Elder Terry and I have been tearing it up here in Arleta, however, this week was a little bit trickier to get people to come to church. On Thursday or Wednesday they put a note on the door of the church saying that they are going to be repaving the whole road in front of the church so it was going to be closed on Saturday and Sunday. So we had maybe a half or a third of the amount of people we normally have in sacrament meeting there. Hernan was still able to come though luckily. This Sunday he received the Aaronic Priesthood. He was so happy to able to receive it. On Thursday we had a lesson with him about the priesthood and we explained the different duties of it found in D&C 20. He said that it was very interesting and that he couldn't wait to receive it. The family of 7 are doing O.K. its been a little bit harder to meet with them this week just because they haven't been responding very well to texts but we still got to see Karla (also it turns out here real name is Carolina). Anyways we taught her about CPR and how important each of those three things was. We also read with her in Moroni 10:3-5 she really liked it and started crying because of the power of the Book of Mormon, it testifies of truth because it is the truth. There was a part of a talk that I really like that I listened to this morning that said that any book that carries that much power with it must be true. No false book could ever testify with that much power. I'm continually reminded again and again of the importance and power that the Book of Mormon has. If we are not reading it everyday we need to be. It is like a shield of protection against the adversary and it will strengthen you so much.
Well I don't have very much time because we had to go with the other Elders to play Pickle Ball (Pictures). But for Thanksgiving we will be having it with Bernadino and his wife so hopefully we can teach her a little more then. We also tried to do a visitors center tour with them but they canceled last second so hopefully we can go a different time with them. I would say my happiness level is very High I have not been this happy in all my life I would not trade anything for this time right now. I have slowly but surely started to bond with the other missionaries, Its just hard because I really only know the ones within our zone which are quite a bit, but they've been here since last transfer as well. We won't be having zone conference until the end of the transfer because of the Christmas devotional. Love you all have a good day Love you!
Elder Gibbons
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