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This last week marked the end of my training! I've been out for two transfers and no longer
have to study for 3 hours every morning. It's only 2 hours now. I love my study time in the morning, don't get
me wrong, but now we have more time to teach. As I mentioned last week, we had another
baptism. She was so excited to get
baptized and invited her entire family, which was a lot of non members who had
lots of questions! The service was
great! It's quite a process to fill a
font! It takes two hours and you can't
leave while it's running. Luckily the
building we were in had a ping pong table which took up a lot of that time!
This week, we got to go on exchanges again! This time I was with Elder Esumei. I went to their area and the best thing was they
have a car! I was stoked that I wouldn't
have to bike all day! It was going to be
a really full day with lots of appointments and fun! To our dismay, every single appointment we
had, except for one, cancelled; including dinner. The one appointment we did visit was with a woman
who lives in what appears to be a small hospital that caters to those who are
bed ridden. She was so delighted to see
us, and particularly me! She asked where
I was from and I told her California.
She lit up and said "I should have
known. You look like a ray of California
sunshine!" She was so sweet and we played
some General Conference talks for her on her laptop because she couldn't watch
it otherwise. She made sure to tell
Elder Esumei to bring me back next time he visits.
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| Turkey Cookies |
One of the highlights for me this week was our dinner
appointment on Saturday evening. We had
dinner with the Bakers. They're a family
in the ward that helped us teach lessons to the young girl we baptized two
weeks ago. They had invited the girl and
her family to have dinner with us. Between
us and the two families we had so much fun together playing games, eating tons
of pizza, and just enjoying each others company. The kids made us little turkey cookies and we
were teaching them how to throw a Frisbee. We're teaching them the New Member lessons and
helping their mom get a temple recommend so she can do ordinances for her
family.
So our next baptism is set for the beginning of November and
he's been a great missionary so far. He's
invited so many of his friends to church and actually discovered one of his
friends is a recent convert who went less-active. He set him straight and now he's planning on
attending regularly again. It's cool to
see the Spirit of Christ at work with those you teach.
Saturday night was when we would find out about the upcoming
transfer. I was so relieved that our Zone
Leaders won’t be transferred and Elder Haskell and I will spend Thanksgiving
together in the Academy Ward. We were
both so happy! It was a great way to
finish off the week!
5 things that made me smile:
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| Our District |
1. I was the only one in my district to get the transfer
predictions right! Everyone I said was
leaving got a call. I'm going to miss
them but our new district is going to have some pretty cool people.
2. We meet with one of our less active members each week to
fellowship him and usually nothing comes out of it other than lunch and some
games, but this last week he had so much fun with us he's starting to take
interest in coming to church again. It
would be quite the feat if he started to come back again!
3. The investigator we baptized this weekend has two
daughters 7 and 5. They love it when we
come by and like to tease us. They
always tell me that I have a mustache, and Elder Haskell has a beard. They think it's so funny.
4. Our zone leaders were complaining that they have a mouse
in their apartment. So they bought a few
rat traps and in 6 hours caught 7 rats. They
still hear them in their kitchen so apparently there are more. They have them on video.
5. During dinner this week, we had cantaloupe wrapped in
thinly sliced raw ham. I always thought
it was bad to eat raw meat!
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| Raw Ham Face |
I love you all so much! I hope you're all enjoying yourselves and are
preparing for the Holiday Season! It
feels like Christmas here already with how cold it's been. You're all in my prayers!
God is Great!
Elder Gillingwater
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