preachin' the good word

MY LOVELY PEOPLE-

Is it just me or are the weeks FLYING by??  What's really crazy is that we get transfer calls this week!!!  ((What?!?!?!?))  Fingers crossed that I get to stay with my girl Hermana Burt again but chances are pretty low considering I only have 1 transfer left and she has 2.  I'm excited to see how I'm going to stretch and grow in these next 2 months.

This week was a lil complicated because an Hermana had to go home early so her companion came and stayed with us for the week.  Trio life is so crazy but so fun.  So we had Hermana sigcha (from Ecuador) stay with us and we saw MIRACLES.  Also, it was crazy because our water heater broke and flooded our whole laundry room.  Our landlord couldn't come til like the end of the week so we invented this thing with a bag and straws so that the water went straight outside instead of dripping on the floor.  We spent a good hour trying to fix it and we finally came up with a genius thing to save the floor.  (video attached)

We met with Alberto again (the less active) and had a really good review lesson about the restoration.  He served a mission like 3 years ago so he still remembered a lot (including, he still had the first vision memorized). We talked a lot about the blessings that have come from the restoration and it just helped me see, once again, that I am so incredibly blessed to be a part of Christ's church. We tried really hard to follow the spirit in the lesson and ask inspired questions and we had a really good discussion.  He didn't come to church on Sunday but he's been reading and praying every day so that's a start!!!!  I love watching him make these steps again but you can really see how it's affecting him.  I've only seen him 3 times but he's doing so well and is just so much happier.  I love how happy the gospel makes me and how much joy it can bring into the lives of others.

I've been studying a lot about the atonement lately and I just wanna share some of the beautiful scriptures that I've read recently:

"2 Nephi 2: 5 And men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no flesh is justified; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the temporal law they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law they perish from that which is good, and become miserable forever.

6 Wherefore, redemption cometh in and through the Holy Messiah; for he is full of grace and truth.

7 Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered."

Basically, because of the fact that we are imperfect humans, we already lost our chance of getting back to God.  BUT Christ, who was the only perfect human to live, made it possible to be clean and start over.  What would we do without His perfect atonement.  I, for one, am extremely grateful for what he did for me and I am even more grateful to be here in Spain preaching the good word to all my new friends and family.

I love you guys A TON.  Thanks for all the love,

Hermana Spangler