Hi everyone!
I hope everyone had a
great week! And I hope all you sickies start feeling better sheesh!
Crazy how many people
got their mission calls this week! The Lord is hastening His work.
It has been a great
week! Its been weird to not have three of us anymore but Sister Meise is
amazing. I am so grateful to have her as
my trainer. She has taught me many
things and helps me become a better missionary every day.
So some exciting news is
that about an hour ago I was with Ella Colvin! We stopped by to say hi and we
talked for a little bit. Unfortunately we didn't get to take a picture because
she said she didn't have her hair done. But we are going to go back for dinner
some time to meet Lloyd as well and she said we can take a picture then. She is awesome.
It was awesome to hear
her talk about Grandma and Grandpa Gifford. She told me that her and her husband have an
eternal bond with them and they will be friends for eternity. And of course she
went on and on about how amazing Grandma Marlene was. Such a neat experience. Please make sure you tell Grandpa I saw them!
Tuesday we had a
transfer meeting and it was amazing. The Spirit was so strong as President and
Sister Samuelian talked. I am tellin
ya...President Samuelian is going to be an apostle some day! Haha… He truly is amazing. He talked a lot of
going where the Lord commands you to go. The Spirit was so strong and I know
that Heavenly Father doesn't want me anywhere right now except being a missionary
in Salem Oregon!
So a lot of our
investigators haven't been progressing so we have been in need of finding more
people. This week we got to do a lot of
tracting! A lot of door knocking and
street contacting. This week was
probably the hardest I have worked. Basically
we didn't not waste a single second because of the need we are in to find new
people. With all the searching we got one new investigator. I have been able to learn how to be more
patient this week :) I know that the Lord is helping us find people that are
prepared to hear the gospel!
There was a drunk driver
that ran into one of the members garage and totally destroyed it. The member does some sort of work in
construction so his whole garage was filled with tools and stuff that totally
got broken. We got to help them clean
the garage out with a pair of Elders. Oh
let me tell you that just because they're elders doesn't mean they work harder
than sisters hahah...
Oh! We got new Zone
Leaders because of transfers and guess what? One of the zone leaders is from
Utah…Draper...and went to Alta! And was
in my seminary class haha! His name is
Elder Joly. We weren't really friends
before but its crazy how small of a world it is. There are 3 of us in my zone
from good ole Alta High School.
We tried to go back and
visit Wilfredo this week but 6 men moved in with him :( So even if we bring a member with us we will
still be out numbered by men. So unfortunately we will have to pass him off to
the Elders but hopefully he will still have to the desire to get baptized!
Friday we have ward
soccer. The missionaries in the ward all
decided that we wanted to invite everyone! It was awesome like 20 non-members
showed up to play soccer! Hopefully some of them will want to take the lessons.
On Saturday Hermana Meise
and I decided that we wanted to visit a lady that was taught by Elders in the
past. But for the life of us we couldn't
find her address on the map. We really
felt like we needed to go there. We
decided to check the mail and the GPS you sent me came! The perfect timing! So we used the GPS and went to the address.
The lady we were looking for wasn't there but the apartment next door is where
we found our new investigator! She
seemed really open so we are excited to go back and visit her again. So thanks
to you momma, you helped one of our prayers get answered!
Oregon is awesome! Lots
of hippies, homeless people, drugs but also HISPANICS :) I am grateful for
the little ways the Lord blesses us each day. I hope you all have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Gifford
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