Well this past week was.... one of the hardest
weeks of my mission, but I learned so much!!! Last Tuesday after I emailed home
I took my companion to the doctor. After the doctor examined her, they took
some blood tests and then sent her to get a Cat scan STAT! The doctor was super
worried about her liver and wanted it to get checked out. After waiting 7 hours
at the hospital we were finally able to leave. Sister Elliott and I had some
really good gospel conversations and talked a lot about our area. I also got to
talk to a lady from Persia. Her auntie was getting a ultra sound and only
speaks persian, so she was there to help translate. I started talking to her
about the gospel and turns out she is meeting with the missionaries and loves
learning about our church. I love when people say that.
The next day we had zone meeting and I'm pretty sure the
zone leaders training's were both for me and my companion. The spirit taught me
so many things I needed to know and some other things the spirit has slowly
been teaching me throughout my mission. President has
asked us to really stop thinking about the numbers and go out and serve
everyone. He said that all our area needs is Charity right now. That was a HUGE
lesson that I feel like God has really been teaching me throughout the mission.
Charity never faileth, even if you teach no one the whole week and baptize no
one the whole mission, you can not fail if you go out and LOVE. And that's what
my area needs, more love!
We're
only able to teach one investigator all week, and had a couple lessons with
some less actives and active members. We went out and tried our very hardest to
love everyone that we met, and we're wanting to teach. Sadly the rain kept us
from finding more people. We had a couple instances were we had to pull off the
side of the road until the water went down. Also, people kept telling us to go
home and dry off, and come back another day when we're not wet.. haha. We also
have killer mosquito's they're EVERYWHERE!! My poor companion looks like she
has chicken pox on her legs.
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I mentioned last week that in our Stake our mission
President has allowed the missionaries to do Family History with the members
for two hours, he also announced that we are allowed to take 2 hours out of the
week to do out own personal Family History. Friday as a district we went to the
Clayton Genealogy Library and had a specialist teach us all about the family
search web site the church has. This library is the 6th largest genealogy
libraries in America. I was so fascinated with the work. The lady told me I
should really look into being a genealogist.. Maybe. I also found a lot of
family members that need their work done. I am so excited to come home and go
to the temple with y'all and do this work!!!!!!!
Saturday we helped the Houston Police with a health fair
they were putting on. The elders got to dress up in 911 costumes and walk
around talking to people. We of course were put in the kitchen to help with the
food. They had a DJ there that would always talk about Sister Watkins and her
cooking... haha I wish you could here how the blacks say Watkins :) It makes me
and my companions day. haha
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We had 3 part member families move into our area this
weekend, and we are so excited to meet all of them. We met one last night. His
name is Antonio, but he goes my butters haha he is 20 and is a super cool kid.
I'm excited for what this week brings and can't wait to go out and have charity
for everyone!!
Love you all,
Hermana Watkins
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