Well, it's only been a few days since I last emailed so I don't have anything TOO crazy to report. We had 2 exchanges this week, and so there were two days that I went to the STL's area and worked with them in McAllen. I had one exchange on Thursday with Sister Perez (who is going home next week) and then on Saturday I had another one with Sister Pickett (my trainer). It was fun to get to work with both of them separately and have a chance to get advice from sister Perez and work again with sister Pickett, since it's been a while since we were together. While I was sister Pickett, we were walking down the street and we found a woman standing in her driveway, and we went up and started talking with her. She said she grew up Catholic but didn't really go to church anymore (pretty typical), and we taught her a little bit, and she said she didn't really know how to pray, so we asked if we could teach her. She said yes, so we explained it, then I said a prayer to give an example, and then she prayed, and after she had said a couple of sentences she started getting choked up and then ended it and, with tears in her eyes, said "Wow, I'm sorry, it's just that I've never prayed before." It was super cool to see how someone with little religious background could recognize the power behind prayer and the feeling of the Holy Ghost. 

Also this week we experienced our first Flash Flood. We had gone home to eat dinner, and in 1 hour it went from being cloudy to pouring rain and then our street became a river. There was probably a foot or a foot and a half of water, it was crazy! We looked outside our window and thought "oh no! How are we gonna get out of here?" We were on the bikes, and were trying to figure out how we'd go work again. The rain eventually stopped, and we went outside to take pictures of the street, and then we realized that it was only half of our street that flooded, and the other half was totally fine, ha ha. So we didn't end up being stranded, but there WAS a lot of water.

Our Stake also did a cultural celebration this last week, and each ward had their youth prepare a cultural dance of the area. Which basically meant that there were a bunch of line dances and one or two hispanic dances, but it was fun. :)

Okay, well have a great week!

Oh, PS, next week is transfers, so if you mail anything after tuesday t should probably be sent to the Mission Office.

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Hermana Reynolds