Dear Family and Friends,
What a hectic week it has been for me and how amazing it has been as
well! Everyday serving the Lord is a blessing from God.
I just want to thank all of you for your love and support and
prayers!! It is felt!
And congrats to all those who graduated!! I don't feel like I have
been out of School for a year, but I guess I have!!
So this week as I was thinking and pondering about what happened, I
thought of a quote that Jeffrey R. Holland Stated in a conference.
This week we were very focused in giving out Books of Mormon and were
able to give out about 4 a day and invite people to read them! And the
quote hit me!
"No Wicked man could write such a Book, and no Good man would write
it. Unless it were true and he were commanded by God to do so!"
-Jeffrey R. Holland
I know that God commanded men to write his Commandments knowing that
these men wouldn't be perfect, but the doctrine and the teachings that
are found are perfect!! As I thought about this, the thought came to
mind, "the Book of Mormon has been torn apart and inspected for over
200 years and it still can't be proven wrong. And that in and of
itself is a testimony of the Truthfulness that is found inside of it!
So here is how my week went!
Week 23-29 2016
Monday:
Every Monday always seem so similar, except for this one!! So our
apartment was a very dirty apartment coming into it, so we spent all
morning cleaning it really good so that the small bugs would leave us
alone! Also we have no washer or dryer, so we had to go shopping and
wash our close at a members house so that took a lot of time as well!!
So as we finished there we decided to take a small break and go and do
some mountain biking and I am not going to lie, I loved it!! It was
super pretty in some parts and was very similar to a rainforest down
under the tree canopy near a lake that has amazing trails!! We biked
for about and hour and then came back in time to just go home. Poor
Elder Lewis sadly had a rough go today and flipped over his handle
bars and had his bike land on him!! Luckily he is okay and just has
some small scraps!! So when we came home and cleaned up we went
straight to our dinner appointment and had a wonder time learning new
things from Hna. Viera, like how to say steroid compared to Asteroid!!
They are very similar!! Then we went out to find people, but with no
success tonight!! However, it was a wonderful day!!
Tuesday:
Wow today was a very wonderful day!! Today I was privileged to go on
my fist exchange as a zone leaders in the area of our Fort Worth 3
ward missionaries! I was able to go in the first normal English area
and work with a wonderful missionary that I came out with named Elder
Adams from Lindon Utah!! We instantly have been good friends! We have
completely different interests but we get a long so well, and today we
had so many blessings!! As we were walking to an appointment we walked
past a lady named Shay Smith, who was trimming her tree and asked if
we could help. She was very hesitant at first, but it was awesome to
help her and as we finished up she looked at us and began to cry, and
then she said, you were both an answer to my prayers! Thank you for
following the spirit to come here to help me and God bless you!! That
is such a big reason I am here, because I know how much I can be anN
answer to The prayers of the people around me! Then we gave out about
4 book of Mormons and it was just a wonderful experience!! Many of
these people where it interested I setting a return appointment but
still took a Book of Mormon, and we were okay with that! And we even
had some really good contact lessons! One of the crazy things that
happened to us was when we began to talk too lady that converted to
Muslum, she was a ver sweet older lady, and just was a little lost, it
she was happy. So we shared more about what she believed and what we
believed over a glass of juice and then had to head out! As we walked
pasta house we noticed a Kitten who was practicing climbing, had
fallen and caught it's leg in the fence and the rest of his body had
hooked him tight in tweet fence boards! He seemed to have been there
for a while and I knew it waspainfu, so we tried to help him! Put my
fingers around his neck so that if he tried to turn and bite, he
wouldn't be ale to get his head turned to hurt us, and yen Elder Adams
helped un hook his leg which was now of no use to the kitten! We got
it out and e first thing it did was go to attack us! And it bit my
finger! Luckily it didn't break the skin and we were a cat rescuing
crew!!! Now we are just relaxing getting to know each other and I am
just loving the things I am learning from him!!
Wednesday:
What a fun day we have had today!! We had the chance to go and
exchange back for District meeting and we had a wonderful meeting!
Then we were able to exchange again with the Sptls and I left again to
go to the area of the Sptls in hurst with Elder Lopez! So today I had
to drive the nice truck around, because elder Lopez can't, and we were
in Haltom city and Hurst! We had the chance to teach a family at
dinner and find a few different people, but I just had the hardest
time keeping my eyes open and I am so tired!! But we had wonderful
lessons and are so glad to be together! Elder Lopez has taught me a
lot!! Also tonight we were heading home when he showed me a water
tower and asked, what if I told you that was a fire-station!?? And I
just said, you're funny! And we drove by it, and it was a
fire-station!! So we talked to some people and had a cool tour and it
was so cool! It is the only one in the nation!! So we took some
pictures with the fire fighters that were on call doing their 48 hour
shift on call!! It was a really amazing day, especially being able to
ask him so many questions about being a zone leader and how I can be
better!!
Thursday:
Wow it was so nice to be able to come back from my two exchanges and
just feeling at home in my apartment and with my companion! I have
been gone for two days now and coming back to my temporary apartment
was the best feeling!! So today we had a wonderful planning! We
planned for the whole week and had a wonderful time doing it! Then we
had the chance to go and have dinner with the Johnson's, and head to
an exchange wit Hno. Ashton! We had a wonderful time going around
talking to people and actually found one guy named Juan, no surprise,
but a wonderful guy! We were just talking to him at first about what
he loved and where he was from. He shared a few experiences and then
decided to let us come in and share the gospel that we had! So we
shared the Book of Mormon with him and I was so glad to have Hno.
Ashton there with us! It truly was an Alma and Amulek Experience where
our member is the one who connected so well with Juan and He even
shared his strong testimony about it. Juan was very excited to read it
and said he would start it! I really hope that he does! So when we
got home Hno. Ashton told us how he met his wife from Costa Rica and
him being from Utah, and it was a wonderful story about how they were
both serving missions in Costa Rica when they saw each other, and then
by coincidence they met in California after the mission at a dance!
And now he is pretty much a Costa Rican!! It was so good and we had a
wonderful night!
Friday:
Today was a really wonderful day for me!! I feel like every day is
wonderful for me, but there really isn't bad days serving the lord! So
today we had wonderful studies and then we went to the church with the
North Fort Worth Zone Leaders and planned out our training we will be
doing in the Zone Conference coming up. So during our studies we had
planned for the Zone Conference Training we were going to give so that
as we came together with the other Zone Leaders we would kind of have
an idea of what we wanted to do. As we got there and began to talk the
spirit was so strong and really helped us to find the best way to
teach our zone and ourselves how to improve! Every few seconds we were
getting revelation and taking out parts and adding other parts and it
was wonderful! Here is what we came up with!
Ephesians 4:13
- Till we all come to the unity of he faith....
Language study when you have 3 DVD players and all the DVDs go in Spanish!! Haha
What a hectic week it has been for me and how amazing it has been as
well! Everyday serving the Lord is a blessing from God.
I just want to thank all of you for your love and support and
prayers!! It is felt!
And congrats to all those who graduated!! I don't feel like I have
been out of School for a year, but I guess I have!!
So this week as I was thinking and pondering about what happened, I
thought of a quote that Jeffrey R. Holland Stated in a conference.
This week we were very focused in giving out Books of Mormon and were
able to give out about 4 a day and invite people to read them! And the
quote hit me!
"No Wicked man could write such a Book, and no Good man would write
it. Unless it were true and he were commanded by God to do so!"
-Jeffrey R. Holland
I know that God commanded men to write his Commandments knowing that
these men wouldn't be perfect, but the doctrine and the teachings that
are found are perfect!! As I thought about this, the thought came to
mind, "the Book of Mormon has been torn apart and inspected for over
200 years and it still can't be proven wrong. And that in and of
itself is a testimony of the Truthfulness that is found inside of it!
So here is how my week went!
Week 23-29 2016
Monday:
Every Monday always seem so similar, except for this one!! So our
apartment was a very dirty apartment coming into it, so we spent all
morning cleaning it really good so that the small bugs would leave us
alone! Also we have no washer or dryer, so we had to go shopping and
wash our close at a members house so that took a lot of time as well!!
So as we finished there we decided to take a small break and go and do
some mountain biking and I am not going to lie, I loved it!! It was
super pretty in some parts and was very similar to a rainforest down
under the tree canopy near a lake that has amazing trails!! We biked
for about and hour and then came back in time to just go home. Poor
Elder Lewis sadly had a rough go today and flipped over his handle
bars and had his bike land on him!! Luckily he is okay and just has
some small scraps!! So when we came home and cleaned up we went
straight to our dinner appointment and had a wonder time learning new
things from Hna. Viera, like how to say steroid compared to Asteroid!!
They are very similar!! Then we went out to find people, but with no
success tonight!! However, it was a wonderful day!!
Tuesday:
Wow today was a very wonderful day!! Today I was privileged to go on
my fist exchange as a zone leaders in the area of our Fort Worth 3
ward missionaries! I was able to go in the first normal English area
and work with a wonderful missionary that I came out with named Elder
Adams from Lindon Utah!! We instantly have been good friends! We have
completely different interests but we get a long so well, and today we
had so many blessings!! As we were walking to an appointment we walked
past a lady named Shay Smith, who was trimming her tree and asked if
we could help. She was very hesitant at first, but it was awesome to
help her and as we finished up she looked at us and began to cry, and
then she said, you were both an answer to my prayers! Thank you for
following the spirit to come here to help me and God bless you!! That
is such a big reason I am here, because I know how much I can be anN
answer to The prayers of the people around me! Then we gave out about
4 book of Mormons and it was just a wonderful experience!! Many of
these people where it interested I setting a return appointment but
still took a Book of Mormon, and we were okay with that! And we even
had some really good contact lessons! One of the crazy things that
happened to us was when we began to talk too lady that converted to
Muslum, she was a ver sweet older lady, and just was a little lost, it
she was happy. So we shared more about what she believed and what we
believed over a glass of juice and then had to head out! As we walked
pasta house we noticed a Kitten who was practicing climbing, had
fallen and caught it's leg in the fence and the rest of his body had
hooked him tight in tweet fence boards! He seemed to have been there
for a while and I knew it waspainfu, so we tried to help him! Put my
fingers around his neck so that if he tried to turn and bite, he
wouldn't be ale to get his head turned to hurt us, and yen Elder Adams
helped un hook his leg which was now of no use to the kitten! We got
it out and e first thing it did was go to attack us! And it bit my
finger! Luckily it didn't break the skin and we were a cat rescuing
crew!!! Now we are just relaxing getting to know each other and I am
just loving the things I am learning from him!!
Wednesday:
What a fun day we have had today!! We had the chance to go and
exchange back for District meeting and we had a wonderful meeting!
Then we were able to exchange again with the Sptls and I left again to
go to the area of the Sptls in hurst with Elder Lopez! So today I had
to drive the nice truck around, because elder Lopez can't, and we were
in Haltom city and Hurst! We had the chance to teach a family at
dinner and find a few different people, but I just had the hardest
time keeping my eyes open and I am so tired!! But we had wonderful
lessons and are so glad to be together! Elder Lopez has taught me a
lot!! Also tonight we were heading home when he showed me a water
tower and asked, what if I told you that was a fire-station!?? And I
just said, you're funny! And we drove by it, and it was a
fire-station!! So we talked to some people and had a cool tour and it
was so cool! It is the only one in the nation!! So we took some
pictures with the fire fighters that were on call doing their 48 hour
shift on call!! It was a really amazing day, especially being able to
ask him so many questions about being a zone leader and how I can be
better!!
Thursday:
Wow it was so nice to be able to come back from my two exchanges and
just feeling at home in my apartment and with my companion! I have
been gone for two days now and coming back to my temporary apartment
was the best feeling!! So today we had a wonderful planning! We
planned for the whole week and had a wonderful time doing it! Then we
had the chance to go and have dinner with the Johnson's, and head to
an exchange wit Hno. Ashton! We had a wonderful time going around
talking to people and actually found one guy named Juan, no surprise,
but a wonderful guy! We were just talking to him at first about what
he loved and where he was from. He shared a few experiences and then
decided to let us come in and share the gospel that we had! So we
shared the Book of Mormon with him and I was so glad to have Hno.
Ashton there with us! It truly was an Alma and Amulek Experience where
our member is the one who connected so well with Juan and He even
shared his strong testimony about it. Juan was very excited to read it
and said he would start it! I really hope that he does! So when we
got home Hno. Ashton told us how he met his wife from Costa Rica and
him being from Utah, and it was a wonderful story about how they were
both serving missions in Costa Rica when they saw each other, and then
by coincidence they met in California after the mission at a dance!
And now he is pretty much a Costa Rican!! It was so good and we had a
wonderful night!
Friday:
Today was a really wonderful day for me!! I feel like every day is
wonderful for me, but there really isn't bad days serving the lord! So
today we had wonderful studies and then we went to the church with the
North Fort Worth Zone Leaders and planned out our training we will be
doing in the Zone Conference coming up. So during our studies we had
planned for the Zone Conference Training we were going to give so that
as we came together with the other Zone Leaders we would kind of have
an idea of what we wanted to do. As we got there and began to talk the
spirit was so strong and really helped us to find the best way to
teach our zone and ourselves how to improve! Every few seconds we were
getting revelation and taking out parts and adding other parts and it
was wonderful! Here is what we came up with!
Ephesians 4:13
- Till we all come to the unity of he faith....
Mountain biking, or in other words, Hill biking!!
On Exchange with Elder Adams, an English Elder who is in my Zone and came out with me!
Inside the Water Tower fire station with the Crew!! And 2 million gallons hanging over head!
After the SpTL exchange with Elder Lopez and Elder Parkin!
Language study when you have 3 DVD players and all the DVDs go in Spanish!! Haha
Con Amor, Elder Spendlove
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