Thursday, January 31, 2013

New Areas: Selma & Reedley



Hey Family!

It's been a busy week. As you know I was transferred down south to the Selma 2/Reedley area. I love it here. Of course I miss Ceres, but there is just something unique and lovable about each area. My area is huge due to stake (a Mormon territorial jurisdiction comprising a group of wards) boundaries being recently changed a lot. We are right behind the Sanger Mountain, and right next to the Sequoias. It's pretty sweet. And the work is going great.

We taught a lady named S. and her two kids the other day. She's awesome. She attends the English classes that we hold on Thursday nights. But the whole family came to church yesterday, which was awesome. And the branch fell in love with her and her kids. So she has super good fellowshiper now. And after church we took her over to show her the baptismal font and teach her a little about it. And she and her kids were feeling the spirit super strong. They accepted to be baptized this Sunday after stake conference! It was a great miracle.

We are also teaching a family named M. and J. and their two kids. They are awesome too! We taught them the first lesson last Thursday and we were only planning on teaching up until the apostasy, but the spirit changed it and we ended up continuing on with Joseph Smith. And the spirit absolutely filled the room. It was awesome. All four of them accepted to be baptized on the 3rd of March!

Lots of rain :(
We will also have a baptism on February 23rd of a little 9-year-old girl named K. She's great too. We are having a ton of fun here just working hard and teaching all day. We currently have 8 baptismal dates that all look great. So we're doing pretty good.

My new companion, Elder Scoffield, is way awesome. He's from Pocatello, Idaho. He is the district leader. And my assignment is something President Gelwix just started. It's called a leadership trainer. And I basically just shadow over him and help him, as this is the first time being the district leader. I love this new assignment. It's seriously so much fun.

Take Care!

Love,

Elder Gygi



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