Hello everyone! I hope all is going well with you! I hope you are staying safe from COVID and staying happy!
This week was super awesome! Started out with an exchange with the Elders serving in the Paris area. I got to go to Paris for the day, that was fun. They are the farthest away from everyone so not many missionaries interact with them which is hard on them at times but I enjoyed being there and giving any advice I could about combating that loneliness they feel. We had a couple good lessons on the exchange with some members and tried to talk to as many people as we could while walking around.
The rest of the week was so good. Right before the exchange with the Paris Elders we had a Zone Conference, that was great. We talked about enjoying it to the end. I learned a lot. It was a great conference.
We had a couple great lessons I want to briefly talk about and then one more really cool miracle that happened. First off, we had a super great lesson/experience with our friend Rena. She has been going through a lot but has made some pretty significant changes in her life to align her will more with God. It has been really cool to see the change in her in even just the last 5 days. She says that her head is so much clearer and she feels like she knows what God wants her to do.
Another great lesson we had and this is where part of the subject line comes from was with our friend Amy who was baptized about 3 months ago. Turns out she has two goats. Lucifer and Ruby. We were on a Zoom call with her and she showed us the goats. Ruby came into her house and to get her out she chucked some fruit loops out and there she went.. lol it was pretty funny! We then taught a pretty powerful lesson on tithing.
Our miracle that happened, happened on Saturday. We stopped by our friend Cheryl's house. We had scheduled a time to come by that day and we weren't able to bring a third with us so we had to have our lesson on the porch. Anyhow, we got started talking to her and built on a common belief of Jesus Christ. We shared some scriptures from the Book of Mormon about Christ and then asked if she had heard about the Book of Mormon before. She had heard about it, unfortunately what she heard was that it was good on the surface but that ultimately it wasn't a good book. We asked her why she thought that and she sat there in silence for about a minute. I could see the Holy Ghost touching her heart and mind and all of a sudden she looked up at us and said: "The Lord is telling me to throw away my preconceptions about the book and to read it." Wow, as soon as she said that her countenance changed and she became happier. She accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon and told us we could come back. I re-learned an important truth. We are but instruments in the Lord's hands; the real converting power comes from the Holy Ghost and the Book of Mormon!
I love being a missionary and there were so many good moments throughout the week but also a few sad moments, life isn;t always rainbows but is a million times better with Jesus Christ!
Love you all!
Elder Spencer
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