June 11, 2012
Little Nicole WOULD get called to Korea! I LOVE THAT! Tell her to write me and I will give her all sorts of tips and tricks for the mission and especially the MTC!
This week has been AMAZING! We had zone conference on Tuesday and it was SO GREAT! President gave THE best presentation on the life of Jesus Christ along with like 3 pages of scriptures for the life of Christ. All of us just watched him and couldn't speak because of how AWESOME it was! WOW! Then we talked a lot about goals and what we need to do to accomplish our goals and the vision we need to have. We can get so many people to do member missionary work down here by helping them see that the goal isn't just baptisms, it is getting a temple in McAllen. I think that until you come to the valley, you don't understand the importance of a temple down here. These people literally can't go anywhere else. O man, I could go on and on about that but I should just stop here. :) Moral of the story, the members are going to get their vision readjusted to achieving a temple in this area. I am so excited for that day! Then the assistants gave probably one of the best trainings the mission has ever had about fear and faith and how fear is something that we have to confront because it is completely from Satan. O man. AMAZING!
O this week, we also got our evacuation plans. :) I AM SO EXCITED! I have been studying it and looking at it and stuff and it totally freaks Sister VanDyke out because she does NOT want to be evacuated. O man though, if we got evacuated, I would be in heaven. SO HAPPY! What an awesome opportunity to serve! We would get evacuated to Laredo, just so you know. O man. I LOVE HURRICANE SEASON! (I'm weird huh?)
This week we also have started seeing more of the fruits of our labor! Our area has been picking up and on Saturday we committed 6 people to be baptized! Two of them were neighbor boys though so this is just an opportunity to teach their families too!!!! I LOVE OPPORTUNITIES!
O MY GOSH I ALMOST FORGOT TO TELL YOU! We got a new Bishop in the English ward. Guess who it is! BISHOP BRADSHAW! (Aka, Brother Bradshaw, former ward mission leader) O man! I walked into sacrament meeting and saw the Stake Presidency on the stand so I knew we were getting a new Bishop because he has been in for awhile so I went over to Brother Bradshaw and told him that if he is the new Bishop, he owes me cookies. So after he got called I sent him a text that said, my favorite kind is chocolate chip. :) it was funny. Anywho, it will be really good because he is so excited about the work and he will call another awesome Ward Mission Leader and so we will have the Bishop super involved AND the WML. O man! That ward is going to BLOW UP!
I solved my homemade bread problem. I wanted to make it but it was WAY too hard with our current kitchen equipment. Lucky for us, God blessed us with the tender mercy of the knowledge that Bishop Wilson's son has a small business making homemade bread. Hmmm. Interesante. So we just buy our bread from him now. IT IS AMAZING! They even grind their own wheat. So yummy! Great business though! And a great skill for a little 9-year-old to have!
Yes you will get your recorder this week! I have to send home a package anyway! We aren't done recording though. Sister VanDyke is in the middle of a newscast for you. O man, that girl. She is a nut! Be prepared for like 5 different voice changes, and we have only been going for 5 minutes. I can only imagine what is next.
But in other AWESOME news, we think our A/C broke... :( Yup, we went to bed and it was 80 and woke up and it was 83, now it's 85. Not cool. But we talked to the office and they are sending someone to fix it today. Hopefully super soon because I don't like discomfort. O well right? And Dad, about your comment about the heat. Yes, it is hot here. I think it has been over 100 for the past week. Not sure though. It is funny because in the day it is hot but at night when we don't feel it, we forget what hot feels like. So it is pretty interesting. But we don't complain. We get use to the fact that we are constantly soaked with sweat and we just go. It's SUPER fun! ;) It really is all in the attitude.
O one last thing. We made shirts last p-day. We will send you pictures. ASAP.
Anyway, I have to go now. I am going to make a form to better organize my lesson plans. (Yup, there is the weirdo Sister Giles you all know and love) Love you all and Dad, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!!!
Hermana Giles
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