Monday, October 12, 2015

We Are a Forward Leaning Mission!

Hey family!

This week has been awesome! We've done a lot of work and we feel great! We were so tired last night from biking, walking, and all the fun stuff we do. It's a blast!

If I could capture a moment in my mission one of them would have to be Sister Nielson and I flying down a hill on our bikes singing "I Believe I Can Fly" while resting our feet on the bar above the peddles. There's tons of hills! I remember when I saw sister Wittwer do that for the first time I thought she was going to fall off her bike! I know this is a good work we are doing.

We did a lot of following up with people this week. Some people stood us up some people were there! It was awesome!

Our friend D who we have been teaching for the past two transfers said she would come to church on Wednesday! We teach Principles of the Gospel that day with the Elders. Almost every church here has a service on Wednesday. This is huge for D to come to church because she loves her church but has been feeling the spirit in every lesson we've had! She got an answer that it was true but now she's praying about if this is where she needs to be. She is so good at receiving answers she'll have it in no time:) We are excited:)

Zone training was awesome! We played a name game that everyone should play before you die. Everyone stands in a circle and one person points to another person, says their name and starts to walk towards them. If the person pointing and walking touches the person before they say another name and walk then they are out. It's too fun:) I almost won!

Our zone training was a lot about relationships this time around. President Hanks is always looking to help us be better people not only better missionaries. I prayed to know how I could better my relationship's with other and I got the impression to have a better relationship with my Heavenly Father first. So I talked to him in my prayer like my best friend told him some jokes and laughed and it made a world of a difference. People her in the South are so good at that. They will talk to God anywhere they are! Loud and proud:)

Well I love y'all and hope you have a fantastic week!

Steadfast in Christ
Love, Sister Gibbs

P.S. WE FOUND OUR FAMILY!!!!!!! Yes, the family that we posted all over our house in stick figure form! Sister Nielson and I were walking into Dollar General and we past this family who was in the parking lot. The Holy Ghost said you need to talk to that family but we were already past them! TOAST! We turned right around and shook their hands. It's amazing what a handshake can do. It melted a little of the awkward. As we asked some questions to get to know them we scanned the family and sure enough there are two boys, 1 girl, and the dad was wearing a Bama shirt. He was waiting to get tickets to the game! The Mom was close by too. We told them we could share a message with their kids about Jesus and they were super hesitant. We wouldn't take no for an answer while trying to be as "normal" as possible. Part of me wanted to yell, "We've been looking for you everywhere!!!!!! Come, everyone let's get baptized. :) We have an appointment with them on Saturday:)

Biking up super steep hills- they are everywhere here!!
 I hope you can see how steep that hill is- cause I about died.


Sister ??, Sister Anderl, Sister, Nielsen, and Sister Gibbs


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