Biking Beasts

This has been a wild week!!

To start off - I love Corpus!!! The ward here is AMAZING. The members are so welcoming and we have dinner at their houses each night. They help us with lessons and give us rides when it rains, and they invite the people we are teaching to sit with them at church! I have been shocked by the amount of kindness in this ward.

We live in a four man with the STLS, Sister McKee and Frandsen. I love them so much!! My companion, Sister Wheelwright, is so sweet. She is from Roosevelt, Utah and went to BYU Hawaii for a year before the mission! She also trains horses :)

Teaching in English is WEIRD. I have spoken Spanish with someone besides my companion maybe like 3 times this week, it's definitely different but it's kind of cool to see what the rest of Texas probably looks like! Everyone here has a southern accent and we meet a lot of people who are from Church Unlimited or Baptist.

The first 3 days here I was SO SORE from biking. We bike about 10-15 miles a day. I have only fallen off my bike once!! It's started to get fun though and we are able to meet a lot more people.

People we are teaching:

Gilbert!! He is so cool! We set a date for him to be baptized the first day I got here, and he came to church and sat with the members on Sunday. He is a little old man and sometimes can't hear us because we have to teach him outside haha, but he has a sweet heart and is so kind!

Hannah! She is our age and SO COOL. She graduated from college already and has a degree is psychology. She has a hard time having faith in God, so we have been working with her to grow that faith.

Spiritual experiences:

We went to go eat dinner with someone we are teaching the other night and it was pretty dark. Normally I just tie my safety vest onto my backpack, but I got a prompting that I should put it on instead.

As we were biking it was pretty dark and I noticed this big, white truck looked like he was about to turn in where I was crossing. I slowed down a little bit and then all the sudden he gunned it and almost hit me, I slammed on my brakes but I wasn't quite fast enough. Because I had my vest on, he saw me at the last second and slammed on his brakes.

I kept biking and was pretty shaken up, but I said a prayer of thanks because I know it was GOD, not my safety vest that protected me. I'm glad He gave me that feeling to put the vest on.

As always, there's a lot more I could write about, but hopefully that sums up generally what has been going on here in Corpus!! I'm excited for this transfer - lots of good things coming!

Love,

Sister Spackman

Pictures:

We visited Mr Bill's Christmas Wonderland and took pictures by the nativity. Then we got Bible bashed for 20 minutes and just stood there and said nothing #lovethesouth

Brother Aguirre made my dad's famous chili for our goodbye dinner!!

We went and said bye to the palleros and watched the restoration movie with them and our investigator, Paty.