Week #45 - Thanksgiving in YUMA

 Monday, November 30, 2020

What. A. Week!!

Honestly, so many crazy things happened this week!! I'll try to write them all hahaha. But let me just tell ya... being a missionary is honestly the BEST thing ever!! Alrighty here's the fun stuff from this week:

Last Monday night we were chilling, calling some people, and then we got a self referral! Meaning someone either went online or reached out to SLC and wanted to learn more. And his name is Gee. He has a craaaaazy story lol but we are probably going to start teaching him... we will see... 

We have been inviting a lot of our YSA members to hand out copies of the Book of Mormon to people, and our friend Mark DID!! it was awesome. And his friend he gave it to, he asked if he also wanted to talk with the missionaries.... AND HE SAID YES!!! There are so many people out there who are ready and willing to hear the gospel, but just need to be asked. So go ask someone to learn more! We have a lesson set up with him for this next week and we are so excited to meet him and get to know him better. 

We have this one friend named Manny. He has been a member for a little over a year, and is soooo awesome. He is wanting to go on a mission, so we've been meeting with him to see how we can help him spiritually prepare. We were asking him is he had any questions about church and he had such a good question! He asked us about living with our families forever, but if they didn't make the promises here on earth in order to be with them forever. He knew about baptisms for the dead (proxy baptism for those who have passed on done in the temple) but he didn't know that we could be proxy for other promises, like sealings!! He literally was so amazed he couldn't believe it! It was a cool experience. And then we invites him to hand out a Book of Mormon to someone, and had him pray right there to do it and he did... and he thought of someone! So now he is waiting until he sees him again to give one to him. YAY!! 

Crazy story time.... we were driving home from dropping off a cake to someone, and then a baby kitten runs in front of our car and almost gets run over by other cars, so us being girls get out of the car and try to save the baby kitten. Then it get STUCK IN OUR TIRE! WHAT?!?! Not dead, but stuck behind it and we couldn't get it out for like 20 minutes. We finally got it out, took it to a members house, and found out that member was super allergic to cats lol. She gave us the name and number for a lady to go give it to who LOOOVES cats (and also isnt a member) until we would find a place for the cat. We called this lady the next day, and she tells us how she got but by the cat... how it is feral... and how she is being rushed to the urgent care because the bite got infected... WHAT?!?! Anyways.... don't go picking up random cats lol. Pray for Denice that she's okay lol.

This week we also had Thanksgiving! It was so much fun. We went to 2 dinners, one of them was with the marines who didnt got home and the other was with this cute older couple! But honestly it was so much fun and I am grateful for so many things. For my family, being a missionary, the Book of Mormon, and Modern day prophet, and of course... Jesus Christ. I love being able to represent Him and learn more about Him!! 

♡Sister Guilott♡

Week #44 - Star Wars is in YUMA

 Monday, November 23, 2020

OLA GENTE!! Wowza what a week. We saw a lot of hardships that turned into miracles this past week. But let me tell ya, I love being a missionary because I get to talk about my SAVIOR!! Anywho... here's some more about my week!

This week were able to help out with FHE with all the YSA and it was honestly so fun... I love being in the YSA because they're all fun and energetic. We played a Book of Mormon family feud type of game. It was a blast and a lot of people came to it.

We have a friend we have been teaching for a while and she told us she didn't want to he taught anymore... it was honestly super hard, because she believed in everything we were saying but just got scared. This just showed me how important it is to have faith and to act according to your faith. Even though it was a sad experience, we taught with so much unity and we actually all shed some tears. Because it's hard when you see someone decided to make a decision that would've help them so much. 

We've been teaching Edwin, and he's on date for baptism (it was in November, but now it's the beginning of December). We met Edwin at the food bank. He is there because of the National Guard and that's where they are stationed. But we found out that the National Guard are leaving beginning of December... so Edwin will be going back to Phoenix so we won't be able to teach him anymore and we decided that it wouldn't be fair to have him get baptized here, and then move like 3 days later. So we will probably hold off on his baptism until he is in Phoenix. But everyone, continue to pray for him!! 

Me and sis Hartley and sis Martin spend a lot of time at the church building, just because it is nice to have a change of scenery. Anywho, for some weird reason a lot of random people like to hangout there. Probably because they feel the happiness there of the spirit. But we met this one guy who got baptized a couple years ago, and he is now living in his truck. We don't remember his name but we are going to have a lesson with him! We call him random church guy hahah. So keep random church guy in your prayers. 

We went to the sand dunes today where star wars was filmed... it was SICK!! I literally walked where Luke Skywalker did... pretty cool... we also went shopping with our friend Kathryn who is starting to come back to church. She's awesome. 

Honestly this week was hard, but we saw SOOO many miracles!! Keep the faith and you can see miracles as well. Keep praying for Mark so he can get baptized!! 

♡Sista Guilott♡ 

Week #43 - Miracles in YUMA and Teaching a Lesson with a General Authority

 Monday, November 16, 2020

Wooooooooowwww what a week. Honestly so many cool miracles from this past week I don't know what I'll have room to share about lol. Let me just start off by saying how much I LOVE MY COMPANIONS!! We all get along so well, and have so many inside jokes. We also think were the funniest people ever lol... anywho, let's get to some miracles.... 

We have our friend we are teaching named Edwin and he is awesome. He is in the national guard and he works at the food bank right now. Anyways, we actually had a lesson with him last Monday and we talked about baptism... HE'S GONNA BE BAPTIZED!! He told us how much he wants to be baptized, so we put him on date for baptism for November 28th and we couldn't be more excited for him. He is honestly so ready to make this promise with his Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. We had like 2 more lessons with him, and it was such an amazing miracle. 

With Edwin

So we had a goal of getting a couple new people to teach this week, and we hadn't done too much to put an effort into that.... so fast forward to Sunday night and it's 8:59 pm, a minute before our day ends and we decide to call one more person. We had the faith to get one more lesson, and the faith to get a new person to teach. We call this guy Daniel and he answers and next thing you know, 20 minutes later we had our final lesson, had shared a scripture and talked about repentance, and we set up a return appointment. It. Was. Awesome. That shows ya right there what happens when you have FAITH!! 

We have another fun person were talking to. Her name is Kathryn and she is a member that is wanting to come back to church! So we had this lesson with her this last week, and honestly it was one of the more spiritual lessons I've ever had. She opened up a lot to us about her struggles, and how she wants to better understand how God loves her. Well we shared our testimonies of the Book of Mormon and of praying to feel God's love more. Sister Martin, one of my companions, actually had a really cool experience that related to Kathryn SO MUCH! Man. The spirit was so strong. And then all of a sudden the next day, we get a text from Kathryn's grandpa and we were a little scared at first... turns out he's a super active member and he was just thanking us for helping his granddaughter. That was super cool as well lol.

Shopping with Katheryn!

Alrighty here's such a cool miracle. Make sure you're sitting down to read it... so I mentioned last week our friend Mark... well we got a call from the assistants and they told us Elder Alliaud of the 70 was going to join one of our lessons. WHAT?! We had been praying that that could've happened, and it did! Yay! We tried to call and text Mark and he wouldn't answer and that made us really nervous. We decided to call him with *67, and he answered... turns out he thought we ghosted him but he actually blocked us by mistake WHAT ×2!!! Flash forward to this last Thursday and we had a lesson with a general authority... WHAT ×3! The spirit was so strong and so amazing and we know that Mark will be baptized. 

Honestly, this week showed me how important praying with faith is. Everyone... GO PRAY WITH FAITH! love you all! Keep Mark in your prayers :))

♡Sista Guilott♡