A good week 10/14/13

So this week went pretty well. Last p-day we flew kites with the district, that was pretty fun, also Sister Gonzales has inherited a flute and so I decided to see if I could still play. I played an F scale and she helped me remember some of the notes and then I was sight reading hymns and my fingers just moved.. That was cool! 
On Tuesday we had Interviews with President Van Cott, and those went well. We met a new potential named Mario, his mom is less active and dad is atheist  which we didn't know and so we went to visit them and he answered the door. We talked to him and invited him to the YSA, he was taught by the elders as a teenager and thought that was cool, but we hope we can teach him. We taught Jose again and we have a hard time knowing what to teach. He doesn't like to read, and he doesn't talk much either.. He says he did all his talking briefing Marines for years so now he listens. 
Wednesday was Zone meeting. We met with Shon, she wasn't doing to well so we didn't teach her..There was a cool miracle with that because the member we took was an EMT and was able to help us out, and we almost didn't have her come with us. Also it rained Wednesday, that was cool, my first rain in the desert :D 
Thursday was pretty good, kind of a long day, but nothing too exciting except maybe a package :D Friday we had exchanges. I was with Sis Davidson and we were in the YSA area, which technically is the whole stake, but we just stayed in our area for the most part. We went to invite Mario to church again and got out of the car and the lady across the street started talking to us. She investigated the church about 3 years ago and was excited to see sisters serving. We get that a lot actually, I don't know if I mentioned it but they haven't had sisters here in ages. We talked to her about why she stopped and she said she had some questions and people didn't respond well to the questions she asked, but she was willing to look into the church again, so we are teaching her on Thursday. We met with Alexis who is a Less active and she said before she came back to church she wanted to take the lessons and kind of see where she stood. I love when people are honest with you about their doubts, it makes it so much easier!
Saturday, the other sisters had a Baptism so that was cool, She is a really cool lady. later that night we had no appointments- they all fell through. and so we were driving around and both of us were ready to be done, but we decided to pray and see who it was we should visit, I just felt like there was someone else, but I had no idea who. So we start driving and I thought we were going home, then I thought we were stopping by a members house( I could have asked where it was we were going, but honestly I was way too tired by that point) and then I realized where we were.. It was a lady who we have been trying to contact forever, the elders taught her then she got busy with work and stopped, so sis. Davis hadn't met her but I guess they had stopped by like 7 times before, we went by last week and no one was there. It didn't look much better this time, but it ended up that she was there! so we set up an appointment with her! Miracle!

So the YSA doesn't currently have anyone who plays piano, except me..So I volunteered to play yesterday. I ended up just playing top hand, but i guess compared to A Capella or the CD's it was better.. I guess in 2 weeks there's a boy who is turning 18 who can play so when he moves in they will have him play. Also we had dinner with the Constantino family. It was delicious :D Allen, who is our ward mission leader in the ysa went to Utah for conference and was able to meet Mom and Dad. so I guess he asked what kind of food we would eat. Mom gave him the recipe for crock-pot Italian chicken over rice. It was a nice surprise to have something from home. they also had some cool Filipino stew. Brother Constantino also gave us some fans that they got from San Fran, they are the coolest family ever!

Anyways I hope all is well with you. Thank you for your love and support! I love you all!

Mucho Love,

Sister Kellee Gardner

P.S random facts

we have a Recent convert in the ysa who is from Africa, his name is Shadrack, and he has 2 brothers named Meshack and Abed-nego. 

Sister Davis calls doTerra oils Hippie Medicine, there are a couple of people in the wards out here that use doTerra, so that's cool. If I happen to mention Hippie medicine, know that's what I'm talking about: