feliz febrero!!

weather in houston right now? not too shabby! 

HAPPY FEBRUARY!!!!! hope everyone enjoyed the superbowl! definitely didnt even know that happened until today...where am i? 

so some highlights for the week:

*we were lucky enough to borrow the elders car one night to help out the other sisters in their area...and when we were walking to the bus stop after dropping the elder's car off...a man rolled up at the stoplight on a bike..so naturally i told him i liked his bike..and somehow that sparked a conversation that somehow got tied into the gospel and somehow i ended up giving him a pass-along card with our number on it just in time to then run across the street to catch the bus! about an hour later we got a call..BIKE GUY!! he called asking if he knew a place where he could buy a bible...hahah please Abel (Bike guys name) we can getcha a bible FOR FREE! found out he is technically in the elders area..so we handed him over to them...but he came to church on sunday and sat by me! he was feeling the spirit BIG TIME! at church he told me that before he came to america (did i mention he is fresh outta mexico?) he had got into some bad stuff and realized he had "lost God's way" and that he had been praying for God to put someone in his path to help him find God's way again...and BOOM "i like your bike" consider God's way FOUND! the elders said that when they taught him the first lesson afterwards he told them he was hungry..they thought he was going to ask for money from the church to provide food for him or something..but instead he goes "tengo hambre de oir la palabra de Dios!" aka his hunger is to hear to word of God!! THIS GUY IS A GEM! 

*we felt pretty strongly that an investigator named margarita could be baptized this saturday. she has been investigating the church since 2010 and KNOWS the church is true! she is scared of change though and has been catholic forever...so thats been a little bit of a struggle...but on saturday we decided we were going to go visit her and not leave until she committed to accept the gospel completely, take a leap of faith, and be baptized! when we got to her apartment no one was home...we waited for about an hour just contacting and teaching anyone that walked by...then remembered sometimes on saturdaynights she goes to a mass at a little chapel just down the street! so we walked down the street to the little chapel looking for margarita..thinking back on it..how weird was it of us to go looking for a lady in one church so that we could commit her to be baptized in a different one hahaha #dowhateverforthetruth 

she wasnt in her little chapel so we walked back to her apartment to try again....no one home...BUT we met her neighbors from iraq that only speak arabic and very very broken english...they ended up inviting us inside and making us dinner! the food was UNREAL! Ahlam and her husband are refugees from bahgdad (spelling?)...there son was shot and killed just because they are christians...how crazy is that? we had an awesome lesson on God's love for us and ended up singing I am  Child of God for them :) they told us to come back every day to eat with them and teach them more! needless to say, we are getting arabic pamphlets and bringing a member from the english ward who speaks arabic! along with learning arabic by pointing at things and saying "english-chair, arabic-?" trying to really test out this gift of tongues thing;)  before you know it we will have an Arabic branch in Houston, TX!! i mean why not? 

i promise more things happened this week..but i am really struggling to remember! (this is why i write things down) transfers are next week so stay tuned for any changes! love you all something awful!! 

ps if you have the chance to read "Our Search for Happiness" by M. Russel Ballard--do it. yes, ive only read the intro but i already love it!! 

paz y bendiciones! que Dios les cuida!!!

hermana hull

have i mentioned we have the best members?? wilson and benjamen are the best! 

went out to lunch at this cute french cafe with the sisters after district meeting!

cooked some AMAZING guatemalan food one morning with Rosario!! she is the absolute cutest. love her sooo much! she doesnt use recipes when she cooks! tries and tastes as she goes! 

FADIS!!!!!!!!! best Mediterranean food ever!! Jess SPOILS us! the best <3 

ahlam and husband from IRAQ!!! hilarious ;)

LOVE THE FAMILIA SAMAYOA!!!! they are the couple i went through the temple with last week? yeah. the best. 

one of the members named EDDY made me this homemade soup stuff! SOOOO GOOD!! just realized a good chunk of this email was about food in one way or another....whoops! the motto here? "go big or go home..OR GO HOME BIG!!" haha just kidding...?