Hello friends and Family!
I wish I had really cool stories
to tell you guys, but all the best stories you wait to tell until you get
home, right? That is how we come to these odds and ends:
I made cookies "For the
First Time in Forever," this week. They were so yummy. My companion was this odd
mix of really pleased and also slightly peeved, because she wanted to eat all
the cookies. I have picked up some new nicknames around
here, including but not limited to: "Maria" (by a 9-year old girl who
loves the Sound of Music), "Leche Mala" (which
means bad milk. Someone thought my name was McCurdled, which then turned into
curdled, which proceeded to evolve into Leche Mala) (the bad milk in the CCM
has followed me to Texas), "Turd" (said person
used to call me curd), and "Herman McDonalds" (which happened because
a lot of Hispanics have a difficult time pronouncing my majestic Scottish last
name and then realize it looks like McDonalds. The moral of the
story is that about 2/3 of the primary calls me Hermana McDonalds now).
We have a really cool
investigator who loves the Book of Mormon.
Before we taught him his second lesson he was already in 2nd Nephi, and
when we taught him the Restoration he was so golden he had James 1:5 memorized.
Wowza.
I had an exchange this
week, which is where you switch companions with someone else for a day, and I
got to spend time with the "Lebron James of the Texas Houston
Mission." She was a lot less intimidating and less tall than I thought she would be haha. Her named is Hermana Tate and she is from SoCal. I learned so much from her in one day. Honestly if one day I could even make it
into the Missionary NBA I would be happy.
While a lot of missionaries in
the world have bicycles, my companion and I have a car. See that little black
box in the corner? His name is TiWi and TiWi does a lot of good things.
For example when you hit a curb he says, "Aggressive driving." Or when you go 11 miles over the speed limit or higher, he says, "Watch your
speed." Sometimes he even randomly tells us to make sure that our seatbelt
is on. So why do we have a TiWi? For obvious reasons, even if it annoys us and
the people of the Houston area. But the TiWi does a lot of good. I was thinking that we have a TiWi in our lives too,
and that is the gift of the Holy Ghost. Sometimes he says: "Don't
watch this movie," or "Don't go to that website." We have the
Holy Ghost for the same reason that we have TiWi, to keep us safe and prevent
accidents. Sometimes it's annoying that you can't do whatever you want to do.
Sometimes it makes other people angry. But whenever we follow the guidance of
the Holy Ghost we will always feel the love of God in return telling us he is
happy that we did the right thing. I wouldn't trade
that feeling for the world.
And sometimes it makes me wish
that the TiWi said thank you when you did what it asked you to do.
Have a marvelous week everyone. I
love y'all :) Keep me updated
please what is going on with you guys
please!
All my love,
Hna Madison McCurdy
Me and TiWi
This is a serious picture of my Zone
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