Hola,
I hope you all had a good Easter. The pictures you sent
of Cora and Dodge in their Easter outfits were cute. This week was really good
leading up to Easter. I got to teach a lot of people the real reason why we
celebrate Easter. You would be surprised how many people don't know that we
celebrate the resurrection of Christ. Of all the people I talked with this
week, only one (and she was a church member) could give a correct answer as to
why we celebrate Easter. I received countless answers from children and adults
along the lines of "to find eggs and eat candy" and "because
Jesus had a lot of chickens." Receiving answers like that makes me want to
be sure that I raise my future children in the Gospel.
On the Mesa temple grounds every year, there's a huge Easter
pageant with a cast of over 400 and a stage that is 8000 square feet. All the
missionaries, except the ones in Yuma (because it's too far away), got
permission to go if they had investigators with them. I was pretty bummed about
that, but we still wanted our investigators and recent converts to go, so with
our branch mission leader, we set up a group trip for Friday. Somehow, we got
permission from President Toone to go with them even though we would be getting
back at 1:30 in the morning.
We are keeping it a secret from the other missionaries in
our zone because they would be pretty jealous that we got to go.
Church on Sunday was really cool. It was testimony
meeting and the members of the branch here literally line up on the stand for a
chance to bear their testimonies. There's no awkward pauses like in most
English wards I've been to. Stevie wore a white shirt and slacks to church,
which was a miracle because I've never seen him in anything beside basketball
shorts and a t-shirt.
Also, on Saturday, the Mireles family was signed up on
our dinner calendar. Hermano Mireles works for the City of Yuma and Saturday
night was the city picnic and that's where they invited us to go for dinner. It
was awesome! With an entry ticket (provided by Hermano
Mireles) everything was free. There was carne asada
plates, a kettle corn booth, a dip n dots stand, etc. They had fire trucks and
police cars to climb through and lots of other fun things. It reminded me of
lots of City of Visalia events I've been to over the years.
Easter week has been awesome to make opportunities to
share the gospel. I can't wait for general conference next week and that we get
to listen to our living prophet speak. (Saturday and Sunday 9-11 and 1-3 on
lds.org for anyone who wants to watch) Love, Hermana Gubler
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