Patience is a Virtue

I remember when my sister was on her mission in Florida, she would always write how the Lord was teaching her patience. and how she learned a lot of patience. 

I truly understand what she is talking about now. i think patience and charity are the hardest Christ-like attributes for me to achieve. or even try to have. this transfer will be really long and difficult but hey, missions are anything but easy.

i also just want to give thanks to my amazing step-mother and everything she does for me. she has taken care of me my whole mission and i know why, and am so happy, God put her in my family's life:) 

so i got my new companion, her name is Hermana McCurdy. she is from Connecticut. not from Utah..she has only been out 2 transfers/3 months. so she just got down training and is still really new. im "greeny-breaking" her is what we call it our here in the mish. i don't know if any of yall remember my CCM companion, but she is a lotttt like Hna. Ingleby.   :)

so this Sunday was an awesome, interesting, long, stressful, spiritual day.

our investigators Reina and Sherly who will be baptized sometime this month ha.. we just don't know exactly when right now. we had a regional conference in houston which was long but really good and perfect for Reina. then we came back to Conroe for the Elders baptism so Reina and Sherly could see one. they loved it. Reina said she wished she could of been the one in the water. so cute.

then we went back to Houston to the temple tours. the freeway was closed off for some reason so it took us like 8 years to get there and i had the biggest migraine I've ever had in my life. and we were so late but it was really good. the temple is a special place. I've now seen the same tour like 9 times but i love bringing investigators there so they can have a vision even after their baptism. 

me and my companion found a really cute new family this week contacting and I'm really excited for them. we have seen lots of other miracles this week. we also get to go back to my old area this week to a baptism of Jesus, a boy i taught like 3 months ago!

i have a ton of cute pictures to send from this weekend! i will send them separately from my ipad:)

this week im ponderizing: Hebrews 10:36

"For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise."

Twins, cats, and hurricanes!

So at the first of my mission I started the Book of Mormon in English and also the Doctrine and Covenants, I'm happy to say a year later, i finally finished them ha! i have read the Book of Mormon in Spanish twice on my mission but it took me a while to do it in English.. but I love the Book of Mormon so much. I learn so much each time I read it. Also the Doctrine and Covenants is my favorite because most of it is the words of Jesus Christ talking directly to us. 

now time to start again! :)

here is autumn in Texas for you. two weeks ago, it was still about 90-100 degrees everyday. then last week we had a little hurricane come through and it hasn't stopped raining. but its still not cold. it wont cool down until like December..

this week im ponderizing Romans 5:19

our ward mission leader took us out to texas road house!

also one time when we were knocking doors a cat just ran up and jumped on me..my companion took a picture instead of saving me.so this past week was so crazy, busy, stressful!!

I had a Missionary Leadership Council. and then I had to plan for a zone meeting to train some missionaries. that is always the most stressful thing! it went well. 

also, they have asked me to teach a language study program every friday to the spanish missionaries in the district. haha i dont know why because my spanish sucks. the Lord has a sense of humor. also i went on two exchanges this week. and on saturday we had to be in at 6 pm instead of 9 so we did a lot of role playing with the elders to practice. so it made the week go by fast. 

on friday we had a fall activity with the ward and it was awesome. it was a trunk or treat. in our room we had a doughnut game. it was way too much fun ha. my comp and I dress up as twins:) we had the same shirt, skirt, shoes, and watch! ha you cant really do much of anything to dress up as missionaries.

yesterday in church our recent convert who is 8 bore her testimony and it was the most tender thing ever. everyone was crying. 

transfers are tomorrow! hermana christensen is leaving and i will be staying in conroe..

El Espiritu Santo

yesterday was just a very spiritual day.

in sacrament meeting our two recent converts received the holy ghost. and then the bishop gave an amazing talk about the gift of the holy ghost very similar to President Eyring's talk from conference.

our other investigators that were at church Reina and Sherly that will be getting baptized here in the next upcoming weeks, loved it and are so excited to also get the holy ghost. 

last night we had a missionary Why I believe Fireside. they are super awesome. its a fireside for investigators or people learning about the church. and the recent converts share their testimonies and the missionary choir sings and our president and his wife speak. they are the best. so so spiritual usually everybody cries. so they had three recent converts already picked out to speak. one was Claudia Guzman. my recent convert from my last ward! i was so excited. but one of the other people speaking didnt show up..so about 5 minutes before the fireside started, our recent convert francelia, who was just confirmed a member of the church that morning, was asked to speak. she was so nervous she didnt even know how to do a testimony. we helped her and it was amazing. she shared her experience she had about a year ago. she had a dream of two muchachas knocking on her door and her letting them in. and how that was us a year later! it was so beautiful. i almost cried, but i dont do that. 

I also had a really amazing study this morning about the Holy Ghost. how he is who purifies and sanctifies us. so this week i am ponderizing;

I've also started my 6 months to sexy..because ive gotten extremely fat on my mission. so im bound to eating this for the rest of my mission.

I owe everything to my dad and mother

I just want to say that i have the most amazing coolest dad ever. he is my hero. he has changed so many lives. i strive to be like him.

also shout out to my angel mother, happy birthday:) i wouldn't be the missionary or person i am with out the amazing examples i had as parents.

La Conferencia General aka Navidad

this past week was so many things. mostly stressful, tiring, meetings, exchanges, more stress, headaches and sleep deprived.

so last tuesday i had a leadership meeting that was so long. we learned a lot of new things that we then need to teach to all the other missionaries. its so scary because you dont want to mess up! so i had to practice that all week.. 

also i went on two exchanges this week with two other areas trying to help some other hermanas..

then friday was zone meeting where i had to train the zone on how to teach the plan of salvation and invite people to baptism. basically i didnt sleep all week. 

but saturday conference was such a delight. it really is a relief to know and feel the love of living apostles and leaders of the true church.

but yesterday was like the best day of my mission. our investigator francelia and her daughters that are getting baptized this month came to conference at the church and brought us flowers and food. i almost cried it was so cute. also a student from our english class came who has never even taken the lessons before. and the best, our investigators Reina and her family finally came to church for the first time and we have been teaching them for months. and they loved it! they are also getting baptized. 

we also taught a lot of amazing lessons this week and helped a lot of people feel the spirit and understand Gods plan for us. the work we do really is so important, to make this know unto all the inhabitants of the earth.

Matching Sister Mortensen

Role Playing

Quinceanera

On Saturday we helped our investigator get ready for her quinceanera we
spent hours working outside setting it up and it was so hot (no it's
not fall here yet) thats why i look so ratchet. 

The rest of the week wasn't that great. Except for conference Saturday
was sooooo amazing. President Uchtdorf's talk changed my life. His
talks are always my favorite. But it really was exactly what I needed.
I invite everyone to listen to it. So you know what I'm talking about
because I don't have my notes with me:(

Our investigator francelia is awesome. She is progressing really well.
She is on track for baptism next month. She has been to church twice
and she even said the prayer in class last time:) we love her!

I would like to commit all of you to invite someone who is not a
member to watch General Conference because #livingprophetsareawesome

11 months

I've learned in these LONG 11 months that i will never, ever eat hispanic food again. that's all i have to say.

me and my companion are staying together another transfer so yay! this is my 9th transfer in the mission.. whooooo 

our week was really really hard but we also saw a lot of miracles. we found a lot of prepared people. 

our investigators Francelia and her family come to church this past sunday and are going to be baptized in october. we also have another family scheduled to be baptized in october and another in november, pray for them please!

Reina, Sherly, Francelia, Esmeralda, Kathy, Amy, Leticia

elder louder, one of the assistants to the president shared something really cool in our district meeting about boats. in Mark 4 Jesus tells his apostles that they will make it to through the water. he promises them they will make it to the land. but he doesn't say they will not be any storms. the boat is like the mission. the land is like the end. then, when the storms come, the apostles start freaking out and say, "master, carest thou not that we perish?" (because sometimes on the mission we feel like we are going to die of trials) Jesus says, "why are ye so fearful? how is it that ye have no faith?" it really touched me because Jesus can calm the seas and he doesn't expect us to do this work on our own. siempre necesitamos mas fe..