Aug.13,2008

Hey! How are things going? It sounds like things have definetly been interesting at work, did you see these things happen or did you just hear about them. well i pray that you didnt have to see it, because that is some pretty crazy stuff. things here are definetly not that crazy. but things are going really well. you have no idea how excited i am to hear that juston has decided to move back home. i am been praying alot for him, and i mean a lot. in fact a few days ago. i dont know how many exactly. but in my personal prayer before i went to bed poured my heart to my Father in Heaven about Juston and told Heavenly Father that i wanted juston to turn his life around and i didnt care what the Lord needed to do. but i know that He could help my brother and i poured my heart. i am glad to hear that my prayers are being answered. i really hope that he can get things together,i been praying for him to see the light and realize how much he needs the Saviour in his life and i think that Juston is starting to see that light, at least i hope that he is. i will write him a letter today. but as for things on the mission they are still a bit slow. things with Florisvaldo, the man that was having a lot of doubt, i getting better. we just decided to teach him the Plan of Salvation and it helped a ton. because we were really confused on what to do. but things are starting to look better, we are still trying to get him to go to church though. his entire family has been to church almost every single week since we started teaching them. but he hasnt been one time yet, and he was going to go last week. but something happened to hs foot and he had to have surgery on saturday night and wasnt able to make it, because he cant walk very well or very far and the church isnt exactly right next door to there house. in fact it is quite a ways a way. but things are looking alot better with that family, the mother has a desire to be baptized. but they need to get married before they can be baptized and we want both of them to be baptized together. so we posponed the wedding date and are trying to help him gain a testimony of the gospel. which has been very difficult, because he is pretty hard headed and has some pretty apostasizing beliefs. but we will continue to work with him until he finally comes around. maybe he wont until after they get married. but we have until the 30th of this month to work with him. and then last week we had a very slow week and didnt get alot of lessons in, and really nothings happened, it was a bit difficult. but this week so far in the first two days of the week we almost taught more than we taught all last week and we have quite a few new investigators. because we had to leave a few investigators, because they wont go to church and we have been teaching them for a while and we dont have time to keep teaching them. so we decided if they trully have a desire than they will come to church. because they already know where it is. so we are going to wait and see if they show up. But then this last week we also had another difficulty come our way. we were teaching this family and things were going really well, we had marked a date of baptism for the oldest child in the family and were about to mark dates for the parents. but something happened at the place that the mother works at. she works at a market store that a lot of members work at and an something happened where one of the members wasnt a very good example and did something they definetly should have done. and well the investigator didnt like it very much and now she is questioning the church. but we are trying to work with her and that family now too. so things are definetly not easy and we have been having to work pretty hard to even get a baptism. but we know that something will come if we continue to work hard, and this is the last week of the transfer. so we will find out on sunday if one of us will be transfered and we are both hoping no. because it is his last transfer next transfer and he doesnt want to be transfered and i dont want to be transfered either. because being trasnfered sucks. but i am in the Lords hand and we will see what happens. but things seem to be going pretty well. as for the things that people have been saying about america, it has really just been the other companionship in the apartment that just say the dumbest things to me, like america is only good for war, and they always call my the american this and american that. almost like they think that i think that america is a better country. which up until yesterday i had said nothing about the matter. but my patience had been running thin, so i kinda tore into them and let them know how it really is. and how they need us and well i havent heard anything about america since. which is how i like it. but we will see, they will probably say some other stupud thing today. but as for the olympics, no i havent been able to watch them. because i dont know if you forgot, but we cant watch tv. but i have been hearing about it from the members and i also hear about other things that go on in the world from them. but things are going really well and i am happy to hear that things are things are going well for you guys as well. and when juston gets down then and settled in you have remind that he needs to start saving his money to buy me a motocycle like he promised. but i love you and send my love to eveyone. but i got to get going. i need to write a letter to president. but i love you and i miss you tons.
Com Amor, Élder Jory B. Spotts