This week was a great week for us! We started teaching a family who has 2 unbaptized kids and they want them to get baptized! We are super excited for them! Our lessons with them are pretty funny! Alex is nine and he is all over the place and cant sit still, Matthew is 8 and really quiet so they are complete opposites! Their older brother Nephi was baptized a couple years ago and he really helps them understand the lessons! He remembers almost everything and so he can answer the questions we ask them. The last lesson we had with them they asked if we could cut hair, well my companion said oh yeah he can, he cut mine! So I ended up cutting all 3 of the boys hair. I guess it turned out pretty good, they were happy and told me I will have to cut it again before I leave! Our other investigators are doing great, still haven't heard much from Robert and we are starting to think he is avoiding us but still praying for him and hoping that something will touch his heart!
So we were at one of our members houses and we received a call from our mission president but we missed it... He left us a voice mail and told us he had a referral for us! A member talked to him and said he has been praying for someone to share the gospel with and finally received the name of the person.... well this member already invited this friend to listen to the missionaries and that just so happened to be us! We are setting up a time to meet with him this week! Super excited to see what will happen!
Thursday we did our service project for the preschool... did it then instead of Saturday because of General conference. We did our regular things and then Aunttie Annette asked me to tell her what we should eat for lunch that day and the first thing I thought of was Navajo Tacos. Not even sure why. She had never heard of them so she said give me a list of what you need and then you can make it.... so she bought the ingredients and then I cooked it for the missionaries and for her family.... I was worried that they wouldn't like it but there was none left! Everyone liked it, they kinda thought it was weird but good.
General conference was so awesome! For the Saturday morning session we watched it at our steak center. For the Saturday afternoon session we watched it with a member and after they made us hamburgers!! Sunday morning was awesome!! We watched both sessions with a Samoan member in our ward and she made us so much food!! Seemed like that was all we did Sunday was eat! Eat before the session, during the session and after! It is always so great to hear from our Prophet and Apostles! Always feels like they are speaking directly to you and their messages always teach us things that we should work on but at the same time bring so much hope to our lives that it doesn't matter as long as we have the hope and use the atonement! I loved Elder Bednars talk on Fear.... I love how he takes things that we think we know pretty good and puts it in a brand new way! He is so knowledgeable of the gospel and very strong speaker!
Well I guess I will tell you (mom) what you have been waiting for... transfers are this week.....My companion will be leaving and I will be staying... Sad to see my companion leave after only a short time together but I know that our Heavenly father has a plan for us! My new companion will be Elder Salazar. Haven't heard too much about him and he is pretty new in the mission. I'm excited for this transfer and for the chance to get to know my new comp!
Thank you all so much for all you have done for me! Hope you have a great week!
Elder Gale
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