Hello Family!
Sorry, the library was closed yesterday so we couldn't email until today. Stinking holidays! :)
Ok. Where do I start?? This week was crazy! Elder Pandulce/Van Dusen left this week so our 10 missionary ward is now a 9 missionary ward. We also found out that Elder Neil L. Anderson from the quorum of the 12 is going to visit our mission and he's holding the meeting in the Colleyville Stake Center, which is just like 20 minutes away from us! (We're thinking that if we wear our matching shirts again we can get a picture with Elder Anderson.... :) AND it's our entire mission PLUS the Dallas mission that's invited! That's going to be like 500+ missionaries all in one spot. Besides the MTC, that's basically not heard of, so we're pretty stoked.
This week we met this really cool lady named N. She's a refferral from Church Headquarters, so we didn't really know what to expect when we knocked on her door. But when she first started talking, we weren't sure if she was already a member or not, but then she invited us inside and we talked with her more and decided that she's just really cool. Slash we shared Moroni 10:4-5 with her and she looooves talking about the Holy Spirit, and she said that sometimes she has some friends over and they love the Holy Spirit so much that they start speaking in tongues...We set up a return appointment with her to more fully explain the Restoration of the Gospel, and she then advised us to come fasting and praying so that we can have a "speaking in tongues" experience....We're excited to see her tonight, but we hope she doesn't go completely insane while we're there.
We're also teaching such a cool couple (they're actually married, which is like impossible to find around here apparently!) and they fed us last night when we were over there teaching them some of the Commandments, and it was basically vegetable soup with an entire fish in it. Not bits of fish, an entire fish--Scales and bones and everything. Not gonna lie, it looked pretty nasty. BUT, I ate it! I thought you'd be proud of me. It might take me a few days/weeks to recover emotionally and mentally, but I feel like a champion now. And that was the first meal that I ate where I really felt like I had to force it down, everything else here is delcious! People tend to just make rice cooked in some sort of oil, some type of meat (usually chicken) and then refried beans (usually pinto, but refried black beans are the bomb!). Then they just set out a bunch of corn tortillas on the table and you can like spoon everything into a tortilla to have 100 mini tacos and it's basically heaven. We haven't had the chance to do a lot of cooking or learning how to make anything yet, but we might ask Hermano B (one of the really cool less actives that love us and is an amaaaazing cook from Puerto Rico) to teach us how to cook and teach us spanish at the same time for language study or something soon :)
We were able to stop by S's and she's just crazy busy, but still so awesome and excited for the gospel! We're still teaching her, it will just take some time.
Have I mentioned that it's flipping hot here? We were tracting in 109* weather the other day. I felt like a boss. (we didn't stay out longer than 10 minutes at a time before we got back into our car, so don't worry, no heat strokes or anything)
We also had a New Missionary/Trainers follow up meeting last friday and I got to see all the missionaries that came out to the field at the same time as me--including Elder Hardy! I have a picture with him that i'll forward later. It's supes presh.
I hope Brother Mc"Man vs. Wild"s road kill recipe won the Labor Day cook off, that sounds very much like our Texans would loooooove that. And Mom's canned peaches, those two things sound like the perfect Texas lunch! We didn't do anything special for Labor Day, it was just a regular p-day, but our Spanish ward is having our first big party next week so I'm pretty darn stoked for that!
Glad to hear everyone's doing well, and I love that picture of Dad's garden, nice job!
I love you all so much!
Love,
Hermana Blood
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