HOLA TO THE PEOPLE I LOVE THE MOST-
Last week, I talked to you about Moises-a man that we found
on the street with his daughter and invited to church. He is a person who is VERY
prepared. I can see the spirit working when we meet with him. This week, we had a lesson with him and
we taught the restoration. The bishop came too and he helped us out a lot. He
was super friendly with him and was able to relate with him better than we
could. The lesson went so great. We invited him to read the Book of Mormon and
to pray
about our message. He was so willing and even offered the
closing prayer of the meeting. Which NEVER happens, it was a beautiful moment. A few days later, we called him to
remind him about our Thursday night family home evening activity. During the
phone call, he told us that he had read the Book of Mormon almost every night
and was loving it. (!!!!!!!) He said, "I prayed last night and this
morning that I would have a good day, and my day has been greater than normal.
I can feel something changing inside of me and it feels good." YES YOURE
READING THIS RIGHT. I genuinely shed a few tears as to how perfectly prepared this
man is. But I also wanted to cry because of how wonderful the Book of Mormon
is. That book has so much power and brings so much happiness and I promise
it'll change your life if you read it. We had another lesson with him on
Saturday. We had planned to teach the plan of salvation but we ended up talking
about the Book of Mormon. We were trying to help him recognize the spirit and
know how to feel it more often. He hadn't prayed specifically about the Book of
Mormon, or our message, so we invited him to do that. He is seriously so ready
and so willing to believe everything we say. We invited him to be baptized,
when he comes to know that this is true and he said yes. He wants to be
absolutely sure that he knows it's true before he does anything, which is
great. The spirit was so sweet in the room and I know he could feel it.
On Tuesday, we had a really powerful family home evening
lesson with a family in our ward. The parents are very active but the kids are either
half active or want nothing to do with the church. We usually teach a special
lesson with videos and activities but this week we decided to go back to the
basics. We taught about Joseph smith and the restoration and then had a sort of
"testimony meeting." My testimony
was strengthened and I know that the hearts of everyone were
touched in the room as we talked about our love for Joseph smith and the Book of
Mormon. It's amazing as to how often his experience brings his spirit into the
room.
All of our lessons have been going great recently, and the
members have started helping out A LOT. This week was packed full of lessons and
plans that actually happened!!! In fact, we barely had any time to contact this
week because it was so fun. But, in exciting news-we contacted a woman a few
weeks ago who wasn't in our are so we "passed the reference" to the
other sister missionaries in that area. They
told us that they finally had a lesson with her and that it
was MARVELOUS. They said the spirit was so strong and that when they invited
her to be baptized she said, "Claro" which is kinda like "um duh."
I know that's not my story but we found her on the street so I couldn't help
but feel proud that Heavenly Father was able to use us.
A lot of you have been asking me questions answered about
the culture and the food and the schedule so let me get to it. Our schedule every day is different, and
I'm on a training schedule but it consists of the following:
7:30-wake up((it's a blessing that this mission does a later
wake up, it's because people here usually don't wake up til like 1)) and then exercise
8:00-get ready for the day/shower/eat breakfast
9:00-personal study
9:30-companion study
11:30-proselyting/teaching/contacting
2:00-medio dia ((in Spain, the people here go home and stop
working and take naps from 2-5. So everything closes and basically no one is outside))
3:30-area book ((filling out lots of papers with the lessons
we taught or with future people to teach
4:00-personal study
4:30-language study
5:30-proselyting/teaching/contacting
10:15/10:45-be back in piso to plan for tomorrow and eat a
snack or something because they don't eat dinner here till 10 or 11
11:30-lights out
I'll attach a picture of my little agenda and what a full
day looks like out here. We're pretty busy all day with studying and citas and walking
and walking and WALKING. Like I've never walked so much in my life but it's
okay because we're doin the work. I'm not necessarily sore but my legs and feet
are no longer existent. A few nights out
here I've woke up in the middle of the night crying because
my calf muscles feel like someone is ripping them apart. I mean, it's casual, that's
what I get for not working out. Other than that, walking is great because I'm
pretty sure I've gained about 47 pounds out here. The ward members are great
and they feed us BEAUTIFUL food. My favorite is a plate called 'paella'. It's
like rice and chicken and shrimp vegetable and it's so good. I cry every time I
eat it, it's fantastic. They make it in this HUGE pan that's like the size of a
small table no joke. Other foods here just have a lot of fish and rice or
vegetables but it's all super yummy.
As for tidbits about the culture, I really can't think of
any at this moment. I'll try to think about that during the week so that I can update
you all on how everything works out here in Spain. But it's all beautiful and
it's all so fun. I love it all. Thank you all for the emails and prayers and letters
and support.
Miss you mucho and love you all even more!!!!
Until next week,
Hermana Spangler
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