Week 33 ~ My Emails Boutta Get a Whole Lot Longer

You read the title, My emails are about to get a whole lot longer. Mainly because I obtained a keyboard. But anyway, now I can more fully express myself over email!

We were able to put one of the people that we are teaching on PBD. It's this old Nanay that we have been teaching for awhile now, ever since I got here. She has been a great example to me about faith and going to church. Because even though she isn't a member, she always comes to church. She is also 80 years old and has to walk down a hill, pay for a tricycle, and do all this at 9AM. She is quite literally a saint and her example I will never forget. Fun fact about Nanay, She and her husband got married when she was 16, and he was 28. It's built different here, that's for sure.

My experience in the mission field has been wild, because I learn so much about people and more importantly about myself. I have seen that as a missionary you can objectively see people in two ways. The first being the way that God sees them. The second being the way the Devil sees them. 

The hardest thing for a missionary to do in my opinion is see people as the way that God sees them. It's a tall order. Nobody really warned me before my mission that there would be a lot of rejection, even Bashing. I guess when I thought about a mission before I got to the field I thought people were going to be ready to go and the only problem was going to be scheduling the baptisms so they didn't overlap. 

I have since found out of course, that's not the case at all. It's hard, like really hard to motivate people to change themselves and to motivate myself to keep thinking like God does about them. My thoughts sometimes go like this: ''Why does nobody commit? Why can't we have more success? Especially when other areas have so many baptisms."

I have found this is what the devil wants me to think. Because that objectifies people, and stops my motivation. What God would have me think is, ''Help them to understand the principle and why it's important. The time will come when I will harvest my children here. Keep working." 

To my other Missionaries out there, continue grinding, working hard, we got this! Everytime you open your mouth you punch Satan in the mouth.

Love you all,
Elder Spackman

Our RC (recent convert)

Teaching a part member

It's literally 110 degrees outside everyday with 98% humidity. It's like standing in the sun in a North Face coat.







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