Hermana Regan Eagar - Houston Texas South Mission

 Hermana Crandall and I had the amazing opportunity to try another food yesterday. So we picked it up, went home and then started to dig in. It looked like a stew thing so we grabbed a ladle and scooped some into our bowls. Lo and behold there was a pig's ear in my bowl. Last week I ate a hoof... i guess that was just the beginning. Both of us tried it after our district convinced us to. We got our reactions biting into it on camera. It was priceless. In short, we didnt like the texture at all and it landed back into our bowls. I don't know how I feel about pork anymore. We got to have zone conference in person on Saturday! AND we got to do it in Minute Maid stadium where the Astros play 😏 It was awesome. We had 3 main points: •If you build it, he will come •Ease his pain •Go the distance (This was actually from the movie "Field of Dreams" that President Guthrie let us watch on Friday). Honestly the movie was weird, but those three phrases really apply to missionary ...

 SOOO many things happened last week. We volunteered at the gardens as usual and we all had a blast taking pictures and catching lizards. We got to have a lesson with Paola and her mom and it went super well. Then yesterday for church, Paola brought her friend Nelson. She's just awesome. And...... I finally got to go through the temple!!! My parents got to come to Texas and go through with me :) it was definitely a blessing that they were invited to come and that my mission president set up times to go.  Now for the title of my email- so Paola's mom called us and told us to come over to her house because she had made dinner for us. So, before eating it, I made the mistake of asking her what kind of meat it was. She then proceeded to tell us that it was pig feet...and then I realized that I was looking at their hooves on my plate. And, for some reason, I actually understand spanish for a second there and understood everything she said about the pig feet. I like meat, but my sto...

  We got to do a lot of service last week which was awesome. Yesterday we got to volunteer for The House of Charity and handed out books to the kids that came. It was so fun. (Well except for the part that I was in the sun for 4-1/2 hours with no sunscreen... gotta love being pale). It was cool seeing everyone come together and help each other out. Oh and we volunteered at the EAC again and sorted shoes and clothes. When we were sorting the men's shoes, I pulled a pair out of a bag and looked in the shoe to see what size it was. And lo and behold there was a dead shriveled-up lizard in it. Hermana Crandall and I were dying laughing. Good times.  We also got to teach Paola twice last week which was awesome. Her testimony is so strong and she's already sharing the gospel with her friends and family. On Saturady we went to the park and played some games with her and taught her some lessons. It went well and we got to know her better! It was definitely a good week :) Love y'all...

 We had a lot of exciting things happen last week. The most important thing that happened was that our friend Paola decided that she wants to be baptized!! She is SO excited it makes me so happy!!! So they have a difficult situation as a family, so please add them in your prayers! Even though they have so many trials in their lives, they have the biggest hearts. Last time they made us the most amazing tacos and after this lesson they went and bought us McDonald's :)) I love them so much! Okay now the funniest thing involved mouses (as my companion calls them) and A TON of cockroaches. So we were volunteering at the Japanese Gardens and we were the only volunteers that showed up so Diana and Barbara-they work there- asked us if we would clean up some wooded posts and organize them. So we started picking them up and ants started to destroy my ankles so we sprinkled some ant killer on those puppies and in 5 minutes it was fine. So then we started to take the posts out of this barrel. ...

  This past week was hard. There were a solid 3 days that just sucked 😂. On one of the days, I just broke down and everything came out. It was not a pretty sight (my poor companion haha- nothing like puffy red eyes and smeared mascara). Both of us kinda moped around the rest of that day. After dinner, we went to the car to go grab Hermana Crandall's wallet. On our way, we ran into Gwen. Gwen is my favorite person ever. We don't get to see her as much because she works a lot, so we were super excited to see her. She started telling us about the things she was going through and how no one asks how she is. So we broke the quarantine rules and gave her a big hug. The three of us just stood there hugging in the middle of the parking lot for a couple of minutes. Naturally, we all started crying (I couldn't catch a break). Afterward, she thanked us for listening to her and for the hug and said that we had no idea how much we have impacted her life. 45 minutes later, we got Herman...

  We actually did a lot of things last week which was nice. We took our car to the dealership and had to bike around that whole day (I love cars they are so wonderful). And then we went to CVS one night to print out some pictures to hand out. Well, actually we went to 2 CVSs. The computer at the first CVS stopped working so we went to another one a couple miles away. One of the workers there started talking to us. He was super nice! Then the conversation did a full 180 and he kinda paused and said that we were his 2nd chance. We were a little confused but then he said that a week or so ago someone asked if he wanted to go to church or something like that and he turned him down. But, he said, when he realized that we were missionaries, he saw that this was his 2nd chance. So he started asking all about our beliefs and missionaries and it was awesome. Also, the computer was suppperrrr slow there. But, I see that as a blessing in disguise because we were able to talk with him more. Th...

  Last week, one of the ladies that works at the gardens that we volunteer at gave us some black eyed peas...... and some other vegetables. Apparently black eyed peas are like the thing in Texas. She was shocked when we told her that none of us had tried them so yeah. Simmered those bad boys for 3 1/2 hours and voila: perfection.  On a more spiritual note, we had a lesson with this family and we talked about how important it is to have faith and endure, especially during this time. One thing that the family pointed our was how the world is always looking for what's next. We've all seen the news. We've all seen posts on social media. They're always worried or they make others worried about what's going to happen next. I think that in this confusion, we begin to rely on the wrong things, and those things are temporary. That's why we have trends and other worldly stuff. But, if we come to realize who we need to rely on in these times, we won't have to hop from ...