From Mom: It finally hit him. This has been a rough week for my boy and he is struggling. Please send him letters with words of encouragement.
He sent a package with a fresh SD card full of pics, which should arrive today. As soon as I have some fun new ones to put up, I will and then notify on FB when they are added. Have a great week friends and please write Spence! :)
9.24.2012
Wow this week has been something else... I dont really know how to explain everything that has happened.. haha well wednesday was the temple trip and i think i explained a little about that! Temple here is beautiful but it is really small! literally the size of a church building! ha So anyway I think i explained why i wrote so late last week, because our rides car broke and I am pretty sure that is what triggered the chain of event of what happened this week!....
So this week we had several appointments set up with our investigators and with people we had met and gotten return appointments with! We should have had 6 appointments this week but every single one of them fell through... :( Pam was sick and Tabitha's husband she is going through a divorce with got put in jail for trying to steal a TV from walmart!!! haha yea pretty stupid if you ask me! But anyway so that was discouraging for us. Then it seemed like every house we stopped by or everyone we talked to just shut us down in a way that it wasnt just saying no thank you, it was them telling us we were worshippers of satin and just slammed the door in our face! ha yea so its been a pretty brutal week! We have been praying to know what we need to do differently to find those who are ready for our message but nothing has come to us yet but it will! we just need to be patient with things:) Its not like we arent trying new things and working hard though and thats what is frustrating about it... We feel like we are doing all we know how to do.. The Bible Belt is an extrememly hard place to serve!! Maybe things will pick up this week though:) I just gotta keep my head up! :)
Well on the up side of things, i gave my first blessing in the mission field this past week! :) We had dinner at a memebers home and their daughter had just had surgery and they asked if we would give them a blessing! I was nervous at first cause it was my first blessing but it was really really good! the spirit took over and the words just flowed right out of my mouth:) And also we have been working alot with our less acitives and they all came to church on sunday so we had 6 less active families there on sunday and they are all wanting to get back in the swing of things and get their temple recommends again:) YAY!
Ugh I wish I had more to write this week but its really just been a discouraging week for us it seems like! :( We will keep our heads up and continue to work to the best of our abilities! :) Elder hansen and I are going to play some long toss with a baseball today so I am really looking forward to that! Keep us in your prayers:)
i love you all! :) Miss you a ton! :)
Elder "javelin" Betker
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