Dear family,
It has been another great week here in this area.
There have been some exciting things happen this week. Hopefully I can
remember everything.
The first and most exciting thing is that we went to the
temple with R. this week! We went on Friday afternoon and one of his
fellowships came with us. We were not allowed to do baptisms with him,
but we were able to go and watch. We were able to explain to him what was
going on and answer his questions. He had an amazing experience! On
the ride back he was telling us how great it felt. He told us that every
time he came out of the water he was excited to see what the next name would
be. He was also asking questions about being sealed as a family.
He is really excited about that. He just did temple names, but he wants
to do his family history and start doing his family names. Hopefully we
can find someone in the ward that can come and help him get started and help
him along the way.
We also had a mission choir performance on Thursday.
The idea behind this one was to teach the Restoration through song. So we
sang songs about the different principles in that lesson. There were different group numbers, solos, and they showed some short Mormon
messages. I ended up being in a quintet. We didn't have that much
practice time, but it went well. We had an investigator come and a less
active member come. They really enjoyed it. The less active member
enjoyed it so much that she told us that we have to tell her about the
next one. We are going to do the same program again next Sunday and then
we will do a Christmas one in December.
The investigator that came to the choir performance lives
in the same apartment complex as us and she just
recently moved her from Michigan (She doesn't like the cold). She is
an older single lady and some people call her grandma cookie. I probably
already mentioned her before in another letter. She went to
the Phoenix temple open house. We were able to teach her the first
lesson this week. Unfortunately, I was on exchanges that day, but I heard
it went great!
I think I also mentioned in a previous letter that there
are many foreigners that live in the same apartment complex as us. They
are here for flight school and come from all parts of the world. I guess
Arizona has cheap pilot training and perfect weather. We talked to a man
from China this week and he wanted to come to church. We gave him a
pamphlet (we happened to have one in Chinese) because there was
a little bit of a communication barrier. Well they came to church this
Sunday! Luckily there is a member that went to Taiwan on his mission and
was able to communicate with them a little bit. They want to
come back next week so hopefully there is some way that they can be
taught. I believe there is an elder in the mission that lived in Taiwan
and can teach them in Chinese.
The members are starting to ask me if the mission
president forgot I was here. There have been some snow birds coming back
from their summer homes and wondering if I have left and come back. Most
of them say I am just never going to leave and now I'm just a part of the
ward. I would be all right with that.
I love being a missionary and all the amazing miracles
that we see in this amazing work! I'm grateful for this opportunity that
I have to be here. I know that Christ lives and is our Savior. It
is an incredible blessing to know that.
Thank you for all of your prayers. I love you all so
much!
Love,
Elder Joshua
Gandy
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