surprise!

hello family! well the big surprise of the week is that we are a threesome! last tuesday, i got to transfer meeting to discover that sister L AND sister G would be joining me in Federal Way :) i think that was the biggest surprise i'd ever had at transfers. mostly because we are the only sister apartment without room for three haha. in fact, president hadn't even considered that when he decided. so all the couple missionaries were frantically trying to decide what to do. in fact they sent sister L BACK to puyallup for the night and we had to go pick her up the next morning. we are now crammed into this tiny room and i am now the lucky one on the top bunk! we're actually moving this weekend into a new home (still with members...this has been planned long before the threesome) and i think we'll have a little more space. so that has made it a CRAZY week with the office elders bringing bunk beds, etc. we're having a blast though and i think it will be a transfer of miracles.

speaking of miracles, C was baptized yesterday!! it was wonderful. it was actually kind of crazy...ALL of her kids had come down with the 24hr stomach flu a day apart this week, and then lucky me! i came down with it hours before the baptism. i had to pull the car over on the way to the baptism to throw up haha. (not funny at the time, but now in retrospect). i had the zone leaders give me a blessing right before so that i could make it through the baptism. I made it until the very end, but i didn't miss anything important so that's good :) i'll send pics! C also got really sick yesterday morning, although hers was just a bad cold. so we were an odd bunch! her daughters E and M were supposed to sing "did jesus really live again?" but they got nervous right before and asked sister M and i to sing with them (sister M received special permission to come to the baptism because C asked president about it in her interview!). it was fun, except we didn’t really know the words haha. sister S was doing the little actions on the front row (she's the primary chorister and the main fellowship for C) so we were watching her very intently trying to read her lips haha. it was still pretty cute though. we had a wonderful turnout from the ward! i think she feels very welcomed.

also another miracle, we got a korean referral for sister L! it's a member family that just adopted a girl from korea and she didn’t feel comfortable with the korean elders. she now has a baptismal date of oct 16! we also had a wonderful lesson this week with a woman named S. H., a member referral. the spirit was very strong and although she doesn't have a specific date, we talked a lot about baptism.

well i'm going to send this off and then send one with pictures. love you all!!

sister gibbons