And happy after-general-conference week to everyone else :)
So, first of all. Our mission president's wife recently asked us not to include the names of the people we see in weekly emails, so from now on, I am going to refer to people by the first letter of their name :)
Monday was pretty amazing - we went to Odessa with Sis. M, the branch president's wife, and bought stuff to make WON TONS! Then, we got back and spent most of the day with her making won tons and getting them ready for the next day when we'd fry them up with some fried rice and eat them! (We eat with them every Tuesday)
So, the next day, we went to Operation Blessing and helped out some more over there. It is actually getting more manageable now! I don't know if I described it before, but Operation Blessing is a place we recently found to do service at and it is currently in an unused schooling part of a REALLY old church. There are MOUNTAINS of donated stuff to go through and sort and it can be really overwhelming at times. Like, REALLY overwhelming, but it's been fun to go over there and straighten things up and slowly start to see parts of the floor again - it's been nice :) After Operation Blessing, we had dinner with Pres. and Sis. M and it was AWESOME! The fried rice was a little too greasy for my taste, but I was still so overwhelmed with gratitude for them for being willing to make me a meal from home! It was amazing and I love that family so so so much :)
And then, of course, the highlight of this week was GENERAL CONFERENCE!! It was so amazing! It was really interesting for me to watch it with the perspective of a missionary rather than just another member of the church. Also, for the first time in my LIFE, all the talks seemed way too short! I mean, there were a couple that were long, but for the most part, General Conference just seemed to slip past me! I have to say, my favorite talk this time was Elder Yamashta, in the Sunday Morning session, he talked about "being ambitious in Christ" and he also talked about that Elder who had to be reassigned because of his leg and the faith he must have had to go through that. That talk answered so many questions for me and it just felt like it was written for me! I loved it so much.
So, coming up this week is something called the Mission Tour! It is a HUGE deal where a general authority comes to speak to the mission, but because our mission is so giant, they're doing two separate meetings for the north and south half - I'm in the south half right now :) I'm so excited!! That's happening on Thursday for us! This year it's going to be Elder Keech of the seventy. He spoke in General Conference a while ago, but I'm so looking forward to hearing him speak! We also get fed, and of course, I'm looking forward to that as well :)
I love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!
Love,
Sister Heather Overson
1-3. We found a bunch of cacti growing in a toilet in a back ally and took pictures :)
4. Me in front of some weird flowers I've never seen before - the lady who owns them totally came out of the house while we were taking pictures - lol!
5. We got TEXAS HATS!
6. Dinner with the McArthur fam :)
7. A sign at the Midland chapel parking lot - lol!
8. the Andrews water tower :)
9. It was Patsy's birthday on Sunday, so we heart attacked her door and Sis K drew pictures of all of us in our Patsy dresses!
10. General Conference with Abby and Carnel!
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