Hello family,
This week was awesome! I'll start off my email with a
funny thing that happened. We had a lady in our area book that we have tried to
contact multiple times, but is never home. We finally caught her at home and
sat down and had a nice chat/lesson with her. Since it was our first time
contacting her, we tried to get to know her a little so we could discern her
needs and figure out how we could help her. She's a cute old lady who is pretty
much completely blind. Anyway, so while we were trying to get to know her, I
wanted to ask her how many kids she had.
However instead of saying ¿cuántos niños tiene? I said
¿cuántos años tiene? (How old are you?) She looked shocked that I would ask her
how old she was since that's not usually a question you ask an old lady. I
quickly realized what I said and corrected myself, but I was super embarrassed.
Last week for pday, we had so much fun! After doing 2
hours of studies in the morning, Hermana Sedgwick and I went to Goodwill to see
if we could find anything fun. They already had a bunch of Halloween stuff, so
we had fun messing around with that as well as making fun of all of the hideous
clothes. In the midst of the hideous clothes, Hma.
Sedgwick and I actually found some descent stuff. I
bought a new shirt, cardigan, and 2 jackets. After that, our zone went bowling.
Then we went back to the church building and played
volleyball then basketball. We play basketball pretty much every pday and it's
super fun. Some of the Elders are really good and it's good practice for when I
get back from my mission and beat dad at basketball again.
So the bugs here love me; so much that they bite me ALL
THE TIME! I'll attach a picture of my legs covered in bites. I didn't expect
there to be mosquitos in Arizona, but since it's monsoon season, it's pretty
humid, meaning...mosquitos. and lots of them.
On Thursday, we drove to Maricopa (about 40 minute drive)
to do interviews with President and Sister Toone. It was our zone and the
Maricopa zone totaling about 30 missionaries. We started all together in the
chapel and received training and information from President and Sister Toone,
the vehicle coordinator senior missionaries, housing coordinator senior
missionaries, and the assistants to the president.
After that, we each got a couple of minutes one on one
with President Toone followed by a couple of minutes with his wife. President
Toone's main message to the missionaries was to focus on our vision as
missionaries and try to get our members to have a vision for member missionary
work.
On Saturday morning, there was a stake service project in
Coolidge (about 25 minute drive. There are 2 wards in Coolidge, but our Spanish
branch covers Coolidge as well, so we go teach in Coolidge once a
week) For the service project, we made cards and put care
packages together for all of the people serving in the military in our stake.
After that, there was a really nice patriotic program
with speakers, a music program of patriotic songs, and a slideshow celebrating
all of the veterans in the stake. Then they fed us a nice lunch. I sat next to
a 91 year old WWII medic in the Navy. He was super cool and had a bunch of
awesome stories. After the lunch, we taught in Coolidge for the afternoon, then
drove back to Casa Grande to watch the Women's Conference.
On Sunday, we were combined with the English ward again
because a member of the Seventy came to speak to us. Elder Greer and his wife
spoke to us during Sacrament Meeting and 3rd hour. They were super awesome!
They spoke about the Doctrine of Christ (faith, repentance, baptism, receiving
the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the
end) which is pretty much what we teach people all day
considering the fact that our missionary purpose is to "invite others to
come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in
Jesus Christ and His atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the
Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end." Elder and Sister Greer used to be
mission presidents in the Washington Kennewick Mission, so they were excited to
talk to the missionaries. There were
6 of us there. (4 in the Spanish branch and 2 Elders in
the English
ward) I'll attach a picture of all of us.
Sunday night, we were invited to the 7th birthday party
of the daughter of Miguel, the guy who was baptized last week. They had a
piñata, amazing carne asada, chicken, salsa, and tres leches cake. I was VERY
full afterward, but it was worth it.
All in all, super awesome week. Lots of fun, but also
lots of sharing the gospel. This week, I wrote about all the fun things that
happened.
Would you rather have my letters be more about our
lessons and investigators, or more about the fun things?
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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