Dear Dahl and Glazier families!!!!!!
This week was probably in the top 10 weeks of my mission so far! We have a family that we are teaching (Sheila and Kelly) and a girl who they have guardianship over! (shana) so we have met with them twice this week! And the first time we watched the restoration dvd with them! and had an awesome spiritual message about why it would be important that God called the prophet Joseph Smith and why He has called prophets in these days, Shana wasn’t able to be with us cause she went to young women’s with some of the girls in the ward, but we have been helping them moving there store to their house cause there business isn’t doing so well right now so they are selling their shop and are going to work from their house. (They own a pet grooming shop) and so we have been helping them box up things and move them around! They have been attending church for the past couple weeks! And this Sunday (yesterday) Shana told Sister Bly's daughter (there fellowship into the ward) that she wanted to be baptized!!! So Shana has a baptismal date for her birthday on Oct 2nd... (Which we feel is too far away but we haven’t had a chance to talk to Shana yet) and we have been thinking that how awesome it would be if Kelly would be able to baptize her! So we have been truly blessed I feel! haha so yesterday we had a lot of excitement! When we heard, but it’s up to us to keep that spirit present and fuel that fire that Shana has right now! Hopefully everything will turn out in the end, which I feel it will if we keep doing what god asks of Elder Decker and I! Little by little I’m started to see why love is so important, this family truly knows that we love them! haha and its so amazing to see the changes in their lives and the happiness they are getting out of going to church and studying the scriptures! It urges me to do better!
This month there are a lot of birthdays in my district I think 3? But we have been having way good district meetings, not just ones that are fun, but powerful meetings that make us want to go serve! haha and we have the opportunity to meet our new mission president this Tuesday! We have a zone conference with the other zones in the area! So I’m way excited for that! We have 3 or 4 other companionships coming to our apartment tonight, cause the conference is at 7 am I think so a lot of the missionaries that are far away come down tonight and spend the night at my apartment! I’m pretty excited for that, but today we will have to do a bit of cleaning... I know I know, I’ll get on it! haha but man I’m excited to just go out and work! It’s a joy that cannot be measured! Feeling the spirit can’t be judged haha I just love it more than anything else in the world!
As in my past letters I’ve mentioned about experiences I’ve had, but I honestly feel that I’m the one being blessed from all those experiences! I’m sorry that this is such a short letter! I just wanted to let you guys know that I love you and know that we are blessed for the things that God would have us do, if we do them, and I’ve seen time after time people deny this wonderful blessing that is waiting for them! I know that keeping all the commandments is hard! It even is for me as a missionary, to obey with 100% diligence! We will fall short but I can promise you we are blessed depending on our efforts put in to the thing we decide to do! if we decide to only read half a chapter of the scriptures instead of a chapter, we won’t see the blessings of our efforts, it reminds me of a scripture in the book of ether, ch.12 v.6- I don’t have it memorized or have my scriptures in front of me, but it ultimately says that we will not receive any witness until after the trial of our faith! And that’s what everything we do in this life is! At least I haven’t found something that isn’t a trial of faith. So this feels weird but I want each of you to focus on just one thing that you could do where that trial of faith will grow your faith, not push it further away! Cause I can promise you that we all have faults and by filling those faults with Christ focused actions that we will see blessings and we will find more happiness! Love you all and hope that everything is going well in the things happening in your life or soon to happen! Look forward to your emails or letters!
From your lil bro! And son!
Elder Spencer Dahl!
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