E-mail dated 10/22/18

Kamusta Kamo???

How are you all doing?? Another week has gone by and it has been a great one! I was glad to hear from all of you and I especially love getting all of the pictures! I was glad to hear all about the Utes and Jazz! Wahoo that is exciting!! 

So this week has been a pretty busy one again! This week we had a zone Conference and zone interview! Zone conference on thursday was good, we had the opportunity to give a training in front of 4 zones (like 40 plus missionaries), which is not my favorite thing to do, but it went actually okay! We gave a training about decision making. That was only my second time giving training at zone conference, so hopefully I will get more and more comfortable if I have to do it again. For a good part of the week, we were focused on the baptism of the Gabawa family. Preparing everything and also teaching them to make sure they are prepared.

Then on Saturday was the highlight of our week! Sister Leah and Jillean Gabawa were baptized! I had the opportunity to baptize sister Jillean (9yrs old) and Elder Tolentino baptized her mom sister Leah Gabawa! It was so rewarding to see how happy and excited they were to be baptized and even better to see how happy they were after they were baptized! Actually my experience baptizing Jillean was kind of funny. So jillean is this super funny little 9yo, she always asks like a million questions during the lessons. So the funny part at her baptism was as soon as she steps in the font she bends her knees so that only her head is above water and basically starts to swim while saying "nami ni" (this is nice) haha. But once she finally cooperated she was baptized. It was cool to hear sister Leah's testimony and especially her goal to help her husband become a member, who we have now extended a date for Nov 24! It is awesome, it is our goal and sister Leah's goal for them to be a complete family and eventually go to the temple! I know that all things are possible ad I have a strong hope that brother gabawa will be baptized as well. He came to church for the first time this week! It makes me happy that I am sharing this gospel that makes our family so awesome to other families! 

Sorry the email is kind of short, but I hope you all enjoy reading my emails! I am blessed to be able to serve here, it is such a great opportunity to be a missionary!  I love you all and that should do it for this week! 

Palangga ko kamo!

Elder Degen