Dear Family!
What a week!!! First off I'd like to share an experience that happened about a week and a half ago. I got a call from President randomly one night and he asked if I would like to go to the Temple with the departing missionaries tomorrow and have dinner at his house with them. He offered it to me since I leave a week early and won't have the opportunity later. The catch was that he would have to transfer me to another area so I was closer to the mission home and I would finish my mission there most like as a senior comp. He gave me the option to choose which I preferred. I asked if I could have some time to think about it, he said yes. I prayed and asked God what to do and I felt very strongly about staying in Ft Myers. This was kind of against my own desires since I really wanted to go to the Temple with a lot of my friends and finish in another area, especially since we had just dropped all of our investigators and prospects were looking grim. But God had answered my prayer so I decided to act in faith on that prompting. I called president and let him know that I would like to stay and finish my mission here because there is still a lot of work to be done. He was very pleased with my decision.
I'm so glad I chose to stay here in Ft. Myers instead of choosing to go to the Temple and be transferred elsewhere. I can definitely see why God wanted me to stay here. We have seen so many miracles over the last couple of days, I don't even know which one to share. The beginning of the week was kind of slow I was questioning if maybe I should have decided to be transferred elsewhere, but by the end of the week we whipped ourselves back into shape and committed to be exactly obedient and to be willing to do whatever it takes to achieve the goals we set. As we applied that on Sunday and Monday we found 10 NI to teach and to help prepare for baptism in August!
My favorite miracle that occurred was on Sunday. We went out with high faith expecting to see miracles and to find the elect. After knocking doors for a couple of hours and finding a few elect people to teach we knocked into Priscilla. After praying with her and inviting her to be baptized she informed us that she and her family had been baptized in Massachusetts 20 years ago (she's 28 now) but shortly after moved to Tennessee and couldn't find a church near them so they fell into inactivity. She and her husband Corey had been talking about finding a church to attend and getting their kids raised in a church just last week. Then on Sunday we show up! Huge miracle!! Yesterday we brought over our Jewish convert friend, Brother Shoham, and had a lesson with them. We taught the Restoration and invited Corey to be baptized on August 8th. He gladly accepted the invite and shared with us that he felt really good as we shared the message and that he believed this is the Church of Jesus Christ. It was an amazing lesson, especially to feel the Spirit working through Elder Kama and I. I love teaching the restored gospel.
also a member, Isabella, brought her boyfriend Russ to church. He has been dating her for a year and was interested in checking out the church sometime. He wanted us to come over yesterday and talk about the church and being baptized into it! We went over yesterday and had a really good lesson with him, he accepted to be baptized on the 8th of august!
I read the other day in Alma 16:16which reads, "the Lord did pour out his Spirit on all the face of the land to prepare the minds of the children of men, or to prepare their hearts to receive the word." We have been praying long and hard that God would be pour out His spirit to prepare the people in Ft. Myers to receive the gospel. As we prayed in faith and as we went out and worked in faith we saw God's hand in the work. The people we found over the last week have truly been prepared by God to receive His gospel, it's been awesome witnessing scripture come to pass.
Also earlier this week we did a service project with a family. They took us out to chick-fil-a for dinner after and it happened to be on July 14th. thats when they give you a free meal if you dress up like a cow. So this member made us dress up like cows so we could get a free meal. I'll send a pic next week. thankfully we were wearing gym clothes so we didn't stick out too much:)
Love,
Elder Spencer Bailey
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