Busy Busy Busy...

Howdy!

This week has been a little crazy and a little exhausting. We set high goals and we worked hard to achieve them. This next week we have Susana's Baptism!! :) It will be on Thursday. YAY! Susana's excited. We are excited. Excitement all around.

Monday night we had Susana's Baptismal Interview!! It was so great!! After, Elder Cloward told us that she has an awesome testimony. It made us so excited!!

Tuesday also was a little crazy. We started off the day with a service project at the George Bush Memorial Museum and Library. It was fun to do it as a district!! That afternoon we had a few lessons and right before dinner, we had the opportunity to talk to the activity day girls in another ward. We got to tell them about missionary work and about what we do every day as missionaries. The girls were just too cute! That night we had dinner with the Palkki's. Sis Palkki is just so great! She's doing such a fabulous job with missionary work. That night we had another lesson.

Wednesday we had lessons back to back again. At the Library that morning we got to do crafts :) It was great! At Institute we got to read more of revelations.

Thursday we had weekly planning all morning after we got free Jamba Juice. YUM! That afternoon we did a 30 minute dash on campus. They are the coolest. We have a standard in our mission of inviting 15 people a day and we only had 30 minutes. We did it!! We did this a few times this week. They are pretty effective too! We had a lesson that evening after dinner at chipotle. YUM!

Friday we went to a different districts district meeting. We had a few good lessons that afternoon. One was with Susana. We read Enos and talked about prayer and about how the Book of Mormon is fulfilling prophecy. It was awesome. It was also followed by another powerful lesson with Rong. She's so great!! :) That night after dinner we had a gathering at Bishop's to watch meet the Mormons. It was Fantastic!

Saturday we got to help at the Women's Conference. It was fantastic. :) That afternoon we had a few more lessons and Bob and Trudy are moving up their date a week! YAY! We had a few more lessons and things were just great! :)

Sunday was a little crazy. We went to one of our investigators to her church service at Central Baptist. It was really different but I really enjoyed the experience. That night we had a few more lessons and we took some cookies to an investigator with one of our members.

Today I have to go. Hope ya'll keep on keeping on!!

Keep Moving Forward!

--Sister Carling

 P-Day at the institute!! Sis. Carling & Sis. Niedert!

Real-time photo sent to Mom!!

Vanessa & Sis. Carling

Thanks Vanessa for the pics!!!

I don't feel like writing...and there aren't any pictures.

Hey Y'all!

I know I'm boring. but this is what's going on.

This week we went over to Bob & Trudy's like 3 times. We taught them a new lesson like every time! :) They are doing great!! Trudy had surgery on Tuesday and we were glad that we were still able to come over. They even came to church!! It's so exciting! They are moving toward baptism! We have it planned for May 16.

We are still working with Susana. We got to go with her to dinner later on in the week and we are still working toward baptism! 

Rong is our little ray of sunshine :) She is progressing marvelously! Her baptismal date is set for July 11. She's ready to do it sooner, but she hesitates with moving it up. We're just excited for her.

This week was awesome because Elder Nixon was here (As of today, he's now in the Houston South mission until he gets clearance to go back to Taiwan). This is Bishop's son. He's currently serving in Taiwan but had to come back because he broke both of his wrists. So this week we took him to all of our Chinese lessons. He was so helpful to be able to help us teach and clarify doctrine in Chinese!

I got to see the Moore's on Friday! It was so great!! They came up for Ring Day (look up the tradition). It's bigger than graduation here. "The Aggie Ring" tradition is deep and the rings are gorgeous!! So they came up for her sister to get her ring. Campus was SUPER crazy.

This week we also had exchanges. It's always fun.

That about sums up the main events for this week!

Keep Moving Forward!!

--Sister Carling

 Sis. Carling & Sis. Niedert

(pic provided by Sis. Alder from Mesa who was visiting her daughter in Texas)

Meeting a Priest

It poured buckets of rain,

and it thundered all night.

Sister Niedert slept through all

While Sister Carling tossed and turned all night.

There's a little verse about my night last night. I loved the rain and all...but it's crazy how it can just keep you up because the weather is just insane here. 

Monday we didn't really have much. We did have dinner at an excellent place called "Grub" where they have fantastic burgers.

Tuesday We had lessons most of the day. During a couple of them we watched conference talks. They were so great to be able to review. We taught Bob and Trudy. They are just the CUTEST!! I can't get over how cute and in love they are.

Wednesday we got to volunteer at the library. that afternoon we had like 4 appointments. 2 of them we taught family history. I LOVE IT SO MUCH!! We had dinner with Bishop and Sister Nixon. That night we went to institute because we had a few people who were going to come. It was great! :)

Thursday we met a Catholic Priest and 2 Sisters and some catholic missionaries as we were contacting on campus with our A-frame. They invited us to come to a ceremony that night and we decided to go. They were all so sweet! Here they are: 

Some catholic missionaries, ​Father Benedict, Me, Sis Niedert, Amanda (a member who came to help us on campus), The Sisters, and another Catholic missionary.

After all that we weekly planned and had dinner with Amanda and her roommate. We had a lesson with Bob and Trudy and had Amanda come with us. After, She came with us to the "Mass" of sorts. It really gave me an opened eye to other religions. It was pretty cool to see the truth in it all.

Friday we got to go to Brenham!!! We went to the district meeting there and it was so much fun! That afternoon we had a lesson with Rong. She's so great! She said in her prayer at the end that "she was grateful to learn more about about baptism and that she is going to do it". She makes us melt every time we teach her.

Saturday morning we had breakfast with Payton. She's just awesome. We got to know her more and share more about ourselves. We went to this cute little diner called Hullabaloo Diner. We had a couple lessons in the afternoon and then we visited Trudy because it was her birthday. She turned 62. And Bob is 80. Didn't know if I told y'all that. She loved our card and the pictures we gave her. That night there was a baptism for Ke'Ara. She was so great!

Sunday we had 6 hours of church...that's brutal!! and it was all back to back!! We did have dinner with a FAMILY! of the CS2 ward. it was sweet! :) that night we met with the mission leader for the ward, Bro Bradford. and after we went to meet investigators in the ward, Peter and Lydia. They are from China and they are so sweet!!! I love them!!

Today we're going to run around like crazy. Love yall!! Peace!

Keep moving forward.

--Sister Carling

The Bluebonnets!!!

#genconf #6moreweeks

Hello everyone. :)

Howdy Y'all.

It's been quite the busy teaching week...and it's just flown right on by. Let me tell y'all. 

Monday night we had a few lessons and they went marvelously! We are so excited to continue to meet with them again.

Tuesday we briefly went on campus and then we had a lesson with someone who turned out to be a member. Surprise?! haha We had a couple of lessons that evening and a member made us Waffles for dinner. and they were gluten free. and I was a happy missionary. :)

Wednesday morning we had a table set up in the  MSC on A&M. We got to share the #BecauseHElives video with people and invite them to learn more. Later in the afternoon we had a lesson on campus and a lesson with a recent convert. We got to help her with family history. Let me just say that it is one of my most favorite-est things to do/help with :) That night we had a couple of investigators and people we are working with at institute, so we stuck around to talk to them before and after.

Thursday morning we had a couple of lessons and so that afternoon we did some weekly planning. After dinner we did some finding and then got to teach some investigators in the CS2 Ward. Their names are Bob & Trudy and they are just soaking it all up!!! It was so great to be able to teach them

Friday we had district meeting and a few lessons that afternoon. Rong is still progressing so well!! It's so cute to see her absorb information and take it to heart.

Saturday GENERAL CONFERENCEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Happy day!!! I loved it so much!! That night we got a member to take some bluebonnet pictures. I can't wait to show y'all!! THE BLUEBONNETS ARE THE BEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sunday morning we awoke to a cold snap...I think it was Sunday?? Maybe it was Saturday?? I don't know. I just know it was cold-ish and wet and that is not my favorite combination. That night we visited Bob and Trudy again. They LOVED conference. They are excited to keep on moving forward and learning in the gospel.

So conference. I went in with questions and as I reviewed my notes last night I really saw how much the Lord loves us. I was able to have my questions and concerns all directed in what I need to do. So I came up with a list and I am SO excited to put it into action. I love the testimonies that we were able to hear and if you wern't able to view it go click here. Let me just tell you. It was pretty awesome :)

Transfer calls were last night. We are the only companionship not changing in the Zone. We are also more than likely going to be taking over a family ward. the CS2 one.

Keep moving forward!!

Ps-sorry!! No time for pictures!! Gotta run!!

--Sister Carling