January 24, 2011

Hey everyone! Hope this finds you well. First off thank you SSSOOOO much for all the letters and such. They make my week.

        

The work is still going good.  The Lord is truly blessing us with awesome people to teach. It never gets old to see how the gospel can change lives. I always knew it could, but it's cool to actually see it happen and to have a part in it. That's something you can’t trade.  I don't have much time but before I have to go, but a quick story:  The other day we were leaving a family’s house and I saw something getting  it across the yard ( when I say yard, I mean mud. ) and I said, what the heck is that??  It looked like a gerbil or something!  So I jumped out and took off after it and after like 3 mins of slipping and sliding through the mud,  I finally caught up to it.  The thing jumped into a big hole and started trying to dig but I was able to get my hands down there and finally fished it out J Turns out it was a gopher! :D I had never even SEEN a gopher before, and I caught one :) :)   It made my day.  At least until I looked down and saw my shoes.  And pants.   Sigh.  But the ever so sweet lady in the house cleaned my shoes for me, so it was all good :) Anyways, that was the un-spiritual highlight of my week :p Love ya’ll!

         Elder Spurlin

And here's part of a different letter:

Everything is good. The teaching is good. Could be better, but still good. We just had a baptism saturday of my favorite kid i've ever met, Mason. I love love love that kid. I actually teared up when i spoke at his baptism! Crazy huh? I really do love him though and he was makin me proud so i teared up. The Lord really is blessin me to love my investigators. Seriously though, this kid is gonna do great things in his life. Great great things. Then i got to confirm him yesterday in sacrament meeting and oh man. It was good.  Anyways. This week is gonna be the craziest week so far. With elder harlan leavin our schedule is PACKED cause everybody wants to see him, plus we are doin a HUGE fireside on sunday ( seriously, the chapel and gym are gonna be full ) PlUS we have 4 other speaking asignments that same day. We're gonna have to split to cover them all. We're gonna have to split just for dinners this week lol that's how busy we are. It'll be fun though. I'm excited.