April 16, 2012

What is up family?

so this week has gone by really fast! lol we are already at the end of another transfer. lol I cant handle how fast time flies. This week we went to Santa Fe to have interviews with our mission president. my mission presidente is so cool! He taught me a bunch of importante and cool stuff. We talked about things to do to get more faith and he gave me the suggestion of looking up examples in the book of mormon. 

this week I have been reading about Abinadi in the Book of Mormon. I love the awesome example that abinadi gives. Abinadi was a bold and good man. He went in before the king to tell him what the king was doing wrong. lol I would be afraid just to go in to talk to a king. but Abinadi did it because he had faith in the Lord. To the death, Abinadi showed his faith in God. Abinadi was such a great man! I want to meet him someday lol. I loved having the interviews with the president. I felt his love for me and he wanted me to achieve the blessings that God has in store for me. I have been blessed with a great mission president. also he is an engineer! lol we have a lot in common i think. 

So we have an investigator that can be baptized this week. Elder Montes, Mariel and I went to teach her about the importance of reading the book of mormon, praying, and going to church. it was a great lesson and we felt the spirit a lot. the investigator had a sister over who told me that I speak really good Spanish. lol I told her I don't think so. but I felt really good inside that I can communicate myself well in Spanish. Also we taught this family of three. we were teaching them the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. and we used the DVD of the restoration to explain how God restored His gospel. The spirit was so strong during the movie! the investigators felt the spirit and so did I! I have had so many great experiences in the mission field! well I love you all! have a great week!

Elder Gibbs

April 9, 2012 [with Pictures!]

Hey family,

How is it going? Things are going great here in Argentina. I am just loving the food! my companion has been cooking some really good argentine food. and so this week I had quite a fright! we were walking down this street that we usually take. but this time there was this mean old dog this time. We didnt think that the dog would cause problems. We walked a little bit closer and the Dog started charging us! lol and then it stopped like 4 feet in front of me and started barking a ton. I was so scared! I bent down and pretended to pick up a rock to throw at it but it didnt get scared. luckily the owners were close by and called the dog off and told us ¨dont worry he´s really a nice dog.¨ and I as thinking ya right. why dont you come over here and stare this dog in the face while its growling at you and thinking of a million ways to eat missionaries. but we are okay. lol I just got scared. 


also this week, we did a service project with Mariel for a widowed woman. It was a lot of fun. I was trimming trees like crazy! While contacting we also found this cool family of a Father and a daughter. They have had lots of struggles in life and at times have doubted the existence of God. we taught them the plan of salvation and told them that God knows why bad things happen to good people and it doesnt mean that God doesnt care for his Children. We taught them that in this life we come upon trials to learn and grow. This life is a time of testing and learning and preparing to return to live with God. that was one of the cool experiences of this week! I am doing fine and working hard! love you all! have a great week!

Elder Gibbs

April 2, 2012

Hey family,

How did you all like general conference? I loved it. I could really feel the holy ghost testify to me that they are messengers of God. I really liked the talk by Elder Uchtdorf where he talked about judging others and how we should just stop it and not judge others. cause we dont know what others have been through. I also like the talk about how the mission is a mini life of learning. and its so true. I have learned so much while being here on the mission. and I am still learning more and more everyday. it was real fun watching general conference and hearing the choir sing come thou fount of every blessing. what a powerful hymn!!!! I loved it. it was a super great conference to go to. we traveled to the stake center in Santa Fe to go watch it. then we stayed over night with some other missionaries and returned the next day to watch the rest!! it was awesome but past by so quickly. just like Elder Eyering said our trials make time seem to make time go by slower. and I believe the opposite is true too. when we are enjoying something it goes by so quickly. and so it was for general conference. 


This week we taught Oscar and Monica about the book of mormon. we read a chapter in the book of mormon. they understood very well the scriptures. we talked about how Lehi was obedient to the Lord and he was blessed and how Laman and Lemuel murmured and were not blessed. it was a great day. we also taught Marcelina about the Word of Wisdom and how God gave us these rules about what we can consume and not for our own good. later Mariel came and we cut her lawn and trimmed her trees as a service project. it was a lot of fun. Mariel told me I was like one of those wind up toys that never dies. I kept trimming and cutting cause it was soo fun. lol I love doing service it helps me relax and forget all my problems. Those were the main things that happened this week. nothing super funny happened this week. these were the highlights of the week! well love you all! have a great week!


Elder Gibbs

March 26, 2012 [with Pictures!]

Dear Family,


How are you all? I am doing great! Had a great week with some awesome experiences! this week we were able to do service for our friend Veronica. She lives in a tin shack and her house was getting overgrown with big grass, which made it hard for her to do the laundry for her 3 kids. so we went and we brought Mariel and Marcia to do some service. It was super fun! everyone had a great time. Marcia, Mariel, and Veronica became good friends. Mariel, Elder Montes, and I had a great time hacking at giant weeds! lol Veronica had a Giant Machete! lol I felt like a knight from the middle ages with the machete. we also had some branch cutters and a little knife to cut the grass. everything was going great. we put the grass in this blue barrel that had been cut in half. so I filled up this barrel with grass and then I put one of our dogs in it and transported our dog around. the dog loved it and I have some really funny videos of it. but when I returned, Mariel noticed that I had a giant spider on my shirt!!!!!!!!! I started to freak out. It was a a huge old nasty old spider! Mariel had the machete and flicked the spider off with the machete. I have some photos of the spider and stuff! afterwards everyone said that they felt so good for doing service. 


I now have a testimonio of service. I know that God wants us to serve others. just like it says in Mosiah 4:17 or 2:17 (one of those lol) that when we are in the service of others we are only in the service of God. I feel so good doing service. next week we are going to cut the lawn of one of our investigators named Marcelina. oh also we taught a lesson to Marcelina with Mariel. Mariel shared her testimony of how she felt after her baptism. The spirit was sooo strong!!! I loved it! and I know that baptism in God´s church is the only way to return to God. Marcelina after this was really excited to go to church the next day and to get baptized. She is going to be baptized the 13 of April! we are working hard and having fun! I love you all! and I know that I am preaching God´s true gospel! love you all! love you all! oh and it has been now a year that I have been out on the mission! lol its crazy! I dont feel like I have been out that long! well got to go! lol I will say it one more time....I love you all!


With love to all of you
Elder Gibbs

March 19, 2012

Whats up family,

So I had another fantastic week. We are still getting chased around by a killer little black dog. lol but whatever. I had to say good bye to my old companion Elder Yorgason and my new companion is Elder Montes. we had a bit of a mix up when I was going to pick him up lol. remember in the best two years how the missionaries where all freaked out when Elder Calhoun got lost. lol that is what I felt. I was searching franticly for him. lol it turns out that the bus driver on his bus told him how to get to a part of Rosario called Galvez and he went there. lol and then he couldn't find me so he found one of our churches buildings and he found two members who brought him back to the bus station in Rosario. lol so that was my adventure. it was a little frightening but it turned out all right. 


so my spanish is been getting much better and I am teaching my companion English. He is a really cool missionary just like Elder Yorgason except he only speaks spanish.and he has been cooking a lot of Argentine food for me. which is really good.  I am hoping that he will help me lose my american accent when I speak spanish. lol but ya we had some really good experiences this week. We taught an evangelist family and we had to answer some really tough questions but in the end we were able to answer the questions and also bear our testimonies. not too much else has happened. but that is about it for this week. I will try to do something really crazy this week so I can have something awesome to write about. well I love you all! have a great awesome week!

Elder Gibbs 

March 13, 2012

Hey fam,

So another week has flown by again and it is now transfer week. my companion Elder Yorgason is being transferred to a new area. and I am staying in Galvez. it was awesome working with Elder Yorgason. He is a great missionary and a funny person to work with. my new companion is going to be an Argentine dude named Elder Montes. lol I thought for sure that I was going to be leaving Galvez and so yesterday I was saying all of my goodbyes. lol and now it looks like I am staying at least another 6 weeks. lol this is going to be a super awkward week. lol that should teach me to not say good bye to anyone until I am sure that I am leaving. lol I did the same thing last transfer. lol so I dont think anyone will believe me next transfer if I tell them I am leaving Galvez. oh whoa is me. lol so that is something I learned this week. 


Also, another thing that I learned was to be more grateful for my blessings. we did service for an investigator lady. she lives in a small, one room, tin house. we cut her grass with branch cutters cause we didn't have a lawn mower. we also took care of her yard. it was so hard to see how this lady and her 3 kids live. I am so grateful that I never had to suffer really anything and I was always well taken care of. but it was a lot of fun helping her out. we didn't quite finish, so we are going to finish the rest this week. oh and also we taught the restoration of the gospel to a family. we were teaching them and having a great lesson the spirit was really strong. then another daughter came in the house and had a ton of doubts. we would say something and she would try to counter it and make it not seem true. for instance about prophets and the book of mormon. then towards the end we just bore our testimonies and she could not say anything. just silence came after. it was quite an awesome experience. we are teaching some other really awesome people!  this week we found a lady named Nora. She is doing really well and is reading the book of mormon like crazy! 


I can see how the Gospel helps people in their lives now. I know that when we put God first in our priorities, He blesses us. He loves us and wants to help us. I love all of you! We hope to have another awesome week! I will talk to you all next Monday! 

Bye bye,
Elder Gibbster

March 5, 2012

[Pictures at the bottom of the post!]


Hello family,


We had another great week! things actually got pretty cold over here. it was quite refreshing. we had some major rainstorms that brought in some cooler air. but then it got hot again. Elder Yorgason and I are doing good! i am doing great! lol my foot has got a nasty fungus on it right now but otherwise I am doing good health wise. we had a great week visiting our friends. we were able to visit Mariel and her family. Also, Mariel was confirmed yesterday! I was super honored to be able to do it! She is such a great friend. I will really miss her and her family when I have to leave Galvez. 


oh and so next week will be transfers so I will not be able to write to you guys till Tuesday morning. our dog got ran over this week by a car. actually we are not sure how he died. we just saw his body on the side of the street. it was quite disgusting to see him all dead and stuff. so he wont be following us around anymore but the other black dog still follows us and another investigators black dog has started following us too! lol sooo funny! now we have 2 pure black dogs following us around. lol the weeks are going by soo fast I am getting really confused what happened this week and what happened last week. soo, I think I helped a little kid with his bike this week. lol I love bikes. it was a fairly easy fix. his chain fell off and his tires were flat. so I fixed them up and he went off riding. lol but then he broke his chain and so he isn't riding anymore. lol bummer! 


Our investigators are doing good. everything is great. I am loving it here in Galvez. I love this city and the people here. yesterday, I was able to teach the sunday school class. we spoke about the life of Jesus Christ and how God loved us so much that He gave his only begotten son to die for us. I was thinking about how much God has blessed my life. and I found out that I have sooo many blessings in my life that show me that God loves me. My family is one huge blessing, the Church is a blessing, this mission, my friends. I love my heavenly father and I am so glad that I have this time to serve him! well I better be going I love all of you! each and every one of you! talk to you all later

Elder Gibbs 

Oscar, Monica, yorg and me 

Oscar, Yörgason, and me 

are the Dogs that ALWAYS follow us around. the brown and black Dog was hit by a car this last week. may he rest in peace 

Mariel, Elder Yorgason, and me 

one is of us and Mariel´s children 

a picture of the branch here in Galvez 

 is the missionaries with some of the guys from our branch