Hola family,
This week was super great! On Tuesday, Hermana Mena and I
got to go to the Phoenix temple with Maria Ortiz (who got baptized June 11) to
do baptisms. It was so cool and it was the first time I've been to the Phoenix
temple, which was dedicated about 2 years ago. All of our mission goes to the
Mesa temple, but Phoenix zone is special and gets to go to the Phoenix temple
even though it's pretty far out of our mission. Maria loved it and asked when
she could come back again.
She's seriously the best. She's fasted the last 2 fast
Sunday's and she started saving aside her tithing money before she even got
baptized. She's already into Jacob in her Book of Mormon reading.
Unfortunately, she's in the Aguila ward (the one I don't
cover
anymore) so I don't get to see her on Sunday's or teach
her the new member lessons. But on Wednesday, I got to see her again because
she came to do family history at the family history center and we were there
too doing family history with Mari, who got baptized the week after Maria, but
in Montaña del Sur ward in the Elders area that we now cover. We were able to
find 6 family names for Mari to take to the temple so we're trying to get her
there as soon as possible.
On Tuesday, President and Sister Toone came around for
their final goodbyes before finishing their mission. On Saturday, we got to
meet President Christensen and his wife and have a short interview with each of
them. They're super cool!
This week our investigator, Margarito, accepted a
baptismal date for July 16 and he's super ready. He was like "yeah I
stopped smoking a month ago and I stopped drinking 5 years ago and yeah I won't
drink coffee anymore." We also found a young family to teach and they came
to church on Sunday for the first time! And our ward mission leader's teenage
niece and nephew just moved in with him from Mexico and have come to church
twice and are taking the lessons from us. And one of the young women's leaders
took her nonmember niece to girls camp this last week and her niece wants to
start coming to church and taking the lessons.
I started doing exchanges this week. I'll do about 2 a
week for the rest of the transfer. On Saturday, Hermana Sigaran came into my
area and it was super fun. She's way cute and 4'11" tall. She was born in
El Salvador. It's funny because she has the same first name as my companion,
Hermana Mena, and Hermana Mena is Salvadoreña too. Hermana Mena and I are still
getting along great and working hard together.
I hope you have a happy 4th of July. Eat lots of bbq for
me.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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