It came... we received the call this morning at 7:40 that I
will be transferred. :( Wednesday will be the
first day I will ever have left the zone. It's going to feel like a whole new
mission. Especially if I go country. There's a lot of changes in our zone. We
have one person from each companionship leaving. But I received
an email from President Ashton today of him thanking me for the work I have
done in Houston 1 and that now God wants me somewhere else. I'm guessing I will
probably die in my next area, because I only have 3 more transfers left after
this next one :( Hermana Jaeger and I are really sad to leave each other. We also
text all of our investigators and members today telling them that I am leaving
and we now have 20 lessons planned for the next 2 days.
The week was slower work because everyone and their dog went
to Mexico to celebrate Easter or Galveston. Everyone was telling us how they
celebrate Easter in their countries and did you know that in many countries
they act out the Crucifixion of Christ.
They actually have someone play the role of Christ and they whip him and put
him on the cross. They keep the person up there for three hours and then take
him down. Crazy! I'm glad we celebrate the happy part of Easter which is the Resurrection
of our Savior.
We found out last Tuesday that a ward member Brother who is on
Dialysis got moved to a hospital right behind our apartment. So we went over
and he was in ICU. His wife took us to the waiting room and we ended up
teaching all the people that were there about our Savior and the resurrection.
We sang the hymn Families Can Be Together Forever, and the spirit was so
strong. Hermana B hasn't been able to go to church for the past year
because she had to take her husband to dialysis every week, but she is still a
super strong member and loved sharing her testimony with others. We then found
out Saturday morning that her husband had passed a way. We called her and she
sounded very content and relieved. She came to church yesterday and was very
happy to be there.
We went to the Houston Food Bank with the youth in the Stake for youth
conference. Our job was to make lunch bags for starving school children here in
Houston. At the end of the four hours we ended up making 5700 bags! We had long
tables where people would package cereal, cans of fruit, vegetables, milk,
juice, raisins, macaroni, and other things and my job was to take all the food
off the pallets and take them out of the boxes to place them on the table. The
manager told me that was a mans job, but no one wanted to do it...so I used my muscles :) It was a super awesome experience and I loved it soooooo
much. I love serving!
Joel our recent convert is now coming out with us to lessons
and we walk around with him to teach. He loves the Gospel so much and told us
that this is his calling in life to preach the gospel. He's been passing out
pass a long cards to people he meets on the bus and in a couple months he's
going down to Mexico and is meeting up with the missionaries there to take them
to his family. This work truly is amazing.
I love you all very much!! Have a wonderful week.
Les Quiero
Hermana Watkins
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