July 19

Ahhhh! This is the last week of my second Transfer! ALREADY?! Que Paso?

This means that at the beginning of next week either I could be moved to a new area, or Hermana Green moved away and I get a new companion and I have to be the expert on the area we have! Or something wonderful could happen and we get to stay together another transfer. I'm actually hoping that we can train one of the two new Spanish-speaking Hermanas coming in next transfer.

I've almost been here three months! Twelve weeks! Eighty-four days! Two-thousand and sixteen hours! And I won't even calculate the minutes and seconds because this is just getting ridiculous!

Okay in other news... hmm. Well for anyone that felt acute concern for me hearing that there had been a hurricane don't worry too badly. There are apparently quite a few hurricanes every year so they are common. It's just how strong are they and where do they actually have land-fall are the worries. Hurricane Alex, my first one, hit down in Mexico. We just had crazy rain for a while from it. We had a Tropical Storm a little while back, I don't believe it got a name. I fine much enjoyment when it is overcast and raining, especially because often we get to watch and hear the results of thunderstorms (which are entirely EPIC in Houston just so you know.)

Also a note worth making is for the next two weeks anyone sending me mail should send it to the Mission Office address not to my apartment to avoid it getting lost and I never recieving it, considering that I'm going to be possibley changing residences.

And a kind of big occurance to report is we just had a meeting this last week where we were informed about then instructed in a new 'Simplified Curiculum' that is being put out by the Church for Missionaries. It involves adding chapters to the Preach My Gospel manuel. They're telling us now so we can begin implimenting it before they start changing the teaching in the Missionary Training Centers next year. The President, Zone leaders, and District leaders spent three days last week in meetings for ten hours each day learning about the new Simplified Curiculum. Hermana Green and I are excited! We're doing our best to be Early Adopters of a good change and are already beginning to not only improve our study but also impliment it in our teaching as well. Good things are ahead!

That's all I have to report.

Have fun and read your Scriptures until next week!

Con Amor
~ Hermana Smart