Jan 23, 2012

Hey, I'm doin good. Alot better than next week. After completely losing my voice for 2 days i'm finally not sick anymore. Things are going good with my companion too. We only have a few mins today. This past week was. Crazy. Crazy good that is. We had a zone conference here in richfield on wed that was excellent. It was so good though because we were in our own area the whole week. That never happens ha but It was fantastic. We taught upwards of 40 lessons which is a record for both of us. We exceeded every one of our goals this past week except sacrament attendence. Plus we had a fantastic baptism of a guy named Michael. He's one of my favorites. Basically, a year from today i'm gonna be in Utah again going through the Manti temple with them. Holy cow i love them. I'll attach a picture or two. It was a great service. I had another testimony builder about opening your mouth this week. We went on exchanges with the spanish elders on tuesday and elder bourgeois (boo-shwah) cam to our area with me. He's brand new out and from louisiana. We get along very well ;) But we had 9 scheduled lessons that day which is really good and two of them cancelled. Only two of them. And in place of those two appointments we found two golden, prepared people, One of which is being baptized on the 25 of next month. Our appointment cancelled so we decided to go knock out an apartment complex and after elder bourgeois prayed in the car i told him, "We're about to find someone." You can feel it when there is someone prepared where you're going to be. Sure enough, we went around a corner and this little dachsun tried to rip our legs off and the owner came over and we started talking and he let us come back over and he's on date for the 25 of feb., Came to church yesterday, stayed up till 3 oclock in the mornin reading the book of mormon, the whole nine yards. THEN, as if that wasn't enough ten mnutes later after we had picked someone who was coming out with us up we were on the other side of the complex and I asked elder bourgeois to pray for us again and while he did i saw a woman come out of the door next towhere we were goin and i thought to myself, "I'm gonna talk to that woman." so as soon as the prayer was over i hopped out and even though she was already backing her car up i waved her down and introduced us and such and turns out she is from arizona and in the past had actually talked to the bishop about having us over but word never got to us. She wants to get into the church and has an 8 yearold daughter for us to also teach and so on. Great things happen when you open your mouth. It was really good for elder Bourgeois to see the blessings from talking to everyone as well. That's just kinda how our whole week has been. Blessing after blessing after blessing. Anyways, we're gonna get runnin. Give everyone my love :) Love ya! Elder Spurlin