we "booed" the members and investigators this week! We found out that we are not very good at running away and we havent door bell ditched anyone in a really long time!!  got caught a few times haha but it was fun!

We have really been trying this past week to follow promptings of the Spirit. Anytime, we felt a certain prompting we told each other "No regrets!" and we followed it!! We have had a few great experiences with this. One night, it was about 8:30 and all of our plans fell through..so, we said a prayer to know where we should go. Hna Clark felt that we should go visit a less active you recently told us not to come back. Though we were a little hesitant and scared, we told ourselves "No regrets!" and we went. Turns out she has been going through a hard time, she invited us back the next day, we had an amazing lesson with her, and then she came to all three hours of church! She even brought her sister who is not a member! :) We were also able to find a very sweet hispanic family in a huge apartment complex that we didnt have time to tract the whole thing. So, by praying and following promptings and saying "no regrets!" we knocked on one door and there they were! :) They invited us back! I hope everything goes well with them!

Our investigator Ricardo came to church yesterday and loved it! He is set to be baptized on Halloween! :) He is progressing really well and already has a lot of support from the members! I am excited to keep working with him!

Something that I didnt realize before my mission is that there are people who have never been told how much they are loved by God. We were able to meet Nora, who is a college student. She told us she didnt know if God exsisted. She had a lot of great questions. After reading a few verses and testifying she offered a prayer, and it was one of the most sincere prayers I have heard. She apologized to Heavenly Father for not believing in Him, then expressed how now she really did believe in Him and felt His love. It was so great :) The Spirit was so strong!

The work is going well.

I love the gospel. Repentance is real. Heavenly Father's love is real too.

Thanks for everything!

Hermana Spackman

Well conference was incredible!! :) I am so grateful that we live in a time where we are lead by Prophets and Apostles :) So, who is going to ponderize?? :) I am for sure! Tell me what scriptures you choose!

This week was pretty eventful! We had double dinners almost everyday this week, it was crazy! and more than half of them were with our investigators so that was great, and I am not going to complain. We tried a whole bunch of new mexican and guatemalan food (we also got sick from certain new foods haha)

I dont have too much time today, but we have been seeing miracles happen and seeing lots of answers to our prayers! I am so grateful for the gospel in my life, my incredible family, and all that I have learned as a missionary!!

Thanks for eveything! Have a great week! :)

This week went by really fast! Let me try to remember what all happened...

Well, Hna Clark and I had a lot of awkward moments this week. Some super awkward contacts.. and we even had to run away from a few doors! I wont do into all the details, but I will say that I am so grateful that we are able to laugh those things of and continue to work hard!

This week we received a phone call from a random person. She introduced herself and we found our that she is a member and she had an investigator for us! (always super nice to hear as a missionary) She invited us to dinner to meet this person. And that was about all the details we had haha. So, the night the dinner came around and while we were walking over, I realized that only as a missionary would I have the confidence to go to a strangers house, to meet strangers, and teach them the most life changing news they will ever hear. We had no idea what was going to happen. However, it ended up being the most ideal situation! Like, the experiences that you read about in Preach My Gospel. Turns out that Ricardo is the boyfriend of Sonia (the member, baptized three years ago) and we were there to teach him. He told us that he had bad experiences with missionaries before but was willing to listen (which made me super nervous cause I was afraid of messing up) We had dinner with them and it was super great because we got them laughing, then we moved into the living to have a lesson and the spirit was soo strong!! We were able to invite him to be baptized and he said yes!! He is getting baptized on Halloween!! :) And it was so sweet because the first thing that his girlfriend said after he accepted was "Aww..Podemos tener una familia eterna!" (We can have an eternal family) It just broke my heart. Because it is so true! I am so grateful for the Spirit that we felt and for member missionary work! :)

Yep, other than that I am still loving the work!! I am learning something new everyday!

I love you all! Have an amazing week! :)

Hermana Spackman

Lots of crazy experiences this week! :) hmm.. where to begin?

First, I will share how Hna Clark and I became mechanics! We went over to our potential's house and found him (he is 19) and some of his friends working on a car. We walked over there and started talking to them, they were looking for a..some sort of sensor thingy...(they told us the name but I dont remember haha) And of course, the first thing that comes to my mind is that we should say a prayer! So, even though we hardly knew these people, and they were smoking and swearing a ton, I asked "Have you said a prayer?" And they all kinda looked at me funny...then Jesus (our potential) said.. "I should probably do that...how?" Then we taught him how to pray, he said a very sincere prayer, and we continued to look. And I few minutes later, Hna Clark found the piece they were looking for!! We were then able to point out the answer to his prayer and testify about the power of prayer :)  Then, they couldnt reached the piece cause their hand were too big haha so, then you had us, two little missionaries in skirts reaching down into this big engine and unscrewing stuff. It was so fun! we got pretty dirty, but it was worth it!  And as they were swearing, we asked them to not say words like that, and they stopped! :) It was so great, and now Jesus is our investigator!  He prays everyday!! :)

The next crazy thing that happened this week was, as a relief society activity, we got to learn how to make queso fresco from scratch!! :) I am so excited to try it out!

Annnd we also had a fun trip to the ER this week. Hna Clark was cutting a big stack of index cards and sliced her hand..you know that skin in between your thumb and pointer finger? Yeah, that. She cut a good half an inch..blah.. So, we went to the hospital to get some stitches. It was super busy and we were there for awhile. It was kinda cool though cause it was a Catholic hospital so, there was a big virgin mary on top of the building and while we were in the waiting room they read the Lord's prayer from the intercom. We tried talking to people but the people sitting around us were all in a lot of pain and didnt really want to talk. But, yeah, thats different from typical missionary life! :)

It's started raining more often now!

This morning I found something that made me laugh in the scriptures, in 2 Nephi 5:3-4. I was reading it and I love Nephi's comment in verse 4. "Now I do not write upon these plates all the words which they murmured against me. But it sufficeth me to say, that they did seek to take away my life" I can totally relate this to myself. Like, have you ever told a story and then said something like, " I am not going to tell you everything she said but.." you know? I just like how blunt he is about his brothers.. I guess it was only funny in my head haha but hopefully you can see that the scriptures can be fun! Especially as we relate them to ourselves! :)

Thanks for everything! I love you all! Have a great week! :)

Hermana Spackman

Lo haria si Cristo me viera?

Lo diria si El me pudiera oir?

Es facil saber lo que debo responder,

Si lo no hiciera con El, yo no lo debo hacer.

This is the chorus to Hna Clark's and my new favorite song! Its super cute and just imagine a little hispanic boy singing it :) (its a good message and also helps us practice our past subjunctive in spanish!) you can all look it up! its written by Janice Kapp Perry!

On Saturday, we had the chance to help out at a community parade! And after, there was a little after party thing in the parking lot of the Church! and we had free rootbeer floats for everyone, church tours, and booths set up with games and pictures of youth activities and everything! We met so many people! It was a great activity, Hna Clark and I walked around handing our napkins and striking up conversations with people about the church!

Also, we have been learning tons of vocab from venezuela! We have a family from there that we are teaching and they always teach us phrases and words that they only use there! No one else will understand us but its fun to get to learn so many different cultures all in the same place!

Everything is going good! We got to go to young womens this last sunday, and it made me miss all of my leaders and the girls who were in my classes! Also, I have a new goal to memorize the Young Womens Theme is spanish! So, that will be fun!  Hna Clark and I are starting Progreso Personal again! :) We are working on it with the young women in the branch! Its been really fun! :)

I hope everything is going well!! I love you all and I am so grateful for all your support! :)

Have a great week!

Hermana Spackman