Hola,
This week, there's not too much to write about that was
out of the ordinary. Just normal missionary work all week and lots of it.
Hermana Lambert and I taught 29 lessons this week!
This weekend was stake conference and President and
Sister Toone drove down here for that. An Area Seventy [church leader over
large area] came as well. It was a really cool stake conference that focused on
sabbath day observance. During the Saturday night session, Hermana Lambert and
I were sitting in the Spanish translation room with our investigators when the
Area Seventy asked all the missionaries to come to the front. Because the
Spanish translation was a little behind and we had to walk all the way to the
chapel, we didn't hear what the question was that the Seventy was asking the
missionaries. When we got to the front,
the church leader handed me the microphone expecting me to answer his question
and said "Sister Gubler, what do you think?" I had literally no idea
what to say since I didn't know the question, so I made up an answer hoping
that I semi-sounded intelligible. I still don't know what the question he
wanted me to answer was, but after the conference, a lot of people approached
me and told me that my answer was really good and that they learned a lot from
my remarks.
On Monday night, we did a big FHE at a park and invited
lots of members and their friends, less actives [those who don't attend church
often], and investigators. It was really fun and lots of people came to enjoy
food, games and a lesson. It was a really good opportunity to find new people
to teach. The branch president's mom brought one of her good friends, Manuel,
(who grew up in Woodlake) and he liked it. On Sunday, we did a missionary
fireside and he came! Afterward, we took him and the branch president's mom
around the church building to show him and explain all the different pictures
of Christ. We have a return appointment next week, so that was really cool.
On Thursday, Hermana Allred, who came on her mission the
same time as me, and I went on exchanges. Hermana Allred and I have gone on
exchanges every transfer except one because we have always been in the same
zone/district/apartment in Casa Grande and here in Yuma. We always have lots of
fun on exchanges because we have served around each other pretty much our
entire missions.
Anyway, I hope you have a good week. Next week is
transfers, so if you are planning to send me something, maybe hold off a bit in
case I get a new address. I really hope I don't get transferred because I love
it here and there's still a lot of missionary work to be done.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
1) the cute granddaughters of one of our investigators.
2) Book of Mormon class this week, not a super great
picture, but it's all I have.
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