Week #18 - Sometimes the Miracle is the 21st Call of the Day!

Monday, May 25, 2020

Hello!!! 

Happy Memorial Day from Arizona!

5:15 AM Sunrise Hike in Casa Grande, AZ

So lucky to serve with these amazing girls!

Wowza--this week was SO FUN!!!! Everything here is starting to feel more familiar and not as "foreign" hahaha! We had some amazing experiences this week. 

This week I thought I would tell you about my companion and the two other sister missionaries who live with us. My companion is Sister Dangerfield and she has been out for 9 months and is from Minnesota. She is AWESOME!! I love her. And then there's Sister Corn and she's soooooo funny. I love her. She is a full-on cowgirl and she's from Idaho. And then there's Sister Wilcox and she is hilarious, fun, and she's from Colorado. We all have a blast together and I love them all so much!

Day 66 in quarantine!

Sister Dangerfield-she is awesome!

We had amazing lessons with so many people this week. There's this couple we have been teaching and they are so awesome. Their names are Geneva and Lupe. Lupe has always wanted to be baptized, but wants to make sure she understands everything. But this Wednesday we were able to have such a good lesson with them and they both understood everything really well, and we learned more about them. We also have a friend named Jim who also wants to be baptized. He told us, "I do wanna be baptized into the Mormon Church," and we are helping him progress towards baptism. He's awesome. 

Our goal has been to attempt to contact 20 people each day (which is hard); to teach, to give messages to members, and to set up future lessons for other days. One day we were calling a bunch of people and not a lot were answering, but we kept calling. Finally, after a long day of many rejections we reached our goal even though the majority of that day was rescheduling for other days, etc. It was amazing we had been able to even accomplish our goal that day. And then, we got a call back from someone we've been trying to contact and she wanted to learn more and we were able to teach her about Gods plan for us, and we have a lesson with her tomorrow as well. It was a wonderful miracle and a good reminder of going after our goals and not giving up. 

Also, to help with the quarantine restrictions (and occasional boredom from always being inside), me and Sister Dangerfield borrowed a ukulele from a local member who was so kind to lend hers to us and I'm learning “I am a Child of God” on it in Portuguese!! Music always makes me feel happier and that's what we all need in this time right now: happiness :) 

I keep seeing so many miracles while being here and it makes my testimony so much stronger. My biggest worry when I was starting out here was that I wouldn't be confident enough to teach, but I put all my trust in my Savior and I can tell a difference. I love talking about this gospel that I LOVE!!! It's crazy to see how much my testimony has grown from learning more about the gospel in my native language, but I'm still studying Portuguese every day!!

One scripture we've been sharing with lots of people that is so comforting is found in the Book of Mormon in Alma 38:5. It says,

“I would that ye should remember, that as much as ye shall put your trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of your trials, and your troubles, and your afflictions, and ye shall be lifted up at the last day.”

I love this scripture because it helps us know that through Jesus Christ, we can be comforted throughout our trials if we put out trust in Him!

I hope you all have a great week and that you are able to feel Gods love for you. Reach out to someone who might need to feel more of Gods love!!

♡ Sister Guilott

Our District!

A member in our area invited us to play tennis at their home!

Hard to play when it's 100 degrees outside!

Week #17 - "Wow! Sister, you should be a preacher!"

Monday, May 18, 2020

Still wearing my Portuguese missionary tag.
New ones in English are ordered.

My Wonderful Companions and Roommates in Casa Grande

 HELLOOOOOO!!

Wow I just love being a missionary. This week was a fun one! We've been waiting this week to hear from our president about quarantine since the stay-at-home order in AZ was lifted on Saturday... but we are still being quarantined for now. But we are still finding so many ways to teach over technology. That has been the biggest difference from being in Brazil (besides the different language): How much we use our cell phones here! It's CRAZY but so helpful. 

One of my companions, Sister Gilbert is leaving today to go home since she's been here for 18 months. I'm gonna miss her but I love Sister Dangerfield and am excited to stay with her in Casa Grande!!

My companions! Days 56 and 58 of Quarantine in Casa Grande

So some pretty exciting things happened this week. One funny thing is that while we were teaching our friend James, we were asking him if he would want to pray to end our message with him, but instead he asked one of us to, so I prayed. I prayed specifically for him and his arthritis and afterwards he said, "Wow. Just wow. I mean Sister, you should be a preacher!" That was so funny and made me feel happy. 

Our President has something he calls the "Tempe Trumpet" and every day he talks to all the missionaries and we all share miracles we had the day before. A couple days ago he challenged us to contact 20 people. And so me and my companions really wanted to try and do that. It seemed impossible, but we were able to do it!! And we were able to share some pretty awesome messages with people. 

One nice thing is that we are allowed to go out and do service for an hour each day. So one day we decided to weed for this lady. And her yard was CRAZY!! But we were able to make it look really good within that hour and she was surprised as well hahaha!!

Before

After

The best part of this week was being able to teach our friend Jesse. I talked about him last week and how he was praying for a baptism date. Well, we scheduled a time to call him and he had things come up and couldn't answer the time that we had scheduled a time to call over text. So we decided to call him randomly, and it was a time he could talk and he answered and we were able to set up a date for him on June 6 to be baptized!!! We are so excited for him. He already loves to read the Book of Mormon and reads it so well. He's awesome.

My first week here in Tempe was really hard. I felt homesick for Utah and Brazil, but this week I decided to forget that and focus on the work here and it really helped me and I can tell I'm loving it here more and more each day. I'm so thankful for the opportunity to be a missionary. It is truly a blessing and I'm so happy I get to talk about my Savior everyday.

Also... my sister Emily got engaged and that's EXCITING!!!! 

Love you all so much!!

Love Sister Guilott ♡

My District

Week #16 - Hello Arizona!

Monday, May 11, 2020

President and Sister Goaslind, so kind and welcoming!

The first of many to be reassigned to the "ATM" (Arizona Tempe Mission)
We came from mission in Argentina, Brazil, Spain, Columbia, Ecuador, and Mexico

HELLO ARIZONA!!!! 

Wowza, it's been an exciting week. All I've gotta say is that GOD IS REAL!!!! Funny story... I'm in a trio again hahaha!! My companions are Sister Dangerfield, who has been here 8 months, and Sister Gilbert who is leaving in a week!! I love them so much they have been so kind to me.

Here is our "set up" for our online teaching! 

This week has been an adventure with being in a different place with different people and being stuck inside all day. I am in an area called Casa Grande, about halfway between the Phoenix area and Tucson. 

Here is what our normal daily schedule is like:

• 6:30 we wake up, workout, eat breakfast, get ready for the day, do our daily planning, and have our personal study until around 10.
• After that we have what our mission calls the Tempe Trumpet, which is where all missionaries get on anzoom call together and missionaries take turns sharing miracles and we have someone give a thought. That usually lasts about half an hour.
• Around 10:30 we have companion study for an hour and then after that is when the fun begins.
• We call people ALL DAY LONG!!!! We either have a scheduled call or just call randomly and share messages with people, teach lessons, or just talk to them and get to know them and help them through this hard time in quarantine. 
• We get lunch and dinner around the times you normally do and members from the local ward bring us dinner every night which is so nice of them!! Then we have a group call with our district and talk about happened and during our day. Then we get ready for bed and chill. 

One funny experience we had this week:

Some Elders who are Spanish speaking Elders got an English speaking investigator and they transferred him to us. All we knew was his name and his number, so we called him. We asked for Dorian and the the guy on the other side said that wasn't who it was... instead, it was a guy named Demitri and we were pretty confused, but just went with it. We then asked if he knew anyone who needed a message of hope and peace, he surprising said yes!! He told us about his friend Shawn and gave us is number. So then we texted Shawn. Yeah, he said he didn't know a Demitri... LOL so we just shared a scripture and he never responded back lol.

The sign says "Day 47" of quarantine for these sisters! 

A really cool experience from this week:

We have an investigator named Jesse and we decided to call him last night. He answered super fast, but long story short we started talking about 2 Nephi 31 in The Book of Mormon which talks all about faith, repentance, baptism, gift of the holy ghost, and enduring to the end. We read some scriptures together and we all shared what we liked about these scriptures and then he was talking all about baptism. We asked him how he has seen God answer his prayers and he then told us that he was praying to God right before we called asking what his next step in life should be. AND NOW HE'S PRAYING FOR A BAPTISM DATE!!! He's awesome! We are calling him tomorrow to set up a date! Miracles are REAL!! 

Even though it is hard not being in Brazil, there have been many miracles for me there that helps me to not feel too homesick for Brazil. I know that God has a plan for everyone and sometimes we may not understand why some things happen to us, but with faith and prayer, we can do all things!! 

Love you all so much!!

Love Sister Guilott ♡ 

Simple things like Cheerios can bring joy!

We live with another companionship of sisters - so there are five of us!

We got up early today (4:00 AM since its cooler early)
to go on a hike with our district. 

It looks different here than Brazil....but a different type of beauty.

Happy to be with such kind companions! 

Thankful for an air-conditioned apartment - it's only May!!!!

Week #15 - Reassigned: Tempe Arizona, Here I Come!

Monday, March 4, 2020

"....reassigned to the Temple Arizona Mission! So excited!" 

Airport good-bye #2 

Only one person could come in the airport
with me if I "needed assistance." haha

God be with you 'til we meet again!

Hello Again! 

Last Tuesday at 7:52 PM my dad answered a FaceTime Video call from our Stake President. At first my dad thought he had forgotten about a meeting, but then the President asked for me….and had received my REASSIGNMENT!!!! I am being temporarily reassigned to the Tempe Arizona Mission, leaving tomorrow morning (5/5/20) and I am so excited! I quickly emailed all my friends who were missionaries who had come home because of Covid-19 asking if they had new assignments. No one else had one! It was just me hahaha! Since then, many others have received their reassignments, and over the next few months, hopefully all the missionaries can go back out to serve as a full-time missionary. 

"re" set-apart as a missionary on Sunday 5/3/20

My companions while I was home! :) 

I am so excited to continue to be a missionary in Arizona. It doesn’t matter where you are called, just as long as you are doing the Lord’s work by bringing others under Him. I am excited to preach in my native language and still continue studying Portuguese to hopefully return one day to Brazil. If the pandemic calms down in Brazil, there is a chance I could go back, but my focus now is in Tempe. The one bummer is that Nicole is having her baby in three weeks. I MISS MY NEPHEW BY THREE WEEKS! That just shows how true this gospel is, that I am willing to sacrifice meeting my first nephew to serve others and bring them the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.

Love,

Sister Guilott

I got to visit Nicole and Landon with my family while I was home!
Three weeks and I am an aunt!!

My time home was exactly as long as a normal transfer!