[This is 2 weeks work of email....Enjoy!]
This week was crazy fast. A blink of an eye p-day was over and so was your week.
Let me think of some amazing things that happened this week...
#THANKSGIVING🦃
That was super amazing. I'm so grateful for the people that I get to serve with, the members of the ward.
We went on exchanges that day so I was with Hermana Triana. She's from Mexico.
We went by some of her families and a ton of members to give them thank you cards.
We also went to Wal-Mart and had people write something they were thankful for on a sticky note and put it on a poster board. That was such an amazing way to get to know more of the people here. We did that for about an hour until a manager came and told us we had to leave because we can't do that.
Ok sir...sorry for bringing joy to your customers. Jeez the weez.
It was fine. We then got invited by some members to go eat another dinner at the church. That was pretty good.
After we got home I Facetimed my fambam. I was shown a butt potato saved from being devoured by Simon....thank you for that... It was pretty awesome. 😂😂
We've been trying to get in contact with some of our people. We've been praying for them really hard to come to church.
There is this old man we are teaching he doesn't have a ton of teeth and he's like 80. His name is Juan. He lives when we come over. He always isn't wearing a shirt...so he'll tell us to wait while he finds one. He likes to laugh and crack jokes in Spanish. I can't hear him a ton of the time... Then he'll look at us with his 5 tooth smile and start laughing soooo hard. It's my favorite.
Anyway... He came to church!!!!
He didn't get lost either.
#blessingsonblessingsonblessings
He stayed the first hour then had to leave the second hour because he forgot to eat breakfast and lunch. But he came and he really liked it. He can't wait for us to come back on Wednesday.
Also during our first Thanksgiving dinner a members little girl asked us if we had pink dresses. We all said yes. Then she told us we should wear them(she's like 4). So we decided we'd wear them on Sunday and the Elders would wear their pink ties. So the title comes from when we were deciding that. I said... On Sundays we wear pink. Haha
Ah...the people here are amazing. I love being a missionary.
This transfer has been flying...
This one is also the shortest one it's only 5 weeks long because they didn't want to have transfers on Christmas eve.
Crazy sauce.
We're trying to find more and be directed by the spirit on where we need to be. We've been finding some potentials families too. I love it!
I know this church is true and Jesús Christ lives.
He suffered for all of us.
I am so grateful for his atonement in my life.
I know the Book of Mormon is the word of God. It's true. Read it.
If you want one and you don't have one go to... comeuntochrist.org
Also #lightheworld is here!!!!!!
Please help spread the true meaning of Christmas by doing those each day!
#iluminaelmundo
I love you guys.
If you're unsure about going on a mission... Just do it. It's literally been some of the best moments I have had in my entire life. God has blessed me because of it. And he'll bless you through anything.
I love being a disciple of Jesus Christ everyday.
Stay 2 legit 2 quit and Light The World.
-Hermana Darling
[2nd Week Email]
Hey,
We only have like a little over a week left in this transfer. Who knows what's going to happen with our Zone.
We've had some amazing things happen this week.
Juan, our 80 year old investigator, wants to get baptized. He is super happy to be learning more and more every time we come over and every time he goes to church. He has a baptismal date for the 21st of December!!!! He told us he wants to go three times before he is baptized. So he came this past two Sundays but only for the first hour. He had to go eat one time and then the other he had to go home and feed his dogs. At least he came though.
He was soo funny during his lesson. He told me..."callate" when I was asking him a question. I died laughing. Then at the end I was saying the prayer and he kind of...somewhat understands what a prayer is. But when I started the prayer, he started repeating everything out loud and then just finished the prayer that I started. 😂😂😂😂
La familia Garcia- They have 5 kids all in the spread of 5 years. They all pretty hyper. But when we pray their house is silent and you can feel the Holy Ghost so strong. I love them. We might have to pass them off though. The kids don't really know Spanish. But the Dad basically only speaks Spanish, the Mom speaks both. It's all the same work and the same Mission. So it doesn't really matter in the end. But it's still a little sad. They love when we come over and they are really trying to go to church. But their van is broken and they don't know what's wrong with it.
La familia Martinez- We were walking buy the lavandería and there were two girls outside. I felt impressed to go talk to them. They have actually talked to the elders in the past. A long time ago. They were so excited for us to go to their house they gave us their address. We showed up a little later one night and met their Mom. She was so happy to see us. She kept asking if we were going to have a lesson right then and there. But it was like 9pm so we set up another time to go back and teach them. We went back like two days later and taught them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They loved it. I can literally picture all of them in baptismal suits already willing to make a Covenant with God. They really want to go back to church. Good thing that's what we help people do here.
We also went back and taught them the restoration. Ana (the oldest) was so excited to pray and ask God if Joseph Smith was a prophet. It was such a great experience.
God has been blessing us with so many people to teach. It absolutely crazy. There was one day we were literally running from appointment to appointment. We ended up being late to our dinner appointment and also having to leave early. We felt sooo bad. But Hna. Cavasos told us it's okay and that it's good we have so many things to do during the day.
She was just baptized like 3 weeks ago by the Ap's. She's amazing. Her and her son were baptized the same day. He husband was there to support but didn't want to get baptized. But after he saw how happy his wife and son were. He was baptized the next week. Ahhh!!!! There family is amazing. After she was baptized she hugged all of us sisters and was telling us she was so excited for her girls (who are like 3 and 5) to grow up in the church and be just like us missionaries. Ah... Right in the feelers. 😂😂
We were knocking some apartment complexes by ours the other night and we met this Mom and her two sons. One is almost 12 and the other is 3. The boy is super interested in Jesus Christ. So we went back a few days later and wanted to teach the restoration. But ended up teaching the Plan of Salvation. They loved it. And they said they'll read, pray and see us at church. Yeah!!!! I love them so much.
I love all the people we are teaching right now. It's so satisfying when our days are so busy with return appointments and people are actually home when we go by them. Haha
Not all of them went to church. So we are probably going to stop teaching a few if they truly aren't going to act on what we invite them to do. It's so sad when people can't keep a simple commitment like...read two pages...go to church for two hours....it use to be three. I'm sure none of the people we are teaching would go if it was three hours to be honest 😂😂
We were walking in this neighborhood one night and saw like 20 people outside so we went and talked to them. They said they've had missionaries in the past come by both boys and girls. We gave them a picture of Jesus and started walking away..."you girls wanna taco"
"yeah that would be awesome, thank you!"
They were having a carne. So we had some ribs and some sort of yummy meat, and some rice. We talked to the whole family and got to know them as we were gnawing on some meat. We shared the light the world video with them and they loved it. The dad/owner of the house said we can come back any time we like. Yes!!
They're pretty awesome. And their food was super good.
We went and visited a member that was on our area book a few days ago. Hermano Montoya, he was so happy to see us, he doesn't get a ton of visitors. He brought out his scriptures and asked if we were going to share anything. Of course we were! When we were done he asked if we could go visit all of his neighbors with him. So he took us to his neighbors and we knocked for like an hour with him. He's a great example of what a member missionary should act like. He called us his angels. That was pretty cool and we got some great return appointments out of it.
Yo sé que vive mi señor. Yo sé que el Libró de Mormón es verdadero. Es muy importante en mi vida y en las vidas de la gente aquí en Texas. Me encanta la oportunidad sentir el espíritu santo cada día cuando estamos caminando los calles. La gente aquí tienen mucho amor y gozo en sus vidas porque ellos creen en Dios y Jesucristo. Ellos quieren a aprender más sobre Jesucristo y su iglesia. Este misión es no mía, es el misión mismo del Jesucristo. Gracias por sus ejemplos en mi vida. Gracias por la expiación. Gracias por las personas estamos enseñando. Gracias por todo lo que hacen para mi y los otros misioneros.
Les quiero!!!!
Con todo mi corazón,
Hermana Darling
