It's beginning to look a lot like Thanksgiving. The branch just had our Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday. It was pretty decent. I seriously love this branch so much! I love how much they all dance at the end of our activities. So many of them are so good!
Lots of good little highlights for this week, so it might seem a little scattered. Bear with me!
On Monday, we went to see one of our Less Actives, a 13 year old named Nefito (Nefi's son and Dalila's almost step-son). He gets angry with his 9 year old almost step-brother, Omar. We had a lesson about how to control it, and the spirit was so powerful. This goofy, innocent 13 year old had an intense lesson, and started to cry during the closing prayer. It was so cool. He's such a good kid.
Later on, we went to Marc's for dinner. He's the one who I used to not like much due to his lack of progression, and manipulation demeanor. He's learning a lot, which is cool. So something interesting happened. He told me I was going to be a bishop. Then he said, "you want to know how I know? Because I've seen it." He has told us a lot of things that point to him having the gift of visions. He told me he has three times received the knowledge from God, the second time being in a dream. he told me some other interesting specific stuff as well; a decent amount of it tying in to my Patriarchal blessing. Kinda odd. Not entirely sure what to make of it. Anyway...
On Tuesday, we had Zone Conference, which took from 7:45 in the morning to about 4:30 in the afternoon. It was great. It's all about working with the members. I encourage and beg you all to do your part as missionaries in this church. Only we are full-time missionaries, but according to Pres David O. McKay, we are all responsible to be missionaries.
Gio, one of the Less Actives, works at a jeweler shop, and took two of my broken watches that broke in the first or second transfer of my mission, and returned them in great shape and free of charge. Yay!
Our neighbor Joe has been bringing us pumpkin flavored stuff to try all the time. It's super funny and really nice. We've had pumpkin spice glazed doughnuts, pop tarts, chips, and more. It cracks me up. He's such a good guy. He's been struggling hardcore since his wife passed away last year. We chat with him a lot and give him hugs every now and then. He's like our crazy uncle we never had haha.
On Thursday, we saw this stroke victim, Fredi, a recent convert who can only say yes or no. After a good lesson, he started trying to say something. When we asked him what it was, he would do the usual and respond with yes or no. When we mentioned church, he got so happy, and just beamed. It was pretty cool. Gave me goosebumps. We have to get him rides to church for obvious reasons.
Later, we had a lesson with Dalila and Nefi. She is the smartest investigator I have ever taught. She explained to us how she is a little afraid of knowledge because she knows that if she doesn't follow up with what she knows she should do, she condemns herself. Who gets that as an investigator?! So smart. Let it be known that before she met the missionaries some 6 months ago, she hardly knew anything about the gospel. I mean anything. We have such high hopes for them. We've fasted twice for them to get married and do what they're supposed to. Unfortunately, they didn't come to church yesterday, but we're working on it!
Temple trip on Saturday was the week's Spiritual High! We went with Hna Silva for her first endowment session. So cool! President Allred (branch pres) took all the missionaries in the branch (the 6 of us in the district). It was a Spanish session. So awesome. I got some good revelation, and just loved it.
Yesterday, Hnas Johnson and Reeder had a baptism with a 50 year old lady named Lettie. I got to sing Come thou Fount in Spanish with piano and violin accompaniment. It was originally just a version for the instruments, but we added the voice part on about 10 minutes before the baptismal program. It went super well. I miss singing!
That's about all I've got for this week. I love you all. Have a wonderful week!
-Elder Spjute
ps:
One picture is of Elder Sharp and I, Yessika Silve, Hna Amezquita, Hna Menendez, then Hnas Ralston and Hall of our district. The other picture is all the same minus the sister missionaries. ]
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