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Week 6 - baptisms

This week was absolutely amazing and ended on two even more amazing notes. We started teaching 5 new people this week. It was nuts! We definitely didn't think we'd get that many and honestly Heavenly Father did most of the work, we just get to participate in helping them along the covenant path.

On Sunday we had two baptisms after church! They were two siblings, 9 and 11, named A and K. Teaching them and helping them to get on the covenant path has been amazing and I'm so excited to continue to help be a guide. They get confirmed this next Sunday before Christmas and I'm looking forward to other people we are teaching getting to see that happen!

The rainy season is in full swing, aka winter. As were on bikes it's been fun to deal with that and then no fenders, but luckily we just got fenders!! Wahoo! I'm so excited not to have a stripe of water, oil, and dirt up my back and on my backpack.

But I have been learning a really big lesson. That even though you feel like crap and life doesn't seem to be moving in the way that you want it to, if you keep going things will get better. No matter what Heavenly Father knows you and has a plan for you and you might not see what that is now, if you trust Heavenly Father and have faith in Christ, things will be okay. This scripture come to mind everytime, "Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil." I'm not quite at the end of what I'm going through, but this thought has gotten me through.

Remember God and Jesus Christ love you and They have a plan for you. Trust them and they will get you through every trial you go through.

Muchas bendiciones para ti!

Sister Gibb








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