November 18th, 2013

HEY!!!! 

so im getting shipped outta here tomorrow morning to an unknown destination. but I will get you my new address and all next week when I know! as excited as I am to get to a new area, I am seriously so sad. It is literally like leaving home all over again. I was saying bye at mamma sevy's last night and she hugged me and we both just started bawling. everything was lost after that haha. I dont like it one bit! But I seriously am so ready and so excited to have a new adventure! 

I went to magnolia which is totally in the country with my bff sister lockhart for a day and it was probably the best day of my whole mission. I got to drive a red truck around and we seriously had to drive 30 miles to get from house to house. it was so crazy but soooo fun. love that girl :) I will try to send some pics! love you!!!!!

xoxo sister huber

Champions District

November 11th, 2013

hola familia! I had an hour long conversation last night with an illegal from Honduras actually hahaha. His girlfriend is a less active in our ward who we visit pretty regularly and he taught me tonssss of Spanish. including how to roll my dang tongue hahaha. it was so funny. I've never talked to someone for that long who doesn't speak English. We may or may not have had a translator but still.. I feel like im moving up in this world :)

quite the week here! My first situation in which we had to drop an investigator because he was converting to sister Huber and not to jesus Christ. hahaha. So im just gonna start from the beginning here. We went into a gas station one day to use the bathroom (which I didn't realize how much missionaries had to actually go to gas stations to do that) and the guy working there was super friendly and we ended up teaching him the whole first lesson. His name is --- and he is from india and didn't even have a belief in God so that was interesting. So he said he wanted to keep learning more so we would go back and occasionally teach him. Well we went on exchanges this week, and I went to the singles ward which is a whole other story, but sister king came here with sister walker and they went to go visit ---. And apparently he FREAKED out cause I wasn't there and wouldn't even let them teach him cause he was so mad. so that was a red flag right there so we decided that we were going to go the next day and drop him. So sister walker and I went to go visit him and the first thing he does is turn to sister walker and says "I think you should go and leave her here" while pointing to me. so we were like wellllll actually neither of us are going to come back anymore. hahaha. we didn't say that but we did kinda say something like that. and the funny thing is when we left, sister walker was like look at him! so I look at him through the window and he has his hands over his face totally bawling. I actually felt really bad. But he straight up said that the only reason he started to believe in god was because I believed in god and wanted him to. so that's never good. poor --- :(

So the singles ward!! holy cow sooooo weird. we went to some Christian crusaders for Christ group at a college campus and it was just this big club I guess of people who love god and they get together each week and share their stories of how they found god and stuff. It was the most bizarre thing I have ever been to. cool though! talked to a lot of people who seem to love the Mormons! We also visited this less active girl in their ward who is like totally suicidal and committed her to smile at least 5 times every day. It broke my heart though talking to her and how depressed she really is. It makes me feel bad for how easy my life is and the things that I complain about.

The people in the windrose ward though are doing amazing!! One of the lady's that we reactivated is speaking in stake conference this month. and guess who else is speaking in stake conference?! ---!!!!!! I was like so amazed. He has been baptized for only like a month and is speaking at stake conference. He also is going to be getting the melchizedek priesthood in the next couple months. I cant even believe how far he has come! --- is getting the second lesson this week and said that she is thinking she will be ready to be baptized the beginning of next year. So that's really exciting!! Lessons were kinda a struggle this week but it was a really good week anyways! Cant complain being in the THM! I miss and love you all! Im getting ready to be shipped outta here in the next week but I'm sure I will love my new area just as much. Im dreading it though because leaving here is like leaving home all over again. So we don't talk about it :) anywayyssss. LOVE YALL!!!

sister Huber

Specialized Training Session

November 4th, 2013

Great week here!!!  It was actually really great! We are teaching a 13 year old girl named ---. Not ---. ---. yeah. She is like so golden. oh my goodness. k. the girl goes to early morning seminary every single morning because she wants to. She isnt even in high school yet. She just goes! She is basically ready to be baptized. But we have been working with the family a little bit and we want to try and get them as well so that it doesnt really break up the family. And so that she has the support of them and all of that. But they all came to a ward activity the other night and really liked it! 

--- got the priesthood!!!! And --- also blessed the sacrament yesterday for the first time and that was really cool. They both are getting family names ready to go and take to the temple next week to do baptisms! They are so excited about it. 

We taught --- the first lesson and it was sooooo cool. After the closing prayer we were like still on our knees and she started saying how she got this feeling that she needed to go home and talk to her husband about all what she learned and teach him the restoration. He isn't exactly interested in the church, but he isnt against it at all. He is really supportive of her and is glad that she is doing this. She said that she thinks he will end up joining one day too! But it was so cool how excited she was and wanting to go home and teach him about it. Who knows maybe we will just teach the both of them and they can get baptized the same day haha miracles happen! 

We went on splits with some of the laurels in the ward which was fun! Its something I wish I could have done before my mission. I took this girl out who is putting her papers in pretty soon actually. Her name is Alexis and she is probably the funniest girl alive. She is going to be a way great missionary. But we went to go visit --- and --- and I think I got booted down to being --- second favorite because of alexis! hahaha I secretly think its cause shes black and --- loves anyone who is black besides himself. I told her everytime we go to teach him now that shes gonna have to come with us! Im convinced that he will get baptized once they get a black missionary in here! --- though is so amazing! She went from being completely inactive, to getting reactivated and getting her temple reccommend and her patriarchal blessing and now she is speaking in stake conference this month! I cant even believe it. She has changed so much it is crazy. 

We got a new ward mission leader yesterday that we are SOOOO excited about. He is so great and is a freak about missionary work. He actually served in McAllen! He is gonna be really good. 

Other than that nothing else is really new! We have a ward missionary who is a massage therapist and she had us over for massages this morning and I was like holy cow Im living the missionary high life haha. I cant complain! There is a reason why I am in texas! 

Hope you all had a great week! Miss and love each one of you!! 

xoxo sister huber 

Wild Boar that we actually ate... sick!

Yes, Christmas is up!!

October 28th, 2013

Just enjoying another beautiful day in H town! I have never been so ready to start a new week. haha. missionaries definitely have their weeks. but it just brings so much more determination to push through even harder the next! This sounds kinda pathetic. But I feel like ever since I have gotten here things have been so great and we always had great investigators and tons of success and as we work hard day after day we see the blessings almost instantly. But I think Heavenly Father is wanting to test me a whole lot more right now! hahaha. I just say bring it. Its discouraging when you are working your hardest and you don't see anything great coming out of it. But its helped me to learn to rely on Him more and align my will with His and let things happen on His timing! He lets us struggle sometimes. And I have realized its a blessing when He does. I don't think I have ever said I am grateful for the struggles in my life until now. 

We had zone conferences this week with president! I know I say this almost every week. But President Pingree is hands down the best mission president in the world. Everyone in the mission is convinced that we were all sent here because we needed him as our mission president! He and sister pingree are absolutely perfect. 

We had a whole lesson on being missionaries in the bible belt and comparing the godhead and the trinity and how that is the biggest difference in their beliefs vs ours. 86% of converts come from either the protestant faith (lutheran, methodist, baptist) or Catholicism. So we were told to start looking in the pews of other faiths and start preaching! We actually are teaching --- and ---, a couple who is methodist. --- used to be baptist but then started going to the methodist church with renee. We taught them the first lesson and they were all over it and they are coming to church with us this week. She has already read the whole book of mormon and loves it! We tracted into them one day, and we know the Lord led us to them because they are so prepared. --- is also starting the lessons this week! She is the excommunicated member who like when I got here was like you better not even mention the discussions when you visit me! hahaha. She has had such a change of heart and a huge desire to be baptized again and get back on the right path. I have grown to love her a ton over the past few months. 

We actually did really good on lessons this week. Taught a good amount of people! We are working really closely with the members which has been so much fun. This ward really is so great! Never a dull moment though. This one lady faked an entire pregnancy which was crazy. Talk about drama hahaha. Thats a whole other story. anyways, everything here is great! loving every single moment! apparently halloween here is sketch so we have to be locked up in our apartments by 6 haha. safety first I guess! haha hope you all have a great week! love you!!!!
sister huber 

Zone Conference

October 21st, 2013

well I wish I had lots of exciting things to say this week! But unfortunately it wasnt too eventful haha. It happens. Our zone got split which is crazzyyy! We went from having 12 sisters in the zone, to 4 now haha. And like 8 elders I think? its actually pretty small now. I also got out of being the designated driver finally. which means I'm probably out next transfer haha. It was way funny actually cause there is a sister in our zone who came out when I did, and she was in this zone, got transferred out, and then got transferred back in the zone and is now in her 3rd area and I'm still living it up in the same place I was 5 months ago! hahaha. I love it though. We had temple this week which was soooo needed. We finally got to see the new video and it is unreal. oh man I loved it. Also- here's a good story. so yesterday at church a member of the bishopric comes up to me and is like, so we had a speaker cancel last minute and so we figured a sister missionary can throw a talk together real quick! So lucky sister huber got to go up and speak with like no heads up really and just wing a talk on charity. hahaha. and to make it even better, I had to speak with a man who is probably more intimidating than the prophet. I about died. But i'm alive so theres a miracle for the week right there!

We reactivated an inactive member which is exciting! We are working on her husband but that might take a little while. We also got like 2 new investigators this week but neither are really progressing yet. Its all on the Lord's way and on His time! We were challenged to pray and not ask for one thing, only thanking for things and it really made me closer with my heavenly father. I didn't think it would have as big of an impact on me as it really did! We weren't supposed to pray asking for Him to help anyone, or anything. Which seemed kinda weird but it really is so amazing how much I asked for and didnt realize how much I really was getting from the Lord! It definitely made me so much more grateful and I feel like it made me have a much stronger relationship with Him.

Christ truly has become my best friend. He is there when you feel like no one else is. He wants you to be happy and to succeed. Rely on Him for everything!!!

xoxo sister huber

October 14th, 2013

HEY!!!!

 

not a lot of time to write today. but I wanted yall to know everythings great! :) got a few new investigators this week so that is exciting. a couple seem pretty promising so we are praying they start progressing here! one of them like loves mormons and cant stop talking about the book of Mormon so she's definitely prepared. We had a huge missionary fireside last night with all of the ward leaders and are working on our end of the year ward mission plan! we are focusing a lot on reactivations now too which is really cool. my comp is great and the work is goin!! I send my love to Utah!!!

xoxo sister huber

In front of an investigator's car that he paid cash for.... Sister Huber is impressed!

October 7th, 2013

another week of transfers and I am staying once again!!! I've decided I would be pretty content staying here the rest of my mish. Its amazing how much you love the people and they become your family. I honestly don't know how I am gonna take it when I do get transferred. Especially cause next transfer is thanksgiving AND Christmas and I better not be sent to a new area!!!!! jk. but kinda not haha. Mamma sevy already said that she is having us over to spend the night on Christmas eve! But whatever happens, happens :) I love it here though. The work was a little slower this week. I was kinda expecting it though since we just had a way good and successful couple months. So we hit our downhill but its okay! We are gonna go right back up here pretty soon! We have quite a few potential investigators that we are going to work with this week. We went from having like 7 way good progressing investigators down to like 2. Its definitely been one of the Lord's tests though! I know that times like these are the only way that we can grow and become even better and stronger missionaries. Conference was SOOO great and helped me both personally, and as a missionary. Elder Scott's talk was probably my favorite. His or the black guy who spoke Saturday morning. His was wayyyyy good. I forgot his name haha. I felt like a lot of the talks were on the Atonement and using it more in our lives. Or at least thats what the Lord was trying to get me to hear! I think that a lot of times, we think that the atonement is just for our sins and we only use it when we do something wrong. But really, the Atonement is way more than that. It has an enduring power that I have had to call upon a lot since being a missionary. Yes, we are supposed to use the atonement when we need to be cleansed of something, but He suffered for much more than just our sins. It makes it possible for us all to become one with him. Whenever we are burdened with something, or hurt by someone, or struggling with personal weaknesses, or even simply just want to feel of His love, the Atonement is there for all of that. He has personally experienced all of that. He wants us to call upon Him and let Him walk with us every step of the way.

I am glad to hear that I am missing the Utah snow and enjoying the beautiful texas sunshine! :) couldn't be more perfect! I love you all and I AM SO EXCITED THAT MY SISTER BETTY IS JOINING ME IN THE MISSION FIELD!!!!! texas Houston mission maybe? :) I think yes :) its the best one in the world! miss you all tons!

xoxo

sister huber