Hi everybody, I hope you are all doing well!
This week was crazy, went by so fast and felt like we did so much yet so little.
We started off with exchanges with the Effingham Elders and it was super fun. I was able to go with Elder Storment, my old comp and it was super fun!! We reconnected and reminessed on the good old days but also had some great lessons and finding opportunities working together. Also on our exchange we caught a mouse. We discovered we had one a few days earlier, bought a trap on P-Day and nabbed him. It was quite the experience!
We had lots of great lessons this week but I wanted to highlight one in particular with our friend Dolores. She is so amazing. We taught her a couple times this week. First lesson we talked a lot about her smoking, she was doing about 4 a day still and wants to quit so bad. She's been doing it for about 50 years so it is very hard to kick. We talked about the Priesthood and blessings we offered to give her one and she said yes. We gave her one and dunked her cigarettes in milk, a cool trick Elder Gross knows. We left her and when we came back a couple days later we had a cool experience. So we had promised her that after the blessing any cigarette would taste absolutely horrible, it was a bold promise. But we found out that after we left she had bought another pack and smoked one from it, unaltered and all and she said it tasted nasty. She then tried the ones dipped in milk and they were even worse! It was so cool. She kept asking "how?", "how?". The only explanation I have is that it was God. It makes no sense how those cigarettes tasted nasty, especially the fresh one she tried. I know that God is real.
For P-day today we got to go onto the College Football stadium and played some football and spikeball, it was really fun!!
The weather is getting nice so we've gone outside lots and are talking with everyone we can. The members in our ward continue to help out so much and are getting easier to work with more and more. I really love it here in Champaign, IL!!
Love you all! Elder Spencer
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