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

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