Hey everyone!
It's me over here in
Oregon! 105 degrees outside + 95 degrees in the apartment= so fun to sleep in
=)
Big happy birthday to
Sarah today and Tyton on the second! I love you both so very much!
It has been a good week!
To start off with Maria Rodriguez. We had our second lesson with her on Tuesday. We prayed and felt that we needed to have the
faith that she should be put on date. We
taught her the Restoration and then invited her to be baptized the 19 of July. She said yes! Which is super awesome. But....We went over three more times in the
week and she didn't answer....Didn't answer our phones calls…or come to
church. I still have faith in her! She told us that she knows she needs to be
baptized if she wanted to follow the example of the Savior. We just need to help her gain her own personal
testimony. Keep her in your prayers. We
really hope we can see her again this week!
Socorro….Well Socorro
works in the fields picking black berries. Because of the heat they have to work in the night
so they don't ruin the fruit. So
unfortunately she has been sleeping in the days. (Sounds like momma :) ) And, she got home from
work Sunday morning at 8:45 so she didn't come to church either. Nazario was telling us how we should be able
to come by if we come in the time she is getting ready for work so we might
just slip on by.
We taught Nazario about
fasting this week. He is learning so
much, very quickly! We taught Oscar the
gospel of Jesus Christ. He texted us one
morning and said, "Sisters could you come over and teach me today, I would
like to learn some today." He is
such a great kid. He passed the sacrament
for the first time on Sunday. He did
awesome!
With our other
investigators one of our main goals this week was church attendance. Church attendance has been one of the most
difficult key indicators for me as a missionary. We focused with every single investigator that
we taught the importance of keeping the Sabbath day holy and church attendance.
I really can say that this week we
worked our very best to get investigators to church. Unfortunately things don't always go the way
we hope. No one attended church this
week. Luckily no effort is wasted and
soon these people really start progressing :)
So I have a couple of
funny stories of the week-
There was a Hispanic man
walking outside of an apartment complex so we thought we should go talk to him!
We asked him how he was doing and he
said he was very sad because he didn't have a women to accompany him in his
life. We said, “Well we can't help you
with that, but we know Jesus Christ can help you with all your problems”. We tried to leave about 5 times and every time
we walked away he would say, “Wait come back!
I would make you coffee every single morning”. (Should've taught him the word of wisdom) Haha! Fortunately one of our members happened
to walk by and got us out of the situation. It’s funny how many awkward moments you have
as a missionary.
The other one happened
today. We had a zone activity for Pday. We played an activity where you have a ball in
the middle of the court and you have to run from different sides to get
it. Well Hermana Bunderson’s number 3 strength
is competition and mine is number 1. Hermana
Bunderson and I both charged after the ball…and...we crashed into each other
and basically tackled each other. We
laid there for like 5 minutes laughing our heads off. Funny moments make up for the not so funny
moments!
Well that about sums it
up for this week! I am so grateful for every single one of you. I know without a doubt that we can be together
for eternity. But, I know that we all
have to strive to follow our Savior every single day and improve. We can do it!! I love you all!
Hermana Gifford
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| This is Cynthia who got her mission call to SPAIN. She is in the ward and comes out with us to lessons all the time. She will be an awesome missionary! |
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