Hey Family!
This week has been an amazing week! We had been planning to wait and strive to hit standards this week, but then we thought, "why wait a week? why not do it this week?" So starting Thursday we went out hard and worked super hard to reach standards. We worked extra hard to work with members because that's where we had been lacking previously, and as we did members starting reaching out to us! It was amazing! I never thought member work would progress so well here in Davie, all it took was effort and diligence in meeting with members, and of course help from God.
We put a lot of effort into member work, so we slacked in finding, so this week we will create a better balance and achieve standards. We got so close to hitting standards it was painful!
A miracle we saw this week was while we were biking from one end of our area to the other, we felt prompted to take a different route than the one we had planned and in so doing we ran into one of our RC, Kattie, who was walking on the side of the road. We stopped and started talking to her and she explained that she was on her way to El Pollo Tropical to meet with her boyfriend who has been having a really hard time lately. He's had some hard feelings against the church previously, but Kattie was in the hospital last week and he saw how the Church reached out to her and was always there to lend a hand, after he saw that his heart was softened and was more interested. So we walked over with her and had a lesson about the Sabbath Day and how Church can bring peace and blessings and how it gives us the strength we need to endure trials. He was really interested and loved how everyone in the Church is so caring and how they become our "family". We invited him to attend Church with us and he accepted. Yesterday he came and was pretty interested! We will continue to work with him this week.
Also Judith came to church on Sunday. She is still struggling to know if she should be baptized, so last week we came up with the game plan to continue reading from the BofM and help her gain that testimony. Well, we also went over to the Kings house the other day to leave a missionary blessing on their home, and guess who was there? Yep, President Anderson! Like I was saying last week, Sister Anderson told us that if we ever got thirsty again, this week would be a good time to come over because President may be there. So we scheduled to do a member blessing and went over and got to chat with President for a while, he is an amazing man! Even though he was just in regular clothes and not in his usual suit, you could feel the spiritual power emanating from him. We brought up Judith and told him our game plan and he added some more insight, he said, "I had a similar experience with some past missionaries and I had the opportunity to meet with their investigator. She had a list of questions about the BofM, so I took the list folded it up and just testified that it all came down to whether or not the Book was true, if it was the Church was true too." So he told us to just testify that it all comes down to the BofM and he was confident we could help her gain that testimony. Yesterday we brought a RM with us to teach Judith and bore solid testimony of the BofM. She still isn't sure, but the Spirit will hit her one of these days!
That's about it, I'm really tired right now, so I don't remember much else that happened:) Well I love you guys and hope you have a fantastic week!
Elder Spencer Bailey
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