Hermana Bettridge in Houston: 7 semanas más!! 😟

Hola, hola!

This week was amazing!!! So many miracles!

Our Dia at noche latina!

We are teaching Luz, and the English elders are teaching her husband. Luz told us she really wants to get baptized, but she wants to do it with her husband when he is ready. So, we thought she would have to wait a little bit longer. But, Charlie told us he was ready! So they will be getting baptized together on November 11th!!! They are so excited! And they are even more excited to go to the temple and be sealed after a year! While we were teaching Luz the Plan of Salvation she told us she was sad for her grandma and everyone that didn’t get to learn about the gospel. So, we got to teach Luz more about temples this week! She was so excited she was tearing up!! She is so excited to do the baptisms for her ancestors once she is baptized! She said she wants to go to the temple every week. She is about halfway done with the Book of Mormon, so she is excited to finish it before her baptism.

Juan Carlos is doing great !

We kind of had to drop all of the other people we were working with because they weren’t wanting to keep commitments. But, we found some great new people this week!

We found some new people on campus! I really love contacting on campus and talking to people my own age! We also started teaching a lady named Veronica and her kids. She was living in another ward, but she just moved here. She has an 8 year old daughter and a 10 year old son. So, we are helping the kids prepare for baptism and helping Veronica come back to church.

Last Monday we got a call from a missionary serving in Los Angeles. She told us her mom lives in our ward boundaries, and has been inactive for many years. But, her mom had just emailed her and told her she was ready to come back to church! Her mom asked if she could send the information for where the church was and what time it started. So we visited Sinja! She is amazing! She has gone through some really hard things. During Harvey she was scared her house was going to flood because the water came halfway up her yard, but she had some personal experiences that reassured her of Heavenly Father’s love! Everything was fine, and her house didn’t flood. She was so excited we came over, and is excited to come be a strength to the ward. This Sunday was stake conference, and it was kind of far away, but she came anyway! (And brought her mom, who hasn’t been to church for several years!) We are going to keep visiting her every week because she said she doesn’t remember that much.

But, these aren’t even the biggest miracle!!! So on Friday we got a call from one of the sets of English missionaries. They told us they had just knocked into a hispanic woman who wanted us to come by. (Now, this happens a lot, and the english missionaries get really excited but it usually turns out that the people aren’t interested and the missionaries couldn’t understand them.) But, this lady is so legit! Her name is Karina, and her family investigators the church when she was a teenager. Her sisters got baptized. She never did, but she would go to church every week and did personal progress and everything! She moved here when she was 17, and she didn’t know where the church was. So, she stopped going. She was SO EXCITED when the elders knocked on her door! She said she wants us to come and teach her whole family so they can all be a part of the church! (She is now married and has two kids, and her mom lives with her!)

This week we had our noche hispana party at church! It was super fun! Everyone brought food from their country, and there was music and dancing. Luz came with her husband, and a lot of people brought there friends!

Also, we had zone conference this week! President Peterson talked to us about repentance. We talked about how repentance is NOT confessing sins or stopping doing what’s wrong. Repentance is changing to become like Christ. It is a lifelong process. We have to repent every day!

I love being a missionary so much! I know I am going to be super sad to take my tag off in 7 weeks, but my mission has taught me how to be a better missionary when I don’t have a tag on! Nothing could ever stop me from sharing the gospel. Next Monday I will know if I am finishing my mission here, or if I am going somewhere else for the last six weeks. I hope I stay here with Hermana Calderón! But I am happy to go wherever I am needed.

I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Love,

Hermana Bettridge

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