Hola Hola Familia!!
Well I'm sure you all want to hear the big news about where I'm going seeings as how I have been in this area for a while now. Well we waited Sunday night as usual for the big news. We got the call at about 9:30 at night and then we got the chisme. So Elder Benavides is staying in this area and I am also staying to finish his training. So this is actually super weird because I have been in this area since the beginning of June and this will be 6 and a half transfers in the same area. So here's the rest of the information that I know. Elder Nelson is going ZL in Los Angeles zone Elder Losee is staying and double training, Elder Quiroz is going down to TPV as Zone Leader. Thats what I know of so far and also Hermana Johnson is in my district and Elder Pidcock he's replacing Elder Aslami in our apartment. So I'm very excited this next transfer to be able to work again with the same people.
Well thats the biggest news really this week for us we didn't have anyone come to church unfortunately which was kinda a bad way to end off the transfer but me and Elder Benavides have set a goal to focus on church attendance this week. So here's kinda a cool miracle, Elder Benavides and I were deciding where to park to go by a referral that we had. So we chose a spot that we thought was somewhat close to the street that we needed to be on. Long story short we parked no where near it and we ended up walking for about 10-15 minutes to get to the apartment building. Anyways turns out the address didn't exist so we decided to walk clear to the other side of area again another 15-20 minutes of walking to go by Angie we found Angie there and talked for a minute with her then we set a return and started heading back to the car. Anyways right before we were about to turn onto the street where we parked our car we ran into crystal y Jovani. We talked with them for a few minutes and then right before we were about to go to the car we heard someone scream Elders!!!! so we turned to look who it was and what was some people in a car that asked if we wanted to go to lunch with them. So turns out it was 3 YSA members Andrea, Andrea, and Matt. We went and sat down and talked with them while we ate some delicious tortas and then we got onto the subject of going through the temple. One of the Andrea's was a recent convert who actually was found through the BOM experiment, she told us that she was scared to go through the temple and had a hard time understanding why some members of the church don't keep all the commandments. So we explained to her the power of the temple and the blessings that we get from it. We related it to a talk by Deiter F. Uchtdorf, where a man buys a cruise ticket and is content with only staying in his hotel room when he realized at the end of the cruise he could've been enjoying all of these crazy dinners and parties and getting off on the islands but he just stayed in his hotel room. So we shouldn't just be content with our hotel room when we can experience so many other great and marvelous blessings that come from the temple. She said that it really touched her and she started crying. So I can tell you that God works in mysterious ways and that for some reason we were supposed to run into that YSA member that day.
Dad the fireplace doesn't look to shabby. I also love your emails and your testimonies that you send me I truly am grateful to be your son. Mom I also love your emails and updating me on all of the stuff thats happening with people back home. Tell everyone that I love them but also I love the work that I'm doing here. Thanks for all you do for me I love you all so much. Les Amo mucho y hay muchas cosas buenas que van a venir. Que les pasan buen dia.
-Elder Gibbons
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