Oh what a beautiful morning! Oh what a beautiful day! I've got a wonderful feeling! Everything's going my way!
. . . Okay, maybe not that last part because that's life, but the rest of it is true!
We have had so much rain lately! Normally, Andrews gets about 7 inches of rain a year and we have gotten almost 4 inches just in the last week! That information may or may not be correct - I was told this by a member :)
So, on Monday, We had rain. and more rain. But we had a good P-Day! We ended up going to Odessa that day because we were going to have District Meeting in Andrews this week, so we wouldn't have the regular opportunity to go to Walmart that day, so we went on Monday. We ended up eating at a restaurant called Cheddar's, which is a scratch kitchen, so they pretty much have everything there. I got a REALLY good bacon burger with some fries and I was finally able to make fry sauce with the mayo they gave me for my burger and the ketchup on the table! Yay! Just like home <3 Our waiter was awesome - his last name is Stergeon, so I guess his nickname is Fish and he is Mexican, but he was born in the USA, so he was basically teaching us all the proper slang to use in Sister Kynaston's Spanish - lol! He was great. He gave us both a huge discount on our meals and was talking about Jesus the whole time :) It was awesome.
Tuesday, we had a little more rain, but not as much as Monday. We had District Meeting in the teeny little chapel of our teeny little branch building in Andrews - that building is seriously tiny and so adorable. District Meeting was awesome, though :) I learned a cool new trick to teach to people about the importance of going to church, reading scriptures, and praying (CPR - lol). You take three cups (doesn't matter what kind as long as they're all the same) and place them in a spread out triangle on a table. Then you take three butter knives and you put each one of the knife handles on the end of each cup, the actual knife part all pointing towards the center of the triangle you created with the cups. You then interlace the three ends of the butter knives together in the center, each one supporting the other and it creates a really strong bond! You can put several quads on it, there was one Elder who said he put a two year old on there and it held, it's great. So, each one of the cups represents church, prayer, or reading. Which one is the least important of the three? You take one cup out and the whole thing falls apart. You can never get the strong foundation you had before with only two cups! It's pretty great. I haven't used it in my teaching yet, but I'm planning on it this week!
That day, we also met with the most amazing family ever! I'm sorry if this is a repeat, but this family is just plain awesome. Veronica is the mother and her daughter Ariana, 15 years old, has accepted a baptismal date for September 10th!!!!!!! She is so so so solid and She loves the church and she and her Mom came to church yesterday and they both loved it so so much! She also brought her friend Osbaldo to church yesterday! He is from Midland and he also enjoyed it! Veronica's boyfriend is Albert and he has two little kids, Xavier and Jasmine, 8 and 9 years old. Albert is absolutely amazing and they already refer to each other as husband and wife, they just need to get married so they can be baptized! That is pretty much the only thing holding them back right now. Both Veronica and Albert say they want to be baptized soon! I'm so happy for them. We have already seen them get closer together as a family as they have grown closer to God! It is truly a testimony of this fact: if a family strives to get closer to God by following Jesus Christ and His teachings in the church, they will grow closer together! I know that is true more than anything right now!
Wednesday was when the rain got BAD. It started thundering and lightning-ing (?) really hard at about 4:50 AM Wednesday morning. Finally there was a HUGE CRACK of thunder and our power went out! The fan turned off and the thunder woke both Sister Kynaston and I up and we weren't able to sleep very well after that. . . And, of course, we had interviews with President Heap that morning at our church building in Andrews, and we had no power. Both of us were planning on curling our hair that morning for interviews, but we both instead had to shower and get ready in the dark and by flashlight and we ended up showing up to interviews with wet hair! Luckily, the power wasn't out at the church, so we went inside and had AMAZING interviews with President Heap. He showed me D&C 100 verses 1-6 about not worrying about my family at home and opening my mouth and it will be filled "in the very hour, yea, in the very moment". I cried. A lot. It really is a great scripture and is so true. To all the missionary Moms and Dads, don't worry about your missionaries! They are being taken care of by the Lord and he will bless you in ways you can't even imagine because of your sacrifice and because of your son's or daughter's sacrifice to serve the Lord!Thursday morning was a little rough. Sister Kynaston had some sort of cold thingy and ended up sleeping in until about 10:30 AM, so I just got up like usual, somewhat exercised, showered and got ready and did my personal study hour and they watched movies and ate cereal until she got up :) It was very lonely, but I'm glad she was feeling a TON better after she got up! We went and did service at the Andrews Food Bank that day and there was a man there named Mark. He is actually from Pennsylvania, but because of his wife's work, they come to Andrews a lot and they are members of the church and apparently love to spoil the missionaries! He took us to lunch after the food bank and then took us to the local grocery store and bought us almost $80 worth of groceries for us! He then gave us each $20 for next time we had to go shopping and then said goodbye! Afterwards, we got in the car and said a gratitude prayer and asked for many many blessings to be given to Mark and his wife because of his service for us.
Saturday we went to the temple again!! Sister Kynaston got to see her old companion and we got to eat lunch together at Golden Corral! Sis K doesn't like Golden Corral, but she also got to see a family from her last area and they were all so happy to see her! By the time we got home, it was 5:30 PM and another member of our branch offered to take us to dinner and then wanted us to go to her house and shave her cat some more with her - so we did! Topaz the cat is officially shaved and has no more huge mats in his fur! Yay!
Anyway, I love you all and I hope you have an amazing week. I also invite everyone who reads this to have a family prayer. I have an incredible testimony of that. It doesn't matter what it's for. Kneel down with your family and pray and you will see miracles happen! Heavenly Father is waiting to pour down blessings from Heaven, just talk to him as a family and I PROMISE you, they will come! I love you all!
Love,
Sister Heather Overson
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