It has been a fabulous but exhausting week! Let me start off by giving you some of our numbers. My companion says that we have the best numbers she's seen her whole mission (and this is her last transfer) this past week! We have 6 baptismal dates set, we taught 23 lessons (the goal for the mission is 20/week), we had 12 new investigators, and best of all, we had 7 of our investigators at sacrament meeting yesterday. The Lord has blessed us abundantly! We were running all over yesterday trying to make sure that all of our investigators got to the right classes and had someone to sit with, etc. It was SO great. It is very tiring and we have collapsed into bed every night, but it is so worth it to see these people experience the joy the gospel can bring.
I have several stories to share, and I have pictures that go with them! First I have a few pictures from my last few days at the MTC:
One of my teachers (Hna. Johnson) and I
My other teacher Hno. Vasquez (haha... there's no way to take an un-awkward picture with a boy as a sister missionary :))
My companion (far right) and I, along with our roommates and Branch President's wife (Sis. Romney)
All of the lovely hermanas from my district! We were lucky to have so many! 
An hermana picture with our lovely hermana teacher :)
Our district with another district who we often spent time with (spanish-speaking of course :))
Our last all district picture before the first district member flew out to his missionAnd what you've all been waiting for... pictures of me in Houston!
Hermana Blanco and I with our new companions after doing a session at the Houston Temple (which is sooo pretty)
My lovely trainer, Hna. McMurtrey and I
This little guy was my first cockroach! We found him one night as we were about to go to bed :)
These Elders (Elder Briscoe and Elder Haslam) are our zone leaders. They came over to do an apartment check, and ended up leaving with a ton of our stuff! We gave them a bunch of leftover candy at first (in hopes of getting good marks on our check :)), but then they found a couple of volleyballs, an extra blender, and something else that they wanted. After coming in empty handed, that (above) is what they looked like when they left :)
Also last week, we drove up to the northern part of our area to look for a referral we had been given. The address ended up being wrong, but there were tons of hispanics around, so we decided to knock around and contact a little. While we were walking around, we got a call from one of Hna. McMurtrey's recent converts asking us where we were. We told her we were knocking doors, and she let out a huge sigh of relief. She went on to say that her husband had just driven past our apartments and he said that there was a fire right where our apartment is. At first we were sure that she must be mistaken, but we decided to drive home to check anyway. When we got there, we found out that the dry grass in the field next to our apartments had caught fire (picture above). We took this picture from our doorstep.
To make matters worse, the wind had blown the flames to our buildings, and they caught the roof of the building next to ours on fire (I don't know if you can see it... but it was that roof). Luckily no one was home when it happened, but everything smelled like smoke for days, and the trees next to the parking lot are still all burnt up. We are so glad that Heavenly Father is looking out for us!Anyway, things are going great down here. I have so much more to share, but I'll have to save them for later. But, I got my chocolates from Coy, and I got a dearelder from Grandma (which I didn't get until the 5th or 6th of February). I will be writing you both back this week.
You all are great, keep sharing the gospel, and know that Heavenly Father loves you!
Love, Hermana Austin
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