Hola,
Another
great week here in Yuma. I can't believe I've been out for 6 months already; I
feel like I just started. The time flies!
On
Wednesday, we had zone conference, so President and Sister Toone came down for
that. We received lots of trainings about how to simplify our teaching and
focus on the gospel of Jesus Christ. It was President Toone's birthday, so we
got him a lemon pie, a big party hat, guaraches (sandals from Mexico made from
car tires), and a picture frame filled with sand from the sand dunes and the
picture I sent home last week of our zone with the giant "happy
b-day" written in the sand. President Toone loves Yuma, so we thought it
was pretty funny that he would schedule Yuma zone conference for his
birthday.
Hermana
Lambert and I have found and taught 13 new investigators in the last 2 weeks,
which is insanely awesome! Usually the entire mission gets 100-150 new
investigators a week. This week, so many people have been placed in our path.
One cool experience was with a woman named Iresma. We received a referral from
a member in our branch to go visit her brother in Winterhaven, California (Like
2 minutes away from Yuma and still in our area). She didn't know his exact
address, but she gave us more or less of an explanation along the lines of
"turn right at the gas station and it's the second house on the
left." (I've gotten a lot of random Spanish explanations of how to get
places while on my mission because nobody ever knows the address of anything.
An example of an average direction explanation is "go down the street by
the tan house, turn left at the big cactus, go past the bump in the road, turn
right by the little white dog, and it's the house with rocks in the yard."
Now imagine trying to understand all that in Spanish, while trying to navigate
a new city...but it's always an adventure.) So we tried the house which we
thought was the second house on the left, but it was the wrong one. However,
the lady who answered the door was Iresma and she is super awesome. She
accepted a Book of Mormon and we're going back to teach her tonight. She wasn't
hesitant at all and she seemed really interested in what we had to say. I'm
excited to see what happens tonight.
On
Monday night, Hermana Lambert and I did a family home evening at the house of a
recent convert family. They invited lots of their friends and people from the
branch. Everyone who was there was either a non-member or a convert. We taught
an awesome lesson about the Gospel of Jesus Christ (faith, repentance, baptism,
receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end) and how it is
the only way we can find happiness in this life and return to live with God
again. Our branch is doing a temple trip at then end of the month to the new
Tijuana temple, so we were able to talk about how going to the temple is part
of enduring to the end and we challenged the recent converts to obtain a temple
recommend so they can go. (I'm still working on convincing President Toone to
let us go to Tijuana, but it's not going so well)
I'm
glad you liked the Facebook video of me playing the guitar. I borrowed the
guitar from a member so we could sing that song for a special musical number at
a baptism on Saturday for the YSA.
I
hope you all have a good week.
Love,
Hermana
Gubler
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