Mom - Well it sounds like you had a
good time dealing with the weather haha. It's interesting to think that the
school district gave a snow day AND a late start. Wow! I don't think I ever got
a snow day in my life! Haha And yeah, that lady (Sis. Snow) was visiting at the San Juan
Stake Conference, and she took a picture of all the missionaries there to send
to the moms because apparently her son doesn't send her any pics from his
mission, so she was just helping out all the moms. And I must admit, it's a
good thing, because this week I didn't take a single picture... :S Sorry!! I'll
do better this week though.
Dad - WOW. I must say, I'm glad I
don't have to drive on that nightmare that is black ice. Yikes. Sounds like
you're having a good time with that ;) But that concert with George Strait
sounds like it would be fun. His last tour, huh? Well I hope it was a good
show, then! And at least you still have the Bushes to keep you on your toes,
right?
Anyway, this week was a blur to be
honest. I know we did a lot of stuff and I tried to write some of it down, and
I'll try and fill you in right now. :) One fun thing we did was we rode with a
bunch of professional bikers on Friday morning. There was this thing here in PR
called "La Vuelta de Puerto Rico," which was a bike ride that started
in San Juan and went all the way around the island in 3 days, and President
(the eccentric man that he is), wanted all the missionaries that were in the
pueblos they passed through to ride along with them (pretending they were going
to a cita or something), so the cameras around would catch the Mormon
missionaries and we'd get some exposure that way. It was a great idea, but it
started at 5:30 a.m. in Old San Juan. So Elder Udall, Elder Peacock, and I,
went to Santurce at 5:30 in the morning and started riding along with them! It
was crazy!! They were all Americans haha, and they were all saying stuff like
"Watch out boys, there's a bunch more of us," and all that jazz. One
guy looked at us and in this macho voice said "Join us! We're going 155
miles! There's 450 of us! Join us!" Haha it was hysterical. We rode for a
bit and people got pics and then we ate at Kasalta, this little bakery where
apparently Obama ate when he came to PR. We actually sat at the same table
(there was a plaque that said so), so that was interesting.
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| With Elder Udall |
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| With Elder Peacock |
On Thursday I did my first baptismal
interview, and on Saturday, she was baptized! That was a cool experience.
Saturday was also a wedding of two ward members, and I was asked to play the
bridal march. So… I played the Bridal March. It was fun, and I'm realizing that
I'm getting some good training in to go and play the piano at like a hotel or
something, since I've been playing the piano so much lately haha. But that was
good. Other than all that, we had a few good lessons this week, and we taught
this really sweet lady named Martha. She's really open and is really receptive
to the lessons. She'll definitely get baptized once she knows it's all true. :)
She's great! There's also this one other lady named Juberkis I think it was,
and she's really great too. We have some really great investigators - they just
need to act and do their part and they'll feel the Spirit and get baptized.
Anyway, that's about it for the
week, I think. I love you all lots, and pray for you always! :) I'm sending a
package home just with extra stuff I don't need here, but will use when I get
home. You don't need to open it at all, but if you want to you can. It's
easiest if you just put the package in my room as it is for when I get home.
But yeah, I love you all very much!
Have a wonderful week, and I look forward to hearing from you soon!
Con mucho
amor,
Elder
Kimball Ray Gardner
Puerto Rico San Juan Mission
Such a wonderful days, continue what you have doing and God Bless!
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