Wow, this week has been busy. Because of the holiday we had to email later, and yesterday was packed! Sorry you had to wait so long.
We have been meeting with Lea almost everyday because we moved her date up to the 6th and still had some lessons to teach. She is doing great and is so excited to be baptized. Her son who is 11 is also getting baptized on the 6th, which is part of the craziness of this week. We hadn't really been meeting with him when we met with Lea because we were planning on him being baptized on the 20th. The Bishop suggested that they be baptized together, and thats what they decided to do. So this week we have been meeting with him everyday. He is a super smart kid. Yesterday we were talking about prophets and after he read we asked him what he thought it meant. He blew us all out of the water talking about how people reject prophets then they decide they really need one and God listens to the people and calls another prophet.
Thursday we met with Alex and Brandon, the 2 boys taking the lessons. We talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Alex is older, he is on fire and it just makes sense to him. Brandon gets it, but I think he isn't really into it so he just chooses not to remember. It was our first time teaching them, but we were able to see that we really have to teach them on different levels, probably separately. Its just a challenge to meet with them because they are so busy.
Friday we taught Lea and Jordan about Eternal families. Because our area is so huge, it includes Redlands, we were able to meet at the temple to teach them. It was awesome to have that added spirit there at the lesson. We were also able to go inside the waiting room for a little bit. That was probably my favorite!
Saturday we met a less-active family and invited them to church, they actually came on Sunday. For them I think they just need the encouragement to come.
Sundays are crazy here, I don't think there's any way around that. Coordinating 2 wards that overlap and they both need us there is pretty tricky, I don't think we have it figured out but we will get there by the end of the transfer...
The food here is pretty good.. Definitely different. Let's just say I really am not picky anymore, my family's prayers have been answered.
Miracle Monday.. There's just something about holiday Mondays. So we went to Redlands to meet with Lea, then we came back to Rialto for dinner. We had an appointment in San Bernardino at the end of our night and our appointment before that fell through so we headed up there. We stopped by at a potential and they weren't available so we drove around the corner a ways to figure out some people we could go see. Because it was Monday night, we couldn't really go to active members, but being white washed we don't really know who is who. While we were parked, across the street some people were moving in. Sister Gillespie was like " Look, they're Samoan, They're probably members too." we decided to go help them, found out they are members and that they are related to the counselor in the Bishopric. There are a few member families in that complex, pretty sure they are all related. Like I said last week, everyone is related.
The second Miracle that night. We went to our appointment, which fell through as well, but we decided to go find another person. We knock on the door, A man answers, not the family we are looking for, and doesn't know that name, says he is Baptist, but loves what we do, tells us we can come back tomorrow because it was kind of late. He rents out rooms in the house and says there's a couple from Hawaii that look Asian. Someone else comes downstairs and looks at us and says "I got this" He and his girlfriend end up being who we are looking for. So they aren't from Hawaii, but both from Samoa. He was signed up to feed us last week, but had to cancel. Basically there were a million connections and we set up an appointment with them for Saturday.
That is about it for now I think. Being in a trio has been an adventure... Its an added challenge, but I really do like it. We are all learning how to make it work.
I am learning Samoan, slowly, but surely.. we sing hymns in Samoan everyday, and Sis. Laiti was singing "If You're Happy and you Know it, Shout Horray!" last night. Lets just say Sis. Gillespie have many opportunities to laugh at ourselves.
I love you all! or Alofa Oe!
Tofa!(goodbye)
Sister Gardne
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