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ALL MY FAVORITE PEOPLE-

I genuinely cannot believe that another week has come and gone, yet here we are!!!! This week was full of miracles, POURING rain, citas, and any other good things you can think off :))

SO, Loe is doing great!!!!  Still progressing, still reading and praying every day but still hasn't come to church)):  She went a long time ago but it's been hard to get back because of her husband.  On Wednesday we had a fantastic lesson and made promise after promise and used our testimonies and scriptures and she said she would for sure be there on Sunday.  She was saying that she didn't want to come

because she thought she would get home and her husband would get mad at her ): Her husband is just the nicest guy ever though so we were asking how she knew he would do that.  And she said, "You're right, I have no idea what he's going to do.  I need to go to see his reaction."  She prayed at the end and it was so sweet.  She just pleaded Heavenly Father to make everything happen so that she could come to church and that her husband would open his heart.  Well, Sunday rolled around and she never showed up)):  We were crushed because she had promised she would be there.  We called her and she said she got up on time and got ready and told her husband she was about to leave for church and he said, "Can't you just go another day?" And that broke her so she stayed home.  SHE WAS SO CLOSE and she felt sooooo bad.  We knew that Satan was going to tempt her in some way and he knew her exact weakness.  He knows what he's doing and that's what makes missionary work so hard.  I don't know if she's just scared of him or if that's really what happened but Satan used his best tool and it worked.  Hermana Wood, Loe, and I fasted yesterday for Ivan's heart to be softened.  Loe just needs to understand that she has to stand her ground and fight for what she wants.  She wants this so bad

and NEEDS it.  So please please keep her in your prayers.

Okay, our other progressing investigator is a cute little lady named Bella and she is MY FAVORITE.  We are best friends :))  We are going to have a lesson with her tonight and invite her to baptized so I'll let you guys know how it goes!!!!  She's reading and praying every day and always coming to church but she wants to move through this whole investigating process slower than we'd like.  She knows it's all true and loves it all so we're just gonna help her realize that baptism is the most essential part to help her faith grow.

From Friday to Monday, it's been POURING rain.  A nice lady in our ward gave me some rain boots so it hasn't been too bad :")  Also, Hermana Wood and I just have way too much fun laughing and getting all wet.  Yesterday, she totally slipped and rolled down a hill hahahahhahahahahahaha we were CRYING ((she's fine, don't worry)).  It’s actually been a little tender mercy because Spain people are so nice and always let us in because they don't wanna leave us in the rain.  We made sure and visited all of our not yet progressing families and actually had some success!!!!  We have a family right now that we are just trying to work with because they are so precious!!!!  So far we've only been able to teach the dad but it was the wife that gave us the information to come back so we're hoping to teach them all soon.  Levi and Alicia are the parents and then they have 3 kids, Elsa and Mayra ((twins, 8 years

old)) and Lucas((7)) THEY ARE SO SO CUTE.  Every time we pass by, the kids talk to us but we always seem to pass by at busy times.  We will get them soon, please pray for them to be willing and open!!!!

So, in Sevilla, there are these dances called Flamenca dances and all the girls get alllll dressed up and pretty and the dresses are CRAZY.  An investigator lady we have right now let us try on one of her old dresses so that was pretty cool :))  pictures provided, of course.

We had so many great citas this week and Heavenly Father really just let us have a lot of chances to work with people and find people and see miracles.  I seriously love this work and I love seeing the gospel work in people's lives.

Until next week,

LOVE YOU ALL MUCHO,

Hermana Spangler