Friday, December 30, 2016
Monday, December 26, 2016
12/26/16 Final letter
Hola familia,
Here's my last weekly email.
This week was pretty great. Manuel, who I found and taught in Phoenix got
baptized on Friday! I got permission to go. When we found him, he was drunk and
crying and was telling us he wants to change his life so he can be happy. And he
sure was happy on Friday. He wore a shirt and tie and he was smiling the whole
time. He shared him testimony at the end and it was awesome! And he had Hermana
Irizarry and I sign his Book of Mormon haha.At the baptism, I gave a talk and
conducted the music. It was super fun to see everyone from Montaña de Sur
again.
And on Saturday morning, the
Delgado kids I taught got baptized in Phoenix. I wasn't able to go back for
that baptism, but I'm super happy for the 3 of them.
We found 7 new investigators this
week and 7 last week and we've been working really hard. We found this new
couple named Baltazar and Anna and they're awesome! They're super intelligent.
He's getting his PHD in applied Mathematics at ASU and barely even speaks
English. As we were teaching, they had so many questions like "so what do
I need to do to get salvation?" and "what would you say our purpose
in life is?" and "how can I receive and answer that this is
true?" I'm super sad that I can't keep teaching them, but they will for
sure be great members of the church.
For Christmas Eve, we had to
stay in the apartment, so we played Clue and we made our kitchen table into a
ping pong table. On Christmas, we only had sacrament meeting in both wards.
Let's just say there was a large difference in musical talent between the
Spanish ward and English ward partially because of the fact that Hermana
Cloward and I were part of 2 of the numbers in the Spanish ward. I played the
guitar for one of them.
Also, we were able to go
Christmas caroling twice this week with the elders and our ward mission leader.
We visited investigators and helped out the elders quorum and visited the
people who hadn't been home taught in more than 3 months. It was really fun and
it brought joy to a lot of people. One of the days it was pouring rain and the
other one, I played the guitar while we sang carols.
And this week I went to the
house of NFL Cardinals football player, Mike Iupati. He is a less active in our
ward and we went and taught his family. He's a pretty big guy and he came to
church on Sunday!
We also had our investigators
Lina and Leah come to church.
On Saturday, Miguel and Denise
who got baptized in my first area drove an hour to take us out to lunch and it
was super fun to see them.
On Christmas, we acted out the
nativity with the sisters in our district. I was a shepherd as usual. And we
ate Christmas dinner in the mansion of the multimillionaire bishop of our
English ward.
See you tomorrow! Be on time to
the airport please. It was good to talk to you yesterday.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
Friday, December 23, 2016
12/19/16 letter
Dear family,
This week was awesome! And super
crazy. I have like 20 zillion photos to send, but I'll send a few and show the
rest when I get home in 8 days.
On Monday, we went to the Mesa
temple lights with some investigators and a recent convert. Tuesday, we drove
to Casa Grande, my first area, and went to a baptism there for a guy named
Roberto that Hermana Cloward found and taught. He read the Book of Mormon twice
before his baptism! While there, I got to see a ton of people that I met as a
brand new missionary and surprisingly, they all remembered me even though at
the time I didn't speak hardly any Spanish. I got to see Suzi who I found and
taught and has been a member for about a year now. She seems so much happier
and her testimony is so strong!
On Wednesday, we had our mission
wide Christmas conference. We met in south Phoenix and played games like
horseshoes, basketball, 4 square, etc. and had a huge competition between all
the zones. It was way fun. Our zone won the puzzle competition and our prize
was a giant present full of popcorn. Wednesday night, we taught our
investigator, Magdalena about the plan of salvation. Her mom passed away this
week and when we taught her that her mom is learning from missionaries right
now, she just started crying and she had so many questions about sealing. She
told us she wants to get baptized and go to church, but she works on Sundays.
So that's the next step. Also, we starting teaching her roommate Antonia this
week, and she's from Fresno.
Thursday morning, we got to go
to the Phoenix temple. Then we met at the Gilbert temple for a mission picture
and then we had dinner and a program at a chapel nearby. For the program, each
zone did a skit and ours was by far the best, but the judge was biased and we
didn't win. Everyone else there told us we should've won. I'll show the video
when I get home.
On Saturday, I got to go on
exchanges with Hermana Lambert in my old area in Phoenix. We had so much fun
and met another guy from Fresno and he wants to start meeting with missionaries.
Also Ivan, my recent convert, and Miguel, his new best friend came out with us
and we were so happy to see each other. Miguel hits a year of membership
tomorrow and will be endowed in a couple weeks.
On Sunday, I translated again at
the new convert devotional.
So run down of the week: I was
in Tempe, Phoenix, Gilbert, Chandler, Casa Grande, and Mesa, saw 3 temples, met
2 people from Fresno, and have 1 more week on my mission. I should write a song
or something. I'll stay away from the 5 golden rings though.
I'll write next week
still.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
Monday, December 12, 2016
12/12/16 letter
Hola Family,
This week I'm writing to you
from...Tempe, Arizona! Finally I can tell people that I served in the Arizona
Tempe Mission and that I actually served in Tempe. Hermana Irizarry got a call
on Monday night that she would be training a new missionary, so they needed to
make room for her in Mesa, so they moved me to Tempe for my last few weeks. And
my companion is HERMANA CLOWARD! We were companions last Christmas and we'll be
together this Christmas too and we're having a great time! We're both new to
this area, so we're still trying to meet everybody and find our way around, but
I love it here and wish I could have served more time here. We have 2 wards.
The Rio Salado ward which is Spanish and the Ahwatukee Groves ward, which is
English. It was crazy to go to church in English on Sunday and see that the
ward started on time and had the overflow filled with people. Our english ward
has 11 ward missionaries who are all completely active which is insanely
awesome! Another random thing is that we share both wards with the same 2
Elders. Elder Gardea from Chihuahua, Mexico and Elder Ocampo from Chile. They
are both the only members of their families and converts of less that 3 years
and they are both awesome! Elder Ocampo got here from Chile on Wednesday, so at
dinner, he has no idea what he is eating and it's really funny. Our wards are
in different stakes, so it's super random, but it's super fun. We live right
near Ahwatukee and we take 3 freeways to get to our church building for
Spanish. And we make the 20 minute drive between our areas like 5 times a day.
Also, if I thought I got spoiled in Spanish wards, English wards are like that
x100.
Sister Cloward just came from
Casa Grande, my first area, and gave me all the updates of the people I taught
there. This guy Kevin that we were teaching got sent to jail soon after I left
and just got out. He read the Book of Mormon twice while in jail and is meeting
with the missionaries again! We are going to Casa Grande tomorrow for a baptism
of a guy Hermana Cloward taught and hopefully Kevin is there and I'll get to
see him.
On Saturday, I got to go to the
Mesa temple because this recent convert from Phoenix named Sabino received his
endowments. He invited me and I got permission to go and that was super
cool.
Tuesday, my last night in Mesa,
we went to the temple lights with our investigator, Pablo, and it was super
fun. There was a bunch of people from Águila Ward in Phoenix that were working
shifts at the lights and it was really fun to see all of them. I got to see
Yozelyn's sister who got home from her mission this week.
Also, now that I'm in Tempe,
I've served in basically every area in the mission except for Chandler (Where
nobody speaks Spanish anyways) so I'm feeling pretty accomplished.
I feel like I have so many
things to do and so little time to do so. See you in 2 weeks.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
Tuesday, December 6, 2016
12/5/16 letter
Hola Family
This week was cool. We got to go
to the Mesa Temple Christmas lights twice. Once with Zoila and another time
with a new part member family that just moved in. The lights are sooooo pretty!
Zoila came to church again for the 3rd week in a row. After church, she invited
us and another Venezuelan member for Venezuelan food. We ate hallacas, pan de
jamón, pollo asado, and rice. I'll send a picture, it was super good. On
Sunday, we ended up eating 3 dinners and I literally thought I was going to
die. But when a Hispanic offers you food, you can't say no or they get
offended, so you have to eat it. So we ate with Zoila, then went to the
Jaramillos and read the Book of Mormon in English with their daughter so she
could learn English and they offered us dinner. We had pork, rice and beans.
Then we went to Hermana Candiani's house because she was actually signed up on
our dinner calendar and she gave us mole, rice, and potatoes. I'm excited for
the day when I will be the one in charge of when and what I eat.
Teaching English to the
Jaramillos daughter has been interesting. I'm glad I don't have to learn
English. It's super hard to explain why "food" and "took" both
have double O's, but make different sounds.
On Thursday I got to go to the
Gilbert temple with the departing missionaries group. It was super pretty. And
on Wednesday, we had interviews and president basically told me that I'm going
to be transferred for my last few weeks, so don't send me anything. We get
calls tomorrow and transfers are Wednesday. I'll get you my new address next
week.
Our investigator, Joel, came to
church for the 3rd time in a row too. He's so close to baptism, he just doesn't
want to accept a day. He said he feels that everything is true. We asked him
because it's true, what do you need to do, and he said he baptized. Him and his
roommate, Eladio, came to the first presidency Christmas devotional too, so I
got to watch that. Joel's friend/fellowship, Hermano Gomez, invited us
all for carne asada on Saturday so we were able to have a super awesome lesson
while we ate carne asada. I'll add a picture.
Have a great week. See you in 3
weeks.
Love,
Hermana Gubler
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