This week has been great! We saw A LOT of improvement in the zone overall. We gave a zone training on the importance of setting the vision for the Temple from the beginning and working with members and how to get referrals from them. we found a lot of people to teach last week but none of them were elect. We got rather tired of teaching people who weren't progressing, so on Sunday we cleaned out our teaching pool and made a "Standard of Electness" which includes certain things that investigators must do in order for us to keep teaching them. We will find the elect this week!
We had a huge miracle occur this past week while texting out our new phone number to all the contacts in the phone. We randomly got a text back from an investigator, Jennifer, who we don't know. She said she would like to come to Church and have us come by sometime to share a message with her! It was amazing! We went over Sunday night and found out that her whole family are members except her and her other sister who are both YSA!! They want to learn more about Jesus Christ and want us to baptize them! It was a huge miracle!!
I did a study on "How to discern the Spirit from our own thoughts" while preparing a comp study for the sisters. It was an amazing study! While studying, I remembered a quote Alyssa had shared with me, "No Random Thought." Meaning that whatever thought we have pertaining to missionary work is not random and that we should act on it. The Spirit talks to us mostly through thoughts and he speaks very softly. When we act on those thoughts we receive we can learn to discern what the Spirit is telling us. The more we listen to the Spirit or act on the thoughts we have, the more our thoughts and actions will become like Gods thoughts and actions. This is when it's difficult to tell where the thoughts are coming from. The more we act, the more faith we have. with more faith we can gain a pure knowledge and differentiate between our thoughts and the Spirit. We left a commitment to act on every thought and we've been doing the same thing.
Also yesterday we were driving around in Downtown looking for a place to park, (I know how you feel Alyssa) and finally found one. We ran into a Smoothie King to grab a little snack and when we came back out I had a parking ticket! Every where you park in Miami requires you to pay, but no one ever does and cops don't care, but I guess this particular one did. Oh well, at least the Smoothie was really good:)
Also, winters in Florida are so nice! It's been a nice 75-80 degrees with a nice ocean breeze and a lot of sunshine, Florida is a great place!
Love,
Elder Spencer Bailey
Also Happy Bday to Randon and Grandma Burr and Grandpa Bailey this past weekend, I hope you all had great Bdays!!
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