Guess what, I cut my hair last week! I know you probably would have cried if I cut my hair too short, so I just trimmed it and made it look more clean and fresh instead of scraggly and split ends everywhere. It feels nice to have less hair to deal with. I also cut my companions bangs for her. She felt better too. A lot of the little things you taught me are becoming ever so useful now as the others here don't know how to do it themselves. Like how to clean the kitchen or the bathroom, how to cut hair or how to cook even. It's nice to already know how to do these things and I know it's a blessing.
I fasted yesterday as well, It's amazing how much strength we receive from the Lord when we sacrifice our own comfort. He makes up the difference and blesses us with hundreds of times more than what we give him. And what we give him is his already so all around we should be very thankful! I love the Lord.
This week we met Raul as we were knocking on doors. We knock on doors in trailer parks because that is where the Hispanics live. Hispanics are a lot more friendly than white people, I can say that too because I am white. We knocked on the door of this trailer and Raul answered the door. He was simply working on the empty house doing construction. He let us in and gave us each a cold bottle of water. Usually we would not be allowed to enter a house if there was only one male in the home but because there are three of us in a companionship we can go in to any home. It's great :) Anyway, he let us in and he said that he had gone to our church when he lived in Arizona. He said that he went there with his friend who was a member and that he liked it a lot but never went back since moving to Texas. He is Christian and he said that he has so many questions that are running through his mind all the time. For us missionaries this kind of person is almost like a dream come true because usually the Hispanics are Catholic and want to teach us about their beliefs instead of letting us teach. Anyway, Raul was awesome and it was so cool to get to know him. He is a dad of 5 kids and loves working with his hands. He said he lives in Round Rock though so he doesn't actually live in our area. That was sad for me cause I wanted to teach him, but the Round Rock missionaries are going to visit him sometime so I am excited to hear from them how he progresses.
Right now in our area we don't have any progressing investigators. We usually teach a first lesson or a second lesson and then the person either is not interested in learning or they won't make time to meet with us (which also means that they aren't interested). It's been a trial, but I am learning how to better talk to people and to get out of my comfort zone when talking to people about religion. Especially in Spanish.
I took the mission Spanish test about a month ago and just got my results yesterday. You need a %80 to pass and that is pretty much the best that people usually get too. I got a %26 hahaha. But ya know, I think I did pretty good! For only three months of Spanish at that point, I am happy to say that I am learning fast! The Lord works miracles after we have and show our faith.
I love you all, I hope you are learning from the things that I am learning as well. Thank you for the birthday wishes! Read and study the Book of Mormon, it's my favorite book!
Hermana Hopkins
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