Hello from Yuma,
Another great week! So there is a lot of agriculture here
in Yuma and surrounding areas and it's currently harvest season for all the
lettuce and cauliflower fields that cover every square inch of free dirt. All
of the members send us home with big bags of lettuce every time we have dinner
with them, so our fridge is jam packed full of lettuce. The members here are so
funny. Even though we assure them that we're not, they think that we're always
starving, so they give us whatever food they can think of to take home (like
lettuce). Let's just say we've been eating lots of salad.
On Thursday, I went on exchanges with Hermana Kiel, who's
the sister training leader, into her area. She's going home on Friday, so we're
all really sad about that. I'll send a picture of us with some ice cream we
bought from an ice cream truck. Also, I got to drive an mini-van for the day,
so that was interesting. We make fun of Hermana Kiel and Allred all the time
because the car for their area is a van.
This week, Hermana Lambert and I hit the standard of
excellence (numerical goals set by the mission president that are supposed to
raise our vision of missionary work and help us work hard) in almost all the
categories. The standard is 4 people with baptismal dates, 4 people at church,
16 member present lessons, receive 5 member referrals and contact them all, and
6 new investigators. Hermana Lambert and I have wanted to hit 16 member
presents our entire time together and have averaged about 11. But this week, we
finally did it!
We have 4 people on date, 3 people at church, 16 member
presents, contacted 5 member referrals, and got 3 new investigators. We haven't
been focused on the numbers at all, just on the people and miracles happened.
Irma should be getting baptized a week from Saturday.
She's come to church 3 weeks in a row and loves it every time. She was sick on
Saturday and didn't think she was going to be able to come. She got a
priesthood blessing from one of the members and called us on Sunday morning and
said she felt a million times better because of the blessing and that she would
be able to come to church. So that was cool. At church this week, she raised
her hand and made comments on the lesson in both Sunday School and Relief
Society. She's awesome!
Also the branch here is awesome. For fast and testimony
meeting, it always goes over time because all the members line up on the stand
to get a chance to bear their testimonies. There's no awkward pauses while
waiting for people to go up.
Transfers are this Thursday, but I should be sticking
around Yuma. I hope I stay here for a while.
Not really a lot to report on this week. We just had a
lot of lessons and worked really hard.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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