It is great to hear that you all had a great week and some were able to spend time at a family reunion. I look forward to those in the future. After all Family is ordained of God... But we are His favorite!
As far as this week goes we were able to have a lot of exciting things happen! The first exciting thing is that we just ended a transfer and I got notified that I am transferring. We don't find out until tomorrow where we are going and who we are going to be with but we will see how it goes. Transfers are always exciting.
The family from Guam have been doing good. It was Alecia's (mother) birthday this past week so the senior missionary couple who are good friends with her took us all out for ice cream. They were not able to come to church due to Alecia being called into work last minute. Satan works so hard! They have a baptismal date of the 20th and are looking forward to it.
We got a media referral this past week of a lady named Jada. We called her and set up an appointment and had a lesson on Friday and she asked if we could get her a ride to church and we said of course. She came to church on Sunday and loved it. It was fast and testimony meeting and she got up and bore her testimony... That was a first for me.
This week we had 12 people that were all confirmed for coming to church as of Saturday and then Sunday came around and all but 3 fell through or had something come up that they couldnt make it to church. Its amazing how much power that Satan has on the lives of the people that we teach. After every contact we have with people Satan works double as hard to try and get them to forget about the spiritual time they had with us. It is not something that is unusaul though, it has always happened all throughout time in the scriptures. Moses and the Israelites were able to witness a huge miracle of a sea parting and then later when Moses came down from talking with the Lord on a mountain top only to find his people worshiping a golden calf. They had forgotten the Miracle they had just been able to see and fallen into transgression. Satan has a lot of power. We need to be on our toes at all times and be sure to constantly examine ourselves and our own personal commitment to follow the Lord. If we do so, we will "prosper exceedingly" the scriptures say.
I love you all and thank you all for your prayers and love,
Elder Gardner
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