WOW WOW WOW, WOW WOW WOW WOW
Sorry this email is coming in so late today, I as well, have very little time this week!! But lots to say!! It's okay ha ha I'll try to fit it into a letter or something.. I don't know ha. Sounds like things are going really well at home:)
LOTS happened this week. Trials... tests.. obstacles...prayer, fasting, success:) and miracles.
Like I said I don`t have all the time in the world, but, I`ll try to keep it really short.
-Starting off the week, it`s starting to get pretty hot.. and the locals are still saying this is nothing.
-I have pretty huge really painful blisters (ampollas) on both feet, but their starting to turn into caluses(sp?) I think
-Rosario...
Rosario called us and told me over the phone that she most like would not be able to get baptized this week:/ She shared her wonderfully simple and powerful testimony over the phone, but told us she didn't know when she was going to get baptized because her exhusband and her exmother-in-law came out of nowhere and are trying to take away her daughters..that she was going to be in court all week and that she didn't know what she was going to do, and that she'd call us when we could come by her house the next time...
These are all things missionaries never ever everrrr want to hear.(except the testimony, that was awwesome.)
Not very long after.. Elder Cirne and I found ourselves on our knees.. pleading for a miracle. All week we prayed and prayed and prayed -- knowing that if Rosario didn't get baptized this week, the obstacles and problems and everything would just get bigger and bigger and harder and harder. That's just the kind of guy satan is unfortunately.
BUT we still had Sagid, the genius 9 year old. DURING our lesson with Sagid on thursday(preparing him for his baptismal interview), I got a call! It was Rosario, telling us that she had about half an hour, and she needed us to come over that instant. I asked her why, and she told me, ``I need you guys to tell me all the answers to this baptismal interview thing so I can pass tomorrow``
Elder Cirne baptized Sagid (his first baptismal ordinance)
and I baptized Rosario (my first too: )) on Saturday:)
Sometimes it's a little rare... but it is definitely a pretty amazing experience to find someone, get to know them, teach them, watch them progress, gain a testimony, make friends in church, and get baptized.
The gospel is true, and the priesthood is real. I love you all soooooo much. I still cannot believe mary ellen is going to africa... what?.. hippos?... London?... What is this? Disney Channel? I love you to death mar bear.
Emily I am SO jealous!! I'd be more jealous if I hadn`t already seen Arcade Fire:) But I'm pretty darn stinkin jealous still. And with Katie White too! I actually remember the first time I heard Arcade fire was with you, Katie, and the Arron Twins. Oh and Josh and Jessie too! D-DAY! I miss you em.
Back to work,
-Elder Spencer
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