I Will Go and Do : Week 77: Make Room for the Savior

Hello everyone, only one more week until Christmas! Make sure to #LightTheWorld and look for every opportunity that you can to serve those around you. Your family members, your co-workers, or even complete strangers. This is such a special time of the year because the light of Christ is so evident all around us and being a missionary for the Lord only makes it better.

Elder Warner and I had a super cool Christmas miracle happen this week that I am super excited to tell you all about. Early in the week we received a media referral for a lady named Caroline for a free Bible. We called and texted her and she sent us a text saying that she just wanted us to mail the Bible because she was too busy for us to stop by. Well of course we didn't mail the Bible and just stopped by a couple of days later. We thought we were going to have a bit of an awkward interaction, but to quite the contrary . . .Caroline was so excited to see us and immediately invited us in. She had all 3 of her daughters come down (Alexia, Brianna, and Kaiden) and we were able to teach the whole family the Restoration. Caroline was so amazed that we had set apart two whole years to serve God. She loved our message and we had such a great lesson. They were unable to attend church on Sunday but later in the day they were able to attend a Christmas Pageant our ward was putting on. They were fellow-shipped great by the ward. They are a huge miracle to us and we are exciting to start teaching them.

Things are still going well with Marjorie and she is progressing super well. The only thing holding her back is her boyfriend because he is not sure if he wants to get married yet. We set a baptismal date with her this week for January 13th. For the past little while we have been trying to teach her two step-kids and her grandson, but they are a little too crazy. I'll explain: Marjorie and the three boys were able to come to church for the second time this week. During the third hour, we heard one of the boys, Hervince (6) screaming in the hall. We went into the hall to check it out and we saw him running around like a maniac with a stressed out primary teacher following behind him. We stopped him in the hall and settled him down and told him that he had to go back to the primary room where all the other primary kids were watching a Christmas movie. We sat in the back of the room to make sure he was going to behave and out of nowhere he started yelling and let's just say that what he was saying was not good . . .All the primary kids were shocked by what he said and so we had to take him out of the primary room and walk around the halls with him until church ended. Great parent training. Ha, Ha! So we are super excited about how Marjorie is doing, but the kids not so great. We are going to just focus on her until she is baptized and then we will focus on the three boys.

Things really are going so great here in Bridgeport. Our district leader has set some awesome goals with us to hand out hundreds of #LightTheWorld pass along cards before Christmas. We are seeing great things and we are hoping that Vernice will continue to progress so that she can be baptized next Saturday, keep her in your prayers! Thank you to everyone that supports me. I love you all, talk to you again on Christmas!

Love,
Elder Gutierrez