Friday, December 30, 2016
Monday, December 26, 2016
12/26/16 Final letter
Hola familia,
Here's my last weekly email.
This week was pretty great. Manuel, who I found and taught in Phoenix got
baptized on Friday! I got permission to go. When we found him, he was drunk and
crying and was telling us he wants to change his life so he can be happy. And he
sure was happy on Friday. He wore a shirt and tie and he was smiling the whole
time. He shared him testimony at the end and it was awesome! And he had Hermana
Irizarry and I sign his Book of Mormon haha.At the baptism, I gave a talk and
conducted the music. It was super fun to see everyone from Montaña de Sur
again.
And on Saturday morning, the
Delgado kids I taught got baptized in Phoenix. I wasn't able to go back for
that baptism, but I'm super happy for the 3 of them.
We found 7 new investigators this
week and 7 last week and we've been working really hard. We found this new
couple named Baltazar and Anna and they're awesome! They're super intelligent.
He's getting his PHD in applied Mathematics at ASU and barely even speaks
English. As we were teaching, they had so many questions like "so what do
I need to do to get salvation?" and "what would you say our purpose
in life is?" and "how can I receive and answer that this is
true?" I'm super sad that I can't keep teaching them, but they will for
sure be great members of the church.
For Christmas Eve, we had to
stay in the apartment, so we played Clue and we made our kitchen table into a
ping pong table. On Christmas, we only had sacrament meeting in both wards.
Let's just say there was a large difference in musical talent between the
Spanish ward and English ward partially because of the fact that Hermana
Cloward and I were part of 2 of the numbers in the Spanish ward. I played the
guitar for one of them.
Also, we were able to go
Christmas caroling twice this week with the elders and our ward mission leader.
We visited investigators and helped out the elders quorum and visited the
people who hadn't been home taught in more than 3 months. It was really fun and
it brought joy to a lot of people. One of the days it was pouring rain and the
other one, I played the guitar while we sang carols.
And this week I went to the
house of NFL Cardinals football player, Mike Iupati. He is a less active in our
ward and we went and taught his family. He's a pretty big guy and he came to
church on Sunday!
We also had our investigators
Lina and Leah come to church.
On Saturday, Miguel and Denise
who got baptized in my first area drove an hour to take us out to lunch and it
was super fun to see them.
On Christmas, we acted out the
nativity with the sisters in our district. I was a shepherd as usual. And we
ate Christmas dinner in the mansion of the multimillionaire bishop of our
English ward.
See you tomorrow! Be on time to
the airport please. It was good to talk to you yesterday.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
Friday, December 23, 2016
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