April 30, 2013

This week we spent like a solid two days trying to get a wedding for a couple that we are teaching marked, the wife is a member that we’re activated and the hubby is gonna be a Stake Pres when he gets baptized because he is a BOSS but well we kind of had a nice little slap in the face this week seeing as we paying some major cash to get both of their birth certificates here in Sao Paulo and it has taken over a month and now that we got that all figured out, we go to mark their wedding and well... turns out the guy got legally separated but not divorced....ouch. So that is gonna take another three months and 1000 reais to get him divorced so needless today we were a tad bit devastated.  But well the Lord is really blessing us in this area and well we have been teaching _____ family a ton lately seeing as we baptized _____ and then her sister _____ this last week...WOOOOOO :) and the Mom, knows the church is true and has for quite some time but isn’t married and her hubby wanted NOTHING to do with marriage so she never got baptized but well that night we went to their house and out of nowhere the Dad of the family looks at his wife and just says "let’s get married" and we all thought it was a joke because we had already tried talking about that with him and he really wanted nothing to do with marriage but well _____ almost starts crying and turns out he was serious and we went to get her birth certificate in Sao Bernardo this morning, his is coming from another state and so were gonna get them married in a couple weeks and then _____ is gonna get baptized and I know that the hubby will go to because he loves us now!  When everyone thought I was gonna leave last transfer he bought some cologne for me so soon enough he will be in the water too.  Hard things will ALWAYS happen in life because that’s why we’re here, to be tested, but if we do our part and push forward through the trails, that’s when the Lord can and will bless us. But like I said we had _____ baptism and it seems like something always goes wrong on baptism day,  the font turned off so we were filling up buckets of water back and forth from the bathroom to the font haha but it all worked out! Oh and we had Jedi counsel yesterday (ZL Counsel) and it was KILLER good!!! I always love that meeting because we get to decide what we are gonna implement in the mish and the training were on miracles and the importance of our callings and it was just wonderful but well I love you all!!!! Keep the emails coming! :) say your prayers, read your scrips, and don’t forget about me!

ELDER GUBLER

PS: everyone looks TOTALLY different then when from I left.... stop growing!

April 22, 2013

First thing, turns out I’m gonna stay here for another transfer and “I’ll end up "killing" my comp (sending him home).  We didn’t find out about the transfer until this morning because the Pres is a little stressed because the mission is gonna divide in a couple months so he’s trying so separate everyone up right now but to make a long story short, I love the people we are teaching in this area! We have some AMAZING investigators that I really didn’t want to leave and there is a family that is essentially just the greatest that helps up SOOO much so I really didn’t want to leave the area so I called the Pres and said that my knees are doing a ton better and that if he feels like I can, I would like to stay here in this area! He said that he was planning on sending me to the Baixada because he was worried about my knees but they really are doing better and frankly I wanted to end my mission with Pres and Sister Tanner because they are just the greatest ever! A few highlights of the week though, we have some amazing investigators that we are teaching. an old guy named _____ that is SUPER smart and well it seems like everything is starting to make sense in his head and well when he gets baptized pretty sure he’s gonna end up being the next Stake Pres and then we have a couple that we are gonna mark their marriage this week and then in two weeks after they get married SÓ ÁGUA!!!! :) then we have another couple, that the wife just showed up at church last week and she is ELECT, and we are teaching her and her hubby too they are gold and well we are really getting absurdly blessed by the Lord in this area! But I’m running out of time so sorry the email is super short but I love you all! I have yet to see these letters that have supposedly been sent... but we’ll keep the letters coming, they will show up soon enough! :) I love you all more than anything and I am so grateful to have had a family as great as you all!

ELDER GUBLER

April 15, 2013

My comp thought it was hilarious that you read his letter in Relief Society but he loved it! He really does speak great English.  When I got here he said he REALLY wanted to learn so at home we ONLY speak English and the kid has a gift because he is essentially fluent now and just a heads up he is gonna come visit after the mission to General Conference! I’ve already promised a few people some of those killer seats so just FYI might want to give a heads up to Grandpa and Grandma but well let’s get onto my week real fast.

First things first, we had _____ baptism on Friday because we just started doing weekly activities at the church like I did in Bertioga! We are starting that here and we had the baptism that night, the font took FOREVER to fill up and the water heater is broken so it was nice and freezing but we also did a treasure hunt for the activity and that was a huge hit which is good because it took some serious time to plan and set up! We also hit up the temple this week which was GREAT!!! I love that place.....I really hope you guys are taking advantage of a temple that is less than two miles away from home because there is nowhere else on the face of this earth that you can feel so close to Heavenly Father. It’s funny how no matter how many times you read the scriptures, something that you are needing that moment will stick out with more importance and well it’s the same thing with the temple, it doesn’t matter how many times you go, there is ALWAYS something that seems to click and you hear exactly what you need to and well TONS of stuff hit me this time. God truly is concerned with each and every one of us. But when we were at the temple I saw my son at the Churrascaria (Tucanos style all you can eat place) next to the temple and they baptized two out of the three people that I left there nice and ready, _____ who is _____ little bro and _____ who is the son of a less active that we activated and _____ (_____ wife) still hasn’t been baptized yet because her husband is still in mines but let’s hope that works out soon!  A few other stories for this week, we had two lunches with natural passion fruit juice (maracuja) which has something in it which makes you SUPER tired.  On Saturday I taught a lesson totally alone because my comp was essentially sleeping but we really have a few people that are promising!  We met this older guy that is WAY smart and actually reminds me of Grandpa alittle but well if he gets his answer the guy will FOR SURE be a Bishop because he is way smart and "knows" English and we have another family that is coming along quite nicely as well but well I think that essentially wraps up the week! I hope everything is great with all of you! I love each and every one of you. I am so grateful that I have the greatest family ever ;) GOOOOOO GUBLERS!!! Remember about the importance of the small things, they make a HUGE difference and allows God bless us. A tiny letter can make an elder SUPER happy ;)

with all my lovey love, AMO VOCÊS.....

ELDER GUBLER

Letter from Jacobs Companion

Good Morning Misses Kristi Gubler, let me introduce myself, I´m Called Elder _____, I am from a hot place in Brazil, (Rio Grande do Norte state)... now i am serving with your son Elder Jacob Gubler I am in the end of my mission, we are going through a lot of things together such as spiritual experiences and funny as well hahahhahaha........ we are Zone leaders we care of 16 missionaries, Elder Gubler is doing great he has a great desire to share the gospel we had 2 baptisms already  he probably sent a picture of them.... this week we´ll have _____ and her sister´s baptisms we are so excited, that girl ______ had a might change of heart as the scriptures say, she had a Dream or in other words a enswer from heaven.....i wanna thank you for your son, for his sake many lives have been changed here in brazil, he speaks portuguese very well and now he is teaching me how  to speak english ,like see you later aligators hahah,  so i am sorry if you do not understand something that i write here rsrsrsrsrsr :this means HAHAHAH....

He speaks really good about you, that gave me the desire to know you all.....someday who knows?!?!?!?...

thanks for all.... i love you guys....

have a good week

PS:now the missionaries can write to other people beyonde their families alone!

so i hope you to have liked my letter..

Good BYE

once more I LOVEYOU ALL,

April 8, 2013

So this week was SUPER INSANELY packed.  On Monday we had a meeting with the Pres and the Assistants for all the ZLs in the mission which kind of took up the whole day.  Tuesday was PDAY so we just worked at night.  On Wednesday we had to leave our area at seven to go to the mission office because I had to sleep there because on Thursday I got my visa renewed so I don’t get deported and we didn’t get home until nine that night then on Friday we FINALLY had a full day of work.  Saturday was General Conference and English class and Sunday was General Conference too...so pretty sure this was the busiest week of my entire mission but it keeps things interesting right?  So a few highlights, next week we should had two baptisms of _____ and her sister and wow in the last 2 weeks they have truly become different people, especially _____.  She is like addicted to the church, goes to seminary already, comes to church in church clothes and took some MAJOR notes of general conference the past two days. I was talking to her about her answer that she received and she told me about this dream she had where she was on an island and on one side there was all the stuff of the world that she likes but knows is gonna have to give up and on the other side all the stuff that the church offers and people she knows that "truly care for her" and she was going towards the worldly stuff but too make a long personal story short, she came running to the good side and felt awesome and I just want to say that God truly takes time and is interested in EVERY SINGLE ONE of His children. He knows and loves each and every one of us. He takes to time to answer every single persons sincere prayers and that is something that I still can’t understand how he does but I am grateful does.  Well onto general conference! I had to watch in Portuguese, the translators speak without any emotion whatsoever, they laugh at the jokes in English but don’t translate them and there is a lot or small stuff that doesn’t get translated right so I didn’t get about a third of what I wanted to out of General Conference but I’m watching three talks right now and I LOVED Elder Holland’s talk,  he is SUCH a boss. "Belief is a precious word and an even more precious act" and well Elder Nielson’s talk didn’t translate too well but I’m just about to watch it and well I really like Craig Lardon’s talk on forgiveness and repentance was exactly what I needed to hear.  And well president Monson’s was way good too and so was Cook's and Ellis' and Ballard and Utchdorf’s multiple talks, it was crazy how Elder Oaks talked about Chris Williams and Elder Scott's talk was translated by him but he was super hard to understand and well I could go ON AND ON about conference but I loved it all and I love this church and I love all of you too! Thanks for all the prayers, support and all that everyone does for me, it means the world to me. Examine the scriptures, plan your life, teach the truth and serve the Lord and then write me some letters too ;)

beijos e um abração...

Elder Gubler