Last week

This week I had my last Zone Conference on Wednesday and my last interviews with President on Tuesday.   Thursday and Friday I was in bed with a stomach infection!  This area is killing me!  HA!

Sunday we went with our new convert, Tomas, and his family to a chapel right next to the Temple for a fireside with our Mission President.  Tomas and his girlfriend got married but we couldn't go to the wedding because it was too far and we had Zone Conference.  The little boy in the pictures is the son of Tomas' girlfriend (now wife)!  

We have started teaching a man named Carlos.  He has been to church a couple times.  We are also teaching his mom.  He is a fisherman and dance teacher.  He fishes by scuba diving underwater with a harpoon!  He is really chill ... but just has to work on committing to the Word of Wisdom. 

Love, Elder Gurney

It was a great week!  The highlight was the baptism of Tomas!  His soon to be father-in-law baptized him.   He is awesome!  Right after they gave him the priesthood, he offered to take the sacrament to a few people!  They are planning on getting married the beginning of August.  I'm not sure if I will be here or not. 

We found a few more people to teach .. and two of them made it to church on Sunday.  The work here is growing!! 

Our Bishop invited us over to make pizza!!   It was a fun night! 

Love, Elder Gurney

Tomas

Hi Everyone!
This week was good!  We had two investigators come to church on Sunday!  One is name Tomas.  He is from Spain.  He has been taking the lessons in Spain but is finishing them with us.  His girlfriend is a member and lives in our area.  He came here to get baptized.   He is scheduled to get baptized this Saturday!!

with Tomas

With Tomas and his girlfriend!

Today we had a zone activity ... waffles followed by a water balloon fight!  As always ... it is really hot (and humid) so it was nice to get hit by a water balloon!

Have a great week!
Love, Elder Gurney

July

Hi Everyone!

This week we were busy moving stuff ... an area was closed so we had to go take all of the stuff out of their apartment and move it into our house.  After we finished moving everything, we tried to leave our house but the doorknob wouldn't work.  We could turn the handle but the door wouldn't open.  So .. we were locked inside our own house!

It was pretty funny!!   I pulled out my engineering skills and tied a string to one of the stakes on our garage door.  It is locked but we can now pull it open and climb out.  We just have to be careful because we don't have keys to the garage door! 

It has been especially hot this week.  Most of our conversations start with people asking us how we can walk around in the heat all day! Thankfully, the church building has air conditioning!   We did find a few more people to teach ... but no one made it to church!  Hopefully this week!

A member made us tacos!!!

Zone Conference!

Have a great week!

Love, Elder Gurney