Sister Gutke

Monday, June 20, 2016

FOOD GLORIOUS FOOD

So AUSTINS Mum found an amazing service  mymissionarypackagesuruguay.com and we were both able to order some food items for her (so very sweet of the Favila's) and they are hand delivered to the mission home in Montevideo!
we both ordered and they made one MEGA Package.... it made it to the mission home..Hermana Gutke only gets mail every 6 weeks but we are hoping that this big box will make it there soon so she can eat PEANUT BUTTER!!!!
HERE IS THE ELDER AT THE MISSION HOME RECEIVING HER PACKAGE!!!



JUNE 20TH....

Today is a holiday so our usual place was closed so we had to get the keys for the church and now we are here! :) crazy morning! 
Here are some pics of this week! I
 HERMANA GUTKE & HERMANA BRAVO
 WHERE EMMA LIVES
 BRIDGE THEY USE IN TOWN..BEAUTIFUL !

SHE MADE BROWNIES FOR HER COMPANION...

THEY WENT FOR A WALK MONDAY AND LEFT THEIR KEYS IN THE APARTMENT.... WHEN THEY GOT BACK THEY DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO DO SO THEY TRIED PICKING THE LOCK WITH EMMAS HAIR PINS... YEAH THAT DIDNT WORK SO THEY KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED AND THE NEIGHBOR OPENED THE DOOR AND CALLED THE LANDLORD FOR THEM AND HE CAME AND OPENED IT FOR THEM.
THAT MADE THEM LATE SO THEY RAN FOR 30 MINUTES TO GET TO THEIR APPOINTMENT AND MADE IT ON TIME BUT NO ONE WAS HOME... THEY WALK LONG DISTANCES TO THEIR APPOINTMENTS AND OFTEN THE PEOPLE ARNT HOME BUT THEY PRESS ON AND KEEP TRYING.
ON WEDNESDAY THEY VISITED A LESS ACTIVE FAMILY CALLED THE FINGS. THEY ARE A SWEET FAMILY AND THEY FELT THE SPIRIT AS THEY SHARES TESTIMONIES AND HELPED THEM WITH THEIR NEEDS.
THEY RAN TO OTHER APPOINTMENTS ON THE DIRT ROADS TO HAVE NO ONE HOME... ON THE WAY BACK TO THEIR APARTMENT THEY WENT TO THE PANDERIA AND WERE ABLE TO GET A PASTRY TREAT, WHEN THEY GOT TO THEIR APARTMENT EMMA REALIZED THAT THE WOMEN IN THE SHOP HAD GIVEN HER TO MUCH CHANGE SO THEY WENT STRAIGHT BACK AND RETURNED THE MONEY AND VISITED WITH THE LADY AND HOPE TOO TEACH HER SOON.
ON THURSDAY THEY ATE LUNCH WITH HERMANA AND HERMANO DASSO THEY ARE A SWEET ELDERLY COUPLE IN THE WARD, THAT FEED THEM FOR LUNCH ON THURSDAY..(SO SWEET THAT THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE ABLE TO FEED THEM) EMMA SAID HERMANA DASSO REMINDS HER OF HER BOBBY NANNY... AND SHE MADE THEM ENCHILADAS AND EMPANADAS. SIESTA IS BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 1-5PM SO THATS WHEN THEY DO ALL THEIR COMPANIONSHIP STUDY AND LANGUAGE STUDY. THAT NIGHT THEY TAUGHT A SWEET INVESTIGATOR CALLED KAREN, SHE HAS TWO KIDS, SOL (6) AND THEO (2). THEY TAUGHT HER ABOUT THE RESURRECTION , THE SPIRIT WAS STRONG.
FRIDAY THEY TAUGHT AN INVESTIGATOR NAMED CLELIA (46YRS OLD) SHE IS VERY SWEET. THEY TAUGHT HER THE FIRST LESSON AND EMMA RECITED THE FIRST VISION IN SPANISH. IT WAS A POWERFUL EXPERIENCE FOR EMMA AND SHE FELT THE POWER AND HELP OF THE HOLY GHOST.
ON SATURDAY THEY WENT TO EAT AT THE BISHOPS HOUSE .. HIS DAUGHTER MILENKA ALWAYS RUNS TO EMMA TO GIVE HER A HUG AND THAT MAKES EMMA FEEL GOOD... SHE IS 5 YRS OLD AND EMMA SAID THEIR SPANISH IS ABOUT ON THE SAME LEVEL SO THEY GET ALONG GREAT ..HA..HA
SUNDAY WAS HER TWO MONTH MARK... SHE WAS ABLE TO UNDERSTAND MORE AT CHURCH!!!

JUNE 13TH...

So here's some of Hermana Gutkes emails from today.... She sounded so happy ... As you will read a small part of the mission covers Argentina... So she is in the Mercedes stake which is in Uruguay but she is over the boarder in Argentina right now!!! Crazy.... 

I live in gualeguaychu argentina, There is a store where we buy the basics :)) I email from a public computer place in the central town center! It kind of like the high street with street stores and stuff!
it is awesome the spanish is hard but i am so loving it! the houses are so different and cold and small but I love the people they are wonderful our investigators are wonderful and the members are very nice we only have about 30 people in our ward. I bore my testimony in church yesterday it was nervewracking but good! 

The second picture is Emma with her companion and the Bishops sweet Daughter.. ( the people there can't pronounce Gutke ..) she calls Emma - Hermana Wookie... So cute!!!😀
The first pic is of Bishop and his Wife!


JUNE 6TH... SHE MADE IT AND IS IN HER FIRST AREA!!!

HERMANA GUTKE ...IS NOW IN THE URUGUAY MONTEVIDEO OESTE MISSION.

Hermana Gutke... Is adjusting to life in Uruguay,( well she is actually in GUALEGUAYCHU Argentina!...it is part of the Uruguay mission) she has already met some sweet people and is very humbled by how little they have and their living conditions.... She said it's very cold already and she puts on about 7 layers a day!!!... Because of the poverty where she is serving they are not fed by ward members... She misses the food from home... And asked us in her last email for Peanut Butter..!! So we are going to try and get some to her.... She walks all day long.. Most appointments they have average a 45 min walk there and back, but she loves walking so that's good. The Internet is very slow there and sometimes not working, so we are very grateful to hear from her when we do...  She has a sweet Latino Companion Hermana Bravo, she doesn't speak any English so Emma said its a bit of a challenge sometimes to communicate with her, but they usually end up laughing so all is well.. She is very excited to be doing the Lords work and sharing the Gospel with these wonderful people...!