Hey Family!
First off, Happy Fathers Day yesterday!! We are very blessed to have you as our dad!! Hope you had a great day!
I'm loving being a DL over here, it's been quite the challenge with this particular district, but it's been helping me become more Christ-like and have more of a desire to acquire the needed gifts of Charity and Patience. I've been working hard on helping Elder Kama become a better missionary, he missed out on a lot of stuff while being trained, so we have been studying PMG hard and role-playing frequently to help him out. It's also helped me become a better teacher. Elder Kama got real sick with the flu this past week, but we didn't let that stop us! We worked out some exchanges with the ZL's so we could work both areas and we saw so many miracles because we were out there working instead of letting sickness keep us in.
The biggest Miracle we saw this past week occurred last night. We were very disappointed because only 1 investigator came to church and we had so many more people set to come. We felt the Godly sorrow but we didn't let that bog us down, we decided to work with what we had and to change the game. We went out with the faith to find and to set EVERYONE with a date for baptism. While heading out we got lost and found ourselves in a random neighborhood that we had never seen before, we didn't feel too good about it so we were driving out when we got a subtle prompting to try this 1 particular house before we left. We went and knocked on the door and found a family of 6!!!!! We prayed with the wife and after the prayer the husband came out of the back of the house so we taught a simple restoration and got the husband and wife committed for baptism!! Such an awesome miracle!!!
I was studying a lot this week on how to help my district have more unity so that we can work as effectively as possible. I was reading in Mosiah 18 and the BofM study guide and found a lot of good stuff. in verse 21 it reads,
" there should be no contention one with another, but that they should look forward with one eye..having their hearts knit together in unity and in love one towards another."
It reminded me of the scripture in D&C 38:27, "Be one; and if ye are not one ye are not mine."
It's pretty straight forward, if we are not unified the work will not progress. We will be focusing on improving our district unity this week. President Eyring gave us the how in this quote, "If we are to have unity, there are commandments we must keep concerning how we feel. We must forgive and bear no malice toward those that offend us."
We will be working on applying that this week! It all starts with Elder Kama and I being the example.
Oh yeah, we went over to see Alluri (RC) and we were set to get his wife (Latah) baptized this month. We started teaching the restoration and she said, "I've been taught this before." Turns out Alluri has been teaching her this entire time in their native language!!!! So we talked about Temples and eternal marriage and that baptism is how you can enter the Temple and be sealed someday. She loved that a lot and committed to be baptized this Saturday!! We had Alluri receive the Priesthood yesterday so he can baptize her, so cool!!
Love,
Elder Spencer Bailey
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