Adventures of a Zone Leader

Hola!

How are you all? Hope everything is going well! Well there are some things that happened this week. Hope you all enjoy this message.

Well this week we had to go and help a sister missionary because she was really sick. So Monday we didn't work, which was really disappointing for me. But the next day I thought that we would be working but I was wrong. One of the missionaries in our zone called us and told us that in his bathroom there is a hole where you can see from the roof into the bathroom where they shower. He told us that a girl saw him. I called the president and he told us that we had to move them ASAP. We found a room and after an hour and a half negotiating with the land lord we finally got to a price that works for both of us. The room that they had picked out was about half a mile away. And to make it more worse we couldn't rent a truck to help us move all their stuff. So to do it Peruvian style we carried it all to there new house that was up like 2 hills. It was the most exhausting thing. And that day we also didn't teach.

Also this Saturday we had a little get together with the missionaries that had birthdays this month and I can tell you that it got a little out of hand. I won't say much but I will say that cake was thrown. And just imagine that....

But we had a really good week believe it or not. We are able to baptize a little kid from the family that we baptized a while back. I am sorry that I don't have pictures I am going to ask that people to send me pictures.

Well that was the highlight of my week. Hope you all are well and reading your scriptures everyday!

Elder Spencer

Short on Time

Mother,

I am a little short on time. I have to do some forms to send to the President. 

And then at a 11 I have to leave early from internet to help some missionaries write-in their family so they can get married. So Just wanted to let you know that I don't have much time to send pictures or write. This is how it will be for a while. I while always strive to write you guys the little details that I can about my week. But don't expect anything else please.

We had a great week. We reached our goal of 85 contacts. It was the first time since I got here to this area that we made our goal. I always did more than that in my other area but here my companion hates contacting. I make him do it anyway. heheh.

But the past Saturday we went to help a family get written-in for the wedding that we are planing this month. But we got in a little fender bender and we had to stop on the side of the road for 3 hours and fix the car. It was a disaster.

Well that is about how much I am going to be able to write. Love you all and hope you all have a great week!

Elder Spencer

Magnolias Zone

Well this week has been a little bit better and I will tell you all why!

This week we didn't have a pile of things do to! It was really nice to focus on my area for a little bit. As Zone leader we hardly have time to think about us. We always have to be thinking of the other missionaries. But we had more time than usual to be in our area so that was nice.

We had to help some other missionaries sand the walls in their house because the lady got all up tight that they were going to move. So we did a service project sanding walls for 2 hours. That was fun! (Sarcasm added) But no I really enjoyed it. At the end we had a big water fight! It was awesome!

This week my companion and I don't have transfers! But there are 5 people in our zone that do! It is sad to see their names there but hey that is what God wants! I am sad and happy that Elder Niño will be my comp I still have lots to learn from him! I know God has a plan for everyone and he knows the good that we can do here! We are on our way to success here in Magnolias Zone!

We are getting ready to baptize a family this week! They are amazing! They have been investigatores for a while now! I am glad to see that they finally are going to get baptized this Saturday! I know this letter is short but i just want you all to know that I love helping other people and bring them the truth of Christ to their lives so that they can have enternal families!

I promise that today I will send pictures!! I am sorry for the delay!!

Elder Spencer

Awesomely Amazing Week!

Hey mother,

This week has been awesomely amazing!!!! There is so much to say and so little time to say it all! I am doing really well! I am learning lots and having fun doing it!

This week we, in the zone, were able to baptize 22 people and also help 5 families get married! I have a ton of photos to send that explains everything that we went through this Saturday!

But we are happy here. Today we are going to eat in a restaurante and after we are going to play soccer. It is paradise for me!!

But just a little bit about what happened this Saturday. We arrived to the park where the families were going to get married and our family wasn't there. So I had to go back with an elder in my zone to find them. It was a 25 min bus ride. And they had to be there in 45 min. We went and practically ran to their house. When we got off the bus we ran up a huge set of stairs and when we got to the door of the house their little kid answered the door and we asked them where they were and he told us that they left. I knew that they had arrived to the park where they were going to get married!

The ceremony was really weird. There was a guy that had the microphone making bad Spanish jokes. It was terrible to hear.

But right now I am going to send pictures! 

Elder Spencer

(from mom:  Sadly, he did not send pictures. We keep hoping. He does sound busy and happy. What more could you ask?)

No Time!!

Hey mother!

Don't have much time to write! Hope you are all well! This week was a little better! We are progressing so much! My comp is good... sometimes.. But I have learned to have infinite patience! Don't have much time to write because I had to do some reports. This is how it will be for a while. Please don't think that I don't want to write you guys... it is only part of the price. Make sacrifices to bless the lives of others!

Love you all!

Elder Spencer

Busy, Stressful, Fun!

Mother

Well this week has been sooo stessfull and so busy! I  am learning lots about myself and the things that I am capable of! I am learning lots of things about how to help others and forget about myself!

Well sadly I don't have any photos because my camera died and that I left my charger in my other house... so I don't have anything to send you guys! I am truthfully sorry!  But hey this week has been a really good week! Time is passing by soo fast. The days seem like minutes and the weeks... I don't feel them pass.

But a little about what happened this week! Well we did a work visit! It went really well! And I have implemented a new way to verify and follow up with every one! We are now see more obedience in the Zone

It is way fun to get to interact with so many people in the Zone! We are planning as a Zone to help 8 couples get married this month and the get baptized!! I are trying to help every one!!!! It is sooo crazy! We have to go and find their birth certificates and everything!! But we are planning on dong a white night this 26th in the whole Stake!

Well this is really short but just wanted to let you know that I am alive and well and always praying for you guys! Thanks for everything!

Humbling Week

Hey Mother!

Just want to share with you that this week has been a really humbling week for me! All that I have done I have done for others in ways that I never would have imagined that I would do! Now I am Zone Leader... and this week has been crazy getting to know my area and my zone!

But this week was crazy! I will start from the beginning to you can understand all of it.

Well Tuesday we had changes! And now I have a new companion! His name is Elder Niño! He is the funniest guy I know! We hit it off really well! But that same day we went to visit people that day also! I was soo lost! We live right next to the Stake Center!!

But Wednesday was a little better! We taught and I got to know some members!

Thursday was amazing!!! We had a special training with Elder Bednar! His training was amazing! I learned to much about myself and about how to treat other people like Agentes and not objects! I will never forget that experience! I also saw Elder Wallace (Note from Mom--this is a Sparta soccer teammate)! We had the training with the East Mission!! 

Friday and Saturday.... were the most stressful days I have had in a while! We had to go the building were we had to take out the birth certificates of the people that are going to get married! And we also had to help some sister in the zone move! And we had to store all of their things in our room

We had a baptism this Saturday! It was soo crazy! We had to do so much to prepare everything! And something funny that happened is that we had to return to our room to pick up something last minute! And we were in our room and I look down at the shoes of Elder Niño and he had his dress shoe and a sneaker on. I asked him what happened to his other shoe half laughing. And we just burst out laughing I was on the ground laughing so much! 

We have also bee doing lots of interviews with people who are going to get baptized--lots of divisions! 

Elder Spencer