oh my goodness, maple valley seems like another life! it's only been two weeks but it seems so much longer because of all the crazy busy-ness! it was a wonderful week though. let's see the highlights...
Tuesday:
*the new missionary meeting at the mission home! those are always so fun because we have a lot of training (including getting to watch our favorite movie about table manners, made in the early 90's. annie did you ever see that? "if a dish is served that you don't care for, take a little bit anyway. you can move it around on your plate to appear interested" haha oh man you need to see it) and we get to eat lunch with the moffats at the mission home. it was my last time seeing the moffats :( man it was so hard to say goodbye! (i'll send a picture in a minute). I love them so much...they're like my mission parents! President Moffat bore such a powerful testimony at the conclusion of the meeting. we took some pictures at the end and then said goodbye! it was so hard because President could hug the elders but not us hehe. He took my hand with both of his and told me how grateful that he and sister moffat are that I came. We both cried and all the new Elders looked at me like i was kind of weird when i walked to the car weeping hehe. oh well, they'll get used to the sisters :)
Wednesday:
*District Meeting: my new district leader is from Fiji! pretty sweet! hmmm thats about all i have to say about that!
Thursday:
*Finally a full proselyting day! i'm getting to know the area better...i only got lost twice this week :) our area borders the sound, so there are some really pretty roads that drive along the coast. it's GORGEOUS! if you look it up online, the ward includes browns point and dash point. my area also includes part of tacoma. pretty sweet
Friday:
*we met the Larkins! President and Sister Larkin have 3 kids...their oldest just went into the MTC at age 17! crazy huh? they also have a 13 year old boy and a 10 year old girl. They both spoke to us and were really funny. President Larkin is definitely different that President Moffat (Pres Moffat was so quiet and soft spoken and everyone looked shocked when President Larkin yelled a couple times from the pulpit haha...not like yelled angrily but just spoke really loudly) but he will be great. His wife was really nice too. We all shook their hands after and got to chat a minute with them.
Saturday:
*our miracle of the week! two new investigators: T and T. they're a samoan family. they also live with T's sister's family. T let us right in and told us they had just found out T's sister's cancer is back and she only has 2 months to live. T also has brain cancer! we shared some scriptures from the BofM and they agreed to let us come back and teach them the plan of salvation :)
Sunday:
*the 4th of July! still a normal proselying , but then at night, sister L and i watched fireworks from the H's big window while listening to the MOTAB "spirit of america" CD hehe. it was sister L's first american independence day and it took a few tries to explain to her what we were celebrating.
we're loving the ward here, everyone is so nice! it's kind of fun because they haven't had sisters for 5 years so we're kind of a novelty. sister L is doing really well. she is so humble and is teaching me a lot. in fact, this morning i learned to spell my name in korean and i'm starting to understand how to sound out korean words. good times
well i love you all!! happy fourth of july! and mom and dad, happy birthdays this week!!! i'll take you out to lunch when i get home as a birthday present ok? :)
LOVE YOU!!
sister gibbons
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