I'm doing great and loving the work! This past week was a little rough because we had tons of the people we were teaching bail on us for baptism church and return appointments! We didn't achieve any of our weekly goals and I was so frustrated! I kept thinking man what am I doing wrong? I've been working so hard and trying everything I can but people just don't want Jesus!! And I kept saying, "when these people get to heaven they are going to see they should've listened!" and I was starting to get frustrated at the people that kept flaking. I was driving home to our apartment Saturday night pretty bumbed out and I was listening to some hymns and then the next song on my playlist was by one of my favorite singers on planet earth the great George Straight himself. The song A Love Without End Amen started to play. ( Don't worry it's approved I'm not disobedient) I was like lets gooooo I love this song and turned it up and started listening. The words in that song are truly amazing. The spirit just started rushing through me and the part where it says " last night I had a dream I stood outside those pearly gates, suddenly I realized they're must be some mistake, they don't know the things I've done they'll never let me in, then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again. Let me tell you a secret about a father's love, a secret that my daddy said was just between us, daddy's don't just love there children every now and then, it's a love WITHOUT END amen." And it hit me! God loves his children no matter what they do. He loves them without end and it will never be otherwise. I then thought that's how I need to be? I need to LOVE everyone no matter if they accept his message or not. I need to have patience and know that sometimes your planting seeds, sometimes your nourishing seeds, and other times your harvesting those seeds! So work hard and let God work his magic. Another cool experiences I had this week was while I was street contacting. We were walking in this little town center thing with a bunch of little shops and we walked passed the Smiths opening door and we saw this homeless guys sitting there. And we had talked with him before so I said wassup Justin how ya been my man?! And he shot right up and started chatting with us. We started talking about our day and stuff then he just says wait wait wait hold up have you guys been fed tonight? Someone gave me 5 bucks a couple days ago and I know it's not much but I can buy you guys something to eat if your hungry?! And my heart just sank, I was like this homeless guy has flipping nothing and he's offering to buy me dinner?! Background on this guy his uncle was a member and always told him to be baptized and he was like I feel the Holy Ghost all the time man I don't need that! But then he said he can't tell if it's the drugs he was on or the Holy Ghost. But he's not interested in the church at all but it was cool to see such a big example of charity, the pure love of Christ. A man who's brain is so fried from drugs and bad decisions in his life, yet he was one of the biggest examples of the pure love of Christ?! It was so cool to see even tho people have made bad decisions in there life they still have good desires! The next cool thing that happened was our sacrament meeting, this guy gave an amazing talk on loving yourself. Not in a selfish way at all, but in a way where we need to make sure we know no decision we make in life will be beyond the light of Christ. And I thought that was super cool because we are hard on ourselves a lot and we need to realize that Christ already suffered for those sins and sorrows, so repent and be sorry but don't dwell on them! Just forget about it and keep trying to be better every day. But I love this work and the chance I get to represent Christ and his church. I know that every thing I have and am is because of this Gospel. And that through Christ we can do all things! I've been reading in Alma a lot recently and love to hear the stories of the sons of Mosiah going out and preaching the word of Christ to the blood thirsty ravenous lamenites and they don't care at all! They just go and do what God asked them to do and it hyped me up so much to go work my head off! Anyways love you all im so grateful for all my friends and family and for the examples you have been to me. God loves you and I do too! Keep it real!
Eldste McSpadden
Not much in our area to do on P-Day so we visited Outdoor World! It was cool!
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