The Adventures of Sister Guilott: Week #16

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 ♡