We did lots of service for people this week. On Tuesday we
did our usual service activity with our district, at a Nature Center. That is
always fun. On Wednesday we ended up helping a member with yard work in the
morning. Her family's relationship with the missionaries kind of got ruined
last year, so it was good to build that back up. We ended up having dinner with
them on Thursday and we are having dinner with them again next week, so I guess
they like us, which is good. Sis. Colton weeded and I raked up the yard. In
Texas there are a bunch of brown, spikey balls that are all over people's
yards. So I picked up all of those. And then on Thursday we ended up helping a
potential investigator, Caleche, with her yard. She is friends with the
Relief Society president, and we have been trying to set up another time to get
together, but she has been really busy. Anyway, Caleche is pregnant with twins
and hasn't been able to do her yard. We called her to offer our services,
and she said we could help, but her lawn mowers weren't working. So we borrowed
the Relief Society's president's lawn mower and did her lawn. Sis. Colton
weeded again, and I mowed the lawn. It was quite the adventure. Her backyard
consists of a ton of really tall weeds, and so. much. dirt. And I got covered
in the dirt. You know when you are on trek, and you get covered in a thick
layer of dirt all over? Yeah, that is what I looked like when I finished.
After being in Houston for almost 11 months, I officially
feel like I have experience Texas because this weekend I ate crawfish. Our
stake had a huge crawfish boil on Saturday night. I think around 2000 people
were registered to come, and I'm pretty about that number of people came.So
many people. And lots of nonmembers. It was really great. We got to
try crawfish. I like it. It was really good. The only problem is that I'm not
very skilled at getting the shell off of the crawfish, so it took awhile for me
to eat it. I was really hungry, and it was taking a long time, so I didn't eat
very much before I went and got a hamburger to fill me up. They had activities
for the kids going on inside of the church, and so we had missionaries roaming
the halls the whole time. Lots of people asked for church tours and a lot of
copies of the Book of Mormon and other materials were given away.
We met with Megan this week and taught her a little bit
more. Tim wasn't there because he went to Mutual. Apparently, at Mutual they
decided to ask Tim to give the spiritual thought, and he did a really good job.
He shared what he learned from General Conference. Anyway, Megan is great. We
went over the baptismal interview questions with her. We have never officially
taught her about the Word of Wisdom, but we found out she had already been
cutting back on coffee and tea, and so we invited her to stop drinking it all
together, and so far she has. And we had never talked about keeping the Sabbath
day holy, yet, but a member in our lesson last week had talked about how they
had made an effort to not work or do school work on Sunday, and so Megan
decided that she should do that, too, and she has been working on that. She is
so great. She had her baptismal interview yesterday and passed, so she is
getting baptized on April 25th. We are really excited. Tim will have his
interview next week.
I hope everybody has a great Easter this weekend. I'm
so grateful for the chance that we have to focus on Christ and His Atonement
this weekend. I am so grateful that Christ loves each of us so much that He was
willing to suffer not only for all of our sins so that we can repent and be
cleansed, but also for all of our temptations, afflications, infirmities, etc.
so that He can help us and strengthen us. Jesus is the Christ and He is our
Savior and Redeemer. Only through Him and by living His gospel can we be
cleansed of our sins, and live with God again.
Love,
Sister Sylvester
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