Hola family,
This week was awesome! Probably the biggest highlight was
getting to hear Elder Jeffery R. Holland speak to all the missionaries on
Tuesday in Tempe. We left Yuma at about 10:00 and got to Tempe a little before
2:00. We took a mission picture (I don't have it, but I'll send it when I get
it) with Elder Holland and then headed inside the chapel one by one getting to
shake his hand at the door. While waiting to take the picture, I was standing
in the sun for a while and got a little sunburn, so when I shook Elder Hollands
hand, he said "you look like you got some sun" and touched my cheek.
The meeting was awesome though. It started with Elder
Greer of the Area 70 sharing his testimony. He actually came to Casa Grande
when I was there and I think one of my Facebook photos is of me with him and
his wife and a couple other missionaries. He and his wife remembered me and we
had a nice little chat before the meeting. Then Elder Lynn G. Robbins of the
presidency of the 70 spoke about Christlike attributes and how a testimony and
conversion doesn't come through manifestations to the 5 senses, but through the
Holy Ghost. He used the example of the Israelites and Laman and Lemuel and how
they had lots of manifestation through the 5 senses like seeing angels, tasting
manna, feeling the shock of Nephi, but weren't converted. He said that seeing
isn't believing, but believing is seeing.
Then Elder Holland spoke for about an hour. He used a
portable microphone and walked all around the chapel. I was in the 3rd row on
the aisle and he paused and talked there multiple times, so he was literally
like 2 feet away for a lot of his talk. He talked a lot about how missionaries
should never go back to how they were before the mission. He said that the Lord
in his search for lost sheep doesn't have time for lost shepherds. He also
talked about how "love shared is never love divided." It was a really
cool experience to get to hear from an apostle of the Lord.
Another cool thing that happened was that a family I
taught in Maricopa got baptized yesterday and I got to skype into the baptism!
The mom, Araceli, and her husband, Jaime and their
teenage kids Iridian and Allan. They are super awesome and I can't wait to go
to their sealing in a year.
Our investigator Rafael (I sent a picture with him last
week) was supposed to get baptized this Friday, but we are going to have to
push that back a little more. Transfers are next week, so I hope I get to stick
around Yuma for another 6 weeks and be here for Rafael's baptism. Rafael's
niece, Marleney just moved here from Mexico and she came to church on Sunday,
so hopefully we'll be able to start teaching her as well. We had 7
investigators at church on Sunday, which was way cool.
Have a great week and I can't wait to Skype on Sunday.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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