Hola Family,
This week was really good. Irma got baptized on Saturday
and everything went really well with that. Pretty much the whole branch showed
up to support her which was awesome! They filled up the entire relief society
room and even had to set up extra chairs. Afterward, a lot of people brought
food so they all stuck around and got to know Irma better and welcome her to
the branch.
Irma was super happy and she bore her testimony after the
baptism and said she felt like a new person.
She got confirmed at church on Sunday, but sadly, Hermana
Lambert and I had to miss it because we were both throwing up all day starting
at 2:00 am Sunday morning and had fevers. Today, we're still feeling weak, but
at least we feel a lot better from yesterday. We're thinking we got it from our
branch mission leader who has been sick all week with whom we had dinner on
Saturday night.
On Wednesday, we had interviews with President and Sister
Toone which were really awesome. We do interviews every other transfer, but 2
transfers ago, we had a special training instead on interviews, and 2 transfers
before that, everyone's interviews only lasted about 2 minutes due to time
constraints, so Wednesday was my first legit interview with President Toone.
It was about 15 minutes long and was super spiritually
uplifting and awesome.
Also this week, I learned that I'm not allergic to bees.
I got stung on the back, but I didn't have any reactions or anything, so that
was good. The context behind the story is that Hermana Lambert and I decided on
pday to check out the Mexico border that is 3 miles away from our apartment. We
drove up and as soon as we got out of the car, the bee started buzzing all
around me. Being dumb, I started flailing, which just made the bee mad, so he
stung me. I guess there was probably some danger or something and the bee
attacking me was Heavenly Father tell us to get away from there.
Bob Lewis [from Visalia] sent me a letter with the
address for his non-member 1st cousin once removed who lives in Winterhaven, Ca
which is in my area.
We stopped by on Saturday and had an awesome lesson with
her and her husband. They had a lot of questions about our church and they know
a lot of members and are impressed with how they live their religion throughout
the entire week, not just on Sundays. They already have a copy of the Book of
Mormon and we challenged them to read it. She is really interested in family
history, so we have a return appointment to go to the family history center
with her for a week from Thursday.
We're hoping that will open the door to further teaching
opportunities.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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