Hello everyone!!
Wasn't General Conference just awesome???
This week was seriously the best one yet here in Laredo!
We have been teaching our friend English by using the Book of Mormon. This week we brought up baptism and he said he wanted to be baptized!! We set a date with him for November and will be passing him off to missionaries in Mexico.
Edalia is progressing along with her husband. Her husband is actually reading the Book of Mormon - which is a complete 180 from when we first starting visiting. He wasn't even interested at first.
We went over Saturday night and watched the women's session with Edalia and she was blown away by President Nelson!!! She has been struggling with the Book of Mormon and a testimony of living prophets and after his talk she had the biggest smile on her face and said "I really need to read this book!!"
We had a lesson on Friday at the park with our friend we have been teaching for awhile now and he is progressing milestones. He came and watched conference with us and said he had so many of his questions get answered. He loved the messages focused on unity in diversity. He has a lot of opposition coming from friends and family about being baptized but he said that conference inspired him to "follow God and not worry what others think" :,)
And finally, our buddy George came to general conference and got to hear the prophet speak! He took a whole 2.5 pages of notes and said his favorite speaker was Pres Nelson. Hopefully he will be baptized within the coming weeks.
For those of you wondering about our dude Roy - he is doing awesome!!! He came and watched conference with us and is going to have the opportunity to pass the sacrament next week. Yesteday was his birthday so we ate some cheesecake with him and the other missionaries at the church. We are so pumped for him!
Please pray for:
Edalia, Alan, George, Roy and Veronika.
Spiritual experiences:
I've written about this in the past few weeks but we are trying to work a lot harder with members. On Sunday a member showed up who I had only met once and asked if she could introduce us to her friend, who she had only met in the last week and decided to bring to conference.
It was a big testimony builder to me that the Lord is seeing our efforts to work with members and he is truly blessing us for them!! This has been one of the most exciting times of my mission.
Funny experiences:
While telling an investigator about general conference I got so excited and accidentally said "la conferencia genial!!" Which means "the cool conference!!" Hahaha it still fits though so we just went with it.
We decided to use banana bread to get people's attention when they don't text us back and it worked hahaha. We dropped off around 15 muffins this week to different people and were able to have awesome lessons with all of them! So if you don't get a text back from someone - tell them you want to bring them banana bread lol.
During conference President Nelson talked about how missionaries are teaching more people than ever - it is so true!! As missionaries we are having so much success.
But, we also really need the members help. We can't do it alone. President Nelson invited everyone to participate in the gathering of Israel.
To my friends and family back home - I want to ask you to do a few things.
1. Please reach out to the missionaries serving in your ward this week. Ask them if they have an investigator you can call or text. Or offer to join in on a lesson.
2. Pray to know who you can invite to learn more about the gospel and how - and then act on it.
It will mean the world to the missionaries in your ward and to me! Email me and let me know how it goes. Please!
This is probably my longest group email ever. Thanks to all those who read it all the way through haha. Love you all, have an awesome week and go help the missionaries!
Love,
Sister Spackman
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