HEYO IT'S ELDER SPANGLER
Jeepers, the time sure goes by quick, I feel like I just wrote last week's email. I'm sure all other missionaries can agree, the time goes by slowly in the moment, but in hindsight it flies.
This week was pretty typical, except when it wasn't. We're trying to find ways to mix it up a little bit but we can only be so creative. We're still loving life, it's a good time.
Something that Elder Wagley and I have in common is our love of good, authentic, spicy salsa. Elder Wagley had a Mexican companion early on his mission and I'm from Texas so I guess we can say I ate a lot of tex-mex, so we both know what good salsa is like. This week we went out and bought a ton of ingredients and Mason jars and we made and canned 4 jars of green salsa. We only have 1 and a half left. It's good stuff and we put it on literally everything.
Something else we chowed down on this week were donuts. A member we know really well had a neighbor drop off 2 huge boxes of quality, specialty donuts, but the members didn't want them. They called us up and asked if we wanted them, so we boogied over to their house, picked them up, and then drove to the chapel and parked and ate like 10 donuts each. So delicious. Also lots of regrets afterward, but the stomach aches didn't last too long. I could also go into the 5 batches of chocolate chip cookies we made, but maybe I'll save that story for another time.
I promise that we don't spend all our time in the kitchen, we actually do way more missionary work than kitchen work. We're still on the member meeting grind, just trying to get to know as many people as we can and share messages with them. This ward has a lot of really great families, it's been super fun to get to know a lot of them these past weeks. We shared a message about prayer with one family, and as we were ending their 7 year old daughter asked if she could share an experience she had had with prayer. She fold us how she lost her favorite blanket and was so sad, so she prayed to find it. She said that as she was praying, she felt like Heavenly Father wanted her to find something else to make her happy, so she looked at a picture of Jesus and sang 3 primary songs. She then said she would sing songs anytime she wanted her blanket and it would always make her happy, and then a few days later, her mom found her blanket for her. I loved hearing her share that story and seeing the testimony of prayer that she had already developed, it helped me remember the power of prayer.
We met with Tony again this week, that member who is wanting to come back to church to give his son a better life. We are hoping to get in touch with his girlfriend so we can teach them together, but her work schedule is pretty busy. They have a lot of solid potential, we're excited to be working with them.
My hearing has slightly improved. I'm going to go in for another hearing test this week and see if there are any other treatments the doctor would recommend. I was also able to receive a priesthood blessing yesterday, so I have faith that that will help.
Well, that's about it for this week. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, clarifications, jokes, stories, childhood traumas, or anything else, feel free to shoot me an email! I love hearing from anyone and everyone.
Love and miss you all!
Elder Spangler
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