Week #49 - Mission Christmas and Mission Birthday - 20 in 2020!

 Monday, December 28, 2020

Turning 20

MERRY CHRISTMAS!! Isn't it just the best time of the year? Everyone is just so happy and wanting to serve others. And that is what we did a lot of this week... SERVICE!! Being like our Savior and serving others is something us missionaries love to do, especially around this time of the year! Here are some fun things that happened this week...

Our mission has been doing more and more with technology and social media. One thing we did as a mission is that we had an ad go around on Facebook for people who wanted missionaries to come and carol to them! It was a hit! So Tuesday and Wednesday night we went caroling! And there were some people who signed up to have us carol to them! One person lived on the reservation, so we had to go christmas eve in the day time and they were so kind! Honestly brought the spirit so much and it was a cool way to spread the gospel. Especially through one of my favorite things... MUSIC! 

Christmas Caroling

Christmas day and Christmas eve were a blast!! We had 2 dinners christmas eve, and christmas. We hung out with some other missionaries, talked to our families, ate too much food hahaha. But honestly, it was an amazin day. 

Family on Christmas Day

Yesterday (Sunday) was a day full of MIRACLES! And it was also my bday woot woot! I am now the big 20 and it honestly didn't even feel like my birthday. But in was able to talk to my family for a little bit. But here's the cool miracle.... we started teaching this guy named Jordan, and he literally elect. Our elders quorum president in the YSA got back from his mission about 6 months ago, and he literally talks to everyone about the gospel. And Jordan is a really good family friend, so we went over to his families home and taught Jordan about the Restoration of the Gospel. He already has such a strong testimony. He told us that he wants to be baptized, that he wants to pray and read the Book of Mormon, and that he wants to meet with us like every other day hahaha. He is soooo cool! So keep him in your prayers! 

Our roommates go and volunteer at a horse place where they clean horses! Me and my comps haven't gone, mostly because horses are scary lol.. but our roommates met a marine there who wants to learn more about the church! YAY! So he actually ended up coming to church yesterday and he LOVED it! He is wanting to start bein taught and we're so excited about that!

We found out today that our friend Mark we've been teaching is going to get baptized on Wednesday! Yay! Honestly, we've been praying for him with every single prayer... SO EXCITING!! 

Thank you everyone for your kindness and love! I love being a missionary, and even though it gets a little hard around the holidays with missing home, I felt so much love this week. Especially talking about Jesus so much to people. This Christmas truly was centered on our Savior! 

♡Sister Guilott♡

Week #48 - 'Twas the week before Christmas

 Monday, December 21, 2020

This was another amazing week! The week before CHRISTMAS!! We are so pumped for Christmas down here in Yuma. Especially since it's not cold hahaha. I can wear a short sleeve shirt and still be fine! But the biggest blessing is that me and my companions are staying together! HOORAH! Here are some of the fun things that happened this week...

So... we've been trying to use Facebook more with proselyte and it's kind hard honestly. But my companion, Sister Martin, posted on a page about favorite Christmas treats! She ended up having soooo many people respond back to it. And then this Tuesday we got invited over to a lady's house and she taught us how to make toffee! SO FUN! She isn't a member, but told us her experience of how she came to know Christ in her life. She has such a crazy life, but loves God. We are hoping to go over more! 

This week we also started teaching our friend named Nathan! He is super cool. He random texted us asking how we were doing a couple weeks ago, and now he is wanting to learn more! He came to a service project, to church, and is coming to our YSA Christmas party tonight!! He is awesome! We also have Edwin we are teaching and he is praying about a date to be baptized... so pray for Edwin! 

On the 18th we had a Christmas day! It was fun. We had a devotional in the morning, a fun service project with the zone, a fun potluck dinner (we made a ham) and we played games and had another devotional that night. It was soooo much fun! 

Here's the biggest miracle from the week....

So we've been praying for Mark to be baptized! He has some stuff to overcome, so we've been inviting all our members to pray for him, our families, the mission. And soooo many people have been praying for him. We found out that there is a BIG possibility that Mark could enter the waters of baptism this week.... YAYAYAY! So whenever you pray, remember Mark! Pray for him to see this miracle and amazing Christmas present! 

Christmas is so fun and always brings so much happiness. I love this time of the year! Remember your Savior this week and the sacrifice He made for each of us! 

♡Sister Guilott♡

Week #47 - Gifts of the Season: A Giant Pizza

 Monday, December 14, 2020

This week was fantastic! Honestly not as much happened... don't get me wrong, it was eventful... but it felt more chill which was VERY NEEDED!! 

We got a new Elders Quorum President in our YSA ward and he is awesome! He got back from his mission in July, and gave one of his friends at school a Book of Mormon. We ended up meeting with him this past week and he is AWESOME! He is sooooooo interested in learning more about the gospel, so we are excited to start teaching him now!

We are now teaching Edwin again regularly. Right now he is praying for a day to be baptized... and we are super excited about that! We met with him this last week, and he came to our lesson with a GIANT pizza... like massive lol. And we asked him why he brought it and he told us it was his goodbye present to us...... because he was moving to Phoenix..... AND THEN HE SAID JUST KIDDING! We totally believed him though hahaha. He's a prankster, but he is so ready to be baptized. So keep Edwin in your prayers! 

This week we went over to a cute older couple's house and taught them a lesson. After the lesson, she invited us to come over the next day and decorate her christmas tree! It was soooo much fun. I usually hate decorating the Christmas tree at home hahah, but this was a lot of fun and made me realize it like doing that lol! 

We had a lesson with our awesome YSA converts, Jonathan and Alex and another returning member this weekend. We asked them what has helped them to feel the spirit the most in their life. And they said..... meeting with the missionaries. It honestly made me want to cry because of how adorable it was!! 

We also have been doing more Facebook finding! And we've seen lot of success with that! We are going over to a lady's house this next week to make toffee with her! We are honestly so excited! 

We also found out about transfers and me and my comps are staying together! Yay!

Another thing I have loved doing is light the world. I invite ALL OF YOU to participate in this amazing initiative that is from our prophet :)) 

♡Sister Guilott♡

Week #46 - Lighting the World in YUMA!

 Monday, December 7, 2020

Another great week here in Yuma! Here's just a couple of the wonderful miracles from this week....

Last week I talked about the National Guard and how they were leaving because they've been here for their amount of time they were called here. And we were honestly super bummed about that, because we were teaching so many cool people that would be leaving. So we've been praying for a miracle. Like a lot haha. And we got a text from one National Guard we've been helping to reactivate aaaaand..... THEY'RE STAYING!! We literally said goodbye to them, and then they told us that they are staying YAYAYAY!! God is a God of miracles (go read 2 Nephi 27:23)

Hurray for Service!

We had another cool miracle this week. We all of a sudden got a random text from a saved contact we've never talked to saying, "Hey, how are guys." Next thing you know we have a lesson set up with him for the next day. We meet with him and he is soooo cooooool and honestly super elect and ready to hear the message of the Restoration. 

We decided to try and have 40 lessons this week, it was a friendly competition with our District Leader haha. We ended up getting 39 and we are now EXHAUSTED holy cow. But the miracles we saw of sharing a message with that many people was absolutely amazing! We also did a lot of fun service and I'll share some pics with that.

Exhausted but happy!

I am so grateful for being a missionary. I know I say that every week, but it's always true. We've been inviting everyone here to participate in Light the World, so I want to invite all of you guys as well!! Here's one of my favorite scriptures that talks about that: "Therefore, hold up your light that it may shine unto the world. Behold I am the light which ye shall hold up—that which ye have seen me do. Behold ye see that I have prayed unto the Father, and ye all have witnessed." 3 Nephi 18:24

♡Sister Guilott♡

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♡