Hey Everyone!
Oh I got a wonderful package in
the mail from my mom. It was a Gorgeous quilt she made for me on my
mission. I knew she was making it because I sorta helped arrange it,
which is 2% of the actual work of making a quilt. I was amazed when I
saw it! It is just gorgeous! It's a kaleidoscope quilt. She put Minkie
material on the back because I love how soft it is, even though the
material is super hard to work with because it is stretchy. But the
coolest part about the quilt is, she quilted "Sister Kendra Gampe"
"Denver" "Colorado South" "The Third Day" "Moses 2:13" "Love Mom 2013"
It is so neat! She even used multi colored thread on the floral
materials and black on the black materials. I ignored her request to not
show anyone (she didn't like how the minky turned out on the back)
because it was gorgeous!!! I couldn't help it. Everyone I showed loved
it so much! I love how big it is :) I took lots of pictures. I hope the
detail showed up. :/ If not i'll take more for sure.
So Brother Hanberg (young mens president here in
Meeker) had a best friend in Billings, Mt. Now that is Dane's best
friend. I also figured out that Brother Hanberg Served the Boise, ID
mission and found a picture of Jace in his Missionary Directory! I was
dying! Its such a small world! I'll send that picture as well.
We went over to the Hanbergs during the super bowl.
They have no cable, so we ate a ton of food so we could still enjoy the
fun. I ate way too much and thought I was going to puke!
On Sunday 20 minutes before church this guy, James came in and Bishop
talked to him right away. No one knew who he was. Then Bishop introduced
us to him. He right away started pouring out all the problems he's had
all his life. And said that he climbed up to the lit up cross on the
mountain and looked down on Meeker and saw our church and it was the
brights one. So he walked to the church and he said he just fell to his
knees in front of the door. He said he felt he needed to come. So I'm
sitting next to him giving him some comfort and explaining some things
we believe and how Heavenly Father loves him and how he was the one who
is giving him the comfort during that prayer. It was after the sacrament
and one testimony, he turns to me and says, "I'm sorry, but this is
reminding me too much of my ex fiance who broke up with me last night.
It's too much right now." I asked for his number and if we could visit
with him sometimes this week, he said yes. Then I asked if there was
anything we could do for him. He said we've already done so much. Then
as he got up to leave he starts walking up on the stand! I thought he
was gonna bear his testimony! I was like...uhhh shoot! hahaha but then
he walked over to Bishop and whispered to him a little bit and then got
down and left. Weird occurrence, but I think he is really neat. He's
looking for a desperate change in his life. I know he was led to the
Church by our loving Heavenly Father. He's 19 years old and has been
abandoned by everyone in his family. Poor thing. The gospel will give
him happiness.
We have had a week full of service. We helped with this
huge community dinner. It was themed "Meekeropoly" It was really really
cute! They had that room decked out in Monopoly themed things. They
even changed the cards to places in Meeker. They had a jail and two
people were police and people paid to put friends in jail. You had to
either roll doubles or pay to get out. All profit went to the Chamber of
Commerce which is basically in charge of the community. They had a
silent auction. (Me and Sister Partridge were in charge of watching
that). Every time someone bid, bought a drink, went or sent someone to
jail, they were given a dot sticker. Whoever had the most dots at the
end won 100 dollars. Well they made so much money! They were selling
packages of things like horseback riding trip, plane rides, fishing
trips, spas for like 300-400 dollars! Bishop signed up for something,
thinking that someone would bid over and no one didnt. He's adorable
wife was so mad when they had to bring home a clock with a huge pheasant
on it! haha He got tons of other things too, but it was an expensive
purchase! They also had a comedian. Who thought he was much funnier than
he was. But he was funny for all the drunk people. We ended up leaving
early. But we put alot of work into it. Setting up and built sky
scrappers. It was a lot of work, but they announced our names and how
much we helped out and everyone started clapping for us. :) Cool huh!
We also helped our investigator Tom move into his new
house. He recently married Bev who is a convert to the church. The house
they moved into is a lot of work. We have been painting walls like
crazy and cleaning. The landlord is not helping with the costs at all.
The bathtub had huge holes all on it. Ridiculous. They should have taken
pictures, but they didn't. There's still alot of work to do, but it
looks ten times better than it did. Whoever painted before did terrible.
platters of paint all over the windows and they painted the cabinets
puke pink colored. It looked awful! I see a bright future for this
little house. Tom was so grateful for all the work we put in. We put in
about 6-7 hours. We will help more this week as well.
Everything is going well with our investigators with
the baptism dates. Joanne is excited to start the Stop Smoking Program.
She is getting a blessing and starting that tonight. Rachel went to
church and loves it. Eddie's dad signed his baptism record so he is
allowed to get baptized and April is still going strong with the desire.
Another neat thing is, Gary's son just took the mission
lessons in Craig. (we asked for his number and if we could send the
elders there) He has a baptism date on the 16th this month! We are so
excited. I think that will be really wonderful! :)
We had to go to the dentist today for Sister Partridge.
I thought she had a terrible cavity, but it turns out her filling
chipped out. So she did need to replace that. We went to the dentist in
Craig, who is a member. He didn't charge her. It was so sweet and almost
made me cry. Sister Partridge doesn't have insurance. What a blessing
for Sister Partridge. Blessings will pour on that church member.
My cut on my ankle is looking alot better. It still
hurts, but I can tell it's healing. I change the wrappings everyday.
I'll send a picture of that as well.
We had an
emergency preparedness at the church. It was all about fire
extinguishers. It was really neat. We had the fire company come. They
built fires in the church parking lot and let us all extinguish them
out. I couldn't get it to stop and screamed "how do I get it to stop"
(It didn't because it was the end of the fire extinguisher). It reminded
me of the time Mom let me pump the gas on our way to Altoona and I
forgot to stop squeezing the handle and spilled gas all over me.
We visited this lady, Elsy. She will never progress in
the church because she's kinda out of it. She's really old. We have been
singing to her. It reminded me of how my Grandma Gampe would take us to
the nursing home she worked at and we would sing in ever door. Elsy
loved it. We sang, "Joseph Smiths First Prayer" and "A Poor Wayfaring
Man of Grief". The spirit was strong. (so was the smell of mice) But it
was a wonderful experience.
Well I think that is all for this week. We are working
hard. It was a week full of service, so our number of lessons was lower
this week, which is kinda a bummer, but I know that service is the way
we show our love for the people here in Meeker. I truly do love them
all.
Thanks for all your letters of encouragement. I love them all so much! It helps me out!
-Love Sister Gampe
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