Hello everyone!
Sitting down right
now, I can't even remember any of the things I wanted to talk about in this
email. Sorry guys. This might be a little scatter-brained. We had a really good
week though! Lots of teaching. We are so blessed.
Favorite Spiritual
Moment:
On Saturday, we got to
take a couple of recent converts in the YSA ward to do temple baptisms! There
were two recent converts, Ramin and Qaseem, and a friend of theirs from the
ward, Nancy, came too. It was super cool! Qaseem had never been to the temple
before, and Ramin had only been once. They both got to be baptized, and also
got to baptize for their first times. They both did a really great job! It was
so cool to get to see them in the temple and to feel the Spirit there. As you
may have guessed from their names, both Ramin and Qaseem were not exactly
Christian before they were baptized; one of Qaseem's parents were Muslim, even
though Qaseem himself didn't really practice it, and Ramin is straight from
Iran. It was so amazing to see them in the font, knowing where they came from
and what they've been through in order to receive the gospel and to know that
this really is for everyone. I just kept thinking about how cool it will be
when they get to baptize their kids someday. We also ran into an Elder from the
San Fernando mission who ended up in Bakersfield, so that was kind of fun. It
took me way to long to figure out that we're not in the same mission anymore,
haha.
We also had a really
good lesson with this Jewish kid named Coby. He loved the Restoration! Hearing
Joseph Smith's story helped him to open up to us about a lot of things. He
basically already believes this church is where he needs to be. It's so cool!
Favorite Fun Things:
I found out a few
weeks ago that Sister Jarvis has never been to Taco Bell. I happen to have
pretty much grown up on Taco Bell, so that was a pretty shocking thing to hear.
Ever since I found out, it has been a goal of mine to get Sister Jarvis to Taco
Bell. Well, Saturday was the day! Sister Jarvis had Taco Bell for the first
time in her life, and she liked it. Apparently I like Taco Bell a little too
much though, because I could tell her about pretty much every option on the
menu, haha.
I hope everybody has a
super great week! Stay happy!
Love,
Sister Garfield
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| This is a little crooked... Sorry |
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Sister Picture! Sister
Wood, Sister Pinter, Hermana Proteau, Hermana Giles, Sister Jarvis, and me.
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| For the FHE activity in YSA, there was a game night at the Institute
Building. Jason came too! We played a game of pool. |
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And I won. ; )
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| Jason taking a shot. |
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| A view of the valley from the top of our area. |
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| Us before a dinner appointment in this random trailer park at the top of
a mountain. |
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YSAs. ; )
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| Temple Baptism trip! |
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| Sister Jarvis' first ever Taco Bell experience |
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Mission accomplished!
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| And she even liked it. ; ) |
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| Same day, but at the visitor's center. Matt, Ramin, Qaseem, Nancy,
Sister Jarvis, and me. |
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Qaseem being Qaseem.
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Trying a pretty fancy
maneuver to get out of the parking space. (That's not even the closest I got,
haha)
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For whatever reason,
every time we have district council, we always end up with a bunch of random
food. So this is us being missionaries and eating a lot.
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| Us with this really cool deaf member of our ward, Jade. |
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| More taco bell. |
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