tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29076416713549180032024-02-20T20:03:01.056-08:00Called To ServeTexas McAllen Mission
* Spanish SpeakingLeslee http://www.blogger.com/profile/09831259658447040010noreply@blogger.comBlogger82125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-75481435531207403662016-08-22T19:59:00.001-07:002016-08-22T20:23:10.082-07:00Out with a BANG!<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was super nuts!!!!!!!!! It's been hard saying goodbye to people. I couldn't have asked for a better last transfer. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few days ago I was saying my nightly prayers. I asked God to please let Sister Eggett and I to have another baptism together even though I don't deserve it. It was a sincere prayer but I was a little skeptical but I just put things in his hands.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Saturday night we dropped Miguel. He had been sending us texts all week long saying that we were selfish missionaries and that he was going to call the temple to tell them that we just force people to do things. I had a good laugh about that. So Saturday he texted us that he was sorry and that he had been talking to someone at work about us and they had told him that the Mormon missionaries do a lot for the community and they told him how much we actually do as missionaries. He felt pretty bad and then texted us and apologized. I texted him back that we forgive him and that we are not mad. Then I was like, "You have sent some rude messages to us in the past few months and so I'm going to ask you to not text us anymore." He never replied. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The next day (yesterday) we got a phone call at like 9 in the morning from our zone leaders saying that Miguel was at the church with his clothes ready to get baptized! He didn't want us to be there because he thought we were mad at him but that he still wanted to be baptized. After two hours of phone calls to the District leader, the Zone leaders, our Branch President, and Miguel, we finally decided that he could be baptized in our Branch after church. We were going to do it before church but the Elders had a baptism too so we planned on 4:00. During church I called our District leader to ask him if the font was full yet before we started heading over there (we don't have a font in our building). He told us that the church had flooded and that the font was filling with sewer water!! SO we arranged it to be at another building and so we had to rearrange everything. Everyone knew but Miguel! We went over to the church where he was supposed to be baptized and told him what was going on and so he followed us to the other church! </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It was seriously the most stressful and yet rewarding day of my mission. I have been teaching Miguel for 4 months and it was a joyful moment for me to be a witness of his baptism! Right before he got baptized he was standing in the font and yelled "VIVA MEXICO!" hahahaha! And then his sins were gone. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I am grateful for my mission and for the things that I have learned from these people. I have learned to love others the way God loves them. I have learned the importance of always following the Spirit and being worthy of it. Everything we do must be to invite the Spirit. I know that because Jesus Christ and God can't be with us here in person that we have the Holy Ghost who is a God to help us along the way. God is so merciful and full of grace. I am grateful for the miracles that I have been a part of: for the hell, tears, sweat, blood and pain that I have felt to help me experience the most TINY bit of what Christ went through. I'm grateful for the pure bliss that I have felt as a result of the trials I have gone through. I know that we are here to learn. I know that Christ carried a cross a lot heavier than our heaviest burden. A lot heavier than my backpack full of copies of the Book of Mormon. I know that this is His church. That he is in the details of our lives. Rock bottom is the foundation on which I have built the rest of my life and I know that God will always be my rock. I know that people are put into our lives for a reason. Angels are among us everyday. I know that we have a living prophet and that the Book of Mormon is the word of God. I am grateful for having an eye-opening experience such as this so that I can help others. I am truly grateful for my parents and the example they have shown me. I know that I wouldn't be where I am if it weren't for the choices they have made in their lives. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In college I took an auto class thinking there would be cute boys and there wasn't! So I had to pay attention. Little did I know that I learned something from that class to use on my mission. Our car died like five times so I had to jump it!!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Falco family got me a tres leches cake for my birthday mmmmmm mmmmm mmmm</td></tr>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was crazy!<br /><br />So Miguel has been acting super weird with us. We had a lesson with him earlier in the week and he asked us for $100 dollars for gas or he wasn't going to make it to his baptism. We told him that we couldn't give him money as missionaries and that we were probably more poor than he is because we don't work. Sister Eggett asked him if he had eaten that day and he said no and so she gave him a coupon for a free taco that a member gave us. He has been making excuses every week for why he can't make it to his baptism so finally i just told him, " Miguel we will be at the church at 3:00 on Saturday with everything ready and we will wait for you and hope you make it to your own baptism." Then later that night he texted us a super rude text saying that he got sick from his (FREE) taco and that he was mad at us..... (he does stuff like that all the time). We still waited for him at the church the next day and like 25 people showed up but Miguel didn't. We haven't heard from him since. I don't think I've worked with anyone in my mission as long as I have with Miguel. We have been teaching him for about four months now. It just made me sad that he chose to not come. He has a super strong testimony but is literally choosing to be unhappy. We did all that we could and I still hope and pray that he will choose the right path.</span><br />
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-34545386503221661382016-08-01T13:51:00.001-07:002016-08-01T17:32:50.744-07:00**AUGUST**August 1, 2016<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I went to court on Wednesday. The prosecuter gave me 3 options: the first being that I could still try to fight it against the judge but if I lose, the ticket would be like 400 dollars. The second was to take a driver safety class and pay the court fee and the third option was his "offer" of just paying the court fee and having ten days of probation. I asked him if I could see the video of me driving and after thinking it over I chose the probation. Haha! So Sister Eggett has been driving us around for the last little bit. After we left, one of the Elders was like " Man I'd pay money just to see Sister Thompson go at it again with the prosecutor. That was awesome!" I guess I still have some sass left in me. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We also had a zone conference this week with our new mission president. It was really good. He talked a lot about the natural man and how to control our thinking. He said that our mind is like a stage. Thoughts come in and thoughts leave. Whether they are good or bad. He says that it is normal to have bad thoughts come in because that's part of the natural man but it's up to us whether we are going to "entertain" those thoughts. He talked about having a song to sing when that happens or a back up plan so to speak because if you don't you will be in trouble. It makes me think of a quote that I like: "It's too late to start digging a well when you are thirsty." So it's being prepared mentally for when unwanted things come onto our stage. Something as simple as a hymn can kick the thought off stage. Bad things don't want to dwell with good things. There is no in between. It was a great zone conference. I enjoyed it. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I got a phone call from the STLTs the other day. Sister Eggett answered the phone and they asked for me. My first thought was "Oh no- what did i do?" But it was Sister Hortal (she came out with me) and she was like, "Sister Thompson, guess who i am with?" She was with my greenie in the mission, Sister Castro, who happens to live with Sister Kindall. So I got to talk to them both. Sister Kindall was telling me that she would share stories of Sister Castro in Uncle Drew's sunday school class before she came out on the mission because she had read my blog. It was a little tender moment that I got to talk to them. God has been so good to me in my mission and has let me be a part of so many miracles. I'm super grateful for this work and for second chances. Jesus Christ not only Atoned for our mistakes but so that we could rejoice with Him. I love you all! Thank you for your examples to me! Have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week I went to traffic court for my speeding ticket. That was fun. We joked that we were like Peter preaching in jail! The judge asked if I pled guilty or not guilty and of course I told him "not guilty" and so he asked if I wanted to be tried by a jury or a judge. I had like five seconds to pick so I picked the judge. I have another court date this Wednesday to find out if they will drop it. So hopefully I'll baptize the judge this time around! So that's still going on. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other day we were on an exchange and we were super hungry. So we said a prayer that someone would feed us. We kept working and we went by a member's house to see how they were doing. In the middle of talking she randomly was like "I have egg salad sandwiches do you want one?" We told her yes and after eating we told her our prayer and how she answered it. She looked so happy because I think that we were an answer to her prayers too. She told us that she had been praying to be able to help people. I love that the Lord always answers even the simplest of prayers and through other people! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week has been super busy. Nothing really too big happened but just a lot of little miracles that always seem to add up. We had 3 inactive/less active families come back to church yesterday. That was a happy moment. We have been working with them for awhile. One family hadn't been to church in almost a year. We were talking about them during branch council and one of the members was like "they always use the excuse that their car is broken" then another member was like "they always make it to work or activities they need but they can't ever make it to church" Then another member was like "well apparently their car is Mormon because it always keeps the day of rest!" I laughed a little too hard at that one! I love working with these people! This Branch has grown so much since I've gotten here (not because of me) but I love being able to see growth and progress in people! Our Branch members are amazing and they take good care of us! </span><br />
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-41678758679148566812016-07-18T11:46:00.001-07:002016-07-26T20:11:20.208-07:00Stories from BrownsvilleJuly 18, 2016<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was another good one!! We passed off Julio to the other sisters who are in YSA. He came to two different sessions of church! 6 hours! Miguel is getting baptized this Sunday!! We are hoping that Julio will too:) Miguel told us that he will do it this Sunday if there is music at his baptism. I have been practicing my opera singing so I can sing a solo haha- no I haven't but we are super excited for him! On Saturday we were on bikes and we had a lesson with him at the library and then we rode our bikes a good distance to our area. We had been working for about 2 hours when we realized our phone was gone. We looked and looked and finally came to the conclusion that we left it at the library. We biked all the way back and when we got there we found out that it closed 20 minutes earlier! The library didn't open until 1:00 the next day and our church starts at 1:00 so we were going to have to go get it after. During church I told Miguel that we didn't have our phone! He was super worried about it! Well during priesthood when we weren't with him he sneaked off to the library and asked if they had found our phone! They didn't. He went in the computer lab and called it and found it under a desk! He showed back up to church (we didn't even know he left) and handed us our phone!! It was a huge tender mercy because if we would have went to the library we wouldn't of found it! We were also worried that it wouldn't look good if people saw the Mormon missionaries at the library on a Sunday. So it all worked out! It's crazy how such a little thing came out to be a huge blessing for all of us! God is in the details even when we do dumb things! </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Before church yesterday Sister Eggett and I were sitting in the car for a minute talking before we went in because we were super early. This guy came up to our window and we talked to him. He told us that a belt in our car sounded like it needed to be fixed. We got to talking with him and we told him that we were missionaries and we were going to church. I invited him to come and he said he had somewhere to be so we told him it ended at 4 if he wanted to come to the last part. He said he might. We didn't think much of it because we have heard that a thousand times ha! So during church towards the end we look over and it's the guy! He came back and stayed the last hour of church! It was super awesome! We got his information and he is probably going to be baptized soon;) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There is this lady named Mariel who has just gotten out of prison. She is a member but hasn't been to church in over 14 years. Yesterday was her first day back at church. After church we went to visit some members and she was there. She has been staying in this little camper in their neighbor's backyard behind their trailer. We were talking to her and asking her how her first day back at church was and she told us that she was sitting in the second class and she didn't want to comment or say anything. She wanted to leave but something told her to stay at church. She was called on to answer a question but wouldn't talk. During third hour sister Eggett and I taught Relief Society. She commented a lot during that class. While preparing for the class I was super nervous to teach it in Spanish! I have always not liked teaching in bigger groups but as a missionary it's not about what I like. Mariel told us that our class brought back a lot of memories for her and that she felt the Spirit! She told us that she has a 12 year old daughter who isn't baptized and she wants her to grow up in the gospel and be baptized! It's so amazing to me that God works through our weaknesses. I know it wasn't anything that I said during the class but the fact that I was able to grow from the experience and be a part of helping someone else to feel the Spirit and have the desire to be better. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So </span><a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">tomorrow</a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> I officially start my last transfer!! We got transfers last night, which was probably the first time my whole mission that we got them that early! I am..... STAYING. And so is Sister Eggett!!!! We are super excited. She has officially given me the nickname of "grandma." We both were praying so hard that we would stay together so we are pretty excited about it! </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was a great one! We are sitting here in the library currently and we just got a text from Miguel that says, "Sister I broke up with my girlfriend and I gave her the Mormon book I told her if you some day you want to come back reed the Mormon book and she left." He is doing super great! He didn't come to church yesterday but we are so so proud of the progress that he is making. He told me that he wants to get baptized in Utah when I get home. We have other plans for him to get baptized down here! So we are working on that. The other day he called us and told us that he was going to bring a friend from work with him to our lesson. We met up with him and his friend is super interested! His name is Julio. He came to church yesterday and stayed all three hours! He is 27 so we will probably have to hand him off to the YSA missionaries but Miguel is talking to a lot of his friends about the church! It's been a huge testimony to me of you save one soul and you save many. During the lesson with Julio we were explaining to him about the Book of Mormon and Miguel got mad and was like "you need to tell him about Mormon first!" We explained to him we have to explain it in order or he will get confused. It was great. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The whole transfer Sister Eggett has been trying to run a mile in 7 minutes. She has been at about 8 for most of the transfer. The other day she was determined to do it in 7 minutes and 30 seconds. I got out the stop watch and rode my bike along side of her as she ran (I am still the world's worst runner). Anyways so she was at half a mile and I yelled at her "you are at five minutes hurry up!!" She had been running super fast! Well I lied to her because she was only at like 3 minutes but i wanted her to get faster than her end goal. She pushed through super hard and when she finished she looked like she was going to pass out. She asked me what time she got and she made it in 6 minutes and 48 seconds! We both gained a little testimony of support. We joked later that she wasn't a "circus elephant" It's amazing the things that we can do when we have loved ones by our side (even on a bike) pushing us along the way. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Speaking of circus elephants. The other day i was jumping on Sister Eggetts bed and we heard a big crack! I broke her box spring in half! HA! She slept on it that night. Her bed looked like one of the beds that you see in the hospital that are like folded in half. She complained the next day that her back hurt! So last night she moved her mattress on the ground! She wouldn't let me trade her beds! That has been the joke of the week.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week we have been teaching our members the story of the anti-Nephi-Lehis where they bury their swords. So we would make little swords with them out of paper and have them put things they were going to bury and promise God that they weren't going to do. We were at the Falco's house the other night and they had been giving us a hard time and teasing us. We were getting them to stop drinking coffee and that they should bury it too. They wouldn't! We tried pretty hard. So we just took the little paper swords out to go bury them and when I dug into the ground I dug up their plant! haha! They jokingly told us that we weren't allowed to come back; that we were ruining all of their things;) </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other day we were at another members house eating with them. I asked the mom for a servesa which means "beer' in Spanish instead of a sirvilleta which means "napkin," She looked at me and said "como?" haha! oops. We gave talks yesterday in Spanish! I was SO nervous and I am so so happy it's over! It went better than I thought it did so that's good! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The mission is going great! I'm super excited for this upcoming transfer and all of the success and miracles that we are going to see! I love you all! Thank you for the love and support! Have a blessed week!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">SIster Eggett and I are giving talks this Sunday about missionary work and service. I found a story this morning that I'm going to share in my talk about the Pastor and the sheep. This man found a little baby sheep by itself in a field nearby his home. There were no other sheep around and he didn't know whose property it was. He knew the baby sheep would either be eaten by wolves or starve to death. It was so tiny and skinny that he decided to bring the sheep home and let his son take care of it and be its shepherd. The son would play with it and feed it milk. He nourished it back to health. He knew that he never had to lock the gate because the sheep wouldn't run away from his care. One night while he was in bed he heard his sheep Baa Baaa (yes im going to Baa in my talk haha). The sheep sounded in distress but the boy didn't want to leave the comfort of his bed. The next morning he went down to find that his sheep that he had taken so much care for was killed by a dog that got out. When the dad came home he asked the boy "Can I not trust you with one sheep?" </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255 , 255 , 255 , 0); font-family: "helvetica neue light" , , "helvetica" , "arial" , sans-serif;">This story relates to us as members. We are the shepherd to our friends in spiritual distress. The Lord trusts us to be the good shepherd and help those in need. We need to leave the comfort of our "beds" and help those who are in need. Which is everyone who doesn't have the Gospel! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Things have been super great down here! Sister Eggett and I work super well together. Our goal is to make the members in our branch love us! We don't even need to try;) I've learned a lot from her. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love you all! I'm so grateful for your love and support. I love being a missionary and I am so grateful for the things that I have learned from these wonderful people of Texas. My heart is so full and my body aches;) but I wouldn't have it any other way. I know that God has a special plan for each and every one of us. I know that once we forget about the life we want for ourselves that He can show us a much better life! There is no greater joy than helping others. I'm grateful for my parents who have been the perfect example of compassion and service. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Odon had surgery this week so he wasn't able to come to church. We went by the less-active member's house that he was staying at and they kept saying that he would be home the next day and so finally after a few days we just asked what hospital he was at and went and found him. He was SO happy that we came and found him. He has no family and i dont think he had any visitors. He told us that he didn't want to leave the hospital because living in the shed has been miserable for him. He has one pair of clothes. I think that we are going to go to Goodwill and buy him some clothes. When he has to use the bathroom he has to go knock on the door and sometimes they don't let him in. He was telling us that he enjoyed the hospital because of the food and he gets to talk with the nurses. Yesterday when we went by, Sister Eggett, Espinoza and I sang him "Soy un Hijo de Dios" while Eggett played the Ukulele. People were walking by in the hallway looking in- it was super cool. He loved it. We later went and sang for other people in their rooms. It was a little tender moment for me. I love how something so simple can bring the Spirit so much. One man was in tears when we left his room. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Miguel finally came to church yesterday!! Woot woot! He took notes too! Some of the Elders in our zone had a baptism and so we invited him to come to that and he did. It was great! I love having non members go to them because they get so much out of it and it brings the Spirit so well!! After the baptism he leaned over to me and said, "Thats all?" I told him "yep!" I think it eased some fears that he had. It was cool to see. We are meeting with him on Tuesday and he is going to teach us how to play the guitar. He is an amazing song writer and sings for us all the time in the middle of lessons! He loves music and has helped me to develop that love and appreciation for it too. The other day we had a lesson with him in the library and I showed him the Joseph Smith's first vision hymn and he was blarring it super loud in the middle of the library. We told him to turn it down and he was like "No everybody needs to hear this!" Then the librarian came over and told him to turn it down haha. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">A few days ago we got a phone call from "INV Rosie" so she was an old former investigator that had been taught and was saved in our phone. I didn't know who she was but she called us and told us that she needed help and so we told her that we could come by the next day. So the next day we went over to try and find her and her apartment address was 4135 but we went to 4125 on accident. This guy opened the door and we asked for Rosie. She didn't live there and so we told him that we were missionaries and he said that he had been taught by missionaries in Dallas a few years ago! So we asked him for water and he let us in (best trick ever). We got talking with him and I was so excited about this miracle! He was telling us about his comics and other random stuff and then he was like "oh yeah by the way I have schizophrenia." And then he was telling us about how they were making movies of his dreams and that people were watching him. He told us that when he eats while watching tv the people in the tv are getting a good meal too and that they can taste it. It just kept getting more and more bizarre! It was still super fun to talk to him and we are probably going to go back but it caught me off guard so bad! I just love knocking on doors and not knowing who is going to answer and what we are going to hear. One of the biggest things I've learned on the mission is that you can always learn something from someone. Doesn't matter who it is but that everyone has something to offer and everyone knows something that I don't. I just love hearing people's experiences and what they know and how they think. Everyone here on earth has the same dilemma; we all just have different monsters. Thats the beauty of it, is that the Gospel applies to everyone. It doesn't matter what we are going through or what we have done but that we are all learning and we all have potential. </span></div>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-24020972677528161942016-06-14T19:14:00.001-07:002016-06-14T19:35:30.125-07:00Brownsville Adventures<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was so awesome! Jennifer was baptized <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://0" x-apple-data-detectors-result="0" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">on Thursday night</a>! That is always such a rewarding moment for not only us as missionaries but to God too. Half of the people that came to the baptism were not members of the church. Jennifer was able to be an example to them through her faith and willingness to follow our Savior. It was such a beautiful baptism! When she came out of the water we followed her into the bathroom and hugged her. She just cried and cried she was so happy! That's the only time I enjoy seeing people cry! It was a tender little moment for all of us! She was able to receive the Holy Ghost on Sunday at church and that was awesome too. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Odon is the 80 year old man that we are teaching. He too came to church yesterday! He loved it. We talked about Adam and Eve and he was making jokes about men having an adams apple and women not. It was super funny. He is a cute little old man. He is missing most of his front teeth and so it is super hard to understand his Spanish sometimes. He probably thinks we are idiots. He always asks if I am more Mexican than sister Eggett. We try to tell him that SIster Eggett is from Mexico but he wouldn't have it. He is super adorable and we love going by to visit him. We went by last night after church and sung him a song. He is working on being baptized the beginning of July. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We are still teaching Miguel. He dropped us a few weeks ago because his friends were making fun of him for investigating the church. About a week ago he texted us asking why prophets are prosecuted. We told him we would tell him if he met up with us and so he agreed and we had a lesson with him at Taco Bell. We have been meeting him in the library lately too. He is getting there but he still hasn't come to church and we are helping him to understand the importance of it. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The other day we got permission from our district leader to do weekly planning at Texas Roadhouse. It was so fun! It actually reminded me more of home than Texas. Probably because I used to eat there once a week. It was a weird feeling. I got a little taste of how awkward I'm going to be when I get home. We had a good time. Our server kept hitting on us. It was super weird. He was like "I don't know how you guys do it!" We were like "do what?" and he was like "leave your boyfriends to come do this!" Then he was like "if I were either of your boyfriends I don't think I could let you leave!" hahaha. Then at the end of the meal I left him a Jesus card with the Elders' number on it;) and we went outside. While we were outside he came running out and thanked us for the card and said that he had been going through a hard time lately and that he was super grateful for the card and had asked us to pray for him. So we are hoping that he calls "us" (the Elders). </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This transfer has been SO dang fun. It's going by way too fast. We are teaching such great people and seeing success. We are always laughing about something too. Life is good and the mission is sweet. It's flying by way too fast. I love being here and I'm so grateful for all that I have learned from my mission. It's the best decision I've ever made with my life. There are things that I have seen and witnessed that will forever be a part of me and I'm so grateful for the humble people of Texas that I have had the privilege to serve! </span><br />
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-27426598018242716292016-06-07T18:20:00.001-07:002016-06-07T18:23:55.540-07:00BeSt TrAnSfEr EvEr!!!<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sooo my new companion is.... Sister Eggett!! We lived together my first transfer as an STL in Sinton. We are having the time of our lives down here in Brownsville. This week has been a super fun one. We get along SUPER well. It's amazing the difference this transfer. Last transfer was okay but im looking forward to this transfer and the fun that we are going to have. This is Sister Eggett's first transfer as an STL. When we lived together three transfers ago I told her that we were going to be companions and that she was going to "kill" me on the mission! We are hoping it comes true. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jennifer is all set to be baptized this Thursday. We found her my first day here. She was the first house we knocked on. She has changed so much since the first time we met her. Her mom and cousins have all noticed it too and so we are super excited for her progress and willingness to follow Jesus Christ. We have the baptism all planned out and everything is ready to go. It has been so fun getting to teach her and feel the love for her as I know God feels for all of us. Our area that we are in hasn't baptized in 8 months or so and we are excited to be a part of God's miracles. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">There are a lot of cool members in our area. There is an older couple that feeds us every week. The Leichthammers. He is from Germany and she is from Mexico. They both used to be bilingual but she got in a car accident and forgot all of her English and he had a stroke and forgot all of his Spanish. So when we go over there one of us teaches the lesson in Spanish and the other translates it into English. It's super fun. She always feeds us like a 4 course meal. They take good care of us. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday after church we were knocking on doors. This less-active family came into my mind so I decided that we needed to go by them and visit. I had only been there once like two or three weeks ago and I had never met the family- we had just knocked on the door and talked to the girl for a few minutes. So I followed the prompting to go to them. We got in the car and drove over to their trailer. We walked up and they were having a little BBQ outside and so we asked if they were the Perez family and it was. We sat down and got talking to them. She works as a health provider. Earlier in the conversation I noticed that there was an older man walking around the property. She told us later that he had lost his housing and that he was living in her shed. He was one of her clients. After awhile he came over and we talked to him he asked about the church and told us that he wanted to come and that he would be there every Sunday. He is an 80 year old man named Andon. It was a super cool miracle. We are going by again on Tuesday and we are going to teach him more about the church and help him prepare to accept the Gospel. It's amazing the miracles and blessings we see when we follow the simplest of promptings. Whether its going by to visit somebody you have never talked to or giving someone a card. I know that it's all for a reason far beyond anything we could ever comprehend. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm super grateful for the chance to be down here in Texas serving God's children and for the many many blessings I have seen and experienced. I wouldn't trade my mission for anything. I know that God puts people into our lives for a reason. It is usually through others that he answers our prayers and its the best feeling in the world to BE an answer to someone's prayer. I am grateful for the miracles I have been a part of that have forever changed my very soul. I know that it is through the Grace of God that we are able to grow and become better everyday. I cant even imagine a life without progression. </span></div>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-44733939060409151202016-05-31T20:06:00.001-07:002016-06-01T18:16:24.305-07:00Transfer 11!!<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So we have transfers today!! I am...... staying here in Brownsville! Sister Guzman left this morning. I'm just chilling here by myself in the library. Haha just kidding I'm with Sister Espinosa and we are waiting for our new companions to come. I have no idea who it is!</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Saturday we had a surprise leadership meeting. President Maluenda is finishing his mission on the end of June and he is preparing the mission for the new president. He had us all raise our hands if we were going to be going home in July or August. 90 percent of the leadership in the mission are and so the Zone Leaders and STLs are all going to be training new missionaries (greenies) or new leaders. And he has called younger missionaries to be the new Zone Leaders and STLs. I am the only STL that stayed! I don't know if he has kept any of the other STLs and is just putting them in another area or if I'm the only one that didn't go down to train. Either way it doesn't matter, I'm just happy that I get to keep my calling. It keeps me on my toes and busy. I love going on exchanges with the other sisters and helping them. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was a good one! So I always talk our district or the sisters into getting taco bell because taco bell is awesome. So earlier in the week we were there and I got my food and so I went and sat down with another sister. After I left, Sister Guzman was talking to some guy and she came and sat by us after and said that he had worked in Utah and Idaho and knew a little bit about Mormons. He lives in Mexico and comes here everyday to work. She got his information so that we could talk to him. Anyway a few days later I was on an exchange and I remembered we had Miguel's number and so I had the thought to call him. We did and he couldn't meet up with us that day so we said we would try again another day. Well a few days went by and we kind of forgot to call him again. We were out working and I was like "Let's get taco bell!!" I'm sure Sister Guzman is sick of taco bell but we went anyway. When I was at the soda fountain this man came up to me and asked where my friends were and I was like "quien?" Then I realized that he was Miguel, the guy that Sister Guzman talked to! So I had her come over and we sat down with him and we taught him about the restoration in the middle of taco bell. It was awesome. He writes and sings songs. He used to run marathons but can't now because he has arthritis. On the way out we gave him a Book of Mormon to read. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> "Los hermanos las hermanas por ti haran una oracion y el libro del Mormon se quedara en tu Corazon caminando caminando peladiando sin parar el mensaje lo llevamos por el mundo sin parar si quieres te visitamos para hacer una oracion y si la oracion te gusta nuestro padre celestial te iluminara por siempre con el libro del Mormon."</span><br>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He texted us this morning and we met him here at the library because he wanted to learn more about the Book of Mormon. We had a super good lesson with him. He had questions written down about things he heard or read. It's super cool to see. It's one of those things that doesn't happen very often!! All because of my love for taco bell and God:) </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yesterday we went to a member's house to eat who is a single man so we ate on the front porch of his trailer. He gave us soup. Have you ever had soup when it's 100 degrees outside? I don't recommend it. But it was amazing soup so I'll give him that!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This was a possum playing dead in someone's yard. It was super cool. The tail wrapped around my finger! We were sitting around having a lesson with these old people we saw outside and during the lesson the dog was trying to eat this possum. I got up in the middle of the lesson and went over and picked up the possum to rescue it. My companion that I was with told me later that the man said I was a good person for helping the possum and that I was going to heaven and they were going to hell for just sitting there and watching it. ha ha! Who knew saving a possum would set an example for somebody.</td></tr>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was a good one! We went down to McAllen for three days to have a training by our Mission President for all of the leaders. He also gave us all blessings and that was very powerful. I was a little nervous to get mine. Side story. Last week when I had an exchange with Sister Reynolds (STLT) I told her that I wasn't sure what I am supposed to be learning this transfer. She gave me the commitment to go through all of my areas and write down what I learned from each one and then see what is missing and that's what I need to work on. So I did that and I had a few ideas I had written down. When I got my blessing from President he blessed me with a few different gifts and they were all the things that I thought I was supposed to work on! I thought that was cool. I gained a testimony of following leaders and of the priesthood. He also quoted things from my Patriarchal Blessing. I learned a lot during the meetings too. I realized that I have so much to learn and do before I go home and It stresses me out. When I started my mission I got this idea in my head that I would come home an entirely different person. So much cooler and smarter and changed. Well I got the cooler part down;) Now that I have just a few months I have realized that a mission teaches you HOW to change and be happy and progress. It's not just going to stop after I get home but be a continual life long pursuit of changing and progressing. Anyway that's my little rant. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I got to work in McAllen for those days and we also got to see the Hernandez family which was super fun. We had a good time with them.</span></div>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-55546964458611002242016-05-09T19:49:00.001-07:002016-05-10T18:04:59.829-07:00Mail from Mexas!May 9, 2016<br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">So I don't have much to say this week since I got to talk to y'all yesterday! I remember thinking last time we skyped on Christmas that it would be five months until I saw y'all again and dang the time flew by so fast! Now It will be 3 months until I see you again... in person! Super weird. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week we had a lot of exchanges. Sister Guzman and I were only together for a full day this entire week. We are still being blessed for our efforts. We had a family come to church yesterday. The mom's name is Elizabeth and she has 3 kids. We are working to get Elizabeth and Jennifer baptized at the end of this month. They are super cool. They have a pet rabbit named Olivia. They also feed us more than our members do so that's nice. They are cousins with some of the members in the branch and that's how we got into contact with them. Last night after skyping we went over there and we were teaching them The Gospel of Jesus Christ. We needed one more member present to hit our goal for the week but didn't have anything lined up. In the middle of the lesson there was a knock on the door and it was the member cousins! They helped us teach the lesson and it was awesome! I know we were blessed for keeping our Skype date on time;) Just like you guys said! </span></div>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-3796396550525330652016-05-02T18:59:00.001-07:002016-05-03T11:47:50.481-07:00Happy Mother's Day!!<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week has been a crazy one! I don't have super great stories this week. I feel like I didn't have a second to even think or to internalize anything! Time is flying by so fast. I did get peed on by a turtle though. That was gross. I saw 3 tarantulas this week. One of them literally the size of my hand and that's not exaggerating. We are going to the zoo today for p day and I'm afraid because animals hate me. We will see how many bite me! haha wish I was kidding. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">We had a few service projects too and a surprise trip to McAllen for an interview. Between those and moving apartments I am wiped! I feel like I am 90 years old. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I think I slept in my own bed 2 nights this week. We had exchanges all week with the sisters. We had an exchange with the STLTs. I went to Edinburg with sister Hortal. That was fun. We went to this less actives house and got talking to her. She has had a really hard life. Her father was a drunk. When she was 6 she watched her dad kill her mom. Her dad would abuse them physically and sexually. After 5 years she moved in with her aunt who made her a prostitute. She was doing all kinds of drugs and you name it she lived through it all. It made me cry while she was telling us all of this. She has come back to church and she has just finished a book of her testimony of all the times she has seen God in her life. Even though she has been to Hell and back she still has more than a books' worth of writing of how she has seen God in her life. It makes my heart hurt and full at the same time. How many of us look at our trials and say, "God was there for me then and He helped me through it all. Every single step of the way." or do we say "Why has this happened to me? Why do bad things happen to good people?" Don't we know that God is aware of everything? Through trials, weak things can be made strong. Have we been changed by Grace? That lady has no idea how much I have thought about her this week. We never know whose lives we are impacting even through our hardest times. That woman taught Sister Hortal and I through her trials and weaknesses because she applied Grace into her life. To change takes practice. It is to suffer. To sacrifice. To learn. To apply. They don't call it long suffering for nothing. She could have easily blamed God for her trials. She could have given up. She could still be doing drugs and blaming her father. She decided to use the Atonement to not only be cleansed but to be changed! </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Anyways, I got to shake is hand and he looked me straight into my eyes. Literally pierced my soul! Haha. His eyes are so blue! He later said that he did that with all of us and said it was to interview us. I didn't get struck down by lightning so I guess I passed! It was by far one of the most spiritual experiences of my entire life to be in that chapel listening to an Apostle of God talk to the missionaries. I was sitting on the front row which made it even better. He walked around the chapel and talked with us about the Spirit and prayer. At one point he and I locked eyes and he said, "You can have anything you want in this life. It is yours, if you do it the Lord's way." It was as if he were talking directly to me at that moment. Everyone in the room disappeared and it was him and me. He talked of the importance it is to invite the Spirit in all that we do. He said that Jesus is not here with us physically and neither is God but the Spirit is and he IS a God. I had never thought of it that way. He told us that we are God's investigators. That the things we are out there begging our investigators to do are the things that God wants us to be doing and magnifying. I cant even put into words how amazing yesterday was. My life will never be the same. It was as if everything I had been trying to do and learn and be, I was able to see truly from God's perspective. God opened my eyes and let me see the plans he has for myself and for each and every person I come to meet. </span><br />
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-41894143158249614402016-04-18T20:03:00.001-07:002016-04-21T10:36:59.827-07:00Mail from Miss Thomas<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Well this week was a great one! We had interviews with our mission president. Mine was the longest one! Probably because I have so much to work on! Laredo North and Laredo South zones all meet in the chapel and we sit there and listen to messages and stuff while president does interviews. We don't get to leave until they are all done. It took about 7 hours. Although I learned a ton I was ready to get out of there by the end of it! It was great though.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Robert is doing awesome. We always laugh so hard while we are there and the spirit is so strong when we teach him. There were many days this transfer where I wanted to give up but it was Robert that kept me going. I have never felt so much love for one of God's children than I do for Robert. He is the most teachable and humble person I have ever met. It makes my heart hurt to see him struggle to overcome smoking. I would do anything to see him happy. <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">On Thursday night</a> we had taught him about 3 Nephi 11 when Christ visits the people in the Americas. Robert was excited that he could inherit a piece of God's kingdom. I asked Robert if I could put my "Piece of kingdom next to his piece of kingdom." He was hesitant but then agreed that I could:) During the lesson he got so excited and was like "Baptize me girls!!!" We set up a date for <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">May 8th.</a> So we are helping him to achieve that goal. During the lesson there is a another verse where it says, that their 'hearts burned.' (something like that). We talked to him about it and explained the Holy Ghost and how he works. So on Sunday he came to church and during the Sacrament service a new convert was getting the gift of the Holy Ghost. Robert leans over to me and whispers really loud, "Girls my heart is on fire!!" We had a laugh about that. We also had a member come with us earlier in the week to help fellowship Robert and help teach him. After the lesson we were outside of the gate ready to leave and I said to the member, "Thanks for coming Mario you're the best!" Robert overheard me say that and he was like, "Miss Thomas you said I was the best! Do you tell that to everybody?!" Then he stormed off haha! </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week has been a miracle-filled one. We have found so many cool people and we had a lot come to church yesterday as well. I pray that I will get to stay another one here with Sister Moore. The work is hard and we always have a lot to do but I wouldn't have it any other way. I'm grateful for the opportunity to be here doing the Lord's work. My Padre wrote me a letter this week with a quote in it that says, "God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called." I know that to be true will all of my heart. I wouldn't be out here if He called the qualified! I'm grateful for the many souls who have changed my life and I'm grateful to be a part of miracles and changing theirs too. </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">On Saturday, we stopped by Robert's house. Usually when we teach him it's outside on the porch. He has some little rocking chairs that we always sit in. Anyway, when we got there the chairs were further down on their patio. We sat down and started talking to him. I noticed behind him, leaned up against the house, was a Santisimo Muerte statue (death saint). We had never seen it until then because we were always sitting in a different spot. I talked to him about it and we talked about the Holy Ghost and the Trinity. I asked him if we could take it from him because it's not good. It's basically devil worship although they don't see it that way. It looks like the grim reaper and she is supposed to take your soul to God. And if you disrespect her or something she will kill you. To get rid of it you cant throw it away, you have to leave it somewhere or gift it to someone. Anyway Robert was like, "I'll make a deal with you, the next time you guys ride bikes and no dogs chase you or bite you, you can take it." I told him that we were actually going to drive down to Rio Bravo and bike there after we left his house. We made the deal with him and told him that we would come back at the end of the night to let him know what happens. I was a little worried because Rio has stray dogs all over that place! I had never said so many prayers in my life for dogs to not chase us. We went through the entire day without any dogs chasing us. It was cool because we would bike past some and I thought for sure they would and they didn't! It was literally a Christmas miracle. Anyway, we went back later that night to Robert's and tell him the good news and to fork over the statue. When we walked over to where it had been sitting it was moved from up off of the ground onto one of the chairs we had been sitting on earlier. Robert was a little freaked out because he asked his whole family who moved it and none of them did. He was super afraid that if I destroyed it that it would come harvest my soul. I told him that God wouldn't let that happen. Robert's little nephew who is 2 years old kept walking over to where the statue had been sitting on the ground and he kept saying "Cucui" which means "Ghost" in Spanish. Long story short I took the statue and smashed it against a wall later that night. </span></div>
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-26935338716453641022016-04-05T18:52:00.000-07:002016-04-05T18:52:50.283-07:00A word from the Editor...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm Sara Oblad, Abbie's oldest sibling, favorite sister, and the Chief Editor of her blog. She asked me to include the following story that I shared with her this week in my weekly email to her:<br />
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I am the Relief Society President in our Ward here in North Dallas in a little state called Texas! As anyone with a leadership calling would know, there usually is a long list of members who are inactive and not easy to find. About a year ago, I was going through this list trying to find inactive members on Facebook because they either didn't have a phone number listed or didn't have a current address. I came across a woman's name, *Andrea York. I looked her up on Facebook, found a woman who looked to be about her age with that name and sent her a message. She responded 4 days later and said she was a member but hadn't been to church in years. She mentioned her daughter who used to go to the church in the next town over. She was very sweet and we messaged back and forth for a few minutes. Andrea said she had moved from the address I had listed and gave me a new address of where she was currently living. I sent her new address to the Membership Clerk and he sent her records to the ward she was supposed to be in. I thought I probably wouldn't hear from her again.<br />
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Nearly one year later, just a couple of months ago, our ward received the records for an Andrea York again with the same address as before in our town. I sent her a message again asking if she had moved back to Little Elm where we live. She said she had not moved and was still at the address she had given me last year. I thought that was odd so I apologized for bothering her again and sent the info once again to our Membership Clerk who sent the records out again and didn't think much more about the situation.<br />
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Last week, I was tagged in a post on Facebook in a group called "Ladies of Little Elm," which has 6,000 members from my town and neighboring towns on it. I went to the post where I was tagged. A woman named *Sharon was asking if anyone in the group belonged to the Little Elm 1st Ward. A friend of mine who used to be in my ward responded and tagged me in her post. Sharon said she was trying to get in contact with the missionaries and wanted to start attending the Little Elm 1st Ward. Sharon then thanked my friend, Michelle, for tagging me because I had contacted her mother awhile ago but Sharon wasn't able to get a hold of me. A bunch of other sisters in my ward responded to her post as well introducing themselves. I sent Sharon a private message, thinking she was a member who had just moved to the area and was wondering about our ward. I found out her mom was Andrea and that Sharon was not a member! We talked for a bit and Sharon said she was planning on moving in with her mom soon so I figured out which ward her mom was in with the new address Andrea had given me. I contacted our missionaries to find out the contact info for the missionaries in her mom's ward. Our ward's missionaries said that Andrea's ward, Frisco 1st Ward's missionary was staying with them until he got a new companion! It was so random because Frisco 1st Ward is in another Stake! So I gave them Sharon's number and asked the Frisco 1st Ward's missionary to contact her as soon as he could! I was wondering how to get a hold of the Relief Society President for Frisco 1st Ward because they are in a different Stake and I didn't have that information as readily available.<br />
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In the meantime, Sharon posted on that same Facebook post saying that she actually wasn't in Little Elm 1st Ward but would be going to Frisco 1st Ward instead. Not long after she had posted that, another woman said she had just moved from that ward and had loved it so much and was sad to leave. I then sent her a message and asked her for the Relief Society President's information so I could tell her about Andrea and Sharon. Within minutes I had her information and was texting with her about these wonderful ladies that were in her ward. She said she had received Andrea's records that week and was planning on visiting her!<br />
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I made plans with Sharon to meet me and some other sisters from church at the park the next day with her 2 year old son (this was just yesterday- Abbie's P-day). After talking with her for a bit, she opened up and said that she was separated from her husband at the moment. She said he had been in the Navy and was put in prison for 2 years for some misconduct and was released in January. He was now living in Corpus Christi while he was on probation until September. She and her son went down over Easter weekend to be with him. She suggested they go to a church while she was there. During their whole relationship he has been atheist or agnostic but found God while serving his prison sentence When she suggested church he said he had been going to a church for a few months but didn't want to tell her the name. He said it was a different kind of church. He said they meet for 3 hours. He finally told her it was the Mormon Church! She was shocked because as a teenager she had studied with the missionaries and was wanting to get baptized but never went through with it. She told him that and he was surprised by it too. As she was telling me the details of her story, I began wondering if there was somehow a connection with Abbie. I asked what her husband's name was and which ward he was attending. She said *Drew attending the Robstown Ward, which is very near to Corpus Christi. I logged that in my brain and planned to email Abbie about him. We had a great visit and made plans to see each other again.<br />
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I got home from the park and emailed Abbie right away. She hadn't emailed for the day yet so I was hoping we could email back and forth for a few minutes. She emailed me back within just a few minutes of my email and said SHE KNEW HIM! She said that Robstown Ward was the ward she had just come from (I must have missed that detail in previous emails- ha ha!) and that Drew's missionaries were Sister Eggett and Sister Stanfil with whom Abbie was roommates and good friends! Abbie had been to his house for dinner and he had come with them for teaching appointments. She said he was wanting to be baptized but had to wait until his probation is over in September. We emailed back and forth about it for a few minutes and she asked me to include this story on her blog. Stay tuned to how this story may end....<br />
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I have been so touched as to the way the Lord is in the details of our lives. I have been praying and fasting for missionary opportunities and being an instrument in His hands and he is using me! It brings so much joy to be a part of someone's life as they accept the Gospel and are eager to embrace it. I feel so lucky to have been able to make this extremely random connection between myself and my little sister serving a mission. What a privilege!Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-18420437857018681202016-04-04T16:09:00.001-07:002016-04-05T17:38:31.372-07:00HAY HEY!!<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'm trying to think of anything cool that happened. We had some meetings in McAllen- that was fun. We drove with the Elders in the mini van and had a good chat on the way. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The gospel is true! I love being a missionary! Things are busy and going great down here. The weather is nice!:) </span><br />
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Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-11902622135650897232016-03-28T13:26:00.001-07:002016-03-28T13:26:15.072-07:00HaPpY EaStEr!!!<div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">What up from L town! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was a growing week for sure! Some how I got roped into being in 3 musicals. I think they just liked hearing how awful I sound. We sang in zone conference, YSA branch and I had to sing a solo in district meeting. During the song in YSA I may have made my companion sing an unexpected solo because I couldn't get as high as the song went so I just stopped singing! She has an amazing voice though. She gave me crap for it after. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I gave a talk in church about the Grace of God and I shared the story about Simon the Pharisee. I love that story!! When the woman who was a sinner, approaches and starts washing Christ's feet and how Christ lovingly teaches Simon that, that woman has more love than Simon. I love how He compares the debtor and the two that owe him money. One owes 500 pence and the other 50 and when the debtor tells them that they need not to pay anything. Who is going to love the debtor more? And Christ teaches that it is the one that was forgiven the most. The deeper the heart ache and sorrow one feels, the more room there is for love. I didn't share this in my talk but that's the reason we have trials! We are able to grow more and to love more. The sooner we come unto the Lord and "wash his feet" the sooner we are to being forgiven and being filled with that love! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Robert is doing so great! I fasted on Wednesday for him to stop smoking. He decided that he wanted to do it the next day because that was the day that Christ suffered and if he was going to suffer too he wanted to do it on that day! We went over <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1">at 8 on Wednesday night</a> and he made us all tostadas. We went outside and Robert smoked his last cigarette. He insisted that he had to wear his cowboy hat while doing so. He cracks me up. We came by <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://2" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="2">Thursday night</a> at around 8 to break the fast with him. He was starving! He told us that he didn't even brush his teeth because he was afraid to drink water! it was the cutest thing ever. He caved and had two cigarettes the whole day! We were so proud of him. He was super sad about it but we reassured him that it was okay and how well he did. He went from smoking 1-2 packs a day to only the two cigarettes that day. We are working hard with him and I cant wait to see him in that white jump suit!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Do you remember the story I shared a few weeks ago about Myron? It was the end of last transfer and we found him on a <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://4" x-apple-data-detectors="true" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors-result="4">Saturday night</a>. My companion didn't want to go by him because he was scary looking and I told her that I was going to go talk to him anyways. I made Sister Eggett come with me to see if he was going to come to church with us and he ended up going! Well when I left CalAllen, I made sister Eggett promise me that she would make sure that they kept working with him! We got a text from some of our leaders yesterday. Sometimes they will send out random baptisms that happen. And Myron was baptized yesterday!!!!! At first my pride came in and I was a little upset that I wasn't there for it because he wouldn't have been taught if I hadn't of followed the spirit but then I thought it didn't matter because he was able to be baptized!! It was a tender mercy I think that the Lord was able to show me that "planting seeds" is okay and that i don't have to be there for the whole thing to still make a difference. I don't think we will ever come to know the true impact we have made on this earth until after this life; I just don't want to get there to find out I didn't. So that being said, always open your mouth! I don't care if it's a crappy musical in front of lots of people or if it's asking someone to go to church with you. Don't look back and think "I could have done so much more." The best way Satan works is for good men to do nothing!!!! </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I hope y'all know how much i love and care about you. This life is too short to not be doing what you love! Remember, freedom is doing what you love but happiness is loving what you do! Do it until you love it. </span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love Sister Thompson </span></div><div><br></div>Sarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17515902102249738890noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2907641671354918003.post-10584344476395312302016-03-21T11:44:00.001-07:002016-03-22T18:35:30.194-07:0013 MONTHS!<div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">This week was swell. We had lots of exchanges and now that I think about it, Sister Moore and I probably only worked together like twice this week. It's fun to work with a lot of people. I feel like a deer in the head lights when I get back to my area and have no idea whats going on! I just go with the flow. We went to 3 church services yesterday. Ours, the Spanish branch and the YSA. I think God has a sense of humor and is having me make up for all the times I didn't go to church. At the YSA branch this guy came up to us and was like, "Hey this is my girlfriend. She wants to start taking the missionary discussions. Can you guys come over <a dir="ltr" href="x-apple-data-detectors://1" x-apple-data-detectors-result="1" x-apple-data-detectors-type="calendar-event" x-apple-data-detectors="true">tomorrow</a>?" We are going by tonight! It took every fiber of my being to act cool. I was freaking out. That is literally the best feeling in the world to a missionary. I know that God is taking care of our area because we are unable to work together as a companionship all of the time. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Elders keep asking us to sew their stuff for them: pants, ties, shirts, you name it! They think we work in a sweat shop or something. What they don't know is that we always try them on afterwards :) I feel like a giant when they look like high waters on me! The struggle.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Robert has been doing great. He seriously is my favorite person ever. He always tells me when we come over, "Ms. Thomas, you're not going to get my cigarettes this time because I hid them!" It cracks me up. We were talking with him on the porch yesterday and he asked if we wanted a drink so we said yes. He went inside to go get it and while he was inside I took his cigarettes off the table and put them in my skirt pocket. He came out and we were talking for awhile. We talked a lot about fasting. He had fasted before but not for quitting smoking. I asked if he would like to do that with us this week and I told him to pick a day. He told me Wednesday. I said to him, "Robert if you don't drink water, eat, or smoke a single time during the entire 24 hours, I promise you that you will not smoke a single cigarette from that day on for the rest of your life." He agreed to it and we will be fasting with him this Wednesday. I have only made a handful of promises like that in my mission and I pray that we will all learn from this miracle that is about to happen! </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yesterday we were on another exchange and we were out contacting. We saw this guy out working on his car so we went and talked with him about his car. Then we told him what we do as missionaries. He said he didn't believe in God but that his wife has come to our church before because her mom is a member. He asked if we wanted to talk with her and so we went inside and met her and she fed us pizza. It turns out this is a super less active girl and her husband isn't a member. So we are starting to teach them. That was another cool miracle that we just "randomly" found them.</span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love you all. The mission is going by so, so fast. I can't believe it. I have learned so much and I still have a LONG way to go! Thank you for the love and support:) </span></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Love Sister Thomas;) </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">My new companion is Sister Moore. We are the STLs for North Laredo and South Laredo Zones. My area is called South Gate and we are in the South Zone. You can literally see into Mexico from the balcony of our apartment! Our apartment is in the middle of this ghetto neighborhood and I love it! Yesterday while driving home from church I saw a guy on the sidewalk with no shirt on holding a hand gun! While contacting I also watched a pit bull eat a rock the size of my fist. I'm already in love with my new area. I hope I die here (in the mission). I might die literally too. Just kidding mom. Everyone is nice here:) </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When I got here the first house we went to was an investigator named Maria. She has come to church three times. We knocked on the door and her mom came out and told us off. She said for us to not come by anymore because she was already baptized and that she has things that she should be focusing on right now. Sister Moore was pretty upset about that. We decided to go bike up a couple more streets and contact houses. As we were biking we saw this guy sitting on his porch. We decided to talk with him and he had us walk around the gate and come sit on the porch with him. We got to talking with him, his name is Robert. The elders had been teaching him and he had come to church two or three times but he left his wife and moved into our area. The elders didn't know that, they thought that Robert had just been ignoring him. They hadn't been in contact with him for two weeks or so and we just "randomly" found him! He was going to get baptized and wasn't able to because he has problems with smoking cigarettes and pot. When we went to go show him a video his background on his tablet was a pot plant so I changed it for him to a picture of Jesus. He liked it and ended up keeping it haha. He also calls me Thomas. Which I think is great. I don't have the heart to tell him my name isn't Thomas so I just go with it. At the end of the lesson I told Robert that I was taking some of his cigarettes. I was going to take five and he said three so we agreed on four. I took his joint away from him too. As we were walking out I broke the cigarettes in half over the garbage can. I thought he was going to have a heart attack! He was SO funny about it. I decided that I wouldn't torture him so we threw the blunt into the sewer after we left so he couldn't see. The next time we came back he was like "Thomas I hid my smokes from you!" I told him that he couldn't hide them from God! We had a good laugh. Robert's story is crazy. His brother was taken by the Cartel just across the border. Robert had to sell his ranch to pay for the ransom that they were demanding. He paid up and he still has never seen his brother since. We are going to continue working with Robert and help him to stop smoking. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I love you all have a splendid week!<br />Love Hermana Thompson</span></div>
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