January 31, 2012

Hey Howdy Hey,

 

So how are you all. This week has been good and exhausting! we have made it to the end of the transfer. but we still have no idea if we are getting transferred! its trunking me out of my mind!!!!!!!! gaaaaaaahhhh! lol so this week we started out by going to Santo Tomé which is another city close to us. we did some divisions there and ate ice cream and then we came back to Galvez. I really like the ice cream here. its so creamy and just an icy awesome delicious ice cream! I love it. 

We are doing great though. I am not sick or nothin.  or well maybe a little sick of all the heat, mosquitoes and dogs that have been following us around. we have two dogs that don't leave us alone. one time one dog was following us and it ran way up ahead of us. Elder Yorgason and i saw our opportunity and took it. we were at an intersection and took off running down another street and we lost the dog. lol unfortunately the dog knew that he lost us and so he decided to go wait for us at our home. on our way home, we stopped and visited a less active member. we were seated outside his house when the Dog found us. we were about to kill the dog or something. we guessed that the Dog was at our house but then got bored waiting and started walking back to his home when he found us. he then followed us the rest of the night. I really do like dogs. Like I love Lilly our little doggy. but these dogs are obviously from the devil. they scratch at investigators doors wanting in and they attack chickens and crazy stuff like that. just to make us look bad. lol these dogs are obviously up to no good.

 

lol but for as far as the work goes we are doing great. we are teaching a lot of people. and we should have 2 or so baptisms in the future. we have a lady named Mariel and a woman named Veronica who are awesome and are getting ready to be baptized. we are still visiting our friends Oscar and Monica and their family. they are sooo funny. its been great getting to know them and share my testimony with them. The Church is true and we have a prophet from God to help us in our lives. I love you all! I got to go! I will let you all know next week if I get transferred. I got to go! love y'all!

Chau!

Elder Gibbs

January 23, 2012

Wat is up fam!

Thanks for the awesome! emails! so if I am not able to send you all a reply email today I am sorry and I will get one to you next week.  lol I want to send one out to all of you but I am slow of typing. but anyhow we had a pretty awesome week! we planned to have an Asado with an investigator this week. so we bought some meat and some coals and we had an Argentine Asado (Barbecue)! it was sooo good! lol I kind of ate myself sick! or well I stuffed myself.  I had no room for anything else! I was sooo meated out. together with him and his family we ate about 5 kilos of meat! can you believe that? I really cant but it was just sooooo good! when I got home that night I just had to eat some fruit to balance myself out again! lol yes mom I am trying to live as healthy as I can! but I just couldn't help but eat all that meat! just sooooooooooo good! 

but anyhow we had some other super awesome experiences. one was with an investigator named Mariel. She is a mom of about 40 years old. she is super nice and reminds me a lot of my mom. her dream was to be a nun and to help out real poor people. but after getting married she couldn't be a nun and then she saw some things in her old church she did not like. but anyhow now here dream is to make a cake for little kids that have never had the opportunity to eat a cake. she was the one who made the cake for me on my birthday. 

so the experience this week was that her daughter was having a super hard time getting along with her husband. almost to the point of divorce. she asked us for advice. we told her that we really didn't have much advice because we were only missionaries and had never been married. we told her that the only person that could really help them was God. like how God helped Alma the Younger. we recited that story to her. About how Alma the Older saw his son fighting against the church and how God helped him with his son. and she really liked it! we prayed with her and the next day she said that God had answered her prayers and that her daughter was doing better! so that was super awesome! we had some other way cool experiences but I am actually out of time. so I will talk to you all next week!

Chao

Elder Gibbs

January 16, 2012

hows it going family,

This week has been pretty good. a pretty full week! Lol I feel like the weeks all really get to be monotonous. lol they seem like they are always repeating and that the time passses so quickly that i don't know what to write about. anyhow. things that we did is that we taught our investigator Mariel, Julia, Oscar, and Monica. 

Mariel is doing real good! she really wants to be baptized she said. She has told us that she had some doubts about Joseph Smith but she also told us that she believed the Book of Mormon to be true. and so this should take care of her doubt. cause if the Book of Mormon is true means that Joseph Smith was a true prophet. and that this is God´s Church again restored. we also were able to chat for a bit with Mariel and her family. lol they are sooo funny and so awesome. she has a son that is 15 years old named  Pablo. he´s soo funny. it was great to be able to talk to them and have fun. 

Julia is doing good also. We taught her about the commandment to follow the Prophet. and it seems that she really does want to follow him. She even came to church last week and this week. Oscar and Monica are soo awesome. they seem to like us a lot. Oscar even told us that he believes that Joseph Smith saw Jesus Christ and God the father. lol we gave them some Cinnamon gum from the States to try on Saturday. and just so you know Argentines do not like hot foods. lol we told them that this gum is super hot. and they tried it. one of the investigators spit it out like 10 seconds after she had put it in her mouth. Oscar was able to handle it. but it was real fun and funny. we are planning to have an asado or barbecue with them next week! it should be fun. but anyhow, Elder Yorgason and I are getting along real well! I have a strong testimony that the Book of Mormon and the Bible are the word of God and that they are true books. and that God loves each and everyone of His Children!

see y'all later!

Edler Gbbis

Elder Gibbs

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December 31, 2011

Hey family,

 

What is up! we had a pretty sweet week! and I had a pretty awesome birthday! oh and an awesome Christmas! lol I bought floating lanterns for Elder Yorgason and me. and that was really fun. lol I got them on videos. lol too bad the lanterns got caught in trees. but at least Elder Yorganson´s lantern didn't burn up. lol mine flew for like 5 seconds and then turned into a giant floating fire hazard. it was sad and Elder yorgason just laughed. but all in all nothing was damaged. except for my lantern that now does not exist. I did get a sweet movie of it. I will have to send it to you guys. but that will be next week. 

Before we had lit off the lanterns, we went to visit a member at her house. we put on our Santa hats and sang Christmas Carols all the way over there. lol people were like hey its Santa Clause! and we were like YEAH! it was a nice Christmas. Thanks everyone for the packages and the sweets! they were amazing! oh and so I now turned 20 and one of our investigators made me a cake! yay! it was sooooo good! lol and it is still really good! cause we haven't been able to eat it all yet. there is ssooooo much. the lady who made it is a super nice lady. and she is a really good investigator of the church and she makes really good cakes. 

So yesterday we had an awesome experience with this investigator named Lali. He is a 76 year old man. super nice. we had a great lesson. we discussed the Restoration of the Church with him. earlier he had asked us to not pray with him. so we were kind of bummed about that. but anyhow we finished up and then my companion was like ´´ is it alright if we finish this discussion with a prayer´´ and he was like ´´ I told you last time that we shouldn't pray together because we have different religions.´´ I was thinking yeah Elder. don't you remember. then my companion was like ´´okay then is it alright if you just say the prayer?´´ and he was like alright. I thought he was a little angered at my companion. lol and apparently my companion thought the same. so he said the prayer and we started to leave through the door. He then approached us with tears in his eyes and said ´´Thank you so much for letting me pray. you have no idea how much it means to me´´ he said some more stuff but that was the gist of it all. it was just a super awesome experience. obviously my companion was acting under the guidance of the Holy Ghost. at the time, he didn't even know what he was doing. but everything turned out really well. my testimony of the gospel grew a lot at that lesson! 

we also were able to teach another investigator called Valeria about the Restoration. She should be getting a testimony very rapidly. things are going real well here in Galvez. lol I got kissed on the cheek by a 80 year old lady from the church here yesterday. lol we had an activity at the church and they all sang happy birthday to me and then this old lady named Teresa snuck up on me ninja style and kissed me on the the cheek saying ´´Feliz cumpliaño querido.´´ lol I was embarrassed a little. lol especially when my companion was like ´´Get some!!!!´´ to me after. lol sooo funny. we are doing good. we are now looking for a new place to live because the owner of our apartment is selling it. we have some really awesome investigators right now. we hope to be having some baptisms soon! I am doing alright. lol I have been having an upset stomach lately. and it hurts! but I will be fine. well anyhow. I cant believe that I am now 20 years old! time is flying too fast! well I got too go! see you all later! watch out for 80 year old ladies and have a great week! talk to you all later!

Elder Gibbs

December 20, 2011

What is up my family and my friends!

 

I want to thank you all for the Christmas Letters and emails. They were fantastic and made me sooo happy! and they made me laugh. I loved all of the letters! so this week has been a great week! full of miracles and challenges and work and a little bit of everything. One awesome thing that happened is that we found this new family to teach. So Elder Glad and I were gladly walking down the street headed home for the night. Then this kid named Diego stopped us and asked from what religion we were from. We told him and he told us that some of his family wanted to talk to us. so we got the address to them and went to look for them the next day. lol and we misunderstood the address and were searching in the wrong area. but we asked some people if they had heard of the Gaite family. and they said ya they live down this street a long ways. 

We finally were able to talk with them. Apparently, the mom had went to a ton of churches, looking for one that she felt was right but couldn't find one. One of her sons had found a 20 year old Book of Mormon thrown out on the street like 2 years ago and had read a bit of it and even liked it a bit more than the bible. All of her children had attended different churches. one went to the Jehovah's witnesses, others to evangelists churches, and just everywhere basically. But we went and taught them about the Restoration of Christ´s Church on the earth. The spirit was super strong. and we have been teaching them since. lol the last time we went to their house, they had something they wanted to show us......... More or less a day ago they had found a 6 foot snake in their backyard!!!!! lol they killed it. And they stored it in a Jar of Alcohol!!!!!!! lol it was disgusting but really cool at the same time.  it was such a big snake. apparently they aren't very common here. but there are big snakes here. lol and tarantulas also. lol I am going to have nightmares about bugs and snakes forever. but anyhow. Then they showed us another jar of Alcohol with a snake they had found last year. lol soooo funny. I hope I don't find out what they will find this year to come........ but no they are a super awesome family. 

Also we have been teaching another family, and the mom came to church 2 days ago. we were so happy! she also told us she has a desire to be baptized. As of late she has had some doubts about Joseph Smith. We talked about these doubts and said that the way to get rid of these doubts is to pray to God and He will tell you the truth of all things. She also made us some cake for when we came!!!!!!! It was soooooo gooood! Anyhow those are some of the awesome things that are going on. we have some really great investigators. oh and the reason I didn't write yesterday was because we have transfers tomorrow. Elder Glad is being transferred. I have been really grateful for the great companion he has been. He is really a diligent worker and obedient which has been super helpful. my new companion is an Elder Yorganson. so ya that will be cool. but anyhow I am doing good. I have to go cause we have no more time. This Sunday I will be calling at 2 O´clock Argentina time. more or less. lol so be ready with the phone family! I'm sorry that I couldn't get an email out to all of you! I ran out of time! but I did read all of the Christmas letters and emails! I loved them all! They were soooo great and I felt soo good! I love you all! and see you all later!

Elder Gibbs