Hola,
This week was kind of up and down. A few people we'd been
teaching for a while told us they didn't want us to come by anymore. But on the
bright side, we got a call this morning from a lady named Armida who went to
the Mesa visitors center last week and found a church in North Phoenix on
Sunday and went. She said she wants to come to church and start meeting with
us! We have an appointment for tomorrow. Also, we met the daughter of a less
active member named Cynthia. She's 13 and just came from Mexico and she's super
interested. We taught her the restoration and she said she's always wanted to
know why there are so many churches and which one is true. She said she was
going to start attending lots of different churches and find which one she felt
the best at. After the lesson she texted us and told us "Y la verdad si
estoy interesada en esto y me siento alegre de que me vengan a dar la palabra
de dios. Estoy muy interesada en esto :)" which translates to "to be
honest, I'm interested in this and I'm happy that you came to bring me the word
of God. I'm very interested in this." We're really excited.
Ivan is still strong as ever in his testimony of the
gospel, but we'll probably have to move his baptism back a week. He's currently
living in the same apartment as the mom of his kids and he was going to move
out on Thursday because they've been facing some major problems for a long time
and he wanted to be obedient to the law of chastity. But he hasn't had work for
2 weeks and didn't get the money in time for the new apartment. He should be
getting a new job on Tuesday and hopefully that works out and he'll get the
money to move. As soon as he moves, he'll be baptized. He also got really sick
this week. He had to get up and go lay on the couch during sacrament meeting.
He's doing great at making friends in the ward; he went and played soccer with
a bunch of the Hermanos this week and he also took his kids to the activities
on Tuesday to learn the dances for and upcoming church activity.
We also had this really cool lesson with our
investigator, Silvia. She was going to get baptized a long time ago, but never
did because she wasn't married to the guy she's lived with for 14 years. She
said a thought came to her mind during the opening prayer that she needs to
tell him that she wants to get married so she can get baptized.
On Friday, I got to meet Gladys Knight's daughter. We had
a meeting with all the missionaries in the valley because Gladys Knight is
coming to do a free concert that is geared toward introducing people to the
gospel. On Saturday, I did exchanges with Hermana Standring and am finally done
with exchanges for the transfer!
Have a great week and keep praying for Ivan.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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