Hey everyone! This week was super fun! Lots happened including getting hit by a couple giant snow storms in the middle of the week!
Tuesday was MLC in-person in St.Louis so we woke up early and drove down there for it. Elder Davis and I gave a training during the meeting that went pretty well, I was glad when it was over but I'm also grateful for the chance to grow. On our way home we had planned to do exchanges with the Effingham Elders who live about one hour south of us. So we switched off only briefly thinking that something could happen with the storm rolling in the next day but we were like we'll be ok let's just go ahead with the exchange. So we do just that.
Tuesday night was fine, just a little rain but then bam! Wednesday it snowed all day from l;ike midnight till 5pm and here in good old Illinois they do not have the best snow removal services. Cars were getting stuck like crazy, the roads were near impossible to drive on and basically everyone was freaking out. I loved it tho, it was just another storm I've seen many like this from my days in Canada so it felt like home. That day we had a brother in our ward drive us around to shovel some driveways that was fun.
During the whole day Wednesday we were wondering if we should switch back that night or continue to extend the exchange. We thought and prayed about it because the roads were pretty bad, we had heard. However it had stopped snowing and we felt ok with it so we decided to switch back. We met at the halfway point so we each only drove 30 mins but with the road conditions turned into about 45mins each way. But we all made it home safely and the roads had actually been cleared pretty well at that point so we didn't get stuck.
Thursday the snow kept coming down all day so we got out and cleared a few more driveways and then it stopped. The last few days it has been melting away, I think it'll stick around for a couple more weeks.
We had a few great lessons despite all this snow we got. Lots of people were just staying inside so it made it easy to talk with people. We taught lots of lessons this week on prayer and the Book of Mormon, tow powerful ways of learning truth and discovering it. I'm always grateful for the chance to teach and to help answer people's honest sincere questions.
It got me thinking about how sincere are my prayers, am I just speaking without thought or am I truly speaking from the heart? So that has been a goal of mine lately is to make my prayers from the heart and I can tell you all there is a big difference in when you pray form the heart versus when you don't. So if you pray I'd invite you to do so from the heart. If you don't pray but would like to learn how just shoot me a message!
Elder Spencer
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