It's Stormy

Lots of good stuff happened this week!! I'll try to keep it short. Also I have no time so hopefully this makes sense!

We had Christmas conference!! Usually it's the whole mission but with covid, it was only 2 zones together. Still a party though. We drove to Sugarland for it and at the last stoplight we pulled up next to our elders. Of course we had to race them a little bit. Lol Hna Tea got an 'aggressive driving' from our tiwi (it like tracks our driving) because we whipped around the turn so fast. They barely beat us though:(

We kicked off the conference with such a good talk from a member of the area presidency about the condescension of God. Needless to say "Savior" is the perfect name for Jesus Christ. 

For the fun stuff, we had the choice to either watch a movie or play jeopardy... if you know anything about me you know I was the first one in that jeopardy room. And you bet your bottom dollar that my team absolutely destroyed everyone else and we all won Chick fil a giftcards. 

For lunch we had some legit texas bbq! Rudy's bbq was bomb. There were 7 different kinds of meat.

We almost got attacked by a mutant bird at the local pond. Luckily my fight or flight instincts kicked in.

We've asked all of the members to share light the world with their friends and one sister told us she wrote a letter to Santa asking him to share the Christ child video with everyone (this is like a grown woman)... we were like sweet if he shared it that would be billions of people!

During a training call President Guthrie told us he has bruised Derek Jeter with a pitch before. I was losing my mind!! 

President was telling us what his plan was if he was ever charged on the mound and he said "Always the serve and volley. Hit em with the 1 2, elbow to the chest and get outta there before there's a dogpile" It was the best training call ever.

I ate a tamale and no one was as shocked as I was when I actually enjoyed it.

We share the branch with a trio of elders and they're so funny. We walked out of church yesterday and their car door was open. So we were like "Elders, did you mean to do that?" And their faces just go slack. Elder finlayson left their car door open for the WHOLE church meeting... during a rainstorm. Hahaha I was laughing so hard. The inside of their car was soaked. He's a new missionary in my transfers group and his trainers were just shaking their heads. But honestly how did none of them notice the door was left open? We're not sure.

Theres been some mega storms and the thunder shakes the barn.

So yeah that's it! Missions are great! Jesus Christ is our Savior! Learn of Him! Follow Him!

Hna Eastman

Hello! I'm still doing good!

Question: Do you want me to add you to my Google photos so you have them? I can create a shared album and then add pictures to it on mondays so you have them? If not no big deal. Just a thought. Yes o no

During one of my training module things we were learning about how to make phone calls and they used clips from "The Phone Call" (BYU) movie! I thought of you mom!

Are Josh and Megan driving separate to Pennsylvania?

Sorry to hear about your quiz mom! That's the worst. I've been there before. But a 93% is still good. Don't start the bad habits that I have of thinking it's all or nothing. Because it's not. Especially at byu you have to be patient w yourself. Theres my little byu advice for ya.

Peach: we called someone from our area book and she actually was interested and we had such a sweet little lesson over the phone!!! At one point she said "you calling me is a sign from God that He is with me" and I almost cried. It was just what I needed because I felt like I wasn't doing any good.

Pit: we had a branch activity but they were watching a movie unapproved for missionaries so we went inside to do some contacting. We called a less active member we've been trying to get in contact with and were like "we don't see you at the activity will you come?" And she was like "I am here. Have a good night" and then hung up..... but like.... she was definitely not at the activity. Major bummer.

When it rains here it really rains here.

(Could not upload the rain video or the mutant bird video onto the blog)