Hey Family!!
How are things going at home? It sounds like you got most of
everything moved. That is so awesome!! Congrats to the football team for
winning region and the girls tennis team and boys golf team for winning
state!! That is so awesome!! Is it going to be another year of champions
again? You might need to make some more trophy cases for them!! haha
Jae: Sister Vargas is ENGAGED!!! Crazy huh?!? She is engaged to some guy from your mission. Pretty cool!!
My week here has been SO AWESOME!!! Totally crazy but I have loved
every second of it!! I saw Elder Josie at our driving safetly meeting
yesterday. He says to tell you hi. Also one of Kelli's friends that
pulled me out of the ditch that one time when I was gong to visit Kelli
is in my mission too. it was pretty funny!! So i live right on the
border of Orange and Anaheim. We literallly live like right across the
street from Angels Stadium. It is so cool. And sometimes we take the
"happy way home" aka driving past Disneyland as we are on our way home.
It is so much fun and it is so gorgeous here. Espeically by Disneyland.
Sis Jensen and I got some pics by the disneyland sign with flat stanley
so I will try to send him and some pics back to you soon! Our apt
complex is SO NICE!! We can even watch Disneyland's fireworks from the
parking garage roof top. Oh, and when the Angel's win they do fireworks
too. Every night around 930 is my favorite!! We live about 20 minutes
out of our area. We work in Garden Grove 4th Ward south and it has a lot
of different names like gangster grove, garbage grove, getto grove,
golden grove... I think the one that is most fitting is getto grove.
That is exactly why we live out of the area! haha There are so many
different cultures here I sometimes feel like I am in a foreign country
because all of the signs we pass are in another language and every other
door we knock on doesnt speak english. haha fun times!! My companion
Sister Jensen is SO AWESOME!!! I love her to death!! We will be together
through Christmas since she is training me and we will stay in the area
too. She has such a powerful testimony and she rocks at teaching. I have
learned so much from her already and I can't wait to learn more. She is
from Orem, Utah and the girl Meredith from the movie Brave was pretty
much created from her. they look so much alike! I couldn't have asked
for a more excited and enthusiastic trainer. I love her!! We were both
in similar situations where we didnt really get along with our last
companions and it kinda dampened our sunshine but now we are shining bright
for the whole world to see! She works so hard and so I am right there
with her!! I can see such a difference already and I absolutely love
it!!
Let's face it, like Sister Jensen said to me on my first day..."I'm
not going to sugar coat it, the work is dead here." We don't really have
any progressing invesigators so we have been spending a lot of time
finding those who the Lord has already prepared and are ready and
willing to listen to the gospel. We have decided that the most
productive way we will be able to find is through the members. We have
been going into member homes and sharing a Book of Mormon story with
them and how it realates to sharing the gospel. We then leave the Book
of Mormon with them and ask them to mark their favorite verses in it and
prayerfully consider who to give it too. If everyone does this I think
our work could really increase. I have learned so much about learning
how to better apply the Book of Mormon in my life so that i can share it
with others. Sister Jensen knows her Book of Mormon SO WELL so that
has really helped me a lot to want to not only read it but know where
things are at so I can turn to them later. She has studied the Book of
Mormon like no other missionary I know. It is so awesome and I hope that
I can come to know the Book of Mormon just like her. We have done a lot
of tracting so far as well. It is ok but a lot of people speak another
language then us so it is kinda hard.
In the Adult Session of stake conference we really focused on
Hastening the Work ot the Lord. One point someone brought up is to
mingle with the ungathered instead of just the gathered. By so doing we
can be the member missionaries that the full time missionaries so
crucially need. Members are SO IMPORTANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love having a
member present at lessons and getting referrals from members because it
is so helpful!! Do your missionary work ok?!?
I also met a guy at stake conference named brother hall and he
looks exactly like uncle elden. It is so crazy!! the glasses and
everything!! I couldnt believe it but he said he didnt know elden.
I got my package. Thanks so much mom!!
Funny story for the week. Everyone here has security gates on their
front doors. I have never seen them before and they are kinda
interesting. So I guess there is some kind of way to knock on them using
what is called the claw. Sister Jensen has it down but i am still
working on it. So anyway we were stopping at an investigators house and
we rang the doorbell and no one came so I tried to practice my claw
skills. Ya...didn't work out so well!! Sister Jensen was laughing so
hard because I did it way too hard i guess!! When the investigator came
to the door he said Holy Cow!! I thought someone was trying to break
into my house!! haha well, I guess i will have to work on my claw skills
some more another time!!
Answers to moms questions:
We eat dinner with the members about 3 to 4 nights a week and the
rest of the time we just eat at home. It works out pretty well!! My
mission president is so awesome and so inspirational. He has taught us a
pattern of teaching where you teach, testify, ask a question and
then switch with your companion. He has told us that when we ask
questions we have to send the investigators to Heaven for the answers.
But when you ask questions that send the investogators to Heaven for the
answer they are so powerful and it really gets them thinking about
their lives. it is so cool!! The weather here is so beautiful. I love it
so much!!! All you really need is a light cardigan and you are good to
go the whole day through. there isnt much of a change in temperatures
throughout the day. We email either at the garden grove library or at
the santa ana college library. the garden grove library was closed today
since it was columbus day so we came to the college library. it is
pretty fun. our schedule is pretty generic. We wake up at 630 work out
for a half an hour and then we get ready and eat breakfast by 8. at 8 we
do personal study. at 9 is companionship study. 10 is training time. and
then lunch and we are out the door for the rest of the day with appts.,
tracting, member visits, ya know all that fun jazz. We come back at 9
for our planning session and then from about 930 to 1030 we wind down
and i take some time to write in my journal. My health is great. No
problem so far. Wanna hear some awesome news?!? The nurst here in my
mission use to be a dietician specializing in diabetes. WOOT WOOT!! I
met with here my first time here and she will help me with medications
and everything i need. She will notify you guys of anything that might
come up and she will just take awesome care of me which is such an
answer to my prayers!! About the Ensign, I dont know which one it was
but it was all gold and it was all about the Book of Mormon. If you can
find it great but it might be an old one. I dont know.
Well, I hope you have an awesome week!! i sure love all of you
guys. You are all such great examples to me!! Do your missionary work
please!! Every member is a missionary. After all, us full time
missionaries are really just members choosing to set aside some time in
our lives to fully serve the Lord and his children. I love the gospel
and I know it is true with all my heart!! I can see the Lord's hand in
my life every single day by guiding me to meet people and give simple
service to everyone around me. God loves all of his children and so do
I!! This is His work and this is His mission not mine! I love you and
miss you all so much... We didnt get all of our email time today so we
will be coming back tomorrow to finish it up and i will send you a few
pics if i can. Love ya!!
love, Sister Gillett :)
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