Dear Family,
This week, we had lots of fun. The small, quaint towns of
Ajo and Gila Bend (literally in the middle of nowhere) which are part of our
stake/zone each have a set of sisters serving there. The sisters stayed at our
house a few nights this week and it was super fun. I'll explain why throughout
the course of this email.
On Friday, we went to the Christmas lights on the Mesa
Temple grounds with Eva (getting baptized January 2), a member, and her son.
Eva loved it! Eva's been feeling a little bit down, but on Wednesday, we felt
like we should teach her about family history work and temples.
It was exactly what she needed. She is so excited about
everything now and relates everything we teach her to the celestial kingdom and
family history. She is super excited to do baptisms for the dead for her mom,
aunt, etc. She loved the temple grounds and lights and is so excited to go in
the temple soon after her baptism. We're allowed to go to the Mesa temple
lights as much as we want as long as we have an investigator with us and we can
get a ride from a member and it's an effective use of time. We're going to try
to go again this Thursday with some investigators. The Gila Bend Sisters also
went to the lights on Friday night with their branch and some investigators,
but weren't going to make it home to Gila bend in time, so they spent the night
at our house in Maricopa and made the 45 minute drive to Gila Bend in the
morning. One of the Gila Bend sisters, Sister Tew ran track at UVU before her
mission, so the 2 of us woke up at 6:00 on Saturday morning and ran 4 1/2 miles
which was awesome! I miss running that far and surprisingly, I wasn't super
slow. I've been working my companions up to be able to run farther with me, but
I've only built them up to a little less than 2 miles, so a long run was soooooo
nice.
Saturday was the evening adult session of stake
conference in Maricopa, so the Ajo and Gila Bend sisters drove up for that.
(About a
85 minute drive from Ajo) Then they stayed the night for
the general session on Sunday morning. So staying at our house, we had the 4
sisters from Ajo and Gila Bend, the 3 in my trio, plus the 2 English sisters
who live with us...lets just say it was a party. After stake conference on
Sunday, the gospel principles class in our branch did a potluck and they invited
the Ajo and Gila Bend sisters as well. So we went to that, taught a couple
lessons, then went to watch the first presidency Christmas Devotional at the
Stake Center. The Ajo and Gila Bend sisters stayed the night again on Sunday
night so they could be in Maricopa for pday and go grocery shopping because
there isn't a grocery store in Gila Bend. Also, Sister Tew and I went running
for 4
1/2 miles again this morning.
Noemi came to church on Sunday, but told us she needs to
push her baptism back to December 22 because of some complications, but she's
still super excited to be baptized.
Next Monday, I don't know how much email time I'll get or
which day I'll be emailing on because we're doing Christmas conference that day
with the mission. We're doing a 5k run, talent show, bonfire, and lots of other
fun stuff. So don't be surprised if you don't get a letter this Monday.
Hope you have a great week and enjoy this Christmas
season. Have you put up Christmas lights yet? There's lots of pretty lights on
the houses here.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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