May 24

Everyone,

Wow, this week was crazy. Truly a week of miracles. It started off with me being ridiculously sick. I was kinda sick last week, but this week it hit hard and Monday, p-day, I spent most of the day in bed. I made myself a deal in the MTC, however, that as long as I could breathe I would work, so Tuesday morning I hit my knees and begged Heavenly Father to just give me the strength I needed during the hours where we needed to work. We got ready to go and my head, throat, back, stomach, and legs still hurt like crazy, but we pressed forward anyway. We got halfway down the street and suddenly I felt much better. We worked the whole day super hard. I think this week wéve walked more than any other week. As soon as we got close to the apartment, the weight of my cold returned and I collapsed in my bed. This happened the following four days as well. I was sick enough that I could very reasonably stayed home most of the week, but the Lord lifted me up and carried me as I put forth my best effort. I am 100% sure that I could not have worked without the divine help I received and this experience was another addition to my testimony that our Heavenly Father really does listen to each and every prayer we say and is ready and waiting to pour out his tender mercies upon us if we will just ask. The results of this were also phenomenal. Instead of wasting the week in the apartment, we completed and then some on all of the mission goals. We found several golden investigators and our investigators who had previously been uninterested started progressing. Moral of the story: Pray always and do your very best, and the Lord will build the very best you.

-Elder Spencer

PS. Today for our P-day we went to a zoo down here. It was super fun. They dońt have nearly as many safety features and you can reach out and feed most of the animals (at your own risk, of course). They had lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) and Cougars!! Woooo!!! But my camera died before I could get a picture with my relatives (I bleed cougar blood). The birds were incredible, tons of super cool colors. Ím going to send a couple pics of them.