FAMILIA!!!!!
QUE VOLA!!! wow what a week! I am so so jealous for all the success with the hunts!!! DANG haha what happened? Since when could people go and shoot a nice decent looking buck in the general Utah deer hunt?? Especially to have multiple bucks killed in the gubler family. I tell you what having all these missionaires out is even blessing the family with big bucks huh haha jk I was happy to see all that fun going down this past week for you guys! For me it was an amazing week as well :) YESSSSSS
As you all know teresa was planned to get baptized. Well......... SHE DID AND IT WAS AMAZING :) :) I love her soooooo much. Her baptism service was soooo spiritual. It was sad because no one from the ward showed up. I don't know if you all remember but our bishop is kinda crazy here sometimes and a while back we got after him a little bit for doing saturday baptisms instead of sunday. Saturdays are just too hard because no members come. Anyways thats exactly what happened for teresas baptism. No one came and so it was super sad but still amazing. She asked me to baptize her and i felt honored!!! She then said she wanted me to confirm her haha so i did that as well on sunday. IN SPANISH IN FRONT OF THE ENTIRE WARD AHHHHHHH haha i was kinda scared but not really! I'm excited for her though and her family! TEMPLE here they come! Anyways it was funny sunday morning because in ward council bishop changed baptisms to sunday from now on. It was so weird but i'm excited about it. I don't feel bad for getting after him about it anymore. Sunday baptisms though will be so much better because the ward will be SOO much more involved.
As far as Elder Millett goes haha it's been rough. His health has been keeping us from accomplishing a lot. I know that god put me with him though to strengthen my patience and care for my companions. I love him i really do. He feels like a failure missionary just with all the health problems he's had. We are working on getting him better though. He feels like the success we are having is all because of me. I work a lot on the phone and just doing my best to set solid apts up with members and stuff. It works out. I do my best though to help him understand that the success is coming from the hard work we give god when we DO get out of the house. He will understand. I have another week to help him. He's amazing though.
We had another amazing experience this past week. So.... Do you remember Margarita?? The one that we baptized like 3 weeks ago. She was a doctor in nicaragua? Well guess what. We have been teaching her brother and sister in law. Their names are Gema and Omar. They have a 10 month old baby and i can't help but think of lil baby miles haha anyways well this week we taught Gema and Omar a lot. They were basically all 4 of our lessons haha. Gema and Omar really love the church. They have been going with us for a good 3 weeks now and just love it. They were the ones that wanted me to tell you as my parents thanks for raising me so right. They want to raise mateo, their little boy just like we were raised. They love the church and the standards that it has. Well we were having a hard time getting them to keep commitments and because of that they were not receiving a testimony and also they were not accepting a date. We knew that it was only through the commitments that they were going to receive their anwser. SOOOOO we went one night and kinda threw down a little bit. We had to help them understand the importance of these commitments. So one commitment that we left that we were really pushing them to keep was to watch the restoration video. It was awesome though because as we were explaining how the restoration video would help them, Margarita jumps in and bares SOLID testimony of Joseph smith and she said that the movie basically converted her and thatts when she knew without a doubt that she should be baptized. Margarita told them about after Joseph Smith translates the b of m and takes it to his dad, his dad begins to read it and search his anwser from god to know if the book is true. Then once he received that anwser the next thing he did was BAPTISM. Margarita told Omar and Gema that that is what converted her. SOOOO we left them with that commitments. A few days later we went back and guess what!!!!!!!!!!!????????? Margarita was like Elders guess what..... hahhaa we were like what? she said Omar and Gema have an anwser for you :) :) we began to get excited. we said okay what is the anwser?? Omar and Gema look at us.. SMILE... and say well we watched the videos (not only did they watch the restoration but they watched another we left before that too) we really really liked the videos. Just as margarita mentioned we loved the part when josephs dad was baptized. That part is really spiritual and it motivated us and helped us to feel the spirit. Elder Ovard and Millett we want to be baptized!!!!!! WAIT WHAT???? our jaws dropped???? You want to do what????? hahaha it caught us off guard soooo bad. We were soooo excited though. We then began telling them how excited we were and how it would be something that will bless them and bless mateo as he grows up. We felt so so blessed and we were so honored to have been the missionaries to help these souls receive an anwser to their prayers!! We cried as usual haha it just was amazing. I love this work i love this gospel I love gods blessings that come from hard work :)
I love you all have an amazing week and keep doing whats right! God is with us and will push us through!
p.s. mom no the bugs don't bite me haha at all! They are nice to missionaries :) love you all
ELDER OVARD
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