1900 Westview Blvd #811
Conroe, TX 77304
If you sent me mail in the last week to the other apartment, I can still get it. But not after Wednesday. We can start right there, WE MOVED. YAY. We were expecting the other apartment (number 526), but it turns out we got a brand new beautiful sparkling apartment instead which I was super grateful for because the other one was a little gross. Haha. Sometimes when we walk in at night I feel like we live in a hotel. It is pretty awesome :)
This week TiWi (that little box that tells us when we are driving to fast or turn to fast etc etc) malfunctioned as we were driving. That was a little scary because TiWi is your constant companion (kind of like the Holy Ghost haha) and all of a sudden it was gone. We managed to reset the TiWi and when he finally spoke to us again we were relieved. (This is a first world mission problem.) Everyone was really surprised when we told them we knew how to reset that.
We also got to eat dinner with one of my favorite people in the whole world, Sister George, the lady who ran the Panama Canal and was part of the black panthers and was a german interpreter for the US Army) and I loved watching Hna Wallace as she discovered how amazing this woman is.
We got a call from a random person named Enrique asking us where the church was because his parents wanted to go. When we found his parents at church, we discovered that they are here on vacation from Honduras and that they are the patriarchs of this huge less active clan in our ward. We are now teaching them, but I think the coolest part is that we didn't find them, they found us! When we asked about how they got our number, we learned that in December when Hna Provost and I were knocking here we left a card about the Book of Mormon in their less active son's door, and that he kept it all this time. Miracles!
We went on exchanges this week and Hna Bohn came to be my companion for a day. She is really sweet. She thinks Conroe is crazy haha, which admittedly it is. What was even more awesome was that the last time she came to Conroe nearly a year ago, she knocked on this woman named Francelia's door, and then left the next day. Francelia was baptized in October and now is the First Counselor in the Relief Society, and it all started back with that day.
HNA SUMSION (my first companion in Houston with Hna Jorgensen) was riding across the country on a motorcycle with her dad and they drove through Conroe and we got to see them. I was super feliz. :)
Also, we were teaching the Leon family this week and their friend was over, and although we were trying to teach him he kept trying to Bible Bash with us. We didn't try and fight with him, but simply listened as he rambled and quoted from the Bible. Finally after about an hour of him trying to convince us of his point, we testified simply, "We know that there are twelve apostles and a prophet on the earth today, and we know that this is because the Holy Ghost told us it is true," he couldn't fight with us anymore. The spirit was there and then they started asking us questions. IT WAS THE COOLEST THING. SHORT TESTIMONIES ROCK.
So, yeah, that's really all that I have to say for this week. But I learned that what we do every moment of every day really does count, because every day we are planting seeds. Who knows when a little piece of paper you left in someone's door will lead you to a giant family of 40 people who need the gospel in their lives six months later? Who knows about the time that you knock on a random person's door and she ends up completely changing her life around. Who knows about the time that you smile at someone who is depressed or help do the dishes for your mom after a long day or make your roommate's bed when they are in the shower? It is those little things that make or break the difference. Don't underestimate the power of little things. It is the accumulation of them that create our lives and who we are.
I know no matter how much we fall short, the Savior and His Sacrifice will always make up the difference. No matter how much we have made wrong can be made right in Him. We must only read our scriptures, pray every day, and go to church to utilize his sacrifice for us. He always loves us.
Always,
Hermana Madison McCurdy
(Technical difficulties with the photo feature. I will try to upload the pictures separately.)
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