Hermana in Houston: Week 44: It's So Fluffy I'm Gonna Die!!!

We knocked on someone's door and they had the giant unicorn from Despicable Me!

IT'S SO FLUFFY I'M GONNA DIE!

November 3, 2014

Remember the song, "Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky are like shooting stars?" Well kiddos, I SAW A SHOOTING STAR! {and it's funny because we live right under the airport so all we see is airplanes all day long} Best moment of my life! It was this giant flaming comet thing! Made for a pretty cool 10 Month Mark!

Walked out the apartment door 6:25am on November 1... FREEZING. Got all the way down to 55! Bring on the scarves!

One day while we were walking down the street I recognized a man we had talked to a few months ago. He was so happy I recognized him he took us to his house to introduce us to his wife and kid who just got here from Dominican Republic {picture Tyra Banks with a foreign accent}. We had the best lesson with them and at the end when we introduced the Book of Mormon he ran into his room and pulled one out of his closet! Missionaries in NYC had given him one!!! Crazy!

BIGGEST MIRACLE OF MY MISSION: Remember the "R" family I told you about a couple of months ago? The father was baptized in Argentina as a youth, but left the church when he fell in love with his wife and hasn't been back since. They now have a 14 year old daughter and have had missionaries a few times over the years. We went to visit them when I first got to this area and she told us that she knows this church is true and that she and her daughter will be baptized as soon as her husband decides to come back to church. And then the crazy miracle where we went to visit them and she told us that their daughter has made best friends with girls in the English ward and that they were ready to get baptized into that ward. Well yesterday they surprised us. THEY ALL CAME TO CHURCH. Mom, daughter, AND Dad! It was his first time back to church in years! The mom doesn't speak English so she wants to come to our ward, and the dad wants to baptize them. UNREAL. Couldn't believe my eyes! <3

I remember my first Sunday in the Woodlands ward I wanted to bear my testimony so bad, but I didn't have enough confidence to get up. I finally got up yesterday {thanks to Personal Progress} and it felt so good to bear my testimony to these people I love so much. The coolest part was that one by one all of the other missionaries in the ward also got up! The bishop, ward mission leader, and many other members have pulled me aside in the last two days and told me how much of a difference it made in the spirit of the meeting! So neat! I used to be really, really terrified to bear my testimony {premish life}, but now I understand how important it is, even if it's just our example.

Funnies of the Week:

My companions wanted to match for Halloween so I went along with it. They wore my dresses and put bows in their hair. and everywhere we went the other missionaries asked, "Ohh! Are you Sister McOmber for Halloween?"

Went to the doctor this week and managed to teach a lesson to the doctor, nurse practitioner and all six nurses in Spanish! They told me I needed to slow down so they could take my blood pressure, and blood panel. hahaha

NO ONE TOLD ME TEXAS WOULD BE COLD. You're all fired.

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Hermana McOmber