Feb. 3, 2010

Hey everyone! How are things going? I hope that everything is going good. How was your week? How is the family going? How is the world? How was the Super Bowl? I hope that the Colts didn’t win. Well everything here is going pretty good. Everything has been the same lately. And the work is getting harder and harder every day, because everyday I am getting closer and closer to arriving home. But my companion and have working hard and we are trying to find some more people that are interesting in following the Lord. But things have been going really good with Juarez, he went to church on Sunday and really liked it, and last week we had a pretty good experience with him.On Thursday last week we went to his house to teach the third lesson, The Gospel of Jesus Christ. So we taught him about the first principles and ordinances of the gospel. Faith, Repentance……you know. Well while I was teaching I felt like I needed to invite to be baptized and try and mark his baptismal date in March, because I wanted him to be my last baptism on the mission because he is an elect. But I was super scared that he was going to say no so I started praying and starting asking the Lord to bless me with the Spirit and the right words so that he would feel the importance of baptism and he was accept. So we came to the end of the lesson and I grabbed the picture of Christs baptism and I should to him and invited him to follow the example of Jesus Christ and be baptized by someone that has the authority of God. And I invited him to be baptized on the 21st or 14th of March and he responded……You only have baptisms in March??? It cant be sooner??? So we talked with him some more and we decided on the 13th of February. And then he started telling us how he always knew that missionaries like us would one day visit his house and he said that he was just waiting for us to visit him. And he said that he was ready to be baptized and that he knew that the church was true and the Book of Mormon too. It was a pretty cool experience and I was scared to death to invite him because he is such an intelligent man, but everything went well and he is going to be baptized this month., in fact he is going to be baptized next week. Heck yeah!!! Take that Satan!!!!Other than that we haven’t really had anything special happen. We are teaching this one family that went to church on Sunday and also really liked it. The only problem is that the father really likes to drink, like he is super addicted to drinking. He cannot go one day without getting drunk, he drink, like he is super addicted to drinking. He cannot go one day without getting drunk, he is kind of like uncle troy. But we are going to continue to teach them and see if we cant help him to stop drinking so that he can also get a job and be baptized.We had ourselves an interesting little experience the other day too. We have visiting this inactive member a couple of times and we went to his house. While we were there we met a couple of girls that were at his house and we decided to teach the first lesson to them, so we did. And right at the point that my companion got done teaching the first lesson the idiot inactive member started saying how he didn’t believe in Joseph and he totally killed the spirit. So I was little upset at him for being a retard. So I started asking him some questions and he started answering them. Why don’t you believe in him? And he started asking why God would wait so long to call a prophet after chirsts death? And he started saying that the Catholic church was the first church and that it existed before Christ and i started thinking to myself, this guy is a complete retard. And I was getting a little frustrated with him. So I grabbed my bible…..BIBLE BASH. And I started teaching the retard about a ton of stuff. He said the Law of Moses wasn’t changed too. So I started teaching him with the scriptures because testifying wasn’t doing anything. The spirit wasn’t there too. So I started teaching about the law of Moses, sacrifices, and all sorts of stuff and how the of Moses truly was changed and everything. I cant explain everything that I said because it was a lot, then I started teaching about why God waited so long to call Joseph to be a prophet, the reformation and the Catholic Church and that is when the spirit returned and I started testifying about the restoration of Gospel and after that he said these words…..I think that I am going to go back to church on Sunday. It was pretty funny. My companion started laughing after we left because of the stupid things that he making up, but it turned out to be good. And hopefully he really goes to church; we are going to pass by there tonight again. So we will have to see how things go.But yeah….that is about all the interest things that happened this week. Hopefully next week I will have some better stories to tell. We are also started to work a lot more with the members lately too. They finally decided to invite us to participate in the ward meetings and things are going a lot better now, and on Sunday I am going to sing in the sacrament meeting because they ask me to do so. So that will be pretty cool. And I am also going to find out this weekend if I am going to be transferred to my last area or if this is going to be my last area, hopefully I stay in this area because I don’t want to get to know new members and have to start all over again. But things are going pretty goodI hope that everything is going good and I hope that you are all missing me and starting to get trunky too. It looks like I passed in on to Dad but I hope that mom is too because I am WAAAYYYYYY anxious to see you all. The 1st of February was the 50 day mark. So if you guys want you can start counting the days, but I don’t recommend doing that because the time passes a lot slower. That is why I am going to work harder and the time will pass by a lot faster. But mom don’t worry about BYU anymore because the deadline to apply was the 1st of Feb. and I think that I am already set on going to USU, but I need to know by when I am supposed to tell them that I accept and that I will be going there. But maybe I don’t even have to worry about this until I get home. But I love you all and I miss you, I received some letters this week too, so I am happy. And I think that mom should be receiving my itinerary soon too, but I am not sure about that. But I love you all and I miss you.
With Love, Elder Spotts