Well Friends and Family, how are y'all?
Not much has been happening this week. It's been pretty slow still. But let's try to dig up some goodness.
Monday: We had a zone P-day at a huge house. Like...indoor basketball court, cafe, theater huge. And that was only the downstairs that I saw. Cool.
We were also taken to the Salt Lick Restaurant by a part-member family, which is a big deal here I guess, it was pretty cool. Mostly just a lot of meat. Texans love their meat :) After dinner they wanted to take us to see bats. Yeah. Bats. They all hide under a bridge over by the Capitol building and then they come out just at Sunset. It's a pretty big production. It was pretty dark by the time they finally came out, so my pictures aren't very good.
This week really has been a slow week. I've been studying "Hope" this last week since it's the next topic in my Atonement/Character of Christ study. I think it was a difficult week because I was lacking in the hope area. Sister Clements and I have been brainstorming a lot of things and trying to figure things out better for this area, but it's like we just keep ramming into a brick wall. Less-actives wanting to remove their records, people not returning calls, lessons with investigators falling through, recent converts struggling. It's been a rough week.
We did get to go to Stake Conference this weekend. It was a much needed Spiritual replenishing. They talked in the adult session about Temple Attendance, ironically our Mission President just gave us permission to go to the Temple when we felt like we needed it. He said to be wise with it and not abuse that trust though. I think we might be heading down to San Antonio soon in that case, because my whole heart has been aching for the Temple. In the Sunday Session of Conference, they talked a lot about having faith in Christ, the talks were all stellar and point on to what I needed. They were just very real life talks. I felt like my soul was just soaking in everything. I kept looking around wondering if everyone else could feel the Spirit that I felt their that day. That meeting became somewhat of a Temple, or holy place to me that day. I've been coming to find a lot more of those holy places since coming out on my mission.
On Saturday, we went to visit a Less-Active women, and she told us not to come back to her again. It broke Sister Clements heart and we sat on the side of the road for a while after. Sometimes this mission stuff hurts. As we started walking back home for dinner, we passed by a man whom we had said hello to in passing earlier that day. He asked us if we were lost or exercising. In skirts. Yeah. Then he said "At least you're not those mormons...are ya?" "Well, we are actually!" We said haha he told us to come by and get water some time. We have plans to take him up on that this week. We got a good laugh at it :) Crazy Mormon kids.
We also were out in the rain quite a bit this week. We didn't want to sit and wait it out, so we just went for it. I had an umbrella, Sister Clements didn't. We ended up walking on a pretty busy road right as school was getting out. Soaking wet. Cool. We were laughing though, we got honked at a bit. It scared us at first, then it was funny. The drivers got a pretty good laugh too. We also passed a sign that said "real life" I forget what it was even for. But I wanted a picture by it because I kept asking myself "Is this real life?!"
I've been enjoying my Atonement study. Elder Holland helped me out the other day to figure out why a mission is so hard. He's pretty smart that guy :)
We also are going to downtown Austen to see the Capital today. I'm pretty excited. It reminds me of maybe going to the Capital in the Hunger Games books. People dress kinda crazy here so maybe I'll see what Panem is really like haha :)
I love the letters. Blog printouts from other missionaries would be nice. Send love to the kids.
Well fam. The Gospel really is true. What else really matters?
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