This week was very full of exciting events! Let's get started, shall we?
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On Tuesday the Zone Leaders told sister McArthur and I that we were going to have to go to McAllen with them the next day because we were going to have a Mission Leadership Council with a member of the Seventy, and so we cancelled our previous plans and we all headed out to McAllen Wednesday morning. We've all known that we were going to have a "mission tour" this last week (where a general authority comes and trains the missionaries and makes sure that everything is going well), but the MLC meeting was a surprise. It was also kept quiet who it was that was going to come, but eventually we found out that it was going to be Elder Edward Dube. He was awesome!
On Thursday we had a 3 hour meeting with him, and then on Friday all of the Laredo Zones, the Sinton Zone, and the Corpus Christie zone all met together in Corpus to have a conference with him for a few hours. He's super energetic and fun and taught us a lot. I was sitting there, and I had one of those moments of thinking "Wow! Who else gets to have opportunities like this?" It truly is such a PRIVILEGE to be a missionary. It's amazing what the Lord can do through and with us, and it's a miracle in all senses. Because we had to be in Corpus (a 2.5 hour drive) by 8:15, we left at 4:15. For some reason, when there's a meeting missionaries are either 1+ hours early, or 15 minutes late. It just happens. So we arose at 3 to have time to exercise, drive, and be there by 7:15, and then the meeting started at 9. I was expecting Corpus to be vastly different, but mostly it was just humid with lots of little bugs that bite your legs when you wait outside for churches to be unlocked :) Good moments.
On Saturday, we experienced the side-effects of the hurricane. We were getting all kinds of texts and calls saying that it was going to be insane and that we should be super careful, so we were pretty apprehensive. When it came time to leave, it was the beginning of the huge storm and there was torrents of rain, and a lot of the roads we were going to turn on were too flooded. There were signs on the sides of the roads that said "if water on rd, turn around, don't drown." ha ha. Ultimately, the torrential rain only lasted for an hour or two, and then went down, and then had pretty much stopped by mid-afternoon. We are so very happy to hear that nothing worse happened with the people of Mexico! It's pretty miraculous. It did mean that it got a lot colder here - it was 70 degrees yesterday and probably 65 this morning. Although, I've heard that Utah is even colder, but I can testify that acclimatization is a real thing - 70 degrees felt like 40. Yikes...
The only other thing that might compete with the hurricane that happened outside, was the hurricane that happened inside of us that night. We went to a member's house, and they fed us Menudo. You can google it for more description probably. For some reason the Mexican culture LOVES it, but it's the worst thing ever. the taste is less than favorable, but stomachable, the texture is much less than favorable, and if you smell is.. well, you can't smell it if you want to finish the bowl. I'd heard horror stories about it, but never had had the ... hmm... opportunity ? to try it before. I thought I might get through my mission without trying it, but I guess now I can at least say that I am a survivor :)
Okay, well I love you all!
Enjoy a picture of the Laredo Skies - ain't nothing like it
Hermana Reynolds
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