"I love the HOUSTON Temple"
With Hermana Townsend on our Temple outing
With Hermana Licona. I love this lady. She fed Hermana Townsend and I and entire pan of enchailadas... and they were delicious!
This trailer park has become my second home!
3/24/14
HOLA Familia!!
How have you been this past week?
Things here in Katyland have been great! We really saw so many awesome
miracles. The Lord never ceases to amaze me in how He can just put us exactly
where we need to be at the right moment! For example... we love tortas. They
are basically just sandwiches, but Mexican, and so much better. Well a few
days ago a member had told us about the best place to get tortas, so we decided
we would go if a dinner appointment cancelled. Well on Thursday we had two
dinner appointments... but that morning I just kept thinking about this
stinking torta restaurant. Well, as the day went on, both of the appointments
cancelled! And we took it as a sign. We went to the restaurant and there were
so many Hispanics! But they were all eating and not too interested in chatting.
So we decided to sit by the door so we could at least say hi and bye as they
came in and out. Well there was a group of guys who were leaving and we just
said "que les vaya muy bien!" and they all kind of looked at us,
trying not to laugh and left... hmm… Then just a few moments later one of them
walked back in and said "hablan espanol?" well... "si!" he
then asked us how he could get a copy of the Book of Mormon. He's been wanting
to read it for a while, he just hasn't known how to get one. Is this real life?
Oh you mean this book I've got sitting right here? It's for you. Read it. Love
it. Seriously! Unfortunately he was just in Katy for the day for a job, but he
now has the Book of Mormon and is going to read it and feel the spirit of
truth!! Also when we were knocking doors we met a nice man who said,
"there are so many churches, I just want to know for myself which one is
true." Well you see... James 1:5.
We also have seen a lot of progress
with our friends that we've been teaching, aka investigators. Baby steps, but
they are still steps! We another dinner with a member and she invited the
missionaries sister over, and she also invited another family from the ward
with girls the same age. The dinner was awesome but the message was even
better. We decided to talk about forgiveness and how we have to be Christ-like
and forgive everyone. Well it sort of changed as the member decided to share
one of the new Mormon messages about bullying. How we have to forgive them, but
we can because we know that our individual worth is great in the sight of God,
even if others tease us. Then the little girls went off to play and we sat
there with the moms for just a moment longer. The missionaries sister opened up
about how her daughter hasn't been wanting to go to school lately because there
is a mean little girl that teases her about her skin color... she thanked us so
much for the message. It was really awesome because she really got to see the
practical side of the gospel. This is why Joseph Smith saw Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ! Not just to restore some church, but really to restore the
knowledge that we need to succeed in these latter days where there are mean
little girls.
I just love these people... more
than I can express. So in regards to the title of this email... SUPPOSEDLY I'm
being transferred tomorrow... don't worry... I won't believe it this time until
I am sitting in my new area :) But we did get the call yesterday and they said
it is really time this time for Hermana Draper to leave the lovely Katyland.
So... we will see what the Lord has in store. A new adventure ahead. Replace
fear with faith. Go fight win.
I love you all so much! Have a
wonderful week!! Say ten things you are grateful for!
les quiero demasiado,
Hermana Draper
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