It has been a crazy week. It's been filled with ups and
downs but mostly ups of course because.... it's Christmas time!!!
Monday- Transfers were so sad! I will most definitely miss
Sister Allred and the other missionaries.
Tuesday- Sister Erickson is my new companion! She is so
awesome. She's such a hard worker, so a lot of good things are going to happen.
It always takes a while adjusting to a new companion but it will be good! We
are tracting a lot because the holidays make it really hard to meet with people.
It's absolutely freezing, but I know we'll be blessed for it.
Wednesday- Nothing really special happened. It was actually
kind of a rough day. A lot of our lessons fell through and so we tracted a ton.
We also didn't have any dinners this week because church was cancelled last
week, but it was kind of fun getting inventive with the few things we have at
home. We even bought a pound recess to cheer ourselves up! Gotta love
chocolate.
Thursday- My goodness! Shirlene was missing. She really was
missing. We met with her on Tuesday and heard John told us on Wednesday she had
been rushed to the hospital. Well she was discharged early Wednesday and for
some reason was readmitted and discharged again. John was calling us off the
hooks on Thursday seeing if we could go check on her because he hadn't heard
from her in over 24 hours. They talk on the phone ALL day. So we went over
there to feed the dog and cat and check up on Shirlene. Teddy was there and
hadn't been fed in two days. All of Shirlene's things were left exaclty as they
were when we saw her Tuesday morning. The tv and lights were on.. but the door
had been locked so she didn't just wander off. Oh and her car and purse were
still home too. So we call Sis Hansen, the ward member, who is very close with
the Cooks too and she rushed over and was calling the hospital trying to get
info but of course the hospital wouldn't tell anything to nonfamily members. We
were so frustrated they couldn't even tell us who picked her up from the
hospital. So we didn't want to scare John, we called his granddaughter who
lives in Dallas if she happened to know where Shirlene was but she knew even
less than we did. Then she called her dad who is John Jr. and he got a hold of
the hospital who after many hours finally told him. But before I give yall the
answer, we had been through so much! We searched every corner of that house and
I was terrified to find my lovely Shirlene dead or hurt somewhere in that
house. We even called the police, but did you know that you can't file a missing
persons report unless you're family? Dumbest thing ever. So we finally found
out she was LIFEFLIGHTED to a rehab center in Plano. horrible. Can't even
believe all that happend. Y'all know how much I love the Cooks. So that was
really hard for me.
Friday- Alex is doing so awesome! We got the hard
commandments- word of wisdom and law of chasitity- out of the way. She is
seriously incredible. An inactive girl at school was giving her a hard time and
Alex defended the faith. I was so proud of her. She even said the prayer for
the first time. We also ran into a part member family when we went to a chinese
buffet. It was fate too because we planned to stop by their house later that
day. And now we are going to start working with them! They are the nicest family
too. We also met another part member family. The member is a guy named Brandon
and he happens to be a private investigator! It was the coolest thing talking
to him. That's something I'd totally want to do if I could be serious
enough.
Saturday-We went to breakfast with Santa at the church. Some
members brought their friends who just moved from England! It was so much fun
talking to them and we will hopefully start teaching them. The Santa was a
nonmember who looks JUST like Santa. It was a lot of fun. Oh and we helped
Alex's mom put up their lights and Christmas decorations. It was actually a lot
of work, but it felt good especially because we wouldn't get to do that
otherwise. She even gave us each a mini tree for our room.
Sunday- What a great day. Alex came all by herself to church
because her family was sick. We sat with her and we all wrote our feelings
about Christ during the sacrament. It was amazing. We also met with the Davis
family. And Jeremy is getting baptized at the end of February!!! I was so
happy. I love that family.
We are eating at the Byrne's house for Christmas. They are
one of my favorite families. Debbie Byrne was my friend in the ward who just
left for her mission to Brazil. Her mom is the greatest Italian lady. Love
them! Will hopefully give more details about when I get to skype next week.
Love you all! Hope that was a good enough update!
Sister Kristina Dalling
My Address:
5008 Pemberton Ln.
The Colony, TX 75056
kristina.dalling@myldsmail.net
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