This week was amazing! I can definitely see the hard work, obedience and diligence of the past 2 years paying off this past week. We had 5 investigators at sacrament and 7 dates set, 5 of which are going to be baptized in the month of August, it's going to be awesome!!! Elder Kama and I got along a lot better this past week, and I've been praying super hard for the gift of charity and the other night I felt the Spirit very strongly when praying and I've felt so much more love for others ever since then, it truly is a gift from God to have charity. Corey sadly wasn't baptized over the weekend, but he'll be baptized this Saturday for sure!
We saw a huge miracle last week as we followed the Spirit. We felt prompted last saturday to go stop by some former investigators. We followed the prompting and went and visitied them, Shirlene and her daughter Jae'mitria, and they still really wanted to be baptized and to come to church. We had just lost contact with them and they were wondering when we would come back. We got them committed to come to church and they came yesterday and loved the service! We taught them the Resto yesterday after church and they are so committed to be baptized on the 29th! I'm not even going to be here to see them baptized but I'm going to do whatever possible to ensure that they'll be baptized on that day.
I heard a quote this week from one of the church videos that goes something like this, "Do whatever it takes to allow God to keep His promises." God wants to bless us and help us out. He's promised that He will always be there for us and help us make it through anything as we keep His commandments. For God to keep His promises, we need to "believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is the Holy One of Israel; wherefore ye must bow down before him, and worship him with all your [heart], might, mind, and strength, and your whole soul." (2 nephi 25:29) If we do this then God can keep His promises and help us "prosper in the land", we've seen this in our area this past week as we strived to become better missionaries and work diligently to the end. We applied a lot more faith and even though we got rejected hundreds of times last week, we didn't let our faith die down, because of that we'll be baptizing 5 souls in the month of August and help them prepare to live with God again, it's been such a blessing to help God's children out.
I'm loving the work, crazy that I only have 1 week left, but I'm going to give it my all! I gave my final training last week on the law of sacrifice and how God asks us to sacrifice our all. In the Old Testament he asked for animal sacrifices as a similitude of Christ's Atoning Sacrifice. Now he asks us to give of ourselves. We made a list of things that were impure about ourselves that were holding us back to put on the "altar of sacrifice". our district has done really well at sacrificing those things that were holding us back from progressing. This final week will be great, we'll finish strong by baptizing Corey this Saturday, very excited about that!
Love,
Elder Spencer Bailey
snagged a pic of this sunset last night right off of the Caloosahatchee river
we found a pier last night and went out to it and took this pic
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