This week has
for realsies probably been one of the busiest of my life but I've loved it. On Tuesday we did exchanges again so I was up in
Warden and had some ''interesting'' experiences with a less active member and
may or may not have dropped some kitchen tiles he was having us move outside...
That night my companion called us and said that in the first lesson with a new
investigator named Robert had accepted a baptismal date!! The English sisters
had taught him a little but since he speaks Spanish much better we've taken
over. The Lord has definitely been blessing us as we've been striving to do our
best for Him.
On Wednesday we got to see the movie ''Meet the Mormon''. President Ware was
given a copy and permission to show it to us and it was superb. It's does a
profile on six LDS members from around the world and shares their experiences
and testimonies. Since we basically live in the middle of no where it was crazy
to drive down to Pasco (an actual city and not just a leetle town) to watch the
movie. That night we attended a wedding in the bishops office.... A Hispanic
couple had contacted him since they had heard that LDS bishops could perform it
and he was worried that they wouldn't have witnesses. Luckily they brought some
friends but he still asked if we would stay so we got to sit there and watch a
wedding. He talked with them a little about who we were and what the Church
believed but they live in a different town so ya never know.
Friday was a little rough but ended up being a-ok. Jaime had already
kept rescheduling appointments and we were getting a little worried and
discouraged since he had such potential and is preparing for baptism in a few
weeks. That night we tried again at his house with no luck and were just trying
by some potentials when we decided to try by a guy we hadn't seen in a awhile.
He let us right in and said he'd been reading from the Book of Mormon and
wanted to know how to pray! It definitely raised our spirits.
On Saturday we had a very spiritual lesson with Robert. It is incredible to
see just how well the Lord is able to prepare certain, specific people to hear
the message of the Restoration. We went over some of the stuff the sisters
taught and he was extremely interested and was asking some great questions.
Even though I still struggle a lot to express myself and teach in Spanish, the
Spirit of the Lord works in some incredible ways.
Sunday was the bomb.com!! Our ward mission leader who'd been
struggling came to church and the great ward here embraced and welcomed him
with open arms. Crazily enough, there's a family that's been coming to all 3
hours of church for the past month that we haven't even been able to teach.
They had kept saying they were too busy during the week so we more or less took
them out of SundaySchool and taught them the
Restoration. They definitely seem ready and we're excited to begin to teach
them.
Yesterday was pretty dang good as well even if on one of the houses we
tracted the guy didn't even talk to us... He just shook his head and closed the
door. Maybe we didn't smile enough... We had been praying and fasting for about
a week that we could re-contact Jaime and blessedly we had a lesson with him.
We talked about the importance of daily prayer and scripture study. The member
with us bore a powerful testimony of his own conversion story and how prayer
confirmed to him the decision to get baptized. Jaime's still doing great and
we're excited to keep seeing him grow!!
Today was our
temple p-day which is why this email's so late. The temple was great and the
peace there was something I needed since my mind had been troubled a ton this
past week with various things. It really is such a blessing to be a member of
the Restored Church of Jesus Christ and have the opportunity to preach His
gospel!!
One of our
Zone Leaders recommended a talk called "Learning by the Spirit'' from Elder
Bednar and I would definitely re-recommend it. He talks about how vitally
important it is to be guided by the Spirit as we study and teach, in the Lords
way.
Love,
Elder Spackman
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