Macey Gates: Sister Macey Gates // Week Sixty-Eight

This week was all of the above haha it was super great! We have been so so busy! To start off the week, monday night we were picking up a team up and when she shut the door it wouldn't close. The latch broke. So we seat belted it in haha thats the best thing we could come up with. When we took it in the next day to the shop they were very impressed with what we came up with haha So we pretty much drove around for a couple days with the door slightly swinging open when we turn corners haha BUT we got it fixed! And after we picked up the car, we drove home and the drivers side window is broken hahaha of course that would happen! Its been a great experience with our car haha This week me and hermana Juarez made guacamole, SO GOOD!! We also had MLC-Mission Leadership Council, it was awesome. We were doing accountability, talking about our gators and setting baptismal goals and new investigator goals and the AP's asked us what we wanted our goals to be and without us even saying anything they made our goals for us haha so our goal for the month is 3 baptisms and 5 new gators every week... the same as their goal. We were the only companionship they did that too so it helped us to see the faith that they had in our companionship. This week we ended up finding 8 new gators! Wednesday i gained a testimony on never giving up. The whole morning we got calls from people canceling their appointments, and all of them were canceled. We were so sad but we decided to just get out and work. At the end of the night we realized that we had reached our goals. It was AWESOME. NEVER GIVE UP. We also had the chance this week to teach the bible class and also young women's, i loved it! And we are starting exchanges this week!! The other day we went out walking to find new gators. As we were walking I saw a lady named Terry in her yard pulling weeds and i had been praying for more opportunities to give service and so it was an answer to my prayers. She let us pull weeds with her for a little and it was a good chance to get to know her. She told us about her girls, they are avoiding her. It was so sad to hear that but we were able to help her realized that her example will pay off, that if she keeps trying her girls will see that. We testified to her that she is a daughter of God that he loves her more than she can imagine. She told us she knew we were sent to her for a reason cause she needed to hear that. If an opportunity comes to serve.. take it! And at the end she agreed to let the english missionaries come teach her. As for our gators, Dario, the one that gave us the shrimp, we pretty much dropped him. We tried teaching him and all he wanted was to prove and tell us we were wrong. He told us that he wanted to know what our religion was about but that wasn't his intent. He would not even open the BOM. But we were blessed and found lots of new gators this week! We are working with 2 girls named Lindsey(17) and Abbey(14) Valenzuela and they came to church and loved it! We invited them to be baptized but their grandparents have hard hearts and are really set on the catholic religion but they know this is true so please pray for them! And we have been working on a dad of a part member family. The other Hermana's told us they tried so hard to put him on date and he wouldn't accept. Well saturday night i couldn't leave that house without putting him on date. He was super hesitant at first but you just have to be very persistent. And guess what... WE PUT HIM ON DATE!!!!!!!!!! He is on date for the 22nd. So PLEASE pray for him too. His name is Rigo Jaime! I absolutely LOVE this gospel. I KNOW this church is true! Have a great week everybody!! LOVE YOU!!!

Hermanita Gates:)