i think i've had like the 24 hr stomach flu...i haven't been able to eat anything since saturday night! but yeah, i feel totally fine now, i just can't keep food down. so when i don't eat i'm fine. hopefully i'll be able to eat later today...it's gotten better. awesome i'm sure you all wanted to hear about that. btw, don't worry mom i really am fine! i was supposed to teach gospel principles sunday school yesterday but bro gustin sent me home because i looked green. then he brought me saltine crackers last night...so nice. s. eria and s. burch were good taker-care-ofs and i think they bonded while i slept. they haven't always been best friends so maybe it was all the Lord's plan to get them to bond. who knows!!
but yeah, it's been an awesome week! lots of little cool experiences! first the funny one:
**ok i think this may be a "you had to be there" thing, but seriously so funny! we were doing a member lesson with the [A]’s (cutest family!) on monday. they have 6 kids and their 6 year old was drawing us pictures. s. burch and s. eria got theirs first: hearts, etc with their names on them. finally it was my turn! anne marie was drawing furiously...then she kept coming over and staring at my name tag, then going back to her paper. she did this like 3 or 4 times. finally she presents me with my paper: "thank you for being new....greomones" hahaha i think it was supposed to be "gibbons" oh man we all laughed really hard and decided it was my hispanic alter ego. so now i have a 2nd personality: hermana greomones! ah good times. i pull out hermana greomones between doors while tracting to keep us all entertained.
so now the serious experiences. so i made a goal this week to talk to EVERYONE about the gospel. i usually talk to everyone, but if it was an awkward situation i'd chicken out after just like "hi, how are you?" etc. so i decided to change that! we've had some cool experiences come from these moments.
*so the other day we were tracting and something was hilarious (everything is funny recently) and s. eria thought she was going to "pee her skirt" (in her words) so we rushed to a different part of the neighborhood to use a member's restroom. after we left their house we were walking back to our tracting spot and sister eria was walking backwards reenacting a funny experience and we were all laughing really hard when we saw a man on his porch. 1st thought: "oh how awkward, we were just being really weird and he probably thinks we're crazy so maybe we shouldn't tell him we're missionaries" but then i remembered my goal! so i said hi and told him who we were and asked if he'd heard of our church. so anyway, long story short, it turned into this like 30 minute discussion...really cool discussion!! we got to bear our testimonies and you could tell he was really open and sincere. we're probably going to take him on a church tour this week!
*the next day, we got out of the car and i saw this kid in his late teens with earphones in, walking by. people with ear phones are the worst because it's really awkward to try and get their attention without scaring them because they can't hear you. so sometimes i just let them keep walking. but not now! so i flagged him down and started talking with him. turns out he's read the book of mormon and knows it's true! he doesn't totally understand the importance of it, but he really is prepared! we had a great discussion with him too. he wouldn't set up a return appointment, but one of his best friends is in the ward so we're going to talk to that boy about him!
anyway there were a few others, but it was just cool to see how the Lord will truly place people in our path if we're willing to open our mouths, even when it's awkward :) maybe even especially if it's awkward!
one other exciting news, we're starting to teach a member's boyfriend: [T]. he's josh's age and just an awesome kid!! he's already been reading the BofM a lot and even found the BYU channel on TV. he started watching devotionals and calling his girlfriend to say "you have a prophet??" he just eats it all up at church. we're planning on putting him on date for baptism tomorrow!
[D]’s still chugging! it seems like his lessons get better and better and the spirit stronger and stronger. he's bound to crack soon, right?
well that's about it from maple valley!! thanks so much for everything you do for me. i love hearing from you all! hope it's a wonderful week!!!
sister gibbons
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