Wow I am now onto my first last holiday in the mission. Me and my comp
have been joking around that we are going to dress up today like business men with name plaques and all and knocking on the doors
here.... Oh wait... We do that everyday haha. It sounds like your party
went super well for Halloween. I always love the Halloween party. You
all should send some pictures. I still carry around a picture of basil
as a pumpkin from last year. i love that picture.
This week was super crazy. Probably one of the hardest physically and
mentally of my mission. I am now with Elder Hobbs and he is a great
missionary, but he doesn't have a ton of time in the mission and so he
doesn't really know how to run a zone. I have been having to do
everything. All the complaining and problems by myself when I really
don't know what I am doing at all either. But it is all alright. I am
happy cause I feel that I am doing as good as I can. I have gotten
better already at doing a lot of things.
This week I went to 3 different areas to do splits. It was crazy. I
went to a whole bunch of different places and got to meet a whole bunch
of new people and work with new missionaries. It was a lot of fun
actually, but super tiring. In one of the houses we were woken up by all
these birds chirping. It was terrible. They were so loud. So when we
went to leave and we were waiting for the bus stop I was looking at the
tree and decided to throw a rock at the tree to try and quiet the birds
(bad idea). I chucked the rock and it was way early in the morning and
it went way lower than I had wanted and went inside a house. I looked
over and saw that there was a person inside that house. I ran over and
this old lady just stared at me holding her right shoulder. I asked what
happened and she just whispered while turning around entering into her
house and with a small voice said, "you hit me". I felt so bad, but my
comp couldn't help but laugh.
That was just one of the many things that happened. I really had a
great time, but I hope I can stay in my area a bit more this next week.
This week though was the baptism of this kid named Ricardo. He is 20
and is such an awesome kid. He went to church as a little kid but never
got baptized. His whole family are members, but him. We had put the
baptism for 12, but it got moved to 2 cause of a meeting we had at 11
with all of the bishops and stake presidency. Then we had to move it
again that day to 5 because water wasn't falling. It was so hard, but he
just wanted to get baptized and brought a whole bunch of his friends. It
was such an awesome baptism and he is so powerful. He bore his
testimony after and it was amazing.
Then this morning me and my comp went to get pupusas for breakfast
and we started talking to this family that owns the pupuseria. Then this
lady ran how and she ran to me and hugged me. I saw who it was and it
was a lady that I had taught in Independencia. She told me she had
gotten baptized like a month after I had left, and that she had asked
for my to come to the baptism, but I was in ahuchapan. It was so awesome
to see her and how good she is doing.
It was a good month and I am excited for November. Crazy I will be
completing one year of being here. Well I love you all and I am sorry,
but President Cordon cut on our time to write so we have a lot less
time. But I love you all and hope this next week is great. And don't
worry mom I got your e-mail this time haha.
Elder Gillette
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