This
week was really fun! Every Monday night, we do noche de hogar
(family home evening) with a less active family consisting of a grandma and her
2 grandsons who live with her. We've started acting out scripture stories for
the lessons. We each chose one prop, then act out the story while someone reads
from the Book of Mormon. Last week, we acted out Ammon cutting off the arms of
the bad guys who tried to scatter the sheep and this week, we acted out Samuel
the Lamanite preaching on the wall. They have a lot of fun with it. I'll send a
picture from this week's lesson. Hermana Ruiz said the closing prayer in which
she apologized to Heavenly Father for her lack of acting skills. I had to try
really hard not to laugh because that was the first time I've ever heard
someone say that in a prayer.
On
Thursday, we had a Sociedad de Socorro (Relief Society) activity, where we
celebrated the birthdays of everybody who has a birthday this year...so
everyone. There was dinner, presents, cake, games, prizes, and a piñata. We
played lotería (bingo) and the investigator we brought won a super nice
blanket. She's pregnant with a little girl and the blanket was pink, so it was
perfect! They had presents for everyone to unwrap. The presidency had sewn
aprons for everyone. I'll send some pictures of Hermana Sedgwick and I in our
new aprons.
On
Saturday, there was a baptism for Miguel, a guy that the other Hermanas are
teaching. It was a super good baptism. He was so happy and his wife is super
excited to get baptized in 2 weeks. The companionship that the other Hermanas
replaced, who taught Miguel before they were transferred were allowed to come
to the baptism, so they were there, plus their companions (who had also served
in Casa Grande at some point), so we had 8 sisters at the baptism. The Branch
President and all of the branch members were so excited to see all the sisters
that they hadn't seen in a while.
Yesterday
was the primary program. The kids in the Spanish branch are combined with an
English ward for primary, so we had sacrament meeting with the English ward. It
was fun to attend an English sacrament meeting after 2 months of Spanish. The
primary program was super cute. There was one girl who waved at her mom for
pretty much the entire thing and another little girl doing ballet moves to all
the songs. I told Hermana Sedgwick that I always had my speaking part memorized
for the program when I was in primary.
Every
third Sunday, there's a Mission President's Devotional in Tempe. The mission
president speaks and recent converts bear their testimonies and share their
conversion stories. It's awesome to take investigators to. This month, the WWII
candy bomber (the guy on Meet The Mormons) was going to be a guest speaker (he
lives in Arizona). I was really excited. Unfortunately he wasn't feeling
well...probably because he's 95 years old, so the devotional was cancelled. :(
I hope he can speak another time, because that would be really cool.
Lorenzo
was admitted to the hospital on Sunday morning, so obviously he wasn't able to
attend church, so we're going to have to postpone his baptism by another week.
We went and visited him in the hospital last night and read him the baptismal
interview questions. He knew all the answers and is so ready to get baptized,
but his health isn't allowing him to.
I'm
having a great time on my mission! The lifestyle and schedule are right up my
alley. I love being busy all day (as you can tell by my long list of high
school activities) and what better a way to be busy all day than with the work
of the Lord.
Love,
Hermana
Gubler
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