April 9, 2012 letter

Dear Family,

Sorry the email didn`t go through.  The file was too large.  The computer said that it sent last week.  I got a call from President Salinas Wednesday morning telling me that you didn`t get my email.  I sent it again today.  This past week was good.  On Sunday we did divisions so that 1 of us could stay in Ticul and the other go to Chapab for church.  I went with a member in his mototaxi ( like the one from Nacho Libre) to Chapab.  We found the rented house in Chapab where the meetings are held, left our backpacks there, and went out to bring the investigators to church.  An inactive family that we are teaching didn`t want to go, but with a little more talking they agreed to let their daughter (our investigador), and her little sister go with us.  Their aunt also went along.  Across the street from this family lives the other investigators.  The 2 of them went with us also.  We had a total of 5 adults and 2 girls travel in the mototaxi.  The 5 of them rode in the cart in front, and I rode on the back of the motorcycle with the member.  We got them to church, and fortunately the Branch President had moved the services to 10:00 a.m., so we didn`t miss anything.

This month should be good.  We have 4 baptisms planned for the 21st.  Jorge and Victoria are a couple that should be getting married soon.  Once they get married, they can get baptized.  Yesterday we started teaching Fernando, the boyfriend of a member.  He has been going to church the last few weeks, including conference, and accepted a date for the 21st.  The last one is Johanna, the little girl from the family in Chapab. 

Next week the entire mission is going to Cancun.  We are going to see Elder Neil L. Andersen.  We leave Monday at 2:30 p.m. from the Stake Center in Merida.  We spend the night in houses of other missionaries.  We should have about 10 missionaries per house.  I was told 16 but I don`t think it will be that many.  On Tuesday morning we`ll listen to him.

I`ll be writing early next week also.

Love,

Elder Gubler

Baptism of 9 year old

Restaurant in Ticul, Mexico

At lunch with Elder Taylor at Top 10 restaurant

Queso Relleno

Grilled pork lunch special

April 2, 2012

Dear Family,

 

We live on street 48 between 17a and 17.   Across the street is a little open field with houses on the other side.  Our house is next to an empty lot.  It has gates with diagonal bars going both ways.  If you go to the maps on lds.org you can see the meeting houses.  Uxmal is off limits.  The only reason I could go to Izamal was because the pyramid was inside the area.  The restuarant was great.  I got ´Queso Relleno´  The thing at the top part of my plate that looks like a peach cut in half is a type of cheese with some ground meat filling.  The rest of the plate is bits of cheese, pork, tomatos, onions, and the sauce is called Kol.  It's made out of flour and milk.  Elder Taylor ordered grilled pork.  We each got soda.  The total came out to 190 pesos.  Don`t worry about reimbursing it. 

As district leader I do divisions about every transfer.  I interview their investigators.  The zone leaders come to interview ours.  This past week we had a baptism.  The parents are members but don`t go very often because of work.  The daughter turned 9 on Wednesday and they wanted to have her baptism that day so that she would always remember it.  Because she is 9, it's registered as a convert baptism.  We taught her twice and she was ready.  There is another couple that can be baptized once they get married. 

General Conference was great.  We had to have investigators if we wanted to go Saturday morning and afternoon.  We got there and were waiting for investigators to show up Saturday, but nobody came.  We still watched it though because a member brought her boyfriend.  We got to go to Priesthood session regardless if we had investigators.  Once again we got surprised by the time change.  It was what I thought was 9:00 and was cleaning up an egg that fell when I got an electrical shock from cracking it (don`t ask me how because I don`t know), when all of a sudden a member pulled up to take us to conference.  We got ready quickly and left.  I cleaned up the egg at night.  2 investigators made it to the afternoon session on sunday.

 

Love,

Elder Gubler