To start of we had to go get tested and we got to go to the astros stadium to get tested! It was pretty sweet and got to see all of downtown houston. It was super pretty. Quite a bit of homeless people but other than that it was a great sight to see. Not gonna lie the air quality here is not that great. It always just looks dirty. Also tested negative sadly… We have to quarantine for 10 days anyways so I wish we had gotten it.
We have been doing a lot of facebook finding and responding to peoples comments that liked our page. Btw Me and my comp are editors for the english page so thats pretty cool! We have a video that we made that has reached like 4000 people so thats pretty sweet!
The members here are seriously so good to us. Since being in quarantine they have fed us so much! Like literally every night. Hermana Pocheco fed us three nights in a row. My comp said before I came he had been fed like once or twice before I got in the area soooo basically the members here just love me. We have had a lot of meat and rice and some weird plantain thing that is like a mix of a potato and a banana hahaha best I can explain it.
Angel!! This dude is awesome! We had another lesson with him over zoom and as usual he was lovin it! He has a dog named simba and hes so cute. His wife is still in rehab but she gets out this week so hopefully she will be as interested as he is! We invited him to church even though we weren’t able to attend. Im not sure if he went or not tho. Our lesson went super good with him and we kinda just read the intro to the bom with him and he seemed to understand it all. My spanish still sucks. It been rough lol. Funny story… We needed a pic of angel to send to the bishop to look out for him on sunday, so we looked him up on facebook and literally the only pictures he had was mirror pics with him and his shirt off hahahaha. We wanted to just send it like that and make our bishop so confused it would’ve been hilarious but we just cropped it just so you can see his face but this dude is actually shredded!! Hopefully we can keep teaching him and all goes well!!
This week I’ve been able to read a lot from the scriptures and holy crap! This week has been awesome my testimony of the scriptures has grown so much and I’ve learned so much just by studying. This sunday we got to have a devotional for the area of houston east and Elder D Todd Christopherson spoke it was super awesome(over zoom). They had some speakers before he gave his talk. You could tell that their native language wasn’t english and it was so hard to understand them and it was kinda making me mad. Then one of them shared a scripture from 3 nephi which says “ Have ye any that are sick among you? Bring them hither. Have ye any that are lame, or blind, or halt, or maimed, or leprous, or that are withered, or that are deaf, or that are afflicted in any manner? Bring them hither and I will heal them, for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy." Man this scripture… I have never felt so bad for what I was thinking in my entire life. Of all people for me to say that about those people who came to speak to us. They were doing their best. That last part where the savior said “ for I have compassion upon you; my bowels are filled with mercy.” made me think. I’m learning a language and for how hard its been for me, for me to say that about them makes me sick. It’s been hard enough for me learning spanish so if anything I should have had empathy for them! When I’m speaking to people in my awful spanish I don’t want them to think “ this kid sucks at spanish” I want them to be able to have empathy for me and know that Im trying my best. Sorry idek if that made sense but I just need to be more like my savior Jesus Christ and see people how he does. He truly is the perfect example for us to follow.
Taught a lesson yesterday to a single mother and she is seriously so awesome she was so willing to hear what we had to say and seemed so interested!!! Its so sad when she said where she was from cuz she wasn’t in our area:( It’s super sad to send someone to different missionaries when you're the ones who started teaching them. But hey whatever brings her closer to her savior is all that matters!
(btw today is my pday because of tranfers)
(In quarantine still until next pday so thats soooo much fun… not)
Pics
The salt gun of doom where we have killed plenty of bugs and cockroaches in our apartment!!! Nasty!
Downtown Houston
The sistrict meeting over zoom because we in quaratineee
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