Week 45 Rain Rain and more rain!

Haha yeah on Monday we were stranded in the church until about 8pm at night and so we didn't get anything done, but all the members were calling us and freaking out telling us not to leave where we were and so we just stayed at the church, ordered pizza and watched about 20 minutes of the testaments with 2 elders and a member they had with them. We had members literally calling us all night making sure we were safe. 

On Tuesday we had to get up at 445 and leave my 530 to drive to the mission conference. There was a cool lightening storm almost the whole way there and i was taking a video the whole time. The lightening was CRAZY!! I have so many videos for you when i get the usb back haha. The training was good. we will be allowed on facebook in time. But here are different stages that we have to do first before we get to that. It will be a couple months before we get there. But we will get them probably this week and then we have to transfer EVERYTHING from our area book into the system and then once that is done there is other things that we have to do and then sometime down the line we will get to be on facebook. Really with the ipads the main rule with facebook is that we either have to clean up our accounts and take off every game everything that isn't church related to that we are in or we can delete the account and make a new one and if we ever make a post or send a message through facebook our companion has to read it and see it and then once in a while we will have to exchange ipads with our companion and we will look through everything on the ipads to just check them. We have 2 booklets of all the rules and stuff we have to follow once we get them. I think they will be really cool especially since it will be nice to be able to share videos with people and be able to show pictures a lot easier. It will be really nice. they didn't talk about the cost at all though. 

How was your mission conference?  it was really good. Manuel Padilla from the woodlands was there. He was so happy when he saw me, it made me feel really happy haha he gave a me a little hug when i was about to walk away. Did you get to play the piano for all three groups?  Yeah haha i played for Carbajal and she sang, i stand all amazed, i played for bohn and we played savior redeemer of my soul, and then mitchell sang this is the Christ. By the third one when i got up all the missionaries were laughing. Haha i had a lot of people come up to me and ask me how i managed to be able to play for the 3 epeople. i was so sad! I meant to give someone my camera to record them but it got really busy and i completely forgot to! :( But oh well. The chappels gave me the rest of the juices and granola bars for our drive home. haha, we got home right before 1030. I saw the Macias family from Oakcrest and she lit up when she saw me. We talked a little while and it was so great. 

How was bohn?  She seems to be doing good  

Was that the last time you'll see carbajal?  Yeah i probably won't see her again until transfers and then she goes home. God knew what he was doing. He gave me her as a companion and then knew i would still need her so he let us be in the same district, she became my stl, then he let us be in the same zone and then the transfer before she leaves he moved us to different sides of the mission. God is sneaky haha

How was week two in your area? It was pretty good. :) I love it here it is so pretty! 

 Are you enjoying the area and the members? Yeah this ward has so much potential. Right now it's a ward that's really struggling but hopefully we will be able to make it a little bit better. We are combining the youth of our ward with the youth of the English ward. So we are going to be having over lapping things. We still have Spanish sacrament and Spanish relief society and all that, but Sunday school, primary, young women and young men will be with the English ward. 

 Any progressing potentials? nadie esta progresando ahorita pero vamos a trabajar mas. Right now really no one is progressing but we have a lot of potential with the people we are teaching and we have a lot of work to do! 

what's it like in Bryan?  so it's basically all aparment complexes, or trailers, and small neighborhoods. A lot of the apartments are young single adults going to 1 of the 2 colleges up here. It's a little more country kind of up here. It reminds me of Ephraim but without the mountains and it's about 20 times bigger. 

 there much to do on P day? There's an institute building, we go and get free yogurt land because a member works there, there is a mall, there are some parks, last week we just hung out at the institute and yogurt land and then the church. Not sure exactly what we are doing today. It's McOmber's 17th month mark so we are going to try to do something fun.   

She's good, I've been trying but i really just haven't built that connection with her yet and so we really aren't that close. But i've been trying to find ways to serve her and become closer to her but it's hard cause she's going home in a month and so we will just have to see how things go. 

  Are you girls running in the mornings?  no this morning was rough because we had to get up early and so we mainly stretched most the days and then on thursday we had what we call boot camp and then it makes us really sore and so we just stretch the day after that. but i'm going to start doing some more running this week. 

I can't believe you went on a date! That is really crazy! 

How is the inside of the Houston temple?  is it pretty? It's super gorgeous! It's now going to be even harder to go because i am so far away and so it's going to be hard to get any one that gets reactivated to want to go to the temple unless they are golden! Hopefully i'll be able to go again soon!

Nothing too exciting happened this week besides what i already talked about. Just going to keep working this week, keep putting one foot in front of the other and keep pressing forward to the end. i'm so grateful to be here as a missionary! i've been learning so much and i wouldn't trade any of this for anything in the world! 

This video is a wonderful example of how we should serve others. I invite all of you to watch it and find different ways to serve those around you. 

 And behold, I tell you these things that ye may learn wisdom; that ye may learn that when ye are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God.

mosiah 2:17

 

http://www.mormonchannel.org/watch/series/mormon-messages/lift-the-power-of-service