Week 13

It's great to hear that everything is going swell back in good ol' Utah! That's awesome you guys were able to go and see ''Meet the Mormons''. Apparently some of the Elders down in Pasco actually have a new investigator who wants to get baptized after seeing the movie because she felt the Spirit so strong while watching it. This week has had some crazy, unique experiences and we've been super busy which is always good. 

On Tuesday I had one of the highlights of my mission thus far. Jaime, our investigator who we've been working with for awhile and is getting ready to be baptized had been making us a little worried. For about a week we hadn't been able to talk with him and he wasn't answering his door. We had been praying a ton for a miracle and we got one! It came that night when we decided to go to Daily Dose, which are the English classes and guess who showed up?! Jaime!! He seemed really excited to see us and in talking with him after he said that he'd been reading the Book of Mormon and hadn't been able to meet with us much because he was working (and sleeping) a ton. He also said that while talking on the phone to his mom in Mexico, he found out that she and his sister were baptized about a year after he left for the states!!! Small world for sure! It was a huge weight off of our shoulder's and it was great to see that the Lord was watching over him. Definitely strengthened my testimony of prayer.

Wednesday was a great one as well since we were able to sit down and have a lesson with Jaime after Daily Dose. It went very well and helped us realize some of the things that we needed to improve on to help strengthen his testimony of the true eternal significance of having the Restored Gospel here on this earth.

Thursday was honestly one of the strangest days us to now on my mission. We had a training down in Kennewick on 2 Nephi 31 and "The Doctrine of Christ". The training itself was great and I was able to gain some insights. We had come down with some of the other Elders who had dropped off their car in the shop thinking that it would be done by the time that we finished the training. One thing led to another and they hadn't even started on it by the time we finished.... We talked with President Ware and he actually had us take his car to go to the shop because as he put it "We're missionaries and people's salvation is at stake if we can't meet with them". So we drove across Tri-Cities, may or may not have gotten a little lost and eventually found the shop. Come to find out that they actually found another problem with it that would take longer to fix. So we headed back to the Stake Center where President Ware was giving a training to the new missionaries. We kinda just waited, waited, and waited until it was finished and then the assistants decided just to drive us home and have the driving coordinator take it up to them. We didn't get back to Othello until 8ish so were only able to get a little bit of actual work in.

Luckily Friday went very well! Even though we had to cancel our appointment with Robert from the day before we still were able to meet with him and actually "pre-qualified'' him for his baptismal interview. If all goes well and the Lord permits it, his baptism should be this Sunday! He's doing great and really loves to read and learn from the scriptures. It's been incredible to see how much light the Gospel can bring into people's lives! We also pre-qualified Jaime and when we asked him if he had committed any serious crimes he told us that he hadn't, "hasta esta hora" (up until now....) Luckily he was just joking around with us. His baptism is being delayed a bit because of how busy he is with work but things are still going great.

The rest of the week went great and our ward mission leader is slowing taking the steps back toward the Savior. He actually asked us yesterday during Sunday school if he could have a Book of Mormon and then a few minutes later randomly left. We were a little worried but in talking with him at his house later that night he actually had left to go take the Book of Mormon to one of his friends in jail. Apparently you can't give books to people in jail. It's been great to see him making an effort to improve and hopefully soon he should be on track to baptizing his daughter.

Love,

Elder Spackman