then family history (Kinda..no one showed up and
we ended out leaving early) and then visiting Sis Tieman and finding and dinner
with the Biggs.
Sunday we had our
regular meetings and church and lunch and cleaning out our area book and dinner
with the Moore's and then our appointment with Rainn. She (and we) were SO
excited!! The member we took with us ended out living like 2 houses down from
her and already knew her!! She had been taught by Elders in Spring Branch about
a year and a half ago. She remembers most of the lessons and we briefly went
over what she remembers from them. She's re-starting the Book of Mormon and has
already (as a New Years resolution/gift to herself) decided to quit smoking!!
She's had a long way to get to where she is...but she's ready!! She is going to
pray about a baptismal date. We are planning on teaching her the lessons again
to help her understanding and clarification on doctrine. We called Spring
Branch after and they still had her record!! YAY!!! We are going to get that
and be able to learn more about her :)
Today!! We are going to
Washington on the Brazos!! The Birthplace of Texas!!! I'm really excited :)
Hopefully it won't be too cold and frigid!
Hope y'all have a Happy
New Year!!
--Sister Carling
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