Hello everyone!! What a week it was! It flew by, we did a lot.
We had lots of awesome lessons with members in our ward, I love this ward. The members are awesome!
We had exchanges this week with the Zone Leaders, they went well. I went with a great Elder, Elder Ross. It was one of his last exchanges as he went home yesterday. We were able to do quite a bit and he was a good example of being a great missionary and finishing strong.
We had 3 other missionaries in our zone go home yesterday, two from my district. I am going to miss all 4 of those missionaries so much, they have helped change me for the better! I am so grateful that God knows who we need to have in our life, His plan is perfect! Trust Him!!
We had a Zone Council this week as well. I was asked to give a training I gave in district council last week. The just of my training is that we need to teach simply. So, being the only Canadian in my zone and probably my mission I came up with a bunch of words that we say in Canada that they don't use down here. Words like: Garborator, Toque, Pylon, Soother and others. I wrote them on a whiteboard and had people guess what they meant. That was kinda funny having them try to guess. After I told them what they all meant I related it to sharing the gospel. As missionaries and members we use words that we are familiar with but most people around us are not, so we need to adjust our teaching and the words we use to help them understand, when we do that the Spirit can help us even better to carry the words into the hearts of those we teach. It is so important to teach simply!!
This week was really good! We had a few great lessons with those we are teaching, I'll save you from telling about them. They went well and people are surely but slowly coming closer to Christ which is the goal!!
I've been studying about hope recently. I've always thought hope was kinda a less important attribuite to develop but boy oh boy it is super important. A quote from Elder Holland's talk in April 2020 titled "A Perfect Brightness of Hope" reads this:
"As disciples of Christ, we can in our day rise above those ancient Israelites who moaned, “Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost.” Indeed, if we finally lose hope, we lose our last sustaining possession. It was over the very gate of hell that Dante wrote a warning to all those traveling through his Divina Commedia: “Abandon all hope,” he said, “ye who enter here.” Truly when hope is gone, what we have left is the flame of the inferno raging on every side. So, when our backs are to the wall and, as the hymn says, “other helpers fail and comforts flee,” among our most indispensable virtues will be this precious gift of hope linked inextricably to our faith in God and our charity to others."
I really liked this bit, honestly the whole talk was awesome, you all should read it!! But this quote shows me that without hope, true hope in eternal blessings, things would be sad and not looking very promising! Hope in Jesus Christ is what will help us through life!!
Well sorry this email has been ultra long, it's almost over I promise. :)
We got transfer news yesterday. Elder Storment is getting transferred. He is excited and ready for a change. I'm excited for him. I just wanted to write that he has been exactly who I have needed to serve around these last 2 months or so. He has helped shape me into who I am now. We have really become super united in the work as well which has been awesome! I have loved serving with him and I will miss him for sure!
I found out that I will be training another missionary. I am super pumped to be staying here and having another opportunity to train a new missionary! I don't know who he is yet, I find out tomorrow so stay tuned! I love you all, trust in God's plan for you!!
Love, Elder Spencer
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