This week was awesome! On Wednesday we got to go to the
temple in Mesa. (We get to go every 3 months) They were already starting to put
up Christmas lights. I can't wait to see the lights at Christmas time; I've
heard that the Mesa Temple grounds look better than Temple Square. The temple
was super pretty and the spirit was really strong and it was really nice to be
able to have some time to sit and ponder.
On the way to the temple, we were following the Zone
Leaders in the their car. They took the freeway exit at the last second and we
didn't have time to follow them. We got super lost and ended up driving way
outside the boundaries of our mission into downtown Phoenix. So that was an
adventure.
On Tuesday, after district meeting, our zone went to get
hot wings.
The restaurant has a ghost pepper wing that is super,
super, super hot. We were all stupid and decided to each try one. There were
lots of tears shed and it was really funny to see everyone's reaction. I only
took one bite and swallowed it super fast, so it wasn't horribly terrible. I
drank like 3 cups of water and lots of ice and put on lots of chapstick, but I
was good after about 10 minutes. I felt bad for the missionaries that ate a
whole wing or got some of the sauce on their face.
On Friday, we went on exchanges and I was companions with
Hermana Allred for the day. Hermana Allred is a greenie like me, so we had some
"fun" teaching lessons in our broken Spanish. They didn't end up
super terrible though and we got the point across pretty well.
Saturday, Lorenzo got baptized!!! He's been ready to be
baptized for 5 weeks now, but he needed to attend church one more time before
he could. He's been in and out of the hospital (pretty much always on
Sundays) so hasn't been able to go to church. We found
out that if they watch general conference, it counts as church attendance, so
he watched the Saturday afternoon session, then got baptized at 3:30. It was
awesome. His sister and niece watched conference with us at the church and then
attended his baptism. They really liked it and we're hoping to be able to teach
them in the future. The baptismal service was really nice. A recent convert
spoke on baptism, then the branch president spoke about receiving the Holy
Ghost. Then the Hermanas sang Divina Luz (Lead Kindly Light). Lorenzo was super
happy. He'll be confirmed next Sunday in church.
General Conference was awesome! We watched all of the
sessions at the stake center. I loved Elder Renlund, Bednar, and Stanfill's
talks, as well as President Monson's. Lorenzo watched Saturday afternoon with
us and one of our investigators watched the Sunday sessions at her friends
house.
Now I'll explain the reason that "dead cow" is
in the subject line. On Tuesday, we had a set lesson with our investigators
Jose Luis and Kassandra. (Grandpa and granddaughter) That morning Jose Luis
decided to kill one of his cows and cut it up. He spent all day draining the
blood, skinning it, etc. When we walked up, him and some friends were all
standing around a table in front of their house, covered in cow blood. They
were cutting the last of the meat off of the bones. They were filling a giant
bin full of beef (which was also covered in flies). I wasn't quite sure what
type of animal it was until I saw the hooves. (I'll attach pictures) After an
minor freak out, and fake whimpering, I told them about Big Mac and how we
hired someone to take care of him. As you can guess, we didn't really get much
of a lesson in, but it was an interesting experience.
Transfers are this Thrusday. I can't believe I've been in
Casa Grande for 6 weeks already. I'll most likely be staying. Also, this
Saturday is the 6 month mark of when I opened my mission call. We had 5 member
present lessons this week, which is more than we've had in a week since I've
been here. We set a goal this week to try to get as many as we could (our goal
was 4). We would have had more, but some of them fell through.
All in all, awesome week. Can't wait for next week and
more missionary work.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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