week 77

Hello!

We got transferred earlier this morning. my new companion is elder sherwood! he is from new mexico and has been out 3 transfers so he is on the newer side. our district also absorb the neighboring district so we are absolutely huge now! it should be a really fun transfer. i am excited!

This week has been pretty good. We have been having lots of progress with our investigators. This past week at church we had another 11 investigators attend both hours of church which was super good. A lot of the time they only come for sacrament meeting but last week they all came for both hours... it was great! 

This past sunday Sis Rhea was interview for baptism and passed! we are super excited for her. The other week she was really early for church and even though she can be really shy she stood at the door with us and shook all the members hands as they came in. it was awesome! however last night she called us saying that she has work on saturday all day so we may have to postpone her baptism another week but we will see.

English class last night was another success. it was tons of fun. we did practice interviews with each student and its almost funny how much i understand their frustration. you can tell they know what they want to say but they dont know how to say it in english. 

also for my siblings i got a hair cut this past week so dont worry. I guess i didnt realize how long my hair was. as the barber cut my hair i was laughing about how much was falling off. 

love you all lots! talk to you next week.. momma cho cho :)

elder gsack

week 76

Hello,

Well here we are. I have accomplished a sister missionaries mission. The past 18 months I have been so happy serving and am so grateful for the experiences I have had. Now we kick it into the fourth quarter...

This week was lots of fun. Last friday night we went to clean the chapel and set up for the baptism and boom dirty water for the font again. SO this time around we had the baptism in a swimming pool! It was a really good service and lots of people came. Nanay Elizabeth was very happy all her kids were baptized and bore a very strong testimony on Sunday of her testimony of the Church. It was awesome! Sunday we had 11 people at church which was super good and exciting. 

Requests have been made for more stories and more specific about my life here so I will do my best. Tanza Ward (the ward I am in right now) has a ton of single adults. A large chunk of them are returned missionaries so we get tons of help and they all understand really well. It helps tons. 

Fun things that happened this week was... 

1. The other day a bunch of ward missionaries got on a trike and took off but the trikes dont go that fast here and elder sackley still has got some wheels in him so i took off after the trike and followed right behind it for a decent distance and then i finally picked up my speed to get right next to the side cart and I screamed! Oh my i scared them all so bad it was one of the funniest things i have seen. Love my life. 

2. OH!! Last night we started our ENGLISH CLASS!!! it is the funniest greatest thing ever. Anyone and everyone is invited and Elder Brown and I teach it. Its tons of fun. However I have forgotten quite a bit of english and having to teach things so proper and all was harder than I thought it was gonna be. But overall it was good!

If you want to know anything or want me to include things in my emails please just ask! Love you all lots!

elder gsack

week 75

Hello,

This week was a pretty good week. We have had lots going on and the work continues on every day. We are putting a large focus as a companionship on our investigators that we have right now.. we seemed to have struggled in the month of January with keeping up with all of them so hopefully this coming month we do better..

This past Sunday was a super good day for us. Church went really well and we had 10 investigators at church. The best part of it as well was that those 10 were all people we needed at church for their baptisms to continue. So that was awesome. but the fun started after church. We had a couple meetings that went well and then we were out. First we went to the Babon family. Sister is a member and probably one of the strongest recent converts in the church I have seen in my mission. But her kids arent members yet so we got all 3 of them interviewed and they all passed! So their baptism is this coming saturday morning and we are super excited for them. 

Then we went with 10 other members to sister Rheas house! (Her husband is a member but she is not yet and neither are her kids but she is really progressing.) It was a lot of people and kinda crazy but we were able to teach a really good lesson with plenty of testimonies to testify of what we taught hahaha.

I have lots of pictures to send so those will fill the rest of the stories...Love you all lots!

Elder gsack

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