Houston!!

Houston!!
I'm here! The first day we all got interviews w/ President Ashton and he was all like "How's your spanish?" And I said "Uhm... not good." Mom. Why did I say that? I'll tell you why cuz I thought he would send me English speaking, you know, to ease my burden. But he's like "maybe we'll give you a native companion!" ...
Well, my comopanion is Hermana Chavarria from Bolivia. haha. She's lived in Florida since she was fifteen though. And get this: She's a temple square sister. She's been here in Houston for 3 weeks. She was in the welcome meeting with me and all the other thousands of missionaries that came in our group. Anyway. Yeah. So .. you can imagine my uhm... lack of spanish skills exaggerated because I have no idea what's going on 80 percent of the time. haha. But yeah. She's super great. Was an EFY counselor too! So yeah! We talk about that all the time.
I'm in Suburbia Houston. haha. Super middle-class, the houses are mas or menos nice and they're all the same size. The people are great! I love them even though I don't know what's happening a lot of the time! Our ward is huge. 500 people (well... like 250 come every week but still!) And the first week they talked about la obra misional. Missionary work. Ask me if I cried all through sacrament meeting. I cried. I cry like every day. Haha. Every personal study. Cuz I have never felt so weak in my life. Never in my life. And I've never been able to see the Lord's hand helping me so much. Ether 12:27. I really like the story in the Bible about the blind man and everyone's like "Why is he blind? whose fault is it?" And Jesus says: It's no one's fault. It's so that the works of God can be manifest in him. That's how I feel. That's what I hope at least, why I feel so weak. So I can see how much God will take my weaknesses and make them strenghths. So I can see the power of the Atonement work in my life. And so I can take that testimony and that experince that since I've experienced it first hand, I'll be able to bear a more powerful testimony of Christ and how His atonement has changed me. And it has already and I know it will even more.
K. So we're in a Biking area. hahaha! Yeah. Oh man. PS, my companion can't ride a bike. Haha. We went out and I tried to teach her, but she was like- not good at balancing at all. She's such a great example though, she was just laughing about it the whole time. And it made me realize that that's how I should be too, with the language, and even though I can't speak it yet I don't need to get frustrated, just do my best and say "well, I'll get it sometime". Same with teaching the gospel. Cuz I have no idea how to approach someone on the street and bear my testimony that's so close to my heart and invite them to come to Christ. I don't know how to do that yet. But I can lean, for now, on my companion and most of all on the Lord while I'm trying to learn how to "Ride my bike" I just got to do all I can and Have faith that the Lord will make up the rest.
Yeah so we walk everywhere! Haha. We have one progressing investigator, Kim, who's Buhdist and speaks, get this: ENGLISH. Tender Mercy! Love that. Love her. she's 19 and just a super sweet girl.
We have a lot more people we contacted this week and a lot of people that want to learn more. My trainer is awesome at everything and I'm trying hard to learn from her and not compare myself to her. Comparing leads to discouragement which leads to weakened faith.
Anyway, I love it here! I love you! Thank you for all you do!
Hermana Johnson