Hello Everyone!
I was overwhelmed this week from the
support and love I received from you all. Thank you so much. Words
cannot describe how grateful I am for everyone/everything I have/ love.
Everything this week went a lot better than last
week. We were able to get into more doors and find more people. We found
5 new investigators! We were so excited. We are really getting to know
the Branch pretty quickly. Not many people come to church in our Branch.
About 40 come to church. haha. We are going to double that with
baptisms and re-activations.
Sister Vasquez and I laugh all the time. We tell
funny stories. I'm doing my best to keep her mind off of home and
family. She was a little down last week and didn't know how to express
it. We are working hard together. I love her so much. I'm glad she is
with me.
We had some miracles happen. We knocked on a door
and the man didn't speak English. So I was able to ask if we could send
the Spanish missionaries to him. I asked him his name. His name was
Jesus. I got all his information and sent it to the missionaries. We got
a call last night from the Spanish elders telling us that he was one of
the converts from over a year ago with one of the elders that came back
to the area just now. He said the Jesus told him that he was inactive
for a long time and asked in prayer for a sing to come back. We knocked
on his door shortly after. :) He told the elders we were an answer to
his prayers. :)
It's so wierd being in a branch with elders. It's
exciting for me though because this branch will receive so many
miracles. I feel bad for the elders because they keep getting compared
to us. They shouldn't at all. They are working hard. We all are. We are
all trying to get the members all excited. Our mission leader works
hard, but doesn't have the faith that we will do what we say. I was
pretty angry when he said that we are talking the talk, but he doesn't
see the results from the records we handed him.I think he forgot that it
has been the week before Christmas and Christmas. No one want's to let
someone in that they don't know the week of Christmas. haha But that
just makes me want to work harder next week. The first week we only got 5
lessons. Literally we knocked for 4 hours straight on members homes and
homes we didn't know before getting in 1 home. haha it was crazy. This
week we had 12 lessons. Next week I'm shooting for 25-30 lessons. I know
we can do it. We will work extra hard.
I added a photo of my boots. They are pretty torn
apart. I just got new boots from a member. So sweet! I'm not going to
lie, I was pretty proud of these torn apart boots. I was sad to throw
them out.
Well I love you all so much! We are going to see more and more miracles everyday. :)
Sister Gampe
Great photos. Sister Gampe, you are really an inspiration. I am so impressed with the young elders and sisters in our mission--what they do is not easy--they work so hard with no promise of reward, and then are so happy when those they teach respond and begin to change their lives.
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