10-17-11

Dear Family,
Well, this week was pretty normal. As you can see from this photo that Vila Real this week was covered in smoke from wildfires and it was like this all week. Well, a lot of our appointments fell through, so not much to say. We are still finding and teaching people to baptize. It is a lot of fun and a great challenge to find the elect of God. but once you find them you know it haha. I will put in a cool little scripture thing that was shown to us in a training about the Book of Mormon and how important it is in the last days. First, to 2 Nephi 29:2

2 And also, that I may remember the promises which I have made unto thee, Nephi, and also unto thy father, that I would remember your seed;and that the words of your seed should proceed forth out of my mouth unto your seed; and my words shall hiss forth unto the ends of the earth,

So, here is something really cool. The Book of Mormon will leave the mouth of God or in other words is the voice of the Lord. Now, go to D&C29:7

7 And ye are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect; for mine elect hear my voice and harden not their hearts;

So, when the elect of God hear/read the Book of Mormon they are hearing the voice of God and they will recognize and respond to that voice. There was a lot more to the training, but that is the part that I like the best. And it shows how important the Book of Mormon is to us and to the world. Oh, and one more scripture, D&C 20:8,13

8 And gave him power from on high, by the means which were before prepared, to translate the Book of Mormon;
13 Therefore, having so great witnesses, by them shall the world be judged, even as many as shall hereafter come to a knowledge of this work.

So, we will be judged by how we use the Book of Mormon and how we accepted it. And we don´t even have all the Book of Mormon because we can´t live up to the part that we do have. But once we do Heavenly Father will reveal the rest to us.

Thanks for all you guys do for me and for all the support.
Love,
Elder Spencer Jensen