November
21, 2016
MIS QUERIDOS-
Bueno, here we are with another week come and gone!!!! This has probably been one of the
longest weeks of my whole mission with not as much visible success as we'd like
to report BUT it's okay, we've still seen miracles. God is so good to us.
Leaving Alcalá was really sad ): I was only there for about
6 weeks but it was just so easy to fall in love with the people. I'm ESPECIALLY grateful for the time I
had with Hermana Wood. She's an actual
angel and I am positive that God sent her to me for a reason. I think that's probably one of the
reasons I loved Alcalá so much. God
just likes blessing me in the companion category, what can I say :))
I'm officially settled in and here in Jerez. Hermana Højholdt and I get along really
well and she's an absolute doll. I'm
the worst and didn't take pictures, forgive me :/ BUT there's some videos and
rainy pictures. Hermana Højholdt
and I have seriously WORKED our brains out and we come home absolutely
exhausted from walking so much but we are really just soaking it all in. Whenever transfers come around, I always pray that God will
put me with someone that has a specific attribute I want to be better at. For example, I've been praying that God
will put me with someone that contacts A TON. ((I can contact pretty well, but
I want to be better)) At one point
I was thinking about it, and I thought, "Wait, why do I have to wait for a
companion that does that? Why can't I just start doing it?" What if someone was praying for that
kind of companion too? I decided to
be the companion I would want to have and it's really been an eye-opening
experience. I have been
contacting like a crazy person and even though we aren't seeing many results, I
feel a lot better about myself as a missionary overall. I want Heavenly Father to feel like he can
trust me.
At one point, we had contacted for a straight hour without a
SINGLE bit of success. I just kept
waiting for the miracle to come and then Hermana Højholdt said, "We're
just putting work into our miracle savings today." And I realized that sometimes we don't
see miracles right away, but we are showing God that we are prepared for what
he will send us. If we do our
part, he will always pour his blessings upon us.
This is a short one, again, but I don't have a lot of cool
stories. I'm still in the process of meeting the
ward and the investigators. I have
to go to Malaga this week to do my residency and then we have intercambios
((wish me luck!!!)) I'll have a
better/more detailed email next week.
I LOVE YOU ALL MUCHO,
Hermana Spangler
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