This past week was another great one!
The
big news this week are transfers. My transfer call came and I am
getting transferred to the South Stockton Zone in the Pacific Young Single Adult ward.
My new companion is Elder Fulks (another Spanish speaking missionary). He goes
home at the end of this transfer so I will be his last companion. Our
zone is pretty small (there are 2 in Stockton). In Our zone we have 3
English companionships, 1 Hmong, 1 Lao, and 1 Cambodian. All the other Spanish companionships are in the North Stockton zone. I am sad
to be leaving such a great zone and companion in North Sacramento but I'm
excited to go back to the valley. One of the things I'm excited for is
our YSA ward also covers Lodi and Galt. That means I can go visit the
Rodriguez and other families in Lodi (and JJ will be in the YSA) and
also the Barajas and other families in Galt! It will be fun. I feel like
I get to go home for the holidays (:
This week was a lot of fun! It
was a little bit slow because of some meetings we had to do and other
trainings but it was a lot of fun. On Halloween we got together
as a zone and watched a new movie that came out from Deseret Book called
"Ephraim's Rescue". It was pretty good and about a man who was prepared
his whole life to help rescue some of the pioneers in a handcart
company that wouldn't have made it to Salt Lake otherwise. Afterwards
Elder Ross and I did our zone training. We made it a lot of fun. We
started out by bringing everyone into a room with the lights out filled
with fog (from a fog machine). Elder Ross and I had blankets on so we
looked like something creepy. We had flashlights shining
up at our faces and creepy music on in the background. We welcomed them
to zone training and then moved into another room to actually do it. We
were training on commitments so at the end we practiced by trick or
treating. Except we had the missionaries dress up in costumes (mummies
with toilet paper, ghosts with sheets, crazy hair wigs, etc) and go
"trick-or-treating" by teaching the people behind the doors and giving
them a pre-decided commitment. They were rewarded with candy if they
did a good job. It was a lot of fun.
The most exciting thing that
happened this week was with Mark. We didn't hear from him all week so we
used our secret agent skills and found out where his parents live
(which is where we moved). We were waiting for him to contact us and just listened to the Spirit in the meantime. On Saturday
we felt prompted to go to his old place of residence where Kelly was.
She was there crying and in a lot of pain because she was really sick.
We offered to give her a priesthood blessing but needed a guy to come
over. She told us Mark was on his way over so we waited for him. When
he got there he told us he was sorry but his phone was out of minutes so
he wasn't able to get in touch with us all week. We gave Kelly a
blessing and it went really well. She told us all day she had been
praying that someone would come over to help her out and we told her we
were prompted to go over there. Mark also told us he was prompted to
pick up the phone and call her that morning and that's why he had come
over. It looks like we were all on the same page and things worked out!
Mark came to church yesterday and now he is 100% ready for baptism! We set a new baptismal date for November 23rd with him! We are all very excited!
That's about it for this week. New adventures to come in Stockton!
Love you all! Les Quiero!
Elder Gaskill
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