Hello again from Houston Texas! Where the weather is always warm and the tortilla are in abundance ;) and HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDPA!!! Love you so much and I hope you had the best day💕
It's a great week to be a missionary, especially here in West Lake Houston! We saw so many miracles this week. Starting off, we have an investigator named Soledad (yes that does mean solitude) that we have been having the hardest time getting in with! (no surprise there am I right RMs?) But we felt impressed to head there Saturday night, pass by again because she's having surgery today and we wanted her to watch some videos while she's in bed for 2 weeks. So we pull up to her trailer, pray, get out and SHE IS SITTING ON THE PORCH! Literally she tells us "I had just picked up my phone to call you because I felt like I needed to see my Hermanas again!" Ahhh miracle. Then we go in, start teaching her and her daughter (who apparently in the past hasn't been open with missionaries) sat down and we had a beautiful lesson about priesthood blessings. A little different for a first lesson for her daughter, but we felt impressed and followed it! When we finished, we asked Soledad if she wanted one before her surgery, and she said YES. The elders stopped by later to give her one, and she committed to read the BOM while she was recovering.
Funny story: so last night around 8:45, we are at our house eating dinner and our phone had still been on silent from church (you can't have the phone going off in sacrament meeting as a missionary) and I hear it buzzing. I look at it and answer, and its Sister Hewlett (President's wife) calling us uh oh. She said that she is outside our apartment waiting to come in to bring us a chair. Ok ya know the scene in The best Two Years, where the mission President comes to inspect their apartment on a surprise stop right after they had just gotten into a huge fight? And they are running around trying to get everything cleaned up in 5 seconds? THAT IS HOW WE FELT. no mind you, our apartments are 2 months old, but I am a clean freak and didn't want anything in the wrong spot. We run around, turning the candle on, cleaning up the kitchen counter, and then we RUN to the front of our apartments to let her in! In the end, she come in, and checks it out and the first thing she says is "um is it always this quiet and empty?" Hahaha so we did all that cleaning for her to say it was too bare! So funny. I love sister Hewlett with all my heart and soul and she even is so excited for the day when we can have a sleepover at the mission home....❤
This week I completed 2 months here in Texas, and 11 months in the mission! I am just stunned and so grateful for the time that I have to be here! My testimony has been grown so much while I have been here. The Book of Mormon is so true and clarifies so much doctrine that only the Bible has. I have been going through and reading President Monson's old talks and I know that God leads His church through a living prophet. I love this Gospel and my Savior with all my little ❤
ALSO, about a week ago we went to search out a potential in the middle of no where. We found them home, and they said it was a miracle. *Hahaha no it wasn't, it was just God's perfect timing* because their house got flooded. 15 feet!! During Harvey. The husband is a member, but they weren't living at their house, just stopped by to feed their dogs. It was amazing to see how God is perfect, and I know without a doubt that his timing is too!!
We are also working with a less active family, and one of the daughters is pregnant and engaged, and they still live at home. But her fiance isn't a member, and he came to church yesterday with the whole family in a white shirt and tie!!! MILAGRO. We have dinner with them tonight so I'll keep ya tuned ;)
have a good week!!!
xoxoxoxo
Hermana Hansen
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