I hope all is well. I've been hearing
reports of fires in north Colorado Springs all this past week and just
got the first update on how everyone is. I keep everyone there in my
prayers and hope that all who have been affected by the fire can find
peace and comfort in these difficult times.
Here in Galt we had kind of a slow week. We couldn't find
a lot of the cool new people we had found the week before. The family
we are teaching out in Ione couldn't come to church because they were on
suicide watch for a family friend who's going through a hard time.
The highlight of the week was on Saturday going on
exchanges in Lodi with Elder Lee. Elder Lee is a great Elder. He and
Elder Russell went to school together so I had heard great things about
him for a long time. We went to see a lot of investigators they had and
I took him to see a lot of people I knew when I was there. We found people for them to teach and some new ones that neither of us had
met before. It felt really good to be back in Lodi and see that even
some investigators that we only saw a few times still remembered me. We
got to go see Jorge Guzman who I've only seen once since I left. He's
doing really well, he just hasn't been able to come to church recently
because of work but in 2 more Sundays he will be free again. His son
got home from his mission in Oaxaca, Mexico last week. That is crazy to
think about because when we baptized Hermano Guzman, his son had the
same amount of time left in his mission that I have left right now...
One of the coolest things about the exchange was that we were on bikes
because the northern half of Lodi is now a bike area. I've only been on
a bike 1 day of my mission so I was really excited. We had such a
great time. It was nice and hot so we were really sweaty all day but it
didn't matter. I loved it and I hope my next area I serve in is a
bike area. I also decided that Elder Sempf and I are going to use our
bikes a lot more in Galt. I even got a flat tire on Saturday while on
exchanges so that was fun. We stopped to talk to someone who was
outside their house and I guess I must have ran over something sharp
right as we stopped. My bike was fine when I got off it but when I got
back on it when we had finished talking to the people, I had a flat tire.
So we walked back up to the door, the family had a bike pump so we
patched the tube and they pumped it up and we got to talk to them even
more! It was a fun day.
I also conducted my first baptismal interview yesterday
before church. The sisters have a baptism of a guy named Alejandro
who's married to a less active member. He has such an awesome testimony
and I can't wait for his baptism this Saturday!
I look forward to more fun stories to tell and I know this next week is going to be a great one!
Les Quiero Mucho,
Elder Gaskill
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