I love being a sister missionary! (Several Pictures)

Hello everyone! 

This is just going to be a quick email to say how grateful I am for this wonderful work and the opportunity that I have to be a part of it.

My zone is wonderful and on Tuesday they had me a surprise "party" it was as much of a party as we can have as missionaries. =)

Here are some fotos. 

They blindfolded me and it was fun! I was completely unaware that these fotos were being taken. haha. I didn't see them until later!
There were balloons!

​and cake!

I hope ya'll have a blessed day and a fantastic week! 

Love all ya'll

Hermana Gibson

PS here are the pictures that didn't attach last week

My Bishop and his family. 

A silly picture with a super cute little girl! I love her! Its one of my birthday scarfs you sent me Momma. 

I got to hold a boa. She almost ate me so I kindly and calmly have her back to her owner. HAHA

I got to hold this super cute hedgehog.Thats not me holding it there but I want one now!

A quick hello and some pictures

I just thought that I would take a quick moment to say hello world. 

Its been a while since I last wrote a large email. 

I have been good. 

I am good!

This week was sacrifice week and it was wonderful! Our zone made a gigantic Book of Mormon and we went to Central Park to sing in front of everyone and contact everyone we could see. It was so so so much fun!

We also had a huge lesson outside the temple with all of our investigators and it was so so so beautiful! Then we got to take them inside the waiting room so that they could go inside the temple and feel of the spirit that is there. I love the temple and I know that it is the house of The Lord. I know it without a doubt.

Yesterday was my birthday and I just wanted to say thank you for all the many birthday wishes! I love you all a whole bunch!

My Trainer came to visit me! I love her so much! I cried when I saw her!

We had a party in our house.. well in the house of the family where we live. And it was wonderful!(Should be a picture here but it didn't attach)

And the bishops family also invited us to come over!
(Should be a picture here but it didn't attach)

They are absolutely wonderful! I love them a whole bunch! 

Also, i got to hold a hedgehog and a boa this week! It was so so so cool!(Should be a picture here but it didn't attach)

Well, have a great week! I love you all a whole bunch!

Hermana Gibson

P.S. I just wanted to send a really big HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! to my grandpa! I love you so so so much! You will forever be my favorite person! I hope that you have the best day of your life!

Meet the new companion!

Hello, this is my new companion. She is great! I have known her for a while not and honestly had  no idea that we would ever be companions. It never even crossed my mind, so when the Zone Leaders called last night and told me that she would be my companion I got really excited!

Her name is Hermana Dubon and she is from guess where..... Honduras! 

My 4th companion from there! I have got to visit that country sometime. Haha Also, Elder Gonzales decided that he wanted to be in the foto jaja so he just kind of jumped in. Hes real great. He is going to be our new district leader. He is also from... Honduras! haha everyone is from there. So yeah, this is my new little! I like her a lot and I'm real excited to work with her. 

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We had a baptism on Saturday. Her name is Melissa and she was turning 8. Her mom isn't a member but her sister is. We made her a cake and it was so adorable to see how excited she was to be able to be baptized. I am not going to post pictures because I don't have permission from her mom and she is really little so I don't want to do anything that could offend her parents. haha even though we are really good friends its better to be safe than sorry. 

However here is a foto of the Hermana Chavez and I making her cake before the baptism. 

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​Love y'all a whole bunch!

Get excited for Conference! I know I am! Its going to be historic!

Take notes. Remember to have a personal prayer antes de que empieza so that you can receive the personal revelation that you need!

Hermana Gibson

Costa Rica, the worlds most beautiful country! I love serving here!

I just wanted to let everyone know, that here in the worlds most beautiful country everything is going great. here are some photos to prove it :) 

It's so beautiful here, I don't know how I'll ever leave when it's time! 

Hermana Walfield is one of the most amazing people. 

I love all the waterfalls here! I promise you, it's amazing here! 

Sorry my eyes are closed here. I love to go to the Temple! 

The country is beautiful and so are the Hermana's and Elders I serve with! 

Love Hermana Gibson

Hello World!!!!!

So sorry I haven't had any time to write anything these past few weeks, They have just been rather crazy. Being a missionary is one of the best things life has to offer you. Sure there are trials but teaching people about Gods love for them, the restored gospel and that you can be a family for ever are the best days of my life now!

I am still alive and loving it here. 

I have been with my same companion but yesterday we got a phone call that we have emergency changes. My companion is headed to Liberia, Guanacaste! I sure am going to miss her. 

I don't have much to say other than that I read a talk this week that I liked a lot. It is on enduring to the end. There was a phrase that I liked a lot. something like this " sometimes people tell us to hang in there. But to hang in there is not a principal of the gospel" it was really something that made me stop to think a minute. There is a rather large difference in hanging in there and enduring to the end.

Just think about it. 

Not much time left!
I love you all!

Love, 

 Brooke

I absolutely love Costa Rica! 

Me and Hermana Gutierrez

My new companion is the one on the right of me. She isn't called on a mission but is of mission age. I hope that the three weeks she spends with me she will want to turn in her papers and serve a mission! 

500 Stairs

So this week I have fun things to share. 

Last Monday we went to a place where there are 500 really steep stairs to climb down and you can see all of Costa Rica and it was the most beautiful thing ever! Here look and see!

then we made chocolate chip cookies

 and i held iguanas (this is an accomplishment because they scare me a whole lot)

​and there was a crazy cow on the loose eating all the the trash. which is funny because in America the trash goes on the ground but here there are some metal basket type things up high so that the dogs don't eat it and then a cow came and tore up all the trash. 

​and today we went to KFC to eat lunch because we were in San Jose so here is a foto

I love me companion a whole lot! She is great!! We survived changes so we will be together for at least 6 weeks more! WooHoo!

I was reading a talk this week and I liked this quote

"Many of the things you can count, do not count. Many of the things you cannot count, really do count" 

Think about it for a minute!

So this was my life for the week. I love my area. I love my mission!
Have a great week!

Always look for the little miracles that ARE THERE! Love you all!

Hermana Gibson

I can teach you to dance, but you have to hear the music!

This Saturday is Mother's Day here in Costa Rica So I wanted to say Happy Mother's Day to the best Momma in the world. Thank you for teaching me all you know and helping me become who I am today. Nest I want to say Happy Mother's Day to the best Lala ever. I love you so very much. Next to my Granny and Meme I love y'all!  I am so blessed to have so many wonderful women in my life. I love them all! Happy Mother's Day Y'all! 

So this week I realized exactly how out of tune we as missionaries are with everything that happens in the world.

I recently discovers that Donald Trumph is a presidential candidate and I about passed out !!! HAHA

I discovered that one direction are now men... I remember little boys. Its crazy how much can change in just one year. 

This week I learned lots of things. I learned what Pega is. It's basically food poising. But when you get it, the lymph nodes in your arm swell and if you get a weird arm massage that hurts really bad, it goes away in like an hour but if not you are stuck with it for about 2 weeks or until you go pay 1 dollar and get your arm massaged. I thought it wasn't going to work so I made the Elder who told me to go pay for it, and it hurt so badly. I got a bruise, but I felt so so so much better afterword. Weird right? I think I am going to learn how to do it so that when I have children and they are sick I can do it to them so they can never have a reason to skip school. haha

However, this week I had a few other things that I wanted to share. First, I was reading in 2 Nephi 10 this week and I really liked a few of the verses and things that I learned. Why on earth do people fight against God? We all know who is going to win at the end of it all and if we aren't on God´s team it will not be us. 

 16 Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shallperish; for they are they who are the whore of all the earth; for they who are not for me are against me, saith our God.

It is rather clear, I think. 

I also really liked verse 23 

23 Therefore, cheer up your hearts, and remember that ye are free to act for yourselves—to choose the way of everlasting death or the way of eternal life.

Isn't is great that we are free to choose for ourselves??

We get to choose our actions but never the consequences. However, we usually know what the consequences are before making a choice and then when we make the wrong choice we do out best to avoid them and then get upset when things don't work out in our favor. 

Just a thought.

I was also reading a conference talk that made a large impression on my heart/mind. 

It is called The Music of The Gospel. I have even been kind enough to insert a clickable link so that you can all read it. I promise that it will change your life. 

The part that called my attention the most was... well the whole thing. But I really like how he talks about that we can teach people how to live the gospel but if they never feel like they have gained a testimony or if they never do their part to receive that testimony then it is really for nothing because there will come a day when they keep doing the things just because everyone does them and it is all that they know or they will stop all together. 

Also, that we as people who have already felt this great burning fire that nobody knows how to explain, we have to remain worthy to keep feeling it. 

In Alma 5:26 it says: And now behold, I say unto you, my brethren, if ye have experienced a change of heart, and if ye have felt to sing the song of redeeming love, I would ask, can ye feel so now?

Just something to think about this week!

I don't have any pictures because I have lost the cord to charge my camera. I'm gonna go buy one right now!

Have an excellent week!

I love all y'all!
Hermana Gibson