Hello family!
Everyone be rest assured Im
safe. Thank you for your many words of caution. We wont be doing
anything stupid any time soon. Haha dad I enjoyed the whirlpool analogy,
just a classic sunday school lesson. But thank you all for the emails I
love reading them all. Also thank Bro and sis Christienson for their
package! that was incredibly nice and im very grateful for them. I cant
find his email or else Id thank them myself.
This week was interesting. We started out by having
zone conference in Lyon on tuesday. I got to see E. Hilburn from the mtc
so that was sweet. This transfers topic was all about prayer. I would
love to share some of the scriptures but Im in Grenoble right now so I
dont have my notes! But a lot of it was just about the power of praying
in groups and the God answers the prays of those who follow the
commandments. In 1 Pierre 3:12 it talks about how the Lord hears the
prayers of the righteous more than those of the wicked. Conference is
always super edifying and fun to see president and all the other
missionaries. Next conference, or the one after, Elder Anderson of the
quorum of the 12 will be coming and speaking to our mission. Im super
pumped to meet him and hear his words.
The week started out warm and hot but took a change
to fall pretty quick. The other day we had just finished teaching a
lesson with a member and we walked out of the appartment to be greeted
by a monsoon. We only had shirt sleeve shirts on but luckily I had an
umbrella in my bag. E Garland nor the member had one though. I took off
my tie and watch and all my pass along cards and threw them in my back
pack and then gave the umbrella to the member so he wouldnt get wet.
Then ran across town to our next RDV. It was freezing rain and went
haha. By the time we arrived at our amis house we were soaked to the
bone. Just drenched haha it was pretty fun. This week we picked up 5 new
amis and are starting to teach them. Hopefully we can get some of them
to start progressing towards baptism. We had 2 amis at church yesterday
and both participated and enjoyed it. Looking back I had a pretty
classic movie moment at church, but at the time it was terrible. I was
talking with Daniel one of our amis en progress and he was saying how
everyone is a lot nicer here and how most of the world is mean etc. and
it was going great! Then all of the sudden one of the members comes
crashing through the sacrament room doors and starts screaming at the
top of his lungs at another member, saying all manner of grave cuss
words. I looked back at our ami and his face had gone white. I quickly
tried to hurry him into the chapel. Haha im pretty sure if anyone can
witness something like that at church and continue to progress theyre
super elect! Luckily it seems like it didnt change any with our ami
haha.
Well I love you all! Thanks again for your emails I
love reading whats going on back home. I am grateful to have been
blessed with such a wonderful family. Im excited to be able to hang out
with you guys again someday. There arent enough nice words I can say to
you all.
Forever Love
Elder Gruber
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