Hermana Yungfleisch, learning to make very tiny Mexican food

Tortillas for very small street tacos?

Rainy weather outside the Missouri City chapel

Missouri City chapel

"Awesome hot sauce!"

Only Susan is crazy enough to call "Mega Death Sauce" awesome.  Seems her ward is treating her very well.  :)

Transfer 2, week 1: Assigned to Missouri City, TX

Hola Famila y Amigos!

My first p-day in the field! It's finally here. I'm finally here!

I love Texas so much! I'm beginning to understand the Texan pride thing. It is so real.

My Mission President and his wife are amazing! They love us all so much and will do all they can to help the work in this area to progress. I am so excited to get to know both of them better.

I have been assigned to labor with Hermana Whitmer. She is the greatest trainer in the world! I have learned so much from her already and I can't wait to learn more. We are serving right outside of Houston in a place called Missouri City. It is so beautiful here. The people here are so kind and even if they don't want to here your message they will usually offer you water or something cool to drink.

​​This week has been so wet. It's rained for the past two days and when it rains it usually pours.​ Attached is a picture of a text we received from our Bishop this morning warning us to stay inside until about 1 o'clock.

I promise to email more next week when I have more time.

All my love,

Hermana Yungfleisch​

Hermana Yungfleisch with Trainer, Hermana Whitmer

Rain in Missouri City that leads to flooding

Flood warnings from a caring Bishop

Flooding in Houston

President Hall sent this note out this morning:

Dear Parents,

The Houston area was hit with heavy rains last night and this morning and the entire metro area has been asked to stay off the roads until the storm passes and the flooding subsides. All missionaries are safe and accounted for, but they will be unable to leave their apartments until we give them clearance to do so.  Unless they are in the southern area of the mission, or have an internet connection in their apartment complex, you will not likely receive an email from them until later today or possibly tomorrow. I will communicate updates to you on our mission website, http://www.texashoustonsouthmission.com as more information becomes available to us.  Please check it later this morning and then early this afternoon if you'd like to know our status.  We are unable to get to the mission office to answer the phones so email is our best communication tool for now.  Many thanks and keep the Houston area in your prayers.  We will provide a lot of much needed help and service in the coming days.  

President Hall

Susan has never seen a flood before.  I hope she's loving it, and I hope she sends pictures!

Transfer 2, week 1: Hermana Yungfleisch arrives in Texas - Watch out y'all!

Hermana Yungfleisch with Sister and President Hall

President & Sister Hall with the group of missionaries arriving in the field on April 12, 2016

Transfer 1, week 6: Preparing to leave the CCM for the mission field!

Susan flies to Houston Texas this morning.  Her flight was delayed an hour, so she should arrive in Houston around 2:30pm local time.

She got a few minutes to email yesterday, and she wrote, "I love you all so much!  I can't wait to join the missionary force for real tomorrow!"

She sure looks happy!

The Elders in Susan's CCM District:  (left to right) Elder Wride, Elder Baxter, Elder Mitchell, and Elder Littlefield

Hermana Yungfleisch with her CCM companions, Hermana Asplund and Hermana Burger

Transfer 1, week 5: General Conference, Mexico City Temple again, and Food Poisoning!

Well, the time has come to finally leave the CCM. I have exactly five days left before I leave to report to the Texas Houston South Mission. I am so very excited. I know that this gospel is true and I want to share that knowledge with others because I know how much happiness it can bring to their lives.

As a great send off gift many of us have been very sick here. My entire district hasn't been together for more than 5 hours this week which is very sad since we will be leaving one another in just a few short days. A scripture that describes us very well right now is, 1 Corinthians 11:30, "Many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep." Thankfully I was never as sick as the Elders in my District but I was told by the Doctor here at the CCM to go and rest on Monday so that I could kick this stomach virus more quickly. My rest became two, 3 hour naps. I was also given a Priesthood blessing by two of the Elders who were feeling alright that day. I can testify of the power of Priesthood blessings. There is no way that I could have gotten over so quickly what ever it is that has been going around. Most people have been sick for at least 2 or 3 days. I was able to fully recover within one day. I am so grateful that these young men are worthy to hold such marvelous power. The priesthood is the power and the authority that men can hold, if they are worthy, to act in the name of God for the salvation of His children. I am grateful that we live during a time when this priesthood power and authority has been restored to the Earth and our lives can be blessed by it.

Today, I have the opportunity to attend the Mexico City Temple. This will be our second and last time. It is such a great way to begin and end my time here at the CCM. I'm a little sad that I won't be able to send pictures of my time there later today but I will be sure to include them in my next email.

​I absolutely loved General Conference! It was especially great to watch Conference here at the CCM! For those of you who haven't had the opportunity to watch the all of the different sessions I would really encourage you to do so, as soon as you can. Or if you did, go back and watch and read the talks over again. Begin with a prayer and watch or read the talks with questions in mind. I promise that if you do these things and write down the thoughts and the impressions that you have while watching, that your questions will be answered and you will receive a witness of the Spirit that the things being taught are of God.

I testify that we are all Hijos de Dios! Dios nos ama!

Love,

Hermana Yungfleisch

Susan's CCM district in the Visitor's center at the Mexico City Temple

(from left to right) Elders Mitchell, Littlefield, _____ and _____

Paleta Payaso is a chocolate-covered marshmallow lollipop in Mexico.