Holla from Houston!: THE BERG #2

the new district!

HAPPY WEEK OF RED WHITE AND BLUE!!!!!!!!!! im really pumped to see how texas celebrates this holiday. i mean they say everything is bigger in texas right?...i know i shouldnt get my hopes up but...too late!!

anyway..this week was JAM-PACKED with good stuff!!! ill try and hit as many of the highlights as possible ;)

*i went on exchanges to a spanish area <3 and we biked <3 but we got SEVERELY sunburned!!! like i couldve fried an egg on my arm probably....but i didnt even notice it was happening because i was just soooo pumped to be back on a bike!!! and we even got authentic mexican food!! so basically it was worth the skin cancer. sorry mom. ill use sunscreen next time probably!!

*got a mini-missionary!! the neighboring stake did this awesome thing where they invited the youth to serve a mini mission! aka thurs-sunday night! so we roadtripped it up there to get our little sister kent for the weekend!! it was cool because she was set apart as a full-time missionary and everything..what?! we decided to take advantage of the third player and go on splits (sister schu with esmeralda and me with the mini) to cover more ground in the area!! sister kent (the mini) and i decided to go try some formers at this one complex...we prayed beforehand to have a miracle and find people to teach...we got three new people within the hour!! prayer works!! we were talking to this one lady (turns out she has been to our church before and has a book of mormon..what?! awesome.) when all of a sudden this teenaged boy comes walking over and goes "DANG PRETTY LADY HOW YOU DOIN?!?!?! WHATCHU DOIN ROUNG HERR?" haha to which i responded something along the lines of "im a missionary from the church of...and we would love to teach you more about Jesus!" he said of course we could stop by whenever and asked for our number etc etc etc....the next day...

*we knock on Dion's door and he is like "shoot! i didnt think yall was really gunna come you know what im sayin? but alright we cool..come on in beautiful! thats just fine!" haha so we did. and we started teaching him....next thing we know he's all "wait a minute bae im finna call my boy ova her cuz he cool people. you know what im sayin?" so he ended up calling two other guys over....turns out they are extremely active in their church and came to bible bash.....but like we dont do that..so we just kinda took it. then testified, prayed, and invited them to church. AND ONE OF THEM SHOWED UP WITH A DIFFERENT FRIEND!! it was awesome! he said he felt good :) we will see what happens...Dion called us this morning saying him and the guy that came to church want to take us out this saturday night so we'll have to evaluate "real intent" pretty soon if you know what i mean ;)

*we also had our farewell conference with president and sister ashton :( i CANNOT believe they are leaving!!!!! they just dumped pure knowledge and wisdom on us for like three or more hours. they gave some pretty solid advice!! not just for the mission..but for life in general!! they are an AMAZING couple and will be missed BIG TIME!! ive learned SOOO MUCH from them and am just honored to have served with them :)

*this sunday i was asked to give a talk in the spanish branch...when i asked what my topic was they just told me to pray about it and share what i think the branch needs....uh...funny thing about that is i dont even know a single member of the branch...BUT what was cool about that is...i did pray about it..and somethings did come to mind..and i gave the talk and afterward multiple people, including a brother from the stake who was there, thanked me for my talk and said it was EXACTLY what the branch needed!!! and again i say: PRAYER WORKS!!

well i promised a ton more happened this week but my poor brain cant keep up with all the new stuff that happens on the daily!! this work is awesome!

i hope yall have the happiest 4th!!

LOVE YALL MUCHO!

hermana hull