Dear Family!
Wow, this week flew by super fast! Can't believe I'm at my year mark already! At the beginning of the week we struggled a bit with positivity and unity, but we worked on it through out the week and by the end of the week we were very positive and unified again, so the work progressed a lot this past weekend!
We came in contact with a former investigator and she has been reading from the BOM and still wants to continue to prepare to be baptized, she still has issues with the Word of Wisdom and it will be a long road to baptism, but we are going to be there every step of the way to help her no matter how long it takes her to prepare.
We had a miracle occur the last night, we needed 2 NI to reach our weekly goal. We had just over an hour to harvest so we made an "If..Then.." statement that if we shared a passage from the BOM with every contact we had, then we will find 2 NI. We kept knocking and weren't finding anyone, got help up in a conversation with a 7th day Adventist for 30 minutes, so our time was short. We saw a guy doing landscaping and offered to help him out, he wouldn't let us since we were dressed up and didn't want us to get dirty (which we could care less since these are our work clothes:) so we introduced ourselves and offered to say a prayer with him, he accepted and while talking his wife came out to chat with us too. We said the prayer and invited them to be baptized, they said they already have been so we taught a mini Restoration lesson and shared some scriptures and testified of the message we shared and that God sent us to them to help them prepare for this baptism. The wife, Robin, said "I'm so down to be baptized again! I believe you guys and why not be baptized again?" The husband, Heyron, wasn't as certain. He argued a little bit about the authority aspect and that the authority has always been on the earth and that he didn't need to be baptized again. We exhorted him to pray and ask God, since God is the source of truth and will answer any question, and ask him if he should be baptized again and that if the message we shared is true. He accepted and said he would trust any answer God gave him. It was an amazing miracle, we reached our weekly investigator goal and God answered our "If...Then..." statement! We will be seeing them again on Tuesday.
Our other investigator, Judith, has read almost all of 1 Nephi and believes completely in the BOM and is slowly preparing for baptism. She is waiting on a confirmation from the Spirit that this is what God wants her to do. And the LA/PM family we found last week, Rueban and Madga, were unable to meet with us because of an unexpected trip, but we will be seeing them this week and will let you know what happens!
I finished the BOM this past week and Moroni chapter 7 really stuck out to me. In the beginning verses it talks about how if a man prays without real intent, it profits him nothing, its as if he hadn't prayed at all. That really opened my eyes and made me think if I pray with real intent. That is something I will work on this week is praying with real intent and not losing focus or getting distracted while praying.
Also summer is wrapping up and the locals say this is most humid time of the year...I testify to that! Whenever we bike we get drenched with sweat and because of the humidity we don't dry out! I've lost count of how many people have given us towels and offered us a change of clothes because we look so wet, literally like we just jumped out of the shower. But it's been good, it's really helped me appreciate AC.
I love you guys lots and hope you have a fantastic week! also randon congrats again on making the bball team!
Love,
Elder Spencer Bailey
p.s heres a pic of a cool cloud we saw the other day
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