Monday, July 13, 2015

PHOTO SHOOTS

This week was fantastic!  We had so many great experiences but the best one of all was that a man named Raul was baptized! He is in the other area I was in in Midway and it was such a sweet experience. His whole family has been being baptized recently and he finally received his answer. It is amazing because missionaries have been going on and off for a while but just recently was when he decided to pray with faith and that was when he received his answer.  I do not have the photo but I will send them next week! 

All of the plans sound great for when I get home! Can we go to the Salt Lake Temple though?? For some reason I just really want to go there, being away from Salt Lake has made me have such more desire to go to that temple!  If it is too busy we can go wherever but that would be amazing to go there!

I started saying goodbye to a lot of families this week as well like a few from Chi 3..  I have a lot of fun stories but the pictures will explain them the best so I will just send those!

Elder Garrett Eichers
Illinois Chicago Mission






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 Elder Nunez birthday yesterday
Hermanna Chincila and her husband Vasilie
saying goodbye to the Ajurias


Tuesday, July 7, 2015

JAMES' BAPTISM

James' Baptism this week was amazing!!  But the spirit was so strong at James' baptism, I just felt so much love for him! It was great because even though it was the Friday before the 4th of July so many members of the ward came and supported him! It was so sweet to see! The baptism went smoothly and my favorite part was at the end, he got up and bore his testimony and just talked about how God sent him to this church for a reason and about how his life has changed. He then ended his testimony with Woohoo! I love him so much because I have learned so much from him, although the times went up and down with his teaching he made it to that first step and now it is just going to go up hill from here! After the meeting he went around and gave every single person that came a hug, it was great!


This was James baptism last week, he was baptized by Bishop K.  That is also Elder Potter and Elder Zacher.

For my birthday this week we just went with a few of the members, we had a few different cakes and it was just a chill birthday! It was nothing huge but it was definitely one of the best ones I have had because we worked so hard! It was sweet though because that night we had a huge miracle, we were walking down the street that we had a few potential investigators on and as we were walking down the street these two kids that we had talked to twice before who are like 9 and 6 came running down the street to us! They got to us right in front of the house that a couple was standing outside of and they were a little shocked that the kids loved us so much so the wife asked us what we did! Before we really even said anything she just started bearing testimony of God.  We set up a return appointment but her mom went into the hospital so she had to cancel but it was such a huge miracle because she asked us who we were! The two kids weren't even theirs too so it was birthday present from the Lord!

The apartment is alright, we have basically just come to the fact that it will only get so clean Hahahaha.

That is crazy that it is time to go already.  I can't believe it has been 2 years. Thank you for getting the phone and everything ready.   I was also wondering if you could set up a hair appointment with Brooke, if she even still does that? And also, I was thinking that I will just get rid of my garments so can you get me some new ones for home?  Everything is great here though, I am just trying to enjoy every minute of things. It doesn't seem real to me yet that I am leaving though, it just feels like a normal time.  I have mixed feelings about everything though because I am going to miss it so much here but I am excited to go home as well! I am just happy to be able to relax and hang out for a little again ;)

I hope you have a great day today though mom! I love you so so much!

These are straight up to the funniest/sassiest/cutest girls on the whole planet. It is Lily in the left and Rosy in the overalls.  They are the family Reyes granddaughters. We are best friends with them.
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