What a crazy week! SO much has happened, I
will try to give you the highlights.
To start with, on Tuesday we had the Relief Society
birthday dinner and I got talking to one of the members in the ward, Sister
Proffer and her mother, Sister Gabbitass. My companion and I sat with
them a couple of Sundays ago at the church pot luck as well and got know them
better. It was interesting, when I first met Sister Gabbitass, I had a
feeling that I have seen her before or known her before. She is elderly
and from Utah. She told me that I seemed familiar and thought that she
knew me. She talked with me for awhile about her family history and how
some of her ancestors helped build the Manti temple. Then the next day I
was thinking about her name and had a feeling to look at my family history
tree. So I did and realized that we have a Gabbitass in the family.
At Relief Society I talked to them about it and we found out that we are
related! It was so awesome! Sister Proffer sent me some histories
about the Gabbitass' family. Sister Gabbitass said no wonder I seemed
familiar, we're family, haha. I really did have a neat feeling about it
though.
Also, this we got another baptismal
date!!!!!! Yay! One of our very solid investigators Aaron,
was just waiting for a letter back from the first presidency so he could be
baptized and it arrived this week!!!!!! We have the date set for March
29th! He is so excited and we are soooo excted! They are going
through a lot of hard physical trials though so pray for them! His wife
got a concussion and may have to have surgery. They are both such good
people, and hard workers. We are praying that Evelyn will recover
soon!
This week was also Stake
Conference!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D Elder Deshler from the quorom of the seventy came
and spoke too. It was such a tender mercy that Sister Ostler and I were
able to go last minute. The stake center is 3 hours away from us so we
were only alowed to go if we got a ride from a member. A couple days
before we finally found a ride! There was some crazy stories with that
but it was soooo neat! Our investigator, Sara, had her baptismal interview,
and sat by us during the conference. I was talking with Sara and Elder
Deshler came over and talked to her about how she liked investigating the
church. She thought it was amazing that she talked to a General
Authority! She is very excited for General Conference. Elder
Deshler invited everyone there to block out their calenders for conference and
do some things before, during, and after conference. What a spiritual
feast it was to be there! The leaders of the church truly do receive
revelation to help the areas they are over; they are men called of God.
Well, I have to go now. I love you all! The gospel is so so true
and such a sweet gift to share with others!
