hello houston

Sadie arrived safely in Houston last Wednesday. Her first location is in an area very close to the Houston airport. Below are a few excerpts (if it seems a little disjointed) from her letter.

"Dearest sweet family of mine,

I'm here I'm here! Holy moly I have so much to tell you so please excuse my fast typing and mistakes. Ok so I LOVE IT HERE! So I am the minority here... I'm like a real gangsta now. (haha Sierra, from your letter) Everyone calls me baby or hun or whatever, I'm like YO MY NAME IS SISTA! Haha anyways but Dad you are correct, mis companeras are from TONGA and SAMOA!!! Sister Tau is from Tonga and SIster Tofa is from Samoa. So cool right??? They have accepted me as their cuz, and they say I'm not a polangi, which means white girl. They say I'm a poly :) Tell Bumpa they are teaching me a dance and we are going to video it and send it home! KUTAAA! Ok so this week we have already seen so many miracles and crazy things. Don't worry mom I'm not afraid because angels are always protecting us, when we walk, there are only 3 of us, but I can feel a whole bunch of angels behind us. Ok so let's see... Let me talk about Saturday. While tracting on Friday, we had a feeling to go to a certain street. The first door we knocked on was a Muslim woman, and she said the missionaries 5 years ago came and gave her a Book of Mormon in Arabic. CRAZY right?? So we went back to their house Saturday. The son, 25 years, has been to the Mormon church and felt the Spirit....."

"Then that night, we met a Church of Christ huge man that was like "If it isn't in the Bible, it isn't true!" After he found out we weren't there to convince him, he let us in and we bore testimony of Jesus Christ and Joseph Smith, and the Spirit was so strong!! He didn't accept our message but he was very thankful for us coming to talk to him..."

"Also Dad, you would be so proud, a lot of people are Hispanic too and speak only Spanish, so I'm learning to speak it and it's AWESOME! Somos misioneras para la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias, Tenemos un mesaje para tu familia! Haha it's getting better. I prayed out loud in Spanish for our companionship prayer, and it was good! It's amazing how the Spirit can be felt in any language...."

" We rely on the Spirit to fill our mouths and if we do, the Spirit can testify to their hearts that it is true. I also want to let you know that remember how my setting apart blessing says I will teach those of the lost tribes of Israel? It's so true already, there is so much diversity here it's almost like being in a foreign country. We are teaching a lady names Christina from Liberia, Africia, and she even speaks her own dialect! She has a baptism date, and we hope she will continue to develop along the road to Christ." 

"Ok I love my companions because they are letting me to keep using the computer, because they're are only two and they let me have it a little longer! They are seriously the greatest! They both have a New Zealand accent, because they've lived there too, so don't be surprised when I call at Christmas and sound like them! Haha seriously I'm already picking up on their accent and I sound Hispanic sometimes when we all speak in Spanish. Fabulosa!! "

Alright well I've got to go but I love you all! 

Oute alofa iate oe!!! (Means I love you in Samoan)

MAUGHANS CAN DO HARD THINGS! 

XOXOXO,

SISTER MAUGHAN or SISTER MONGA (my Samoan name) 

And a few pics I pulled from the Houston Texas Blog.

  Sorry.... not great quality since I pulled them from another blog.  Hopefully Sadie will be sending her own soon!!!