FAMILYYYYYYYY!!!!

This week was packed!  So many things happened.  But first off, I've
been thinking about you all a lot and I love you all tons.  I love the
pictures and seeing how you all are doing.  Glad that things are good
on the home front. :)

Okay.  So, last Monday.  First off, my comp and I got Jeremiah's.
Jeremiah's is this place where you get ice cream and/or italian ice.
It's basically happiness in a cup.  I got pumpkin pie and vanilla.  I
don't remember which was the ice cream and which was the italian ice.
But regardless, it was delicious!  We also ended up dropping another
investigator Monday night, so at that point, we had almost no one to
teach. Only one person that we were hopeful about.

Tuesday was temple service, and that's always fun.  And then, we saw a
couple less active members.  I met Bill!!  I talked about him last
week.  We really want to get him on a mission.  He's so cool.  His
parents are members of our ward and they are super nice!  And he has
two (or three?) younger brothers, too.  Such a nice family and we
brought Carlos to that lesson and they really seemed to hit it off.
Because they both work at Universal, too.  And then there's a couple
in our ward.  The Dengs.   Anyway, they're also really nice, and they definitely
still have belief in the church, we just gotta get them back!

Wednesday was Zone Conference.  Zone Conference is always fun.  Anyways, so Zone Conference was pretty boss.  Learned a TON.  An Elder here, Elder Johnson gave a crazy good training about prayer.  One part I loved is that he said just by getting
on our knees, we're acknowledging that we need our Heavenly Father's
help.  So, if we don't really know what to say, just hit our knees and
wait until the words come.  I could spend a whole lot of time talking
about Zone Conference, but that was the highlight.

Thursday we dropped another couple people.  But we got to see Carlos
Melo that night!  He's not the Carlos that calls us his angels.
That's Carlos Cruz.  Carlos Melo fed us brazilian bbq last time we
visited.  Basically, any time we want to go over and teach a lesson,
he prepares a full on meal for us!  This time was salmon and some
veggies and stuff.  SO GOOD!  He said next time, he'll make the steak
again.  I preferred the steak, but Sister Shelley likes the Salmon
better.

Friday was weekly planning. And that night, we met with LINO!!!!  The Elders contacted
us and said they had an investigator that was in our area and he
really wanted to be taught and had already been to church once or
twice.  So, we visit him and he's awesome!!  He's so solid. This is
what happens when you trust in the Lord. You drop all the people who
aren't super prepared, and amazing people just fall in our laps. :)
 Maria has already read True to the Faith. So, we wanted to give her
something really solid to read. So, we tell her about Jesus the
Christ. By the next day, she was on chapter 30...she's so cool!

Sunday, we had a concert!!! Marvin Goldstein and Vanessa Joy came and
performed. Brother Goldstein can play piano like a BOSS!! And the
whole mission was there.  So, I got to see Hermana Jones and Hermana
Webb. Hermana Ferreyra (the RS President of Windy Ridge) sat next to
me and I love her. And Maria came and brought her husband! They got
married a couple weeks ago. We really think he felt the Spirit. It was
amazing. They performed For Good from Wicked. I loved it.

Anyway, overall, really good week! Lots of miracles. AMAZING concert!!
Great comp talk!  LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! Miss
you like crazy!

Love,
Hermana Gneiting

New Blog for Kyrie

Ok.  Since I'm pretty much the world's worst at forwarding emails, I set up this blog for Kyrie so you can read all about her mission experiences in Florida.   Hopefully this way it will reach everyone who wants to read about what she's doing.  She loves you all!

Gaylene