Hello Everyone!
This week was awesome! On Tuesday we were able to have our zone Christmas Conference with about 40 missionaries. We had meetings with our mission president, ate lots of good food, decorated sugar cookies, played tons of games and had a big soccer match! We even got to watch The Lion King with Beyonce hahaha. It was the best.
After the conference I was able to do divisions with Hermana Smith and stay in her area in Punta Alta. She and I have the same amount of time in the mission, so we were really nervous about our Spanish speaking abilities, hahah. But, we were able to understand literally everyone we talked to and they were able to understand us. We taught a lot of lessons and it was fun to be able to talk with her about the MTC and other fun experiences from our training.
On Saturday we had a ward activity and we had a lot of people come! We played soccer with all the young men and members of the bishopric and it was a blast haha. Afterwards all the primary kids did a cute little nativity!
Spiritual experience:
About halfway through divisions Hermana Smith contacted a man that was standing in the street. He looked at us and asked us to come sit down by him on a bench outside. He shared with us a little about his life and told us that he is Catholic, but he is frustrated because many Catholic people say one thing but do another. He told us that he has always noticed that members of our church are good people and he has a friend who is a member. I shared with him a little of the first vision and restoration and Hermana Smith gave him a Book of Mormon. We asked him to pray and read about it and he said he would. We gave him an invitation for the special meeting on December 22nd and he looked at us surprised and asked if he could really come! Haha! We laughed and said, of course! As we were leaving, he looked at us with tears in his eyes and told us that he had been experiencing a lot of trials in his life and depression, and that he was grateful for us and for lifting him up. I told him that it was no coincidence we crossed paths with him and he agreed that it wasn ́t. He invited Hermana Smith and Hermana Olivera to come back and visit him again in the next week. It's amazing to me to see how personally the Lord knows his children and is putting us missionaries in the path of others to help them.
Funny experience:
We did a service project with our bishop ́s wife and when I asked her how she met her husband she said he was her district leader in the mission. We were dying laughing because that is so stereotypical here and she tried to justify it, but we told her it wasn't possible haha.
This week I got a cute Christmas package from my Mom so just wanted to give her a quick s/o here! She is the best and sent me mac´n´cheese which means I ́m going to have a feast for Christmas dinner!! Also big s/o to my girl Beth, who got married this weekend!!!
Love and miss you all!
Hermana Spackman
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