Letter from December 1, 2014: Thanksgiving Week

What a rough morning... I've been sick since Thanksgiving, so I woke up sounding like a man. During our companion study we saw that it was snowing. I slipped on the snow on the way out of the house and hurt my ankle. We got to the church to email and only one computer is connected to the internet, so now we're taking turns. Man... it's going to be a rough day. haha! A rough day FULL OF ADVENTURE! We still have to drive to Ontario to go grocery shopping. *sigh*

Thank you for the turkey thing! (I don't know what it's called... haha) Unfortunately, it was broken by the time it got here... but we just taped it to the dashboard of our car. So it's still fulfilling it's purpose! :) And I got the letters :) Thanks so much for those! Feelin' the love, feelin' the love. :)

I got the CD's too! Thanks SO MUCH! I'm loving them! I got them this morning before I read your emails.... soooo... sorry I didn't save them for my birthday. haha! But I love them :)

And I SO appreciate the gifts that Paige and Shannon brought! I'm sorry that I wasn't there to meet them! But we've already been devouring the snacks they sent. :) It was so nice of them to do that for us!

Thanksgiving was good. We were invited to spend it with the Montague's. They have 2 missionaries out right now, so we pretty much just took their places at the table. :) But yeah, it was just the 3 of them and us. It was AWESOME. 

Brother Montague reminds me of Dad SO MUCH... haha The humor and the clothes and everything. Needless to say, I felt at home there. :) They were supposed to have a lot of family over to join us, but as soon as they found out that the missionaries were coming over and that they would have to live under "missionary rules" for the day, they decided not to come.... Sister Miller and I felt so bad about that. But the Montague's seemed happy to have a small Thanksgiving dinner with just us.





After eating with them, we spent the rest of the day wandering around Parma trying to find other families to see. This proved more difficult than we thought... Every house had their tv's on and a ton of family over... And, well, we really only walked in, said hello, felt a lack of welcome, and then left. hahaha! I'm just praying that we'll get a few more invitations to come over on Christmas. XD

The Thueson's set up a little Christmas tree in our basement for us to decorate. So, it's feeling a little more Christmas-y in our little dark apartment space. :) 

With me being sick, we didn't get to do much this week- unfortunately. But we had to drop a lot of our investigators (Richard, Rocky, and Anna- and Matthew is gone to job core) because they just weren't progressing. We're still teaching Elsie and Penny, although they really aren't progressing much either. Elsie is supposed to get baptized December 13, but she hasn't attended church for the last 3 months... sooo... Yeah. We'll probably postpone that one. And Penny had a goal of coming to church on December 7th, but she told us the other day that she wasn't going to come. Sooooo... I was a little mad about that. Ohh, people's agency!!! I'm CONFIDENT that the Lord will fill our teaching pool back up again.

I went on splits for the first time ever this week! That was pretty sweet. We took Jessica and Keilee Spencer. Jessica reports to the MTC in Spain next Monday and her sister is a Senior in high school (she also wants to serve a mission). I took Keilee with me and we went TRACTING. Whoohoo! (I seriously love tracting. It's the best.) And, guess what! WE FOUND 2 NEW INVESTIGATORS!!! YUS. *party dance* Evidence that the Lord IS preparing people. Right there. We go back to see one of them tomorrow, so hopefully that lesson works out.

Have you seen the December Ensign?? And the 10 PASS ALONG CARDS inside?! YES, FRIEND! Those are for YOU! Welcome to missionary life! 

We've started tracting every day and passing those cards out. We have 250 to pass out by Christmas day. Think we can do it? I think YES! (Seeing as there's probably only 250 non-member families in our area...) 




I love this gospel. I feel like I don't share my testimony enough in these emails I send each week... But I hope that you all can feel that as you read what I write. This gospel has changed my life. Through Jesus Christ is the ONLY way that we can all receive true and everlasting happiness! I love you all!    

Sister Gubler