Greetings and Salutations! That's my special way of saying Hello!
Man this week's been kinda bleh because I've been sick again. I had a terrible allergy attack on Wednesday night, but when I wok up the next day I had a cold! That's never happened to me before. Anywyas, my new Companion thinks it could have to do with the air filter in our apartment that was GRODY. When we changed it today we read on the filter that it needed to be changed every three months... uhm, that thing had to be in there for over a year. Sick. But hopefully the smell of the apartment and my respiratory problems will improve. Without the need to buy more air fresheners!
Other than being sick I've been getting to know my new Companion Hermana Wardle. I already knew her a little before, but I'm REALLY starting to get to like her. Especially since she's a Clean Freak and I don't have to clean up after her! Also she's very Obediant and focused on Missionary Work. I think we'll get along just fine! She has a lot of really good ideas for the people we are teaching or hope to teach, I'm glad to have her as my Senior Companion. I think she likes me too, at least I hope!
We got to go to the Wedding on Friday, it was really cute and we helped out a bit, but then had to go home because of curfew before things really got started. But we got to see the good part and how much they really loved eachother. One of their daughters was crying she was so happy. They'll be baptised this next coming Saturday, yay!
Hmmm, because I was sick not too much else... I'll be trying to write back to my small pile of letters today, but we're being kidnapped by the rest of our district for Pizza and Pumpkins so I might be horribley distracted haha!
Hope you all have a fun and safe Halloween!
(I wish I could dress up!)
Love and Good Thoughts!
~ Hermana Smart
Monday, October 25, 2010
Monday, October 18, 2010
It's a Whopper!
For those of you who know what a Transfer is and have been wanting to find out my fate, just so you know I'm not leaving my area. But my Companion who has been here since she came to Texas in December is! Hna Christensen has been profoundly weirded out as she has been packing for the first time since she left the MTC, she's been in Bear Creek for almost a year! One more Transfer would have done it almost. But now she's going to another area, and I'm left to try and remember everyone's names and where they live. Oh dear....
But I'm excited about my new companion! Her name is Hermana Wardle. I went on Exchanges with her once in my second Transfer (exchanges is where Missonaries swap companions for 24 hours) and I got to know her a bit from that and other meetings. From what I can tell I rather like her, so I'm really hopeful. And if nothing else, both our favorite colors is Orange. We'll do fine!
Other sources of news are that on Thursday we visited a Recent Convert (who is an absolutely adorable young woman but that's beside the point) around noon, and when we came outside we discovered that Harvey's Driver's Side window was bashed in. We hadn't heard anything, the car's alarm didn't even sound off! We called the cops and two of them came. From the way it was broken and the fact nothing was stolen points to Criminal Mischief. Apparently the Apartment Complex right next door has kids who do things like this, and shooting out house windows with BB guns, etc. Bummer for us, we had to get to Interviews with President Hansen!! But that same adorable RC drove us to the church building where the Senior Missionary in charge of cars picked us up in our temporary replacement. She was a dusky blue and we decided to name her Destiny. We only had her until Saturday, the window got fixed quick!
Other exciting thing that happened started at 5am this morning. We got up early, dressed in service clothes, and got picked up to go with our District to the Bayou and fish. So I went fishing this morning, between the bayou and a man-made lake I caught TEN FISH. Not too shabby, eh? First one was what's called an Aligator Garr. They get big and they're mean and you should be afraid to fall into the water when they're around apparently. Mine was just like... uh... I don't know how to judge fish-size! Two feet? Little less? Whatever, I got some awesome pictures and video! Next one was a baby Catfish. Then I caught what's called a Drum Bass, it had pretty irredescent scales on it's forehead. Then I caught a Croppy. After that we switched to the lake and I caught a little Sunfish, followed by a big Catfish! Like, well big! I was really afraid that it was going to snap my line! But with help I got it onto the grass. It had only one eye... Not my fault! I held that one to let it back into the water, I was letting him back in gently instead of throwing him and when I had his face to the water he grunted twice and I let go! I didn't know Catfish could make noises like that! After that I caught three more Sunfish. At that point Elder Geldmacher told me that if I got a tenth I had to be the one to take the hook out of it's mouth. I didn't want to do it so I just put my little bobbing line close to the edge and talked. THEN I GOT ANOTHER FISH without even trying! Jeez! It was another sunfish and I just let it tug on the line, then I hit the button on my pole and let it swim as far as it liked. I was hoping that it would get itself off the hook before we had to go in a couple minutes. When I reeled the hook in I got my wish! I didn't have to unhook the tenth fish I caught, haha!
Man I'm tired, but we have to get Hna Christensen ready to leave and go to her new area tomorrow morning. And she has so many clothes, haha! But it's all good, she's skilled at packing them away.
This was a lovely chat, we should have more.
Cheerio!
~ Hermana Smart
But I'm excited about my new companion! Her name is Hermana Wardle. I went on Exchanges with her once in my second Transfer (exchanges is where Missonaries swap companions for 24 hours) and I got to know her a bit from that and other meetings. From what I can tell I rather like her, so I'm really hopeful. And if nothing else, both our favorite colors is Orange. We'll do fine!
Other sources of news are that on Thursday we visited a Recent Convert (who is an absolutely adorable young woman but that's beside the point) around noon, and when we came outside we discovered that Harvey's Driver's Side window was bashed in. We hadn't heard anything, the car's alarm didn't even sound off! We called the cops and two of them came. From the way it was broken and the fact nothing was stolen points to Criminal Mischief. Apparently the Apartment Complex right next door has kids who do things like this, and shooting out house windows with BB guns, etc. Bummer for us, we had to get to Interviews with President Hansen!! But that same adorable RC drove us to the church building where the Senior Missionary in charge of cars picked us up in our temporary replacement. She was a dusky blue and we decided to name her Destiny. We only had her until Saturday, the window got fixed quick!
Other exciting thing that happened started at 5am this morning. We got up early, dressed in service clothes, and got picked up to go with our District to the Bayou and fish. So I went fishing this morning, between the bayou and a man-made lake I caught TEN FISH. Not too shabby, eh? First one was what's called an Aligator Garr. They get big and they're mean and you should be afraid to fall into the water when they're around apparently. Mine was just like... uh... I don't know how to judge fish-size! Two feet? Little less? Whatever, I got some awesome pictures and video! Next one was a baby Catfish. Then I caught what's called a Drum Bass, it had pretty irredescent scales on it's forehead. Then I caught a Croppy. After that we switched to the lake and I caught a little Sunfish, followed by a big Catfish! Like, well big! I was really afraid that it was going to snap my line! But with help I got it onto the grass. It had only one eye... Not my fault! I held that one to let it back into the water, I was letting him back in gently instead of throwing him and when I had his face to the water he grunted twice and I let go! I didn't know Catfish could make noises like that! After that I caught three more Sunfish. At that point Elder Geldmacher told me that if I got a tenth I had to be the one to take the hook out of it's mouth. I didn't want to do it so I just put my little bobbing line close to the edge and talked. THEN I GOT ANOTHER FISH without even trying! Jeez! It was another sunfish and I just let it tug on the line, then I hit the button on my pole and let it swim as far as it liked. I was hoping that it would get itself off the hook before we had to go in a couple minutes. When I reeled the hook in I got my wish! I didn't have to unhook the tenth fish I caught, haha!
Man I'm tired, but we have to get Hna Christensen ready to leave and go to her new area tomorrow morning. And she has so many clothes, haha! But it's all good, she's skilled at packing them away.
This was a lovely chat, we should have more.
Cheerio!
~ Hermana Smart
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
The light bulb goes on....
Okay before I forget (like I did last week) I have to let the world know one of the biggest light bulb moments in my LIFE. And this will show just how big of a geek I am:
ArticUNO - ZapDOS - MolTRES
Pokemon Legendaries were counting in Spanish and I didn't realize it until I was 22 years of age!!! Am I the only one who noticed? Or has everyone else my age known since they were ten years old and I'm just slow on the uptake?
We now return to our regularly scheduled Programing.
The area Seventy for the south part of the United States, Elder Costa, came and had a meeting with us on this past Saturday and it was really cool. It was a TRI-Mission Meeting meaning ALL the missionaries from the three Houston Missions came, that was over 400 Missionaries in the Hafer Building. We got there in time to get good seats. Then fifteen minutes before the meeting was scheduled to start the announcement was made that Elder Costa wanted to shake the hand of every Missionary present. It took him a half an hour to do. He kept saying "No sleeping, no sleeping!" To make the line hurry along. He was pretty funny, and had almost perfect english, just a few quirks that were funny. He's originally from Brazil and has a pretty amazing Conversion Story. It was a good Meeting.
Oh and this next Saturday we are getting Transfer Calls and I really have no idea where to stick my bets for where we'll end up going but logic points to Hermana Christensen leaving and me staying in Bear Creek. But I don't know what's going to happen. But it is bound to be intersting I'm thinking.
But since Transfers are on their way, I would suggest sending mail that won't be here by Saturday to the Mission Office at the Hafer address. Just to make sure it gets to me in a timely manner.
I really can't think of what else to say...... Wait cool! I can use my USB cord on this computer! Lemme attach some photos...
Okay if this works I've attatched a short video about my shoes (Yes, my shoes) and a Picture of one of the Games we played in Spanish Study as a Zone a couple of weeks back.
I'll try sending more on other emails, but I can only send so much on one email I think.
Love you all!
~ Hermana Smart
ArticUNO - ZapDOS - MolTRES
Pokemon Legendaries were counting in Spanish and I didn't realize it until I was 22 years of age!!! Am I the only one who noticed? Or has everyone else my age known since they were ten years old and I'm just slow on the uptake?
We now return to our regularly scheduled Programing.
The area Seventy for the south part of the United States, Elder Costa, came and had a meeting with us on this past Saturday and it was really cool. It was a TRI-Mission Meeting meaning ALL the missionaries from the three Houston Missions came, that was over 400 Missionaries in the Hafer Building. We got there in time to get good seats. Then fifteen minutes before the meeting was scheduled to start the announcement was made that Elder Costa wanted to shake the hand of every Missionary present. It took him a half an hour to do. He kept saying "No sleeping, no sleeping!" To make the line hurry along. He was pretty funny, and had almost perfect english, just a few quirks that were funny. He's originally from Brazil and has a pretty amazing Conversion Story. It was a good Meeting.
Oh and this next Saturday we are getting Transfer Calls and I really have no idea where to stick my bets for where we'll end up going but logic points to Hermana Christensen leaving and me staying in Bear Creek. But I don't know what's going to happen. But it is bound to be intersting I'm thinking.
But since Transfers are on their way, I would suggest sending mail that won't be here by Saturday to the Mission Office at the Hafer address. Just to make sure it gets to me in a timely manner.
I really can't think of what else to say...... Wait cool! I can use my USB cord on this computer! Lemme attach some photos...
Okay if this works I've attatched a short video about my shoes (Yes, my shoes) and a Picture of one of the Games we played in Spanish Study as a Zone a couple of weeks back.
I'll try sending more on other emails, but I can only send so much on one email I think.
Love you all!
~ Hermana Smart
Thursday, October 7, 2010
Feliz Octubrel
I know I was excited about the temperature LAST week, but oh man it was 61 degrees THIS morning! It has been sooo niiiice to walk around this whole week! October weather in Houston is PERFECT, when I come to visit again I think I'll try to do it around this season. It's kind of funny, the whole time I've been here it's been Summer but this kind of weather is what I'm used to feeling so NOW I'm getting all nostalgic for summer and having memories recalled.
This morning, other than the blessed temperature, was not all that great. Mainly because we ran out of gas in our car on the way to getting more. We had a 'LOW FUEL' warning since late Saturday, but when we went to get gas the mile keeping book where our gascard is was left in the apartment by Hermana Christensen. She had taken it out of the glovebox to make the mile report at the end of the month, but had never put it back in I found out. SO not having time to go back and forth without breaking curfew we sent back home. There's like 50 miles left once you have that warning, and so we thought we could get through Sunday. We were on the way somewhere that evening and I was going over the miles in my head and I got a bad feeling. I thought I was just worrying too much, but then wondered if it might have been a Spiritual Prompting. I got Hna Christensen to turn around and we visited people closer to home instead. Then in the Morning when we were heading to get gas we sputtered and died right before getting onto the main road. I am SO glad we didn't visit those other people! We would have died much further from home and either would have had to leave our car until Monday, or have someone break the Sabbath to bring us Gas! We did have to sit with our flashers on for almost an hour while waiting for someone to bring us gas this morning though. Ah well, I prefer that than the alternative!
Not much going on really, still trying to Find and Teach new investigators and help our current ones progress. Thus is always the struggle.
But I DID enjoy General Conference! It kinda blows my mind that the last time I watched one I was in the MTC six months ago! Having milestones like that is pretty interesting. And this Conference has been the best so far in my opinion, and that's probably because I appreciate listening to the Prophet, Twelve Apostles, and the other General Authorities so much more than I ever have before in my life. I wasn't checking the clock thinking "Man, how much longer until it's over?" I was thinking, "Oh no! Only an hour left? That's not enough!" I want another General Conference this next weekend!!! I can't wait for the November Ensign to come out so I can reread the talks!
Today we finally have money/time to check out the Asian Food Store I spotted near our apartment. I hope they have rice seasoning so I can start making my riceballs again! And maybe we'll hit a thriftstore, I could use a couple new clothes I'm thinking. (only if they're super cheap tho!)
Love from me to all of you!
~ Hermana Smart
This morning, other than the blessed temperature, was not all that great. Mainly because we ran out of gas in our car on the way to getting more. We had a 'LOW FUEL' warning since late Saturday, but when we went to get gas the mile keeping book where our gascard is was left in the apartment by Hermana Christensen. She had taken it out of the glovebox to make the mile report at the end of the month, but had never put it back in I found out. SO not having time to go back and forth without breaking curfew we sent back home. There's like 50 miles left once you have that warning, and so we thought we could get through Sunday. We were on the way somewhere that evening and I was going over the miles in my head and I got a bad feeling. I thought I was just worrying too much, but then wondered if it might have been a Spiritual Prompting. I got Hna Christensen to turn around and we visited people closer to home instead. Then in the Morning when we were heading to get gas we sputtered and died right before getting onto the main road. I am SO glad we didn't visit those other people! We would have died much further from home and either would have had to leave our car until Monday, or have someone break the Sabbath to bring us Gas! We did have to sit with our flashers on for almost an hour while waiting for someone to bring us gas this morning though. Ah well, I prefer that than the alternative!
Not much going on really, still trying to Find and Teach new investigators and help our current ones progress. Thus is always the struggle.
But I DID enjoy General Conference! It kinda blows my mind that the last time I watched one I was in the MTC six months ago! Having milestones like that is pretty interesting. And this Conference has been the best so far in my opinion, and that's probably because I appreciate listening to the Prophet, Twelve Apostles, and the other General Authorities so much more than I ever have before in my life. I wasn't checking the clock thinking "Man, how much longer until it's over?" I was thinking, "Oh no! Only an hour left? That's not enough!" I want another General Conference this next weekend!!! I can't wait for the November Ensign to come out so I can reread the talks!
Today we finally have money/time to check out the Asian Food Store I spotted near our apartment. I hope they have rice seasoning so I can start making my riceballs again! And maybe we'll hit a thriftstore, I could use a couple new clothes I'm thinking. (only if they're super cheap tho!)
Love from me to all of you!
~ Hermana Smart
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