Buen día a todos!
I just want to say that I love being a missionary!!! Everyday I have the opportunity to share the light of Christ in a personal way. Everyday I have the opportunity to testify of the truthfulness of the gospel. Everyday I get to serve people and help meet their needs. Everyday brings its own trials and challenges but everday I have the power to rely on God to overcome them. Everyday I have the opportunity to focus 100% on learning, growing and expanding my knowledge, testimony and relationship of and with God. I've come to love teaching the gospel and sharing it in a way that is hopefully pleasing unto the Father.
On Tuesday I went on an exchange to an area called El Salto (The Jump) with an Elder Cayulef from Argentina. It was a solid exchange! We found a couple people and we felt the spirit tell us to but baptismal dates then and there. So we did after we taught the doctrine of baptism so that was pretty cool!
On Thursday I had another exchange. This time I was with one of my zone leaders. His name is Elder Black from Tennessee. He actually replaced me in one of my old areas (Estrella Sur) and was with one of my old comps (Elder Sorensen). We had some fun conversations about the people there that we met and came to love. About the people we were teaching. Two of the people I was teaching proceeded to get baptized soon after I left! I love how even in missionary efforts we aren't alone! Anyways the rest of the intercambio was good, we had a goal to find two people and at the very end of the day we found the second person.
On Sunday there was a mom and a daughter that came to church from St. George Utah. The daughter had served here in this area for 9 months a couple years ago and was visiting her mission. The people we had lunch with invited them as well. So it was a spanglish lunch as the mom doesn't speak spanish. In amazed at how the brain works how after learning a language and you hear said language and your native language swirling around and you can understand both. It's weird but was fascinating.
Spiritual thought: Isaiah 1:18
"18 Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool."
I've been studying and pondering a lot on this scripture this week. It invokes a very powerful image in the mind of the effects of sin. Everyday I put on a white shirt (well, it isn't very white now it's more of a creamish colour haha) and after I read this scripture I imagine scarlet paint being dumped on my shirt. And it being impossible to scrub out and remove. But the Lord invites us unto to Him to reason together, and in that event of reasoning with the Lord our sins which tainted us shall be removed. And we can become pure again from reasoning with the Lord. And I LOVE that the scripture then makes a second example with red crimson and wool. This repetitive idea invokes the idea/reality that we will always sin, we will continually commit error and stain ourselves in filthiness. But as we confide in the Lord and reason with Him and repent we can become clean. I bare testimony that this is true, that we may be free from our sins. In the name if Jesus Christ, amen.
Question: Whats a spiritual experience you had this past week?
Love you all!!
Elder Spencer
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