Hey everyone! Hope all is going well with you!! This week flew by, again! We had a pretty busy week!
We did lots of contacting this week and had a few lessons which were all awesome. We also had lots of lessons cancel on us but hey that's the life of a missionary! We had a great lesson with Jermazio focused around the talk "One Percent Better" given by Elder Michael A. Dunn which was great!
Speaking of Elder Dunn, we had a Stake Conference this weekend and he came to it!!! Our Stake Presidency was getting re-organized so he came!! Stake Conference weekend was super spiritual it was amazing! Saturday evening was probably my favourite session. (Not gonna lie this session is probably the best kept secret in the church!) If you ever skip out on this session you miss out on lots! Anyways there were so many great talks given and I took a few notes! I'll share one for my spiritual thought at the end.
The rest of the week was great, we got a surprise on Thursday this week! So as you know we are covering a new area which is significantly bigger than our last area making it pretty much impossible to ride a bike in the area because it's so big. Anyways we get a call Thursday from the AP's telling us that we are getting a car and it'll be there later that day!! So Thursday we got a car!! Big blessing! They didn't take our bikes so we will get to use them to save miles when we have a lesson close by.
So for the title of this email. So Sunday morning we hop in the car and realize that we are pretty much out of gas. Which was no good because we had church we needed to drive to and then a lesson at the farthest south you could go in our area. So we hoped beyond hope that we would make it. And since it was the Sabbath we didn't want to buy gas. So we make it to and from church just fine. We then leave to go to our lesson that night around 6:30, we make it there just fine then go by and pick up some homemade soup from a member. Then we head back home and not gonna lie I was pretty nervous, prayers were offered but we made it home with fumes to spare! Now all we have to do is make it to the gas station which we will be heading to shortly after I send this email! :) So hopefully we make it! :)
We also drove right by the Arch on the way to a service, very cool to see it close again! We got a keyboard in our apartment now from some Sisters in our District! So that has been super fun!
Anyways now for my spiritual thought of the week!
So one thing that was said that stuck out to me was this: "Callings are temporal, covenants are eternal"
For those who don't know what callings or covenants are I'll quickly explain. Callings are certain positions we hold in the church. (Teacher, leader, secretary) There are lots. Covenants are sacred promises we make with Heavenly Father. The gist behind that saying is it doesn't matter what callings we recieve in the church. What matters is that we fulfill our covenants, we do our best to remember and honor them! Food for thought!
Love you all!! Elder Spencer
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