10/27/14

Hey family!!

Had another excellent week this past week! We worked hard each day and we saw the Lord's hand in the work once more!

The biggest miracle we saw this week was during Stake Conference yesterday when President Acevedo came up to us and said there was a guy in the very back and it was his first time coming here. So we went back and introduced ourselves, found out his name is Steve, turns out he was running late to Calvary Chapel and saw all these cars coming into our parking lot so he thought he'd come check it out. He asked a lot of really good questions during the conference and he was also sitting next to Sister Gardner who gave him a Book of Mormon during the conference. He started reading it and flipped to passages that the speakers were quoting. He found it very intriguing and wanted to know more. We talked with him after and shared a message right there in the gym and found more of his desires. He wants to make a bigger change in the life of his daughter and wife because they aren't very interested in religion. We invited him to be baptized and testified that by being baptized he would be able to be that example to his family. He was really interested then to be baptized even though we were "Mormons", at Calvary they have anti-Mormon sermons once a month, but they always respect that we love everyone and work hard and dedicate our lives to God. Steve said that after witnessing the conference his false ideas of who we are were gone and that he was genuinely interested in learning more. We set a return appt with him and will help him prepare to be baptized on the 9th!

On Saturday my hair was getting too long and we had stake conference on Sunday, and my zone leader friend elder mendenhall was on exchanges with the other elders in our apartment. So he said he could cut my hair in a few minutes since he was in a hurry and he promised to do a good job... yeah, it all went well until he got the wrong length and also buzzed a good 1 square inch off right behind my ear by "accident". it was probably the worst haircut i've ever received but hey, it'll grow back. Luckily i'm tall enough that people won't notice the patch thats missing:)

Also we have these annoying monitors on the car that check our speed and give us warnings when we turn to sharply or are speeding and they are really annoying! The one in our car has been malfunctioning so we took it to the mission office to have it checked and Elder Houskeeper (the driving coordinator) just took it out because he likes us and then said he needed a ride to an auto repair shop to pick up his car. So I had to drive the vehicle coordinator!!! That was the scariest driving experience of my life, it was worse than the road test back home!!! Hopefully I never have to do that again.

One more story. On Friday we were harvesting and knocked into a guy named Tino. We said a prayer with him and invited him to be baptized and he said "yes, I've never been baptized before." so we set up a return appt and continued. We didn't make it 10 steps when the Spirit hit me and told me to go back and teach him the restoration. I thought, "well, this is going to be awkward, but what do we have to lose?" I told my companion the impression I received and he said it was crazy but we should do it if the Spirit told me to. So we went back and talked with Tino again, he was surprised to see us, go figure. and we explained how the Spirit told us to come back and share this message with him. That caught his attention and he listened intently the entire time. At the end we gave him a BofM and testified of it. He thought it was awesome and immediately asked which section he wanted us to have him read. It was awesome!! I learned that no matter what the Spirit tells you to do, just do it!

Well, I love you lots and hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Spencer Bailey

oh yeah, we also washed a members car in proselyting clothes, interesting experience:)