Hola,
Another great week here in Arizona! The weather has
cooled down and it's a perfect 75-80 degrees everyday with a refreshing breeze.
A lot of times, Hermana Sedgwick and I will stop walking in the church parking
lot and just enjoy the weather for a couple of seconds.
This week we taught 22 lessons and found 3 new
investigators. It was awesome! We try to get members to go with us to as many
lessons as possible because their testimonies and personal experiences help out
a lot (not to mention they speak Spanish a lot better than we do). On Saturday
night, we invited a member to come out with us to couple of lessons. We met at
6:05 at the first house. No one was home, so we tried a second, but the people
were just on their way out the door. At 6:20, as I was opening my mouth to tell
our member where the third house was, she said "pues, cuidense,"
(well, take
care) got in her car, and left (my mouth still gaping
open). Hermana Sedgwick and I could not get over how funny it was that we had a
member come out with us for literally 15 minutes!
We gave lots of service this week. The relief society
president in our branch is in the hospital in Phoenix. She gave birth 5 weeks
early (the baby will be fine, he doesn't have to be in an incubator anymore),
she has a really serious blood disease, and has 10 other kids at home ages 17
and under, plus a foster kid. As you can tell, her life is a "bit"
hectic right now, so the four of us sister missionaries went and cleaned her
house along with some other sisters from our branch. The sisters in the branch
have been providing meals for the family and been taking turns watching the
kids. It was fall break this week, so none of the kids were in school. So we
did our best to help their family this week and went over to their house twice
to help out. We also volunteer at a dog pound every week. We help out with
anything they need: landscaping, cleaning, laundry, or giving the dogs human
interaction. It's always really fun and we get to know our zone super well.
There are 13 of us in our zone (the smallest one in the
mission) and we're all super close. (4 sisters, 9 elders) There's usually 2
districts and 14 of us, but our district leader was in the hospital last week
with a weird rash all over his body. He's fine now, but he got temporarily
transferred to Chandler zone so he could be closer to the hospital for return
appointments.
So right now, we are a kinda district and a zone. The
other district leader is in charge of all of us and gives trainings to the
whole zone for district meetings. aka we basically have zone meeting every week
instead of district meeting.
This week we had a lot of good food. A member gave us a
giant bag of pomegranates, so we've been enjoying one of those every day for
lunch and breakfast. (they're not as good as dads pomegranates though) After a
lesson one night around 8:00 the investigator offered us dinner. We told him we
had already eaten, so he sent us home with plates for us to eat for lunch the
next day. He used to work at a Mariscos restaurant, so the fish tacos he gave
us were super bomb. A recent convert, Miguel, and his wife who's getting
baptized in a couple of weeks make super good Mexican food and had us over on
Saturday. We're always super excited to eat at their house. We had posole and
it was soooo good! I think my tongue is adjusting to spicy food which is a good
thing. Hermana Allred thought the posole was super spicy, but I didn't think it
was spicy at all. I even put hot sauce on it (I hated hot sauce before my
mission).
We get to go to the temple on Saturday! Our mission
president doesn't want us out teaching on Halloween night, so the whole mission
is going to a temple. Some are going to Gilbert, some Mesa, and some Phoenix.
The Yuma missionaries might even go to the San Diego Temple. I think we'll be going
to Gilbert so I'm super excited.
Happy Halloween,
Love, Hermana Gubler
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