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!!!