Zone Conference

Hey y'all! I hope y'all had a great week! 

So, we haven't been able to see Juan this week. But that's okay! We're going to try again this week, crossing our fingers we'll be able to catch him at his apartment again. We also had zone conference last Tuesday, and it was awesome as always! We split up into different classes for most of the conference and some of the senior missionaries gave trainings. And then when we came all back together, President went over the temple interview questions and invited some missionaries to share their testimonies and it was so powerful! I love hearing other missionaries testimonies :) 

The Helotes sister have a YSA potential that is a caretaker for one of the members in their ward, so we were able to have a lesson with Ally and Sister Reeds daughter Tivanna, and it was so cool! We taught the Plan of Salvation and the spirit was so strong, the girls really loved the lesson. And they readily accepted a Book of Mormon and want to have another lesson! 

Well that's about it for this week! Love y'all! 

Texas Sunset!

HALF WAY!

Hello everyone! 

Mi compañera :) 

Can you believe it?? Tomorrow I hit my half way mark and I get to celebrate by going to zone conference :) haha I'm so excited! When I first got here to Texas I was thinking that the mission was going to go by slow, but nope! 9 more months and I'll be crying cause I don't ever want to leave this beautiful state! 

Last p-day we went to Texas Roadhouse with all the sisters for Sister Duke's birthday. So now I can finally say I had Texas roadhouse IN TEXAS. :) 

This week we tried going by some dropped investigators, and we had a cool little miracle happen! We were looking for one dropped investigator, and when the guy answered the door he was confused when we were asking for someone named Shawn. Turns out he is a spanish speaker named Juan and he was SO NICE! He's here with 5 of his roommates for work. And they are all from the same country as Indira!!! It was kind of hard to set up an appointment with his busy schedule, but we are going to stop by tonight and hopefully things work out! 

Also, happy Father's day yesterday to the best dad out there! The most loving, supportive, and christlike guy I know! Not to mention he's got a good sense of humor :) love you dad! 

Sister Duke told me a really cute saying a few months ago that I have continued to ponder on while being on my mission. Serving as a full-time missionary is a wonderful time where sisters are on a "daddy-daughter" date with Heavenly Father! I know Heavenly Father knows us all and loves us all. HE IS OUR FATHER! Through prayer, I know that He truly answers us and can talk to us, and He is closer to us than we think. I love you all and I love my Heavenly Father! I'm gonna go back to my daddy daughter date now ;) 

Texas Roadhouse with the sisters!

Pretty Texas Sunset

Zone Group Chats -- haha!

MOVING NIGHTMARE!

Sister Black

Hey y'all! 

Haha oh my goodness gracious, we had the most interesting service project this past week. On Thursday morning, the Elders received a call from a lady who contacted the missionary hotline saying she needed help asap with moving out cause she was getting evicted. She lives out of the zone, but she couldn't get a hold of the missionaries in her area so it went to our elders next. She's a non member, but she has a member friend that told her to call the missionaries. So 8 of us missionaries, 4 Elders and 4 sisters ended up going to her place first thing in the morning to help her pack and move out. Since it was such late notice, no one could get a moving truck, so we only had 2 members who could provide their trucks. We stuffed everything in these two trucks and had to take several trips, first to take some boxes to a storage unit and then take everything else to her new apartment. Us sisters followed one of the members on the way to the new apartment, and the pictures below depict the crazy travel we had. Sadly, the mattress and one of the cabinets ended up falling out in the middle of the road, and so we had to drive back and block off one lane to pick everything up. It was a mess haha, but hey tender mercy! Nothing broke! ;) But yeah that service project ended up taking half of our day so we had to reschedule weekly planning. And when you're moving stuff in and out, in the middle of the day, in 100 degree weather with the humidity, it can wear you out for DAYS. The weekend was rough to stay awake haha :) 

Also, I went on exchanges with Sister Black on Friday! Grandfather, you will be happy to hear this... Sister Black can YODEL! It was great haha :) We had a lesson with one of their investigators over the phone since he lives at the edge of their area. He knows he needs to get baptized, but he feels that he needs to finish the Book of Mormon and learn all he can about the church before he gets baptized. We read the talk "You Know Enough" with him and I think we invited him 10 times to set a date. And he said no each time! I thought back on that experience, trying to picture myself if I was to join the church at this time. Of course, it can seem foreign and scary, but really this gospel is so simple. It just makes sense! And how comforting that we don't have to know everything now. Many times in the scriptures does it mention that the Lord will give us "line upon line". Heavenly Father will not reveal everything to us in one moment, but rather He gives us the wonderful gift of agency, where we can choose what to do with the knowledge we receive. I'm sure at times we all wish we could just know everything, to know how our whole life is laid out and to already know the decisions we'll make. But it's even more exciting and fulfilling when we put our trust in God and His plan for us! I know God has a perfect plan for His children, and as we put our trust in Him and follow the Spirit, He can make the impossible possible :) 

LA EXPIACIÓN ES REAL!

Hola todos! 

Love my sisters!

So funny story from this week. This will probably be one of those "you had to be there" moments but I'm still going to write it cause I laugh every time I talk about it :) So at district meeting this past week, as part of our district meetings we have to review a medical document that has been sent out by our mission nurse. We were sitting in a circle and going around reading the paragraphs, starting with our district leader and then all the sisters. Once it gets to the other Elder, our district leader immediately jumped in reading the next sentence, not even realizing he skipped his companion. We were all quietly giggling but he didn't even notice. So, he pauses in the middle of the sentence and has the most priceless confused look on his face. We're all looking around at each other like "Does he realize?" and then he says "Oh ok." and keeps going! He finishes the rest of the paragraph, and pauses for a long time again with the same confused face! We were dying, like "Ok NOW he gets it." But he said "Oh, I thought it was talking about this, but now I get it." We were all like WHAT! Are you kidding! Haha we couldn't hold it in, and he looks up and was still confused, he's like "Okayyy? Sister Broadbent do you want to go next?" And then he finally realizes. We were dying for 5 minutes! Hahaha yeah y'all had to be there :))) 

Sister Bell left the zone, so we had
to get one last picture! :( 

Also just a few hours ago we had a sad/tender experience. So each P-day us 4 sisters that live in the same apartment go and get groceries together. When you go to the grocery store at the same time each week, people start to recognize you :) this one lady that works as a cashier that we have met is the sweetest and always loves talking to us. She has had some contact with the church in the past, and we just get along with her so well that we try and go down her line each week! The past few weeks we haven't been able to see her, and today as we were walking out we saw her coming out of the bathroom, and she had tears running down her face. Her mom received some bad news about her health :( all we could do was hug her and listen to her, and before she left Sister Duke handed her a Plan of Salvation pamphlet. It is the little things like these that makes me so grateful to be out here on a mission, to meet different people with different challenges and at least just share my testimony that there is hope and share the love of Christ to them :) 

We had a lesson with David this week! Wow, let me just say, it was a powerful lesson. We initially were talking about the Holy Ghost, but we kind of transitioned into talking about the Atonement when our member Jessica shared a personal experience of how the Atonement has healed her. LIKE OH MY GOODNESS. I was about to start bawling cause we were sitting among 2 amazing people who have gone through so much, but they understand the Atonement. It was exactly what David needed to hear. And he came to church again this Sunday! :))) 

This missionary work is seriously the best. If any of y'all are thinking of going on a mission, whether you're a youth or thinking of going as a couple, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT!

Le quiero mucho!