MIRIAM GOT BAPTIZED. For those of you who don't remember or if I never told you about what happened there, we were teaching Miriam and about 5 days before her baptism she called it off for less than happy reasons. But two months later she got baptized! God has a plan for all of us! Families are forever!
We had a Christmas Conference this week with all the missionaries in the entire mission. We watched "The Nativity Movie" and it completely redefined the way that I think about Mary and Joseph. What a blessed eye opening experience! My favorite part of it was when after Joseph and Mary had been traveling to Bethlehem Joseph was napping because he was so tired. Mary washed his feet for him because it was the only thing that she could do. I liked this part a lot because I was thinking about how maybe Jesus got the idea of washing his disciples' feet from watching the example of his mother. And the rest of the conference was good too. :) Hna Lowry and I took a special picture with our driving mascots. Picture below.
We had a lesson with one of our investigators who is getting baptized and he explained to us his favorite part in the Book of Mormon (1 Nephi chapters 8-12). He said, "My whole life I have been on the path of God, but I was wandering in the mists of darkness. Now I have found the iron rod." My favorite part was when he then continued to say, " and one day I WILL partake of the fruit!" He gets it!!!! I invite all of you to read it too. :)
This week we also had Christmas in 87 degree Houston weather, and I got to talk to my family! On my birthday, I classic to character, had a bowl of spaghetti Os with a candle, which I then blew out. (That was for you Kam!) I also got a plate of cake shoved in my face. But it was really good cake, so there was no downside really.
Also, I wanted to share with you guys the coolest things that happened on Christmas Eve! We had been planning things all day to do, when Hna Provost knew that we needed to go visit the Ochoa family. The Ochoa's live 50 miles away and we only had 200 miles for the rest of the month, but somehow we knew we needed to go out there. So we went, and the drive was beautiful, and when we pulled up the mom answered the door with tears in her eyes and told us that she had just then been praying that we would come. God really does answer prayers. Then we were leaving and I lost the phone in the car. We looked through the whole car, 5 times! Finally we asked Hna Ochoa to call the phone and we found it in a pocket that my companion had watched me look through multiple times. As we were finally on our way again, my companion optimistically said, "Well, maybe we would have gotten into a car accident and God was really protecting us." That was when we drove past this really cool old looking church. We pulled over, got out, took a quick picture, and just as we were leaving a really nice lady named Pamela pulled over and asked us if we needed help taking a picture. She then proceeded to tell us about how her great-grandma had started the church in 1875 and about the history (I was really into it haha). We then shared a little bit of our message and as we parted ways she told us that she was going to share it with all her children and her family. As we drove away we realized that if we hadn't been there at that exact moment we never would have met her.
One of my mother's favorite scriptures is found in Proverbs 3:5-6 which says, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths." I know that this is true with all of my heart. When we let the Lord direct us, he will always guide us to the places that we need to be and exactly when we need to be there. Not only then do our paths become perfected, but then we are truly following HIS paths, and I know that we can find no greater happiness, joy, and peace of mind. Follow His paths, and they will always lead us back home to His presence. And like my mother also always says, "There is no place like home."
Always,
Hna Madison McCurdy
These first three come from Sister Barrera. Madison and her companion share the same birthday! What are the chances of that????
This picture comes from Diana. Thank you sweet ladies!! She is now part of Diana's family.
Her Spagheti O's (for Kamrynn)
Hermana Lowry and Madison with their driving mascots :)
ps. This picture is yo y la familia Hernandez. I love them a lot. Pray for them too please. :)
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