Hey family!
This week was awesome! I'm staying in Hollywood and so is Elder Hayward, super excited to be able to continue to work with him to get this zone to where it needs to be.
We didn't find hardly anyone after knocking doors for hours until Sunday afternoon. We worked so hard throughout the week and didn't find no matter what we did. We made a mental shift from stressing to find so that our are looked good, to stressing to find so that we could save people's souls. Once we made that shift the work started progressing again.
We had a HUGE miracle yesterday! We got asked by a member to track down Haitian members and hand out the flyers for the Haitian conference that's coming up. We started doing that yesterday afternoon and the first person we tried wasn't home so we decided to OYM this family sitting across the yard. We talked with them and prayed with them and they were interested in being baptized, so we taught the restoration and they understood it perfectly! It turns out that there are 2 families living there and they all want to be baptized, we got to teach just 4 of them but will catch the rest tomorrow. We already have more people to teach than we did almost all of last week, God is good!
Also on Sunday we had dinner at our RC's (tasiea) house and had some Indian food because her family is from Trinidad. It was super good! We had Roti which is one of the best foods I've had here in Florida. and she has pet eels, so we got to feed those too:)
I was studying this week on how to stay faithful and excited in the work and turned to the examples of Paul and Job. They both went through a ton of stuff that hardly anyone else will go through, yet they remained faithful to God knowing that it would all work out. Paul was promised exaltation and Job received twice as much as he had before he went through his many trials. This upcoming transfer we will focus on not losing faith and staying positive amid trials and challenges.
Summer is coming up real fast! it got up to 98 degrees on sunday and has been raining frequently. Last night it rained a ton and flooded all the streets, almost flooded the engine when my comp accidentally drove into a "lake" in a parking lot:)
Love you!
Elder Spencer Bailey
1. pic of us at Tasiea's
2. pic of what happens when we show up to the church and there are tons of flowers in the church parking lot along with one of our DL's car
we also bought a beta fish for our Rc eveline, she had a fish tank with no fish in it, so this was our baptism gift for her
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