Hermana in Houston: Week 37: Always Follow Promptings!

Hey Y'all!

I am happy! I love being a missionary!

This weekend has been the best! We walked out the door on Friday morning to go running and got hit by a COOL BREEZE. We almost cried! Fall is here!

I am SO PROUD of Hermana Perry! She is so darling! She works so hard and is already seeing miracles! Her first day we found and taught a guy named D. He has a sketch past and has totally cleaned up and reads the bible every day, but he has some very strange ideas about... everything. So we enjoy the challenge of creatively and kindly answering his questions! Yesterday she asked him to be baptized and he said, "But I've already been baptized into another church." I was super nervous, but she handled it perfectly and settled all of his doubts! He accepted and is so excited! He said, "Thank y'all for trying to baptize me!" MELTED MY HEART. hahaha

One night it was 8:30 and we were trying how to effectively use the last half hour. We had already started walking to our car when I felt the quiet prompting to try one more potential {someone we've tried a million times and is never home}. We turned around and tried one last time, and she was home! We had the best lesson and she just cried and thanked us for helping her feel loved. She just moved here from El Salvador so her kids can have better opportunities, but it broke her heart to leave the rest of her family. We were able to comfort her and help make a difference! ALWAYS FOLLOW PROMPTINGS.

Then the next night it was 9:25 and we needed just 2 more people contacted! So we walked around our apartment complex and found 2 people to talk to. As we were walking back to our apartment, completely exhausted, I saw this young guy and felt the little push to talk to him. I said hi, and he totally lit up! Everyone in the our complex knows us as "the girls who run and wave at everyone in the mornings." haha He said he was so impressed with us that he wanted to come to our church... and then he DID! Ahh! ALWAYS FOLLOW PROMPTINGS.

One night as we were walking away from an amazing lesson, we passed a member of our ward and he sent us over to his apartment where his wife and another member had bought us tons of food and water! And then the Hermano and his friend {another police officer friend! We're the safest missionaries in Houston!} helped us carry it all to our car! So blessed!!!

We have been getting a ton of referrals this week {46 to be exact} so one day we tried a bunch of them. At one house, the guy who had been contacted wasn't home, but his girlfriend's daughter answered the door. Dark make-up, dark hair, piercings on every part of her face and hands... didn't look like the kind of person to give us the time of day. I testified to her that we are representatives of Christ, and that we came to tell her that He loves her. The Spirit was so strong and tears just rolled down her cheeks. She said, "I wish I could say something with the same conviction that you have." We went back and taught her and I testified to her again that she is loved and that her life has a purpose, and she just wept. It was such a sweet moment. She doesn't know what to think about God, but now she wants to learn! I love being a missionary!

Funnies of the Week:

One of our less-actives said the closing prayer of a lesson... "Bless errbody..."

We were in the car with the Elders on the way to District Meeting {don't panic, it's okay because we're a trio} and we were laughing about how bad some of our worst transfers have been, but then we remembered we're training so Elder Grasse tried to lighten it up by saying, "But I mean, it definitely makes the top 10 transfers!"

I have eaten 15 chicken tacos in the last two days, NOT voluntarily.

Walked past the apartment of some of the investigators we teach and we saw one of them on the balcony as we walked past. Between the two seconds he took to run to the front door he managed to lose his shirt...

{psssst. my golden birthday is this week! 21 on the 21st! send me a letter!}

Hermana McOmber

Heart shaped tree!

Hermanas Miller and Perry - our new trio companionship!

Hermana Perry with all her new shelves and her first package! Happy as a clam!

The assistants came to "set up our bunkbed" ...they set it up in the kitchen and stacked our mattresses - Real helpful!

All done!

We are doing a lot of family history and one of the elders goes all the way back!

Birds

The moon was so close one night!

The hermana bought us creme puffs : )

The scariest dog I have ever seen. It's only a puppy! We were talking to the owner and they don't even know what mix it is.

I think it is so hilarious when they are so short they have to move the peep hole down to the door knob!

Tacqueria!

E loves to sit between us for lessons :)

Sometimes all you can do after a long day of tracting is give your poor feet a bubble bath! And yes, thoses are callouses on my knees - had them since the MTC,