Transferred and Robbed!!!

 I might as well be herding cows... I am now in the Brenham Branch... which is out in the middle of nowhere... and it's been a little rough of a transition. I am not a big fan of the country.

When I told his Aunt Megan about his transfer and the new area he was in...She said Brenham is "the land of contented cows" AKA, Bluebell Ice Cream which the creamery is out there!! At least that part should make Harry happy!! 


So this week went alright, we are teaching a lot of people here in Brenham and we are just about to have a baptism this weekend! Her name is Liticia! She is super excited for her baptism! And so are we! It has been great to see the change in her! Also what happened this week was the occurrence of us being burglarized! We got in our car like Tuesday morning and I noticed that the seat was moved really far back! (I'm the only one that can drive) so I knew that somebody had got in the car because there was no reason for the seat to be back. And then we looked around the car and saw that the gps and my MP3 were stolen... so that was a real bummer! But I consider myself super blessed though! I had kept my wallet in the middle console overnight and apparently the person who decided to steal stuff decided to leave my wallet and everything with it and as well as our mission gas card in the glove box! So that was such a blessing that those things weren't stole. 

I was talking Texan to him in my email to him and this is his response....

And also... that was terrible Texan! You just used like two words that are Texan... so y'all better be fixin to work on that there Texan ma'am or you'd best be ready to be tumpt o'er. See... that's a Texan sentence!! Get on my level momma!! 

That child!!!!!! He is very entertaining!!

Last picture with my "son" AKA my trainee!! :(

My new Brenham District!

High School Football/Senator Service Project!!

So, I'm behind on updating the blog but it's been a couple of slow weeks for Harry!! He did finally get to check out a football game which is the one thing he wanted to do in Texas!

This is his response to the game.....


And yes the High school game was fun! The team we were cheering for was destroying the other team... but in all honesty, the stadium is bigger and there are more people there, but it was not as crazy as ours! Like I swear even before our student section got bigger and crazier, our section was a lot louder and a lot crazier than they were. Their student section was super boring and didn't do anything! 

Their ya go.....STALLIONS RULE!!

Not totally sure about this mascot!

We did this big service project we did down in Houston. We had about 14 missionaries at this thing, where we were being basically servers for some huge senior citizen convention. But ya it was ran by some senator named Sylvia Garcia. 

Senator Service Project!

Apparently, he says he's buying this car...A Bel Air!

Can't Hang!

First of all, It was a really good week! We had a lot of great stuff happen this
week! Mostly the fact we found 3 new investigators, and we haven't
found one in a really really long time... This area is really really
small... So pretty much most people we talk to, have like talked to
missionaries every 2 months. So it's tough to get people to listen.
But we have these three new investigators that are all super solid and
so we are excited to see how it goes with all of them.

To answer the question if it is cooling down or not... I'll
answer by saying no... It was 10 at night and still 93 degrees
outside... AT 10 AT NIGHT IT WAS 93 DEGREES!!! ITS RIDICULOUS HERE!!!!
I AM SICK OF THE HEAT!!! I SWEAT BUCKETS!!!

So whenever we are planning for the week if my companion falls asleep, I take these pictures of him and say "Can't Hang"!

I can't believe I FELL ASLEEP!! Good job to my awesome companion!!

New Diet Plan!!

Some members took us to the Natural History Museum last week for pday! They have

this butterfly exhibit where you go in and it's like a huge jungle

with all sorts of plants and there's streams and a waterfall and there

are like butterflies of all kinds just flying around you, it was

pretty cool! Except when the big ones almost hit your face!!

So he sent me this picture of a huge bug and these signs about insects being a healthy alternative to meat???? WHAT!!! The one picture shows how insects compare to beef and chicken! I didn't include the other information pictures he sent but one of them says this...

"Its purely a matter of taste. We savor their close relatives, the crustaceans! So the next time you think about shucking a crawfish, dining on lobsters, or munching on soft shell crabs, Why not snack on a grasshopper po'boi instead??"

I did email him back real quick and told him that I didn't want to hear he was starving!! He could make endless amounts of cockroach tacos!!! hahaha

Not too much happened this week, I had a lot of meetings I had to do
as a district leader. We had our Missionary Leadership Counsel which is
a 8 hour meeting and then the next day I had a 4 hour meeting for the
New Leadership Training. Other than that we have been trying to do
things like find a weekly service project  we can do, and so that
was the picture the member sent, we went into a goodwill and were
signing up to be volunteers there. So ya we did that, we tracted a
whole lot and then we helped this one guy who was pretty funny but we
pulled up and asked him if he needed help and he let us help cut and
trim his bushes. Then we shared a bit of our message with him and then
he told us to come back sometime, so hopefully something comes from
that. As we were leaving he was telling us that we were like what  Christians should be, telling us that we were like Jesus because we
stopped and offered our help and then shared the gospel so he was
happy about that. So neat experience!

Picture at the goodwill!

District Meeting!

1st Birthday on the Mish!!

So for his birthday I sent a package with party hats that you could decorate, those annoying things you blow on to make noise, and even sent pin the tail on the donkey. I ordered pizza and had it delivered to the ward building for his district! Aunt Megan also brought him a cake and cupcakes for everyone that day! 
So this was his response to that...

My birthday was good! We had a lot of fun with all the things on
Monday, we only took like one picture though. REALLY only one picture...that kid!! 

But I have quite a few
pictures from the Dinner I had with my recent converts on Saturday! I
love this family so much! They made me a cake with candles and
everything and then they gave me a gift.... Which was a super nice
camelback... And I was so happy!!! It was such a
thoughtful gift!

Anyway the week went good, my first district meeting went really well, nothing else happened this week, we really didn't have much

happen this week, we basically have just about knocked on every door

in this area now, and we still really haven't had too much luck. But

we are still doing our best to find people who are ready to receive the

gospel and make the change in their lives for the better.

Temple Work/District Leader!!

My week was really good, we had a pretty exciting week! On Wednesday
we went though the temple, it was our Temple day, so I went through
with my own ancestor name which was a great great grandpa from Grandma
Stringhams side. His name was John Reginald Wood. I got to do the
Baptism, Confirmation, initiatory, and endowment for him. It was
really awesome!! I love the Houston Temple, it's like one of my
favorites! When you come to get me when my mission is over, we need to
go do a session in it! 

Anyway, we also did a ton
 of service this week, we did some service at
the Peanut Butter Factory, and at the Houston Food Bank so that was a
lot of fun.  And then on Friday we set
another baptism date with one of our investigators named Andrea, she
is a non member of a part member family. But we set the 24th of Septmeber
for her Baptism. That's pretty exciting, the other thing that I did
this week, was that I bought a super fancy pair of large scriptures at
the distribution center when we went through the temple.

So the big news I have is that I have just been made the District Leader over the Houston North District.... And that it's really
frightening...

Service and Confirmations!

I did my first confirmation! So that was really
neat! And ya we had Katherine baptized! So it went really well! 3
baptisms in 2 months! The work is really moving! The lord is hastening
the work!

We got to teach at President
Mortensen's sons baptism. His youngest son  had his baptism
and we taught a little lesson during the changing period. And then we
got to be in the confirmation circle and that was pretty exciting.

We also did some service at an elementary school called Kuenhle
elementary! (I bet you can't pronounce that word ;) but anyway we just
pretty much put together paper packets for two hours, but it was fun!

Ummm then we started doing our youth lessons this week. We started in
the Ward a program where we teach the youth 14-18 the first three
discussions. So that they can be treated like an investigator and they
can go through the conversion process as well, so they can a
foundation in the gospel that will help them through high school and
through their lives. So that was fun beginning to do that! The kids
thought it was pretty fun! Other than that we really didn't have to
much happen... There has been rain everyday for awhile and  this
week its supposed to rain off and on.