December 3, 2012

Hello my beautiful little family...

We started teaching a family this week!! Families are exciting stuff as a missionary. I think they are exciting in general.

But they are super sweet. They have three small chilldren and are sincerely seeking to find a church to raise their children in. The mom said, "You know at first, I was really skeptical but that acctually makes a lot of sense." It was after we taught the restoration. Haha, I was like of course it does!! I didn't say that but I love when it clicks for people. They are great!

We also met an older phillipino man. He is the cutest thing ever. We had a prayer with him and he just started crying. He is struggling a lot right now. He really felt the spirit. It was super neat. He came to the Christmas devotional last night and then asked if we could pray again. A member of our stake presidency gave him a priesthood blessing, pretty cool. AND we have a lesson with him today! He says he is a great cook and so he is making us phillipino food. Seriously, he is so sweet.

So Sister muni and I have been mocking the GPS a bit. We named her mabel and like to immitate her accent. Unfortunately when we walked into our zone meeting last thursday, one of our new zone leaders is from Austrailla! Now that is not unfortunate at all. Whats unfortunate is that we can't talk in an accent anymore because we dont want him to think we are making fun of him. But we still do it anyway.

We have a couple in our ward thats super sweet and there friend is interested in hearing more about what we believe. He said he doesn't plan to fully embrace our religion but wants to pick out the truths... Good thing its all true! We met with him for a short time this week and will have our first lesson with him tomorrow. He has some great questions. Im excited!

Other than that... not much is going on. Just doing the missionary thing. They say people are nicer around Christmas but as a missionary I haven't noticed much of a change. But I prefer honesty to insincerity any day.

Its just shocking to me how many people try to tell us what we believe. It doesnt make since to me to ask a fish how to fly but people seem to think that way. I just don't worry about them.

Learning new companions is an interesting thing. Then it seems once you figure them out, they change. But I'm learning a lot. Mostly about myself and things I need to work on.... thats a long list. But Sister Muni is great.

Thanks! I love you both so much! I hope ya'll are doing wonderful! Thank you for all you do and all your support! It means so much. I love you like a fat kid loves cake :)

 

Love,

Sister Gilmer