As almost every week in my mission I’ve been truly blessed, it is amazing out here in Kansas, as you know I got my first baptism on the 13th of august, and Dan is continuing strong! He knows it’s true, it seems like people are accepting the gospel even more so then ever before I don’t know exactly why, but I think its cause of the spirit testifying to them, I’ve been trying really hard to stay focused on the work, and I think it is paying off, all my thoughts are not about home or things that would be fun, I am continually looking for better ways to do the work and to help other people, and in its self I’m finding more joy/fun as I do so!
This week elder Decker and I were focused on finding new investigators to teach so like the whole week we tried and tried but we were not seeing any success, so we changed a few things about our working, we planned more effectively by going through our ward rosters, our ward roster is 28 pages long, with about 10-15 families on each page, and there is probably only 50-70 families that attend church regularly, so there was a lot of unknown people on our ward roster, so we sat down with our ward mission leader, and bishop and went through the list, marking down all the families who were active, who were part member families, and less actives, and we made a list and put them into different area's depending on where they lived in our area.
so we have been able to not waste our time during the day trying to figure out where we needed to go, and we walk everywhere, Even though we had the car this week, we rarely used it, we are always on the street always talking to everyone, and by the end of the week we started seeing success in finding.
The members here are so awesome! I need to tell a story about the McIntire Family, so they have 2 sons on a mission and they do basically everything they can for us! very supportive of the missionary work, but also during our week of finding elder Decker and I put together what we call (weapons training kit) it’s were we take 2 pamphlets of the restoration, plan of salvation, and gospel of Jesus Christ, Two Copies of the BoM, some pass along cards and the testimony of the prophet Joseph smith, and we have been putting them in zip lock bags and taking them to our members houses when they have us over for dinner, and we share a spiritual thought, and invite them to be trained in missionary work.
we have only used it a few times cause of the lack of supplies we’ve had in our apartment but last night we were at dinner, and one of the McIntire's Girls (Mary) came over to the house we were at to get the kids to go to choir practice at the stake center, well we started a competition between a few families of the ward, we are handing out these training kits and telling the families to see how fast and effectively they can pass out the supplies, and it’s started a pretty serious competition, there are 4 families right now that want to be the winner!
So this week has been eventful, we are getting the members involved more than ever, and the work is continuing faster than ever!
Sense I got into the mission field I’ve been reading the BoM and I’ve been trying to stay focused on the work, it seems like when everything was going well for the Nephites they got puffed up in their hearts!
So I’ve been trying to remain humble and grateful, but the work here in Kansas is amazing!
Someone asked me the other day why I am serving a mission, and I sat and thought about it just for a moment, cause there are so many reasons why I came out on a mission, but why I’m serving still is a totally different reason, (this was someone on the street) and I told them cause I was confused once, I didn’t understand god, I didn’t truly understand what Christ went through when he suffered for each of us, what it actually meant to feel the spirit in our lives, and although I might not know it all, I know what I know, and I know that god loves us so much he is willing to show us what we need to do to be happy in this life, to have that understanding that we are all searching for, to feel the love that Christ had for us, and we told him we wanted to show him how he could have that in his life, we gave him a copy of the book of Mormon, and a card with the mormon.org website on it, he lives in Texas and goes back on Wednesday, we invited him to meet with the missionaries where he lived he said he would, but it was a way powerful moment so far in my mission, we testified and challenged and really that when the spirit is most present, when people actually feel it, his name was john and I’m grateful that we had the opportunity to plant that seed of faith.
I’m grateful for the support that all you guys show me through your emails and your letters they are very uplifting so please don’t stop! And don’t forget to give dad a call if you haven’t yet! It’s not every day that someone turns 58! Love ya dad and family! Let me know if there is anything I can do for you guys!
Love: Elder Spencer Dahl
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