Tuesday, May 29, 2012
May 28, 2012 letter
Dear Family,
This week went by well. We didn`t have the 6 baptisms because nobody got
their blood tests, but we did have a baptism. It's the uncle of Marcos that I
baptized in Kanasin. His wife and kids are all members and his daughter is on
her mission. He had been taught by the missionaries before, but he never showed
up for his baptismal interview. He is only here about 1 or 2 days every 3
weeks. We taught him 3 weeks ago and put a date for the 26th, thinking that he
would be coming by on weekends, but he never showed up. Yesterday after church
his daughter came up to us to tell us that he was home. I talked to the branch
president and he went with us to go see him. We invited him to be baptized that
day. He was planning on leaving again at 6:00 p.m., but he said he could wait. We
made some calls to plan the baptism, and we tried to find some white pants, but
nobody had the right size. The only member in the district with some pants
was traveling and couldn`t get back until 9:30. We borrowed a belt and gave him
some pants a size too small. It worked out. Hopefully this week the
other 6 baptisms should happen.
The rain here stopped. It was only a storm that was passing through. The
rain should start again in June. Last Monday we went to a store that sells Maya art. They have some pretty
cool structures outside so we took some pictures and looked around. I sent
some pictures of that. My group is going home at the scheduled time on Nov. 26th. They only end
early if it's Christmas. We are all done with the temple, interviews, and
dinner on the 29th. I`ll let you know in the next week or 2 when to meet up
with me.
Love,
Elder Gubler
Monday, May 21, 2012
May 21, 2012 letter
Dear Family,
It sounds like everyone had a good weekend at the beach and Disneyland.
Which beach did the orchestra go to? Last week when we called, I let another
Elder use some of my phone calling credit because he called from the other meeting
house and his parents didn`t have the number. Of the video`s you cleaned out,
make sure you don`t throw away any of the old pioneer movies. I want to watch
them when I get home. I have a little collection of church movies here. I
bought the dvds of Doctrine and Covenants and the Book of Mormon segments that
they made about 20 years ago. I also have a video they made in 2000 of the
first presidency and the 12.
Is the Walmart in the old Costco building like the one on 198 or is it just
a grocery store? You can find my BYU friends on facebook under my friend group ``BYU`` It
has a list of the profiles from BYU.
This week, if everything works out, we should have 6 baptisms. The
mechanic and his wife, Miguel and Laydi, have to get married this week. Laydi
has 2 sons that will also be baptized. Also, the other couple, Jorge and
Victoria, are going to try again this week to get married. The rainy season is back. Its been raining pretty hard a few days this
week. We´ll be looking for more investigators this week.
Love,
Elder Gubler
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