MY DEAR GENTE-
The most AMAZING miracle happened this week. On Sunday, we fasted as a mission for
miracles to find people that were prepared to hear our message. Hermana Mckeown and I were heading to visit a less active
member and on the way, we passed a man and his two kids. But it happened to be one of those
awkward moments in the middle of the crosswalk where you can't really stop
people so we just kept going. I
really felt like we needed to talk to them but they had already left and we
were in a hurry to our cita so we continued (not a good excuse, I know). I said a little prayer and apologized to
Heavenly Father and asked him to put them in our path again if we really needed
to talk to him. We went to visit
the less active and she came down to walk her dog so we just walked a little
with her. After walking for about
15 minutes, WE SAW THE MAN AGAIN.
I was in the most awkward situation again of trying to listen to the
less active and wanting to talk the man and I literally let him walk right past
us. But I couldn't deny the spirit
that told me to leave her and go talk to him so I said to the woman, "I'm
so sorry, I need to talk to that family right now." And she was totally great about it and
just told us to come see her after talking to the family. So we thanked her and ran back and we
found him just standing there in the middle of the sidewalk. (blessings) We started talking to him and he was SO
nice. His name is Jonathan and
he's from Venezuela. We went to a park
to talk to him and so his kids could play and taught him about the restoration
of the gospel. And then listen to what
he said. He said that the first
time he saw us walking, he wanted to talk to us but didn't have time and hoped
to see us again!!!!!! AND THEN, when he saw us later he said, "when I saw
you I really wanted to talk to you but you were talking to that woman so I just
stopped right here to wait and see if you would come back. And you did." !!!!!! We had such a good lesson with him and
then set a cita to meet again. SO,
we met him again (another Hermana and I on intercambios) and it went so
good!!!!! It was one of those
lessons where we had something planned and then just changed because of all the
questions he asked. We ended up testifying a lot of the Book
of Mormon and how he really, really needed to read it and find out if it was
true. At one point he started kind
of shivering and then kept saying "WOW, I've never felt the spirit like
this before. Of course I'll read
it." Just as a background, he's evangelist but kind of a confused one
that's really just looking for the truth. He recognizes the spirit really easily, which is great
because HE, on his own, tells us that this is what Hod has been wanted him to
hear. HE’S SO PREPARED!!!!!!!! We have a cita with him tonight, so pray
for him!!!!!!!
Just another cool story:
We were walking to visit a family and got totally lost. (You'd think that I would know the area
by now) We were stuck in this
neighborhood that didn't have an exit and while making circles this woman stuck
her head out the window and asked us who we were. We explained that we were missionaries and shared a message
about Jesus Christ and she proceeded to say, "I don't really practice my
religion, but I want to learn more about yours, want to come up and teach me
right now?"
............. we cried. We told her that we had a cita already but that we would come
back as soon as we could and teach her so she gave us her house number and name
and told us to come back.
This week, we had 4 different people contact US and tell us
they wanted to learn more. After
almost two transfers, things are starting to look up and people are just
falling into our laps. My
testimony was strengthened that God in fact, IS preparing people. It's made all the hundreds of rejections
worth it.
I love you guys TONS. And apologizing in advance for all the pictures I'm about to
send. Enjoy :-)
xoxoxoxoxoxo,
Hermana Spangler
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