WOW!!! What a great week! It is so good to be out here in Washington doing missionary work and using my spanish. I am in an area called Moses Lake North and I am serving in the Moses Lake 9th Spanish Branch. I am speaking pretty much all spanish because we turn all of the english investigators over to the english elders and we just focus on the Spanish investigators. That is a huge blessing for me because of the 6 that came out, 3 are full time english and the other 3 are spanish. So that is a huge blessing that I am still a Spanish missionary. And I am actually serving in the same area as Elder Johnson. It is kinda crazy!!! But my companions name is Elder Kurtz. He is from Prescot, Arizona and is actually a convert. He got baptized when he was 9. So that is really cool. And He has been in the mission 6 months and has been in Moses Lake for 6 months as well. He is Awesome. He is a great trainer and is really helping me out a lot. I have been helping in lessons and I have been working on talking more when we contact people. Its hard sometimes because I have no idea what the people are saying to us. But that will come. We are also in an all bike are...which I love. It is so great not being in a car and being able to exercise and sweat. I love it!!
So this week has been awesome. We had a really cool experience on Friday. We were riding our bikes and this guy pulled up in his truck and was like, Are yall the missionaries. We said, yeah. He was like, yall speak spanish. We said, Si. He then said, K follow me to my house, yall are gonna teach me right now!!! So we did. When he got out of his truck the first thing he said was, I smoke and I drink and I want to change my life. It was so cool!! We taught him about the word of wisdom and actually have an appointment with him tonight. It was so cool to see how the Lord put us exactly where we needed to be so we could teach this guy.
Another cool thing that happened this week was that Elder Christansen from the 70 came and toured our mission. It was cool for two reasons. First, on Sunday night he gave a fireside to just the Spanish population here in Moses Lake. He spoke in spanish and it was so cool being able to bring two investigators to it. The spirit was so strong and it was awesome to see a GA speak in Spanish. Second, yesterday, we had a conference with him. He talked about so many cool things like recognizing the Spirit and understanding how the church is changing missionary work. The First Presidency is trusting the missionaries more and really trying to simplify everything so missionaries can just follow and teach by the Spirit. It was such a cool experience to sit at the feet of a GA and to learn from him.
So this is the mission office address. You can send everything here and then they will forward it to me. Oh but packages have to go through the post office so that can get forwarded to me. So i would probably use the flat rate boxes when you send stuff.
Elder Adam Glover
820 S. Pines Rd. Ste. 101
Spokane Valley, WA 99206
So I will be looking forward to letters and packages :) Speaking of packages could you send me a few things. Could you send me some more stamps, my school backpack (the black northface one), a box of those Nature Valley Peanut granola bars, and any other snacks that you think I may like. Those things would be great!!! Also, maybe some pictures. Thank you!!!!!!
So about printing, I can print, but it costs money. So maybe you could just snail me stuff. Jason, could you snail mail me yalls talks. I would really like that.
So I think I answered most questions, but if not, mail me a letter or email me. My p-day is monday, so that is when I will normally be writing you. Thanks for all the prayers and the support. I feel em and I love you all. The church is true and this work is the Lord's work. I am so glad to be out here in Washington teaching the hispanic people. It is truly a blessing to be using my spanish everyday. I will be so much more prepared by the time i get to MExico.
Con Amor,
Elder Glover
Ps - So a girl is serving here in Moses Lake named Brooke Naylor and she is from castle rock and I guess she was actually in our ward when we lived there. She said she remembered Jason because he dated her cousin Brittany Naylor back in the day. Kinda crazy how small the world is!!! Do you guys remeber them?
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