Hello Everyone!
This week was a great one as are they all.
This week was a great one as are they all.
The
most recent news is our transfers. Sadly Elder Sempf is leaving to go
to the Sacramento 7th Branch which is great. My new companion will be
Elder Idzo (Elder Russell's MTC companion). Elder Russell (although
this is only his 4th transfer) is a senior companion and is follow-up
training an Elder who is 6 weeks younger than him in the mission in
Rancho Cordova! I'm so excited for him; he is really a great
missionary. Elder Guzman is going home which is sad but Elder Torres is
taking his place (another good friend in the mission).
Our week went really well. We have 2 families that we started
teaching that live out in the little city of Thornton. They know
Hermano Ku (our ward mission leader) and really enjoyed the two lessons
we shared with them. They were really interested and loved everything
we shared with them. Unfortunately they didn't come to church because
they chose to go to the mall instead but we will be sure to talk about a
commandment God gave us about keeping the sabbath day holy (:
The other family we have is the Vasquez-Acampo family. We just
happened to find them and the husband was really interested and let us
in and we taught him. It turns out the missionaries taught them about
10 years ago. He said they went to church, the temple in Oakland, and
he really loved it. He told us his wife doesn't really like it because
she heard that members have to have 7 wives. She wouldn't sit down and
talk with us so we just taught the dad and his 15 year old son Daniel.
We went back later in the week with a member and had another great
lesson.... until the very end. We were committing the dad and the son to
come to church when the mom walked in, rolled her eyes, and yelled:
"Jesus, that's what you want, don't speak for us! I already told you the
first time that I didn't like them. And if you want to continue with
them then I'm going to leave you!" Not what you want to hear. There
wasn't a whole lot more we could do because they needed to communicate
better as a family but they said they were going to all talk about it
and before the next time we meet, so we'll have to go back in the next
few days and see how things played out.
It's been really hot here, usually gets up to about 110 every
day. We're well used to sweating all day, even the mornings/evenings
when it's only 90s. I love it though! I feel like through small
sacrifices like this one the Lord will see the love we have for Him and
our brothers and sisters and bless us with success in this work!
I hope everyone has a great week!
Les Quiero Mucho!
Elder Gaskill
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