New Companion.

Introducing to the Walters area... Hermana Clement!

 

Hermana Clement is from San Diego, California. She has been serving for almost a year now, and she is a killer missionary. I am so pumped to be working with her!

Already in our short week together, I have learned a ton. We have been trying new things in the area and it has been awesome.

 

It has been quite an eventful week. We have been trying to build up our friendship with members in the ward and find new people as well. We are so busy and it is great! There hasn't been a dull moment.

 

Like I said, Clement and I have been working at getting to know each member in our area really well. We decided to make cookies for a bunch of them with a cute little note (made by crafty Hermana Clement). We left the cookies on a bunch of members and investigators porches, and had a blast doorbell ditching. Well apparently this isn't a common thing in areas like this. One member told us she thought that we were robbers, another called making sure they were really from us haha. It sure is a different environment here than in Utah and Cali. Despite the fact some people thought it was a little sketchy, we loved doing it!

From doing this, we also had a miracle with our investigator who has a baptismal date! For the past week and a half, we haven't been able to get ahold of her. We had tried calling, texting, going to her house, etc... all with no success. We decided we would leave some cookies at her house too. We had planned on leaving them on Thursday, but weren't able to get over there until Sunday. When we pulled up to her house, she was outside with her husband! She told us that her phone has been broken, then asked us when we could come back! So we have an appointment set to see her this week! We are so excited!

 

Saturday, our ward mission leader and his wife invited Clement and I to go to a birthday party/FHE at their house. They had invited six member of the ward, three of which are less/inactive. We decided to go because we don't know these families at all. We hung out with a bunch of senior citizens and it ended up being a blast! After having a really great lesson, we had a feast. Each couple is from a different place, so we had food from Peru, Mexico, Chile, and Equador. Talk about heavenly!

The couple that is from Peru brought a dish that had potatoes in it because apparently that's a popular thing there. I was sitting next to the Hno that brought it, and he started talking to me. I had another awesome experience with the word "papa" (which can be potato, pope, and dad depending on where the accent is). He asked me how old my dad was, but because I was eating potatoes, I thought he had asked me how old my potatoes were! We eventually understood each other and had a good laugh.

 

We have been tracting like it is nobodies business this week trying to find new people to start teaching. This is always the best because you meet some of the most interesting people, as well as some of the coolest people.

One night, we saw a guy sitting on an electrical box and decided to go and talk to him. When we first got there, he had music blasting and he didn't seem that excited to be talking to us. He gave us his information anyways though, for us to refer to the English missionaries. The next night, we were knocking in the same area where this guy lives. We were knocking the doors of the same apartment building, but had his apt number so we wouldn't run into him again. Right when we were at the door across from his, we shows up and starts talking to us. He sat down  on the stairs and he starts asking us all sorts of questions. Turns out, he is a really cool guy and is working to change his life around. We were able to give him a short version of the restoration, and we gave him a Book of Mormon, which he was really excited about. That night we went there planning to basically avoid where this guy lives, but sometimes God has something a little different planned. It was really cool!

 

I am so happy to be out here sharing this life changing message! The people in Houston, Texas are some of the greatest people I have ever met and I feel so privileged to be able to be here with them!

 

Love,

Hermana Rupp