I just love how simple the gospel really is. We did a district training on teaching simply and practiced teaching as simple as possible while touching up on what the investigator really needs to hear. It was great! The Spirit was strong because that is how He teaches, very simple. It's been great seeing the District apply it and how their investigators understand the Gospel. We are teaching a family of 4 (single mom, 3 daughters), they all came to Church yesterday and afterwards in our lesson the daughters, (11 years and younger) taught us the Restoration, PofS and the commandments, it was awesome to see how well they understood it. That's how it's supposed to be, we need to teach that even children can understand and know our messages to be true. There's a quote by President Taylor that I love, “It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself, and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.”
On Friday I went on an exchange with Elder Miller, he's 6'8 so we got a lot of comments as we walked down the street, and I had been praying all week for us to have a miracle exchange so that he could take what he learned about receiving miracles and take it into his area. We were knocking doors in the projects, and were looking for a family that could benefit from receiving the gospel to help take the ghetto out of them. Towards the end of our finding session we found Lakisha and her family! She is a single mom with 3 daughters and has been looking for a home church and wants a place where her daughters can learn good principals to keep them on the right path. We prayed with them and tied all their desires into coming to church and being baptized in a couple of weeks, they accepted and said they were willing to do that to receive the blessings. We taught the Restoration simply and they understood it. We lost contact with them all saturday and sunday morning, but during Sacrament meeting we looked around and saw them sitting in the pews!! They came without us getting a hold of them!! so elect!! Ashley and her family were also there, so it was fun to get 7 people to all the different classes:)
We've seen so many miracles in this area in the last month. This area used to be one of the worst areas! Whenever someone in our zone has a miracle occur, they send out a text to share it with others, helps build the faith that miracles are happening even if you don't see them in your area. We had some sisters come up to us yesterday and ask how we have been receiving so many miracles this past month. I replied it was just from us exercising faith and expecting miracles to occur. They took the advice and sure enough that evening we got a miracle text from them stating that they miracle occurred because they had faith and expected it to happen. God only works by faith, so if you need a blessing, ask in faith and expect it to come. God always wants to bless us!
Also there's been a ton of lightning storms, I've never seen so much lightning!! Had a strike hit about 10 yards from us yesterday, crazy cool to see!
Love,
Elder Spencer Bailey
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