One
week left?? How many tears has that brought Justin and Steven? Wow, that´s insane Dad´s the ward
clerk! Even though he´ll be busy, I know the Lord will bless you guys and plus,
you´ll see him way more than you get to see me! ;) Being a missionary is so
great and I can hardly wait these next few days till we fly off to Washington.
I love you all and Love serving the Lord con todo mi corazon!! BTW I
think I´ll get to email on Saturday before we leave but no guarantees.
We had a district
discussion and Hermana Allison in our district made an incredible observation
about the Book of Mormon. She said that ´´All of the things we teach
investigators they can find out the truthfulness of many of them for themselves
in the Book of Mormon´´. I´ve really grown to love the scriptures and one of my
favorite things to do is to read in Spanish. It´s tough but I learn so much and
can by now get a lot of the meaning.
Teaching in Spanish is
getting more and more natural and a few times this week I´ve felt words come to
my mind that amazed me! It´s the toughest thing I´ve ever done but as soon as I
trusted in the Lord and stopped worrying about my innaquecies I noticed his
Spirit blessing my even more. With the help of the Lord all things are
impossible and no matter how tough those first few weeks are, as the Lord for
help and I promise with all my hear he will bless you! The progress is
incredible, especially in understanding what people say, even if I have no idea
how to reply.
One of our teachers
gave us his testimony on missionary work and it really touched me. He said
´´This is the one time in your life where you have the chance for the Savior to
take you by the hand and guide you along His divine path so you may bring
others unto him. Please do not waste a second of his time´´. It really hit home
to me this week how important this work is and how blessed we are to be doing
it.
On sunday we
watched a devotional from Elder Holland where he stressed again the importance
of missionary work. My favorite quote was ´´You are God´s answer and the Hope
of Israel in these the last days´´. The closing song was I´ll Go Where You Want
Me to Go. During it I felt so much peace about the worries I had that I nearly
starting crying because of how great it felt. (notice the nearly... ;)) We also
watched a video about Joseph Smith and the reality of his incredible work was
really testified to me.
Living the missionary
life is incredible and I have loved the CCM. Everyone here is so incredible
nice and the teachers are amazing. The other Elder´s and I always give our
teacher an embrasado after class and the Hermana say they´re jealous they can´t
hung Hermano Soto too. He is so great and has taught us so much.
Love, para
siempre,
Elder Spackman
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