Hola,
This week was great! It was one of those weeks where
everyone answered the door and we had 24 member present lessons. Ivan came to
the Sunday morning session of general conference and really liked it. All the
Spanish wards in the stake were watching it at our building, and afterwards, we
all ate pozole. It was fun to see a lot of the ward members from Aguila, where
I used to serve.
After eating pozole, we had a lesson with Ivan and he
accepted to be baptized this Saturday! When we invited him, he was like well
yeah, we've already waited an extra month. Everything is worked out with his
living situation. The mom of his kids, with whom he was living took the kids
and left on Monday. She's now living in northern Phoenix and Ivan will have the
kids on weekends, meaning he can take them to church now and he no longer has
any complications with the law of chastity. He's super excited to get baptized.
We also put Ailin (20) and Alfredo (13) on date this
week. Their mom is an eternigator (eternal investigator), but Ailin and Alfredo
have always been around for the lessons and they really like church. Their mom
said they don't have to wait for her to get baptized. So hopefully if they continue
coming to church these next few weeks and read and pray everyday, they'll be
ready for baptism and more importantly, enduring to the end. We made a
baptismal calendar to help them, which is basically a prayer, reading, and
church attendance chart with doctrines still to be taught that help them see
that they're ready for baptism.
I LOVED general conference! I loved how President
Uchtdorf said that if we were truly grateful for the restored gospel in our
lives, we would never tire of going to church or reading the scriptures. I also
loved Elder Stevenson's talk about making the Book of Mormon the keystone of
our testimony. [You can watch/listen to General Conference at www.lds.org] Our investigator, Shantal came to
the Saturday morning session and really liked it too. She knows everything is
true, but her husband won't let her come to church on Sundays or be baptized,
but she could at least come on Saturday.
A cool technology miracle that happened this week was
that we were able to have a lesson with Ana over FaceTime. Ana was in our area
about 3 months ago and was progressing really well and going to church, but she
moved out of our area and into a house with a family that won't let
missionaries come by. But we are still able to teach her through technology.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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