4th of July-Mission style:

Hey Dahl Family!!!!!!

How’s everything going!! Thank you so much for the pictures in the emails I’ve loved them all! So this week in the Missouri independence mission we got a new mission president!!! His name is President Donald J Keyes! (its pronounced (kise) I haven’t had the chance to meet him yet but we have interviews coming up in a few weeks so I’m super excited to see him and find out what he is like, although I’m sure he is awesome or else he wouldn’t be called to be a mission president! but so far this week I have seen almost too many miracles! ok that’s false! but I’ve seen a lot! I’ll just point out a few of the main ones! so one day we were unsure what we could do and we were riding our bikes so we were coming down 9th street and we both thought that we needed to tract this one street, so we turned on to it and went to the 2nd house on the street and we started tracting. we tracted the whole street and only talked to 1 person who was far from interested! we got to the end of the street, and decided to stop tracting and walk back to our bikes. While walking I remembered what our ward mission mom (Sister Bly) told us, she said that we needed to knock one more door before we were finished tracting! and so remembering that we never knocked the first door on the street, we starting going towards that way, when we got there, this guy opened his garage and we started talking to him! He wasn’t super interested but we talked for a little while and we asked him if we could drop by a DVD to him about how families are eternal! and he said sure that we could stop by in a few days, so (fast-forward) so we went to his house, and he wasn’t home, we noticed his neighbor was lifting newspaper from his garage to his car, (the guy was like 80) so we ran over and started helping him move these papers! and we started talking to him! it turns out his wife had passed away a few years back and he has become a bit less active in his church sense then, we talked to him for probably close to 45 minutes, and remembering that we had the DVD in our bag, we took it out and said: here, we would love for you to have this, we invited him to read it and asked if we could stop by in a few days to see how he liked it, he said yes!... it’s amazing how god works! It all started with Sister Bly telling us that morning that we needed to knock one more door that day, and then moves on to talking to the guy in his garage, then his neighbor! I love how it works out! god seriously works in mysterious ways! he is also throwing me some curve balls! both of my companions were not supposed to be my companions! But the day before transfers I got re-assigned to a different missionary, but I can’t complain I’ve loved both of my companions so far! Elder Decker is a pretty strait forward guy, he doesn’t beat around the bush, he will usually tell our investigators exactly what they need to hear, and it’s worked out so far, but he loves the work and the people so it never comes across as overbearing! That is something that I have been working on, each week I choose a christlike attribute to work on, this week is love! So hopefully that this next week will be a very eventful one! we are teaching this family ( the Regan's ) Sheila and Kelly, and they look over their cousins daughter (Shana) and we have been teaching them over the past 6 weeks or so, and up to this point it didn’t seem like we were getting anywhere, but they came to church on Sunday, and I teach the gospel essential class, and they were the only ones in the class that day, and the bishop really wanted to meet with them, so the bishop came into the class, and my topic was to teach about prophets, but the discussion didn’t even come close to prophets! But after I talked to them and they said that today was like the best day ever! they loved church! and they are reading the BoM daily and progressing like crazy! Sheila actually told me a story about one of her friends who was saying the Mormons are Christians cause we don’t have any crosses in our church buildings... and she stood up and defended our church! Haha (I’m unsure why we don’t have crosses but the answer that Sheila gave me sounded good to me! haha) she said: the reason why they don’t have crosses in their church is cause they don’t worship idols... we worship god and christ, not a symbol of something, and so i was super impressed! And I know for a fact that they are coming to know that the church is the right choice! I love seeing little changes in people; it strengthens my testimony so much! I haven’t seen a baptism yet but that’s perfectly ok to me, I’m having the time of my life by just preaching the gospel, I always strive to bring others to the waters of baptism, but I also know that I work on the lords time schedule, not my own! I love this gospel with everything I have, and I can honestly say, coming on a mission is by far the best choice iv made in my life, besides being baptized into the church, from having the opportunity of serving a mission I’m starting to really understand the importance of the things that, didn’t always seem very important! its changed my entire outlook! I can’t help but wonder, if I didn’t write you guys for 2 years if you would even be able to recognize me! haha but I love the change, and I love the opportunity I have! Be sure to keep me in your prayers, I know that I do the same for each of you! love you all! Hope you all had a wonderful 4th of July! I know I did!! Oh by the way I am still at the same address if you didn’t know! thanks for all your support it helps me so much more then you know! love ya! Elder Spencer Dahl.