Hello,
So this week was crazy, it was our last week here, so almost
every day was different. We are leaving on Monday at 3:30 in the morning. Out
of the 8 elders in our district, 4 of us are going to
Aguascalientes, 3 are going to Mexico Vera Cruz, and 1 is going to Tucson Arizona. We only have 2 flights, first to Houston and then to Aguas, but we have a 5
hour layover in Houston from like 12 to 5, so that’s when I’ll call, I’ll try
to call a bit later so the kids can all be home, but no guarantee (also i don’t
know what time zone Texas is in, so you might want to figure that out)
But anyways, my week. Monday wasn’t too different, but Tuesday
we had two devotionals, one in the night, and one in the morning at the Marriott
Center. So two thousand missionaries walked over to byu to go to a devotional.
it was pretty cool, they talked about missionary work, but it was mostly
directed towards the students. I didn't see anybody I knew, but Elder M got to see his twin sister. also on Tuesday Elder W and I decided it would
be fun to play lava in our room until we leave, we quit, but kept with it for a
couple days... climbing around in your room in a bathrobe trying to change is
rather difficult.
Wednesday our district was signed up to host new elders, but
when we got to orientation, they needed 5 more elders to help direct traffic,
so i spent 2 hours directing the incoming 400 cars where they were supposed to
go, fun stuff. While they were coming in, we ran out of hosts for a bit, and a
car pulled up that was bringing a deaf elder, I had no idea what to do so I
asked them to hang tight and I went running around trying to find where to take
him. I found the correct place, but his greeter wasn’t there, so I went back
and helped him with his stuff and took him. She met us halfway so all was good,
but still a cool experience. Then we got our first real investigator that
night! She was a trc investigator hired to do it, but an appointment got
cancelled and she was allowed to just wander around, so she happened to wander
into our room and start talking to us. Her name is C, she is Muslim but
goes to byu law school because it’s cheap. She had lots of questions for us, she mostly
just wanted to know what we believe, she didn’t believe it, but found it
interesting. We worked together through the spirit and had a great discussion
with her. She mentioned that her brother died when he was younger, so we jumped
right onto eternal families and she even said that it felt right. She said she
liked us better than the other missionaries she had talked to and came back
again the next two nights when she was off the clock just to talk with us. she
is super absorbent, even if she doesn’t believe it right now, over night she read
past Lehi’s dream in the book of mormon and the next night she read the whole
plan of salvation pamphlet in Spanish (she barely knows any Spanish.) anyways, I
doubt I’ll ever see her again, but it was a really cool experience to teach
her.
Thursday wasn’t too different, but we finished up a lot of
things. Finished Spanish, skype trc, teaching Edgar our teachers character,
service, gym. Lots of stuff.
Friday we had in field orientation all day. It was kind of
an efy thing that taught us more about baptism, goals, and working with
members. It was led by Brother C, who was one of the elders in the
district 2. But anyways, not going to go to in depth on in
field orientation. Then we had our last
class with Hermano H and he told us all about his mission, He had an
amazing mission and did amazing things through the Lord (he didn't paint it
like that though, he's a pretty humble guy) it was really inspiring to hear. He
was an awesome teacher, I’m definitely going to keep in contact with him while I’m
out.
Today is p-day, so laundry, emailing temple and stuff. Oh
yeah, one more quick story! last Saturday i was going through the temple and
guess who I met? Adam and Matthew! They thought it was funny that they went
through with me before Shawn.
Anyways, that’s all for this week, write me next week guys. Love
you all, be good.
-Elder Gandola
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