July 17, 2012

Hey family,

this week was pretty sweet! Jorge and Vanesa our two investigators came to church sunday and we were quite happy about that!  They are progressing pretty well! I love talking to them! Jorge is from Colombia and has a super awesome accent in spanish!  we are having a lot of fun here. 


lol last night Elder Emett, Elder Denning and I played a game in our pench called Shark! which we would juggle a ball and once you got a certain number of kicks in you could throw the ball and someone! lol and so that turned into a super big wrestling match in our apartment. lol we are all really big guys and so things got pretty crazy. I was actually the thinnest. Elder Denning one time tried to steal the ball from me and picked me straight off the ground. lol it was fun. we are also doing some good work but I am now out of time! I love all you! we are working real hard!


have a great week and love you all!


Elder Gibbs

July 9, 2012

hey whats up my family,

 

Well what more can I say than we are still working. We have had quite a bit of success this week. we were able to meet some really cool persons. we were knocking people´s doors on tuesday and we met this guy named Alan. lol we were like hey can we come in your house and he was like, ´´ya sure come on in´´ so we sat down with his family and we taught them the restoration. the family loved it and we headed back saturday but we were not able to teach because the mom was sick. but it was super awesome! I like teaching people a lot. Vanessa and her family are doing real good also. we invited Vanesa to church again because she went to church last week for the first time. we waited for a long time infront of the church and we were about to go in and give up but then she came around the corner of the street. she also brought her son Ulises and they came to church! whooohoo. I was so happy! we had drawn pictures for Ulises the day before so he wouldnt be bored. he was a little bit bored anyhow. but it was a great day. 

Flor the elderly lady we have been teaching is recovering from her fall. I cant remember if I told you all or not but she fell and broke her leg. and this last week she has been walking all over the place! which has been soo awesome! A cool scripture that we found is in Matthew 6:19-23 where it talks about laying up treasures in heaven because that is where  Robbers and theives cannot steal treasures. so I was thinking of ways to try to bring a ferrari to heaven but I couldnt find any.but then I remembered that my family is a treasure that I have stored in heaven and that no matter where we are, we will live all together in heaven for ever. What a great blessing! I love you all! have a great week!

 

Elder Gibbs

July 2, 2012

Howdy Yall,

I hope that everyone is doing alright like me. lol I am doing quite great in San Nicolas. In our apartment we have four full grown boys. lol and so things get quite crazy. lol this last week we played tag. that was awesome! oh and so we were finally able to teach Jorge and Vanesa about the plan of salvation. and they loved it! we taught them about eternal marriage and Jorge totallly understood it. and they both agreed to come to church yesterday. and to help them we planned to do an american breakfast to wake them all up. lol so we got up early on Sunday to make them breakfast. it was fast Sunday but we did our fast earlier. so you guys dont have to worry. we arent apostate missionaries. lol but we made them pancakes with whipped cream and bananas and syrup and hash browns all by scratch!!! it was pretty awesome! an vanesa totally came to church! we were so happy! all the members greeted her and she felt real comfortable with everyone there. she also said that she loved hearing all the testimonies! it was super awesome! well I am going to keep working. I hope that you all are doing well!

love ya

Elder Gibbs

June 25, 2012

Hey family,

This week has been quite adventurous. lol Elder Emett and I had a bad time with the Dogs. Friday all the dogs were after us trying to kill us. it was quite frightening. so we were working and knocking doors on one street. we started towards one door but to get to the door I had to go in between two dogs that seemed at the time really calm. lol when I stepped right next to them they jumped up and started to attack us. lol luckily they never bit us. but it surprised me sooo much. they were two little dogs two cursed dogs. Perritos Malditos! 

so we left and moved to another little neighborhood. we talked to this guy who wasn't interested in anything we said and right when we were about to leave his dogs came charging out of his house. lol it scared Elder Emett and so he started backing up and stepped right in a deep puddle just the right size of his foot. lol his foot got soaked. it was so funny and random. we were busting up. we had a pretty awesome week besides that. we found a bunch of new people to help and teach. Our friend Flor fell this week and broke her leg. that was sad. we visited her in the hospital. lol she is still going strong. she told us I am going to go home on Monday and paint in my house! she is so cute. everything is going really well. 

lol we almost got robbed again. lol some kids just stopped us on the street and said give us your camera. and I was just like fine look for it cause you aren't going to find a camera. lol they left a little depressed. they didn't even look in my wallet for money. lol I only had like 20 pesos to give anyhow. I told them better luck next time. I had a cool run in with the gift of tongues. this week it was just so easy to speak Spanish. I hardly even had to think before I spoke. I loved it. Susana is really wanting to get baptized now. she can be baptized this week or next week. Elder Emett and I are having a grand old time. no problems. love you all! 

have a great week!

Elder Gibbs

June 18, 2012 (with Pictures!)

Hey family,

we have had anther great week with some pretty cool experiences. lol something that was pretty cool that happened to us came from a mistake. lol we were traveling on a bus to a part of the city far from our apartment. and we accidentally took the wrong bus and so it started taking us away from where we were supposed to go. I was like oooooh nnooooo. so we got off quickly and started walking to where we were wanting to go in the first place. we were a little far from our destination so we decided to tract and work around where we were. we knocked doors but nothing. we knocked another door and nothing. there happened to be a guy in front of the next house. we talked to him and made him laugh a bit. He then was like hey do you want to come in and talk and drink máte with me. we were like sure but we dont want to drink mate. Mate is a tea that the argentines are crazy about! I tried it once and it didnt taste super good. but its just part of the culture here. 

but so the man named Alberto let us in to his small house which was behind another house. we talked about his family and his beliefs. we told him we had a special message to share with him and we told him that God loves him and answers prayers. he told us next time he would like some answers to his questions. so we are going back on Saturday. lol its pretty cool how God sets people in our path so we can find them. lol even if I made a mistake by taking a different bus. This man seems ready to have the Gospel. and we are excited to share it with him! Our other investigators are doing real well. we should have some baptisms of people in like a week or so. we are working hard and teaching some awesome lessons. also we have begun to teach english lessons. I didnt even know that I knew how to teach english. spanish is getting real easy now for me. I am loving it! the people here are soo awesome I love it. sorry parents it looks like I wont be coming home in March. I am staying forever!

Love you all!

Elder Gibbs

Pictures!!!