so this week as been SOOO busy! tuesday we had temple day! (i attached a pic, but now i'm thinking i might have sent it last week, oh well). i love the temple! we got a fun picture of our whole zone in front of the temple too but i just have a hard copy. my zone is the best! we have such awesome elders and it'll be fun to have these friendships forever. wednesday we had interviews with the president. i love interviews! pres moffat is AWESOME. and sis moffat is great too. it's fun that they're from salt lake so i can stay in touch with them. then thursday we had some exciting happenings: sis yura and i were guest speakers at a womens studies class at the Bush School...a private high school near UW (which apparently costs $26,000 a year! isn't that insanity?). it's definitely a very liberal school so the kids asked a lot of questions about womens roles in the church, our views of homosexuality, etc...you know, the easy questions ;) it was so cool though! a really great experience. sis yura and i basically taught the whole restoration because they asked what sets our church apart from other christian faiths, and then we got to teach all about the law of chastity and word of wisdom in answer to some questions. really smart kids, really respectful and friendly. so yeah, definitely a highlight i'll remember from the mission. the picture at the gas station was taken on that same day...on our way to seattle, we were precariously close to running out of gas....so we exited the freeway in bellevue and could NOT find a gas station. finally we found one and they didn't take credit cards! there was a chevron down the street though and we were very relieved :)
the other exciting thing on saturday was [L]'S BAPTISM!! (i attached a pic) it was so good! such a wonderful night. i got to speak about baptism (my first time giving a talk at one of my baptisms actually) which i just loved. it was pretty cute, i was talking about enduring to the end and doing the little things like prayer and scripture study and i was wrapping it up saying something like "[L], i promise if you keep doing the little things...etc" and he interrupted be and said "okay okay i will" hahaha SO larry. it was pretty cute though because he wasn't saying it out of annoyance (okay okay is just [L]'s classic response to every question), he was just committing that he would do it hehe. i don't know if that made sense but it was fun. i also got to accompany sister argyle on the flute for the musical number. we played it in church yesterday too...cool arrangement of a poor wayfaring man of grief! . . . but yeah the baptism turned out great! we had a bunch of support from our ward and also the singles ward because [L] will be going there. just a very happy day! the only sad thing was the building was out of hot water so the font was COLD. then [L]'s leg came up so they had to baptize him twice! poor guy.
then i went on an exchange with sister bush in maple valley from break friday to break saturday. SO FUN! i just adore her. i got to see . . . a bunch of members that i adore. it was so good to be with sister bush again. OH GUESS WHAT! at her zone conference, she said the closing prayer, and when she was shaking president's hand after, he said "we'll have to get you and sister gibbons together again before you go home...we can't keep you together for very long, but we'll have to do it" isn't that fun?? he just brought it up out of the blue. sister bush has 3 transfers left, so we'll see if we get to be companions again :) hopefully for christmas or my birthday! speaking of, transfer calls come on saturday (oh before i forget...next week p-day is tuesday just to warn you) and i have NO idea what will happen. i'm the only sister that has moved areas since i came to the mission in may (except for sister sawyer who came to maple valley with us for one transfer, but then she went back to her original area in puyallup) so we're expecting a LOT of changes. i'm 99% sure i'll stay in renton which is fine with me because i LOVE it here! sister yura is 99% sure she's leaving, but we'll see!! it's kind of exciting! i'll let you know next week!
well i've gotta get going....pray that we will find more investigators!! we need more people like [L]...he was a little miracle. i love you all! you're always in my prayers :) keep up the wonderful things you are doing! but remember "if you're too busy to pray and read your scriptures every day, then you're much busier than God ever intended you to be" haha....sister morriss had that on her wall. LOVE YOU ALL AND SUCH AHHHHH
wibby (haha i typed wubby at first...good times)
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