The nice thing about changing your P-day to a Wednesday the previous week, is that the next P-day comes sooo much faster!!! haha its just nice to have that break!! and.. i dont have as much to remember for my emails. ;) but anyways these past couple days have been pretty good!! last week was definitely a lot better than the week before. well.. in some ways!! but this past week we got to go to the temple!! that was sooo amazing. and such a refreshment. its been a while since i have been to the temple and it was just so great. I love the Houston Temple. anyways, so then thursdaywe had lunch at one of our members homes!! Her name is Lexi and she actually served in this same mission!! and then came back and married a guy that is from the ward i am serving in now!! which she also served in!! how crazy is that! it blows my mind. so her neices are 2 of the young women in our ward. they are the greatest and always have questions about missions. so we went over and visited with them for a little bit! I love them sooo much. Then we did our weekly planning. sooooooo long. its miserable at times but its just one of those things!! anyways so then on fridaywe did exchanges!! i stayed in my area and hermana bennion came to my area with me. it was a fun day. we taught Eslendy and Eliud. We are doing personal progress with them and they absolutely love it!! and i never finished personal progress so getting to work on it with them makes me super happy :) One day I will get it. One day. Anyways! so then we went out with a member to visit some people. And of course they werent home. One thing you experience on a mission is disappointment and rejection. We saw a lady that we taught who had a baptismal date and she gave us a dirty look then walked into her friends apartment. sad!!! but its okay!! it wasnt her time. Even though those things happen, you just have to have faith and keep working!! so we did!! but then after that we walked around an apartment complex and just talked to people. Then after dinner we rode bikes around the neighborhoods!! sooo fun. i love riding bikes!!! and the neighborhoods are so beautiful!! we talked to lots of people. jewish, baptist, and something else i cant remember! haha but it was fun. and we talked to a lady whos son is LDS and he served a mission in Italy. sadly she doesnt have an interest.. but then we went to visit a family in the ward but they were busy so we walked around a little bit more. We then visited a less-active with a member and this less active is catholic now. she is kinda crazy. i love her though. but she refuses to read anything out of the book of mormon. it HAS to be out of the bible. like nooooo book of mormon. soo crazy!! someday she will come back!! i have faith!! but it was a pretty good day!! then saturday was just super busy. Hermana Tauteoli wasnt feeling very good so we just did what we could. And Sundaywas so stressful. We had to give talks. in sacrament. in spanish. AHHH. i was freaking out!!! and i was sooo nervous!! but it worked out alright! other than the fact that i started bawling. and our investigator was there. i just hope everyone felt the spirit and could understand a little bit of what i was trying to say in spanish!! haha people told me its getting a lot better so i hope that's true! i really do love spanish. and its coming!! slowly but its coming. i can understand it and read it perfectly. cant speak it! WHATS UP WITH THAT?? oh well.. im trying :) OH!! so the other day we walked by these 2 crazy white guys and this was our conversation:
Them - "Heyyy ladies... how's mr.smith doing??"
Us- "huh?? mr. smith?"
Them - "Jospeh Smith!!"
Hermana Tauteoli- "Well, i think hes doing pretty good!!"
hahahaha soooooo funny. texas people are insane!!!! but i love them!!! anyways so yeah had to talk in sacrament and our investigator (Elsendy and Eliuds mom) came!! finally!! and we visited a lot of our members so that was good. The new transfer starts on wednesday!! i am staying in my same area!! it will be good to still work with my wonderful family :) i cant believe its my third transfer in texas!! i love this work!!! its amazing!! i love this gospel and my heavenly father!! hope yall have a great week!! thank you for all the love and support!!
con amor,
Hermana Dorian
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