Hi
friends and fam!
I
made it to Houston! I love it here! Its totally true what everyone was saying
about the humidity! Gross. Anyways, I love it! Its way pretty! And, the MTC was
great, but I'm so happy to be out of there.
My
mission pres and his wife are AMAZING! I love them!
I
was just assigned to my companion today - Sister Smith. She's cute. Goes to
Utah State and is from West Valley, UT or something like that.. 20 min west of
SLC? She is young and has only been out here 3 months. In my interview with the
pres yesterday he told me he will probs put me w someone who is young and still
fresh out here.. So I guess we'll be learning together:) She's really
sweet. We are going to be serving in Kingwood, near the mission
home.
So
those of us who came out from the MTC to this mission yesterday (there were 24
of us, 17 are sisters!) were all pretty worried about talking to people down
here in the Bible Belt as we heard stories of their dislike for Mormons, how
they know the bible better, etc, but I'm really not too scared anymore!
Yesterday on the flight, I was sitting next to this guy who just finished
grad school at A&M and is a Baptist. I was talking to him about Houston
(he's lived here his whole life), and I asked about the religion down here. He
said ppl down here are all pretty religious, etc; then we talked about his
religion. And then...he asked about Mormons! I didn't even need to do
anything:) I pretty much told the first lesson - the restoration - and he read
the intro to the book of Mormon. He was way nice and like genuinely interested.
Wasn't too scary at all! It was sorta fun.
I am
so happy that I chose to come out here. I know Christ lives and that the Book
of Mormon is truly God's word. I'm excited to get out there and serve.
Love
you all!
Love,
Sister
Walton
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