Hermana in Houston: Week 48: 11 Months!

December 1, 2014

By now hopefully you've all seen "He is the Gift" and shared it with EVERYONE you know!

I simply can't believe I've almost been out for a year! How did that happen? This last transfer flew by! I'll be in Louetta for Christmas! Get my new comp tomorrow. :)

It was another week of miracles!

Monday night we were walking down the street and saw a woman talking on the phone outside of her trailer and decided to ask if we could give her a card. She slowly put the phone down and her eyes filled with tears as she told us that she was baptized in 2000 in El Salvador, and when she moved here she hadn't been able to find the church. Yesterday, our investigator O--- drove her to church and the ward welcomed her with open arms. Amazing.

Also on Monday night we taught a lesson to our friend outside of the laundry room in the apartments and in my journal I wrote, "and another guy standing there listened too." Well, that guy called us on Sunday morning asking for a ride to church. He came and in the Sunday School class an hermano stood up to give the closing prayer, and right before he said it he invited the guy to be baptized.... and he accepted.

One day I asked a woman if we could help her carry in her groceries and we gave her our card. She called us the next day and asked us to visit her. SHE IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. We taught her and her son the Restoration and they committed to baptism on December 20th!

Okay, I saved the best for last. Our top progressing investigator is the 17-year-old from Honduras. He moved here to work and sends every penny back home to his family. He is really lonely because he lives with a bunch of older men who all drink and smoke and he doesn't. He is so mature and hardworking. We had an amazing lesson with him with an hermano from the ward and at the end we asked if he had prayed to know if the Book of Mormon is true. He said he did and the night he prayed he had a dream: He was standing and had a piece of bread in his hand, and he could see his family behind him. He called out to God, "What do I do? I need to give my family this bread!" and God answered, "You know what you need to do." He looked down and saw the bread was gone, and everything around him was black. He couldn't see his family anymore but he could hear them crying and begging, "Help us!" He said he woke up and bawled uncontrollably. He asked us to interpret his dream! We told him that Christ is the bread of life and that he needs to share the gospel with his family! THE MOST POWERFUL MOMENT OF MY LIFE. We showed him a picture of the temple in Tegucigalpa and told him that he can go there with his family and be sealed to them forever. The Spirit hit me like a wall and bore an undeniable testimony to my soul that this is my purpose as a missionary. This is why I am here. This is why we leave our families, why we miss them and ache for them for a year and a half... so that others can be with theirs for eternity. It is a small price to pay, and it has been the greatest experience and the biggest blessing of my life.

Hermana McOmber

Funnies of the Week:

We were teaching a woman and her little girl picked up a MASSIVE knife from the couch. So what does the woman do? Put it on top of the couch, precariously balancing as the little girl bounces around on the cushions. We could NOT focus during that lesson. haha

I texted to confirm an appointment and got the response, "Yo no nintendo!!"

Our investigator told us he thinks our brains are computers because we always ask hard questions.

Make a remark in ward council... be called to speak on Sunday, again.

A girl asked me what I did before my mission and when I told her dance she said, "Duh, your make-up says it all."

I gave the twins CTR rings and they run around telling everyone to "Haz tu lo justo!"

Hector {8} told us his mom made 2 huge craps {crepes} and that there was enough batter to make more.

We ate Thanksgiving with a member family and brought our investigator. They fed us a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, and our investigator's face was priceless... he did NOT like that food!