Elder Spencer Hazeslip

Hello! We got to go to the temple today. It was awesome! We only get to go once every three months or so, so it is always something we look forward to. Earlier in the week we had a lesson with a woman who had been attending church for the past few weeks. She was new in town and just didn't know what church to go to, but her mother recommended that she come to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We taught her about the Restoration and she said that it made sense. We then had her read Moroni 10:4-5 4  And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. 5  And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all th...

Hello! I am still in Buhl. Not much has changed this week. We have one new elder in our district. Elder Parker from Alberta, Canada! So we traded one Canadian for another. But we will miss Elder Easter. We had a baptism this Saturday! A. got baptized!  Other than that, we didn't have much happen this week. Transfer week tends to be like that. Looking forward to the next 6 weeks! Love you all! -Elder Hazeslip

HEY! This was a fairly uneventful week since Elder Smith was sick for about 2 and a half days. But we still have some cool stories! Most of which will be described in pictures. Pictures: Last District Council Meeting. We went to Jackpot again. We found some Peruvians who wanted to come to church. It was a good day. We ate at the buffet again. This time I was prepared and ate tons of seafood. After dinner we contacted a few more people and hoped to repeat the San Jacinto situation from last week. So we went to CONTACT, NEVADA. It is pretty much a ghost town. We talked to one lady and she told us that she was the only one in town that day. Her neighbor was on vacation and her sister was in Twin. There were only two other residents that she told us about. So we took advantage and took some pictures while we were there. It is way too far out there to make it again. But at least they know they DO have missionaries! Love you all...

HOLA! This week was really eventful (and therefore, very fast). We had 2 new people come to sacrament meeting this week. Yeah, so, um... Here is the rest of the email. We do service at the senior center in Buhl from time to time. They gave us a tour of the upstairs portion of the building this week. It was built in the 20s and was pretty much abandoned in the 60's, although they used it as a homeless shelter until the 80's. It was cool to see the history of the town. Hotel Buhl: The creepy dolls were made by a few women in the town. It was their hobby. If you are on Main Street you can see them looking out the window. Just a little bit creepy to me IMHO. EXCHANGES WITH ELDER EASTER (STIRLING, ALBERTA, CANADA) San Jacinto, Nevada: So, south of Jackpot is a small area called San Jacinto. It's pretty much just a ranch. Well, we drove out there and talked to all the people who were t...

Hello! Easter was yesterday, it was a really good day. The two sacrament meetings we had were very good and one lady who came for the first time wants to learn more!  I ripped my pants (SFW) *New Elder! Square UP Squirrel We had a very eventful week. Our water heater broke (I need to stay away from those things). But it got replaced the same day, so that is nice. We ended up helping someone drain a water heater in their basement so they could replace the heating elements. This was the same day our water heater broke. Then, there were 4 times that water heaters came up in a discussion (before we brought up that ours had broken).  We were supposed to learn about water heaters that day. So, here is a gospel message about water heaters. The world is full of bad things, like hard water. When a water heater is trying to warm up hard water, it collects calcium deposits and the heating elements get corroded. When the corrosion gets too bad...

Buhl! Stuff is going good. I went on exchanges with Elder Nielson. We rode bikes, I felt like a real missionary. It was fun.  It rained this week. It doesn't seem like it rains that often in Idaho, so we took advantage of it.  Love you all! Pictures are worth a thousand words so here are pictures! The cat's name is Remington, he works at the Buhl Herald. -Elder Hazeslip