5/19/14 | Frogs

Hello Family!

What a fast week!  I was out of my area more than I was in my area all week.  But during the time that I was there, a huge miracle occurred.

We went to see an investigator of ours and felt prompted to ask our ward mission leader to come out with us.  We weren't certain if he would really connect with her, but we called him and he was really excited to come.  We taught our investigator the Word of Wisdom and asked our WML to bear his testimony about how the Word of Wisdom has helped him.  Turns out he was actually an alcoholic while serving in the Navy many years ago.  He shared his conversion story and his story on how he accepted the Word of Wisdom and lived it and how it blessed him.  His testimony was amazing! We couldn't have had a better member out with us that day.  Our investigator listened very intently and after our WML finished his testimony, my companion and I bore our testimonies about the WoW and asked if she would live it and stop drinking and smoking.  She agreed and we asked if she had any alcohol or cigarettes she would throw away.  She went into the fridge and pulled out a 6-pack and got a pack of cigarettes from the cupboard and she threw them away right there and we took it out to the trash.  it was an amazing spiritual lesson!  We were so thankful we felt prompted to bring out our WML because his testimony is what she needed to hear, and he invited the Spirit very well which helped her make that step to live the WoW.  

Also the other day we were knocking this apartment complex and were weren't finding too many people who would pray with us.  But on the last hallway with just a few doors left we knocked into this mother and son.  they were very happy to have us pray with them and accepted the invitation to baptism without hesitation.  The mom said that she had been wanting to go back to Church and increase in her relationship with God.  I felt prompted to say, "But why do you really want to be baptized?"  She replied that she wanted to lead the rest of her family by being an example and by taking that step of faith.  We have been really working on getting desires from our investigators this week and that question allowed us to get that desire that we wouldn't have gotten otherwise.  The Spirit is awesome!

Oh yeah, a few days ago we walked into the church and heard this high pitched screech which sounds like a cat in distress.  So we went around looking for a kitten and were led to one of the hurricane shutters outside.  We thought "there's no way a cat could be smashed in there and still be meowing!" then we saw the eyes of a frog bulging out of the shutters, it got stuck in there, so we reached out to adjust the shutters to free the frog and then this big black thing slithered out! I've never heard grown men scream that loud! It was a huge snake eating the frog!!  So we ran inside and grabbed some brooms then started poking the snake to get it away from the frog, the the snake turned on us and was coming after us, so we started whomping on it with the brooms until it was dead.  that's my crazy Florida story for the week

I love you guys and hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Spencer Bailey

{Elder Bailey and another Elder from his district}
Thanks to a random lady vacationing in Florida! She and her family were in Spencer's ward yesterday and said that 2 cute missionaries came up to them and introduced themselves. She took a pic and sent it to mom.