Monday, June 24, 2019

This upcoming week is going to be an eventful week, where we get a new mission president! I am sad to say goodbye to President Marble, but it is intriguing for what the mission will turn into with our new President Hinostroza. We will get the chance to know him this Saturday, where we will see him and his family for the first time, which will be super cool!

We also have the baptisms of the Familia Gomez Santos this week, fingers crossed. Andrew and Angerli will get to take the step towards baptism and two weeks later we have planned for the older brother Daniel. It is super duper exciting, can't wait to see them get baptized. However it is super stressful because now we have lots to do. We have been teaching them all the things they need to understand for their entrevista as well as answering the MILLIONS of questions that they have. Which is super awesome because I love the questions.

Other than that, we have been working a lot with this family and a few other investigators we have. There is Hermano Raul, who as been coming to church  every Sunday for ten years, and is literally the most faithful person I know yet he has not yet gotten baptized. This man is super intelligent and knows lots of stuff, so we are a little in over our heads trying to help him, but he has expressed some desires to take these steps and his family so desperately wants to be sealed in the temple. So hopefully we can help him comprehend the importance of these ordinances.

I love you guys! Today I don't have very much time because my companion wanted to do other things so I am sorry this email maybe isn't the best. I miss you all and hope your are doing well!

Love y'all!

Spence

Monday, June 17, 2019

Holá familia y amigos!

So this week I had some AWESOME news.  I had two changes in Chepen, but I didn't baptize anyone and I felt super sad that I didn't get to see that success. However, we had three amazing families we were teaching and were progressing so beautifully.  I recently got a call from my old companion, Elder Sangerman, and he told me that the familia Chavez was getting baptized this Saturday! However there was a catch - the daughter, Elina, when they asked her who she would like to baptize her, said that she wanted me to baptize her!  I can´t travel to Chepen to do that but I felt so honored that they wanted me to be the one to do it. I got to tell Elder Sangerman and his companion some words of encouragement and support to relay to the familia, and hopefully that helped them with the decision. I love the familia Chavez so much, and was so happy to hear that they are going to be actual members of the Church of Jesus Christ.

President Marble is finishing his mission and the missionaries are all getting intrigued at what will happen when the new president arrives. He will be a Peruvian, President Hinostroza. It is crazy that I am almost at the year mark and that President Marble is going home.

We are super excited for a familia we are teaching here in Jordán, the familia Gomez Santos. They are a Venezuelan family, and Andrew (14) and Angerli (16) both have fechas for the 29th of this month. Fingers crossed that they can be prepared for this date, if you can have the family in your prayers that would mean a lot.

I had to buy new shoes today.  My old shoes were killing my feet.  Funny story, they were actually a fake brand of shoes.  We went to visit members and they told me that they looked like really nice shoes and they wanted to see them, so I took them off and they told me that they weren't real.  I told them that my feet have been killing me these days, with lots of blisters and callouses, and they explained to me that the shoes were basically crap.  So that stunk.  However, they gave me some nice stuff to take care of my feet so they aren't killing me so much, so that is nice.  Haha.  My companion, Elder Farfán, walks RIDICULOUSLY fast and I am sprinting to keep up with him. We are seeing lots of progress though, so that is exciting.

Hope you guys are all doing great!  Love you all!!



Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Hey!!!!!

So this week we have been working really hard on finding and teaching lots of people. We have been teaching the Familia Gomez Santos, from Venezuela!  They came to church this past week!  It was so awesome to see them and watch them progress!  It's the Mama and Papa, Manual and Tatiana, and the kids Daniel, Angerli, and Andrew.  A funny story was when they came to church, the daughter came up to greet us and she came in for a kiss on the cheek and everyone saw and I had to reject it and it was super duper uncomfortable but I felt so bad because it was embarrassing for us both.  The priesthood leaders in our ward, who are all returned missionaries, were making fun of me and I just tried to ignore it.  Haha.  We also have two people with baptismal dates coming up soon, so fingers crossed that they can keep the baptismal dates!!  We have Edid and Treisi with dates for the next two weeks.  I am so excited for them!!

Elder Farfán and I have been working hard finding lots of people and it has been a great week for hard work!  I love you all and am super happy to be a missionary working here in the Lord's vineyard.  I love you all!!!  Keep me posted and what is all going on!!




Monday, June 3, 2019

Hey!

So this week we worked super hard. We have been visiting lots and lots of people. We even put up two fechas! We have a baptismal date for the 15th of Junio for a girl named Treisi, and a fecha for Edid for a woman named Edid.  They are both awesome and I am excited to be there for their baptism.

Other than that we also had to move rooms, so that was a pain in the butt.  However the room we have now is super super fancy and we can basically see all of Trujillo from our room because we live on the fourth floor. I just can't wait for when the hot water comes in because taking freezing cold showers isn't fun, especially when it is now FINALLY getting a little chilly.  After a 10 month summer, I am glad we have just a tiny bit of briskness now!  Hahaha.

Elder Farfán is my new companion and he is awesome!  He is a really great worker, so I am excited to move forward and hopefully we can see some more people progressing.

I had my last entrevista with president Marble this last Friday.  How crazy is that!?!  The next change there will be a new president.  He most likely won't know English.... but that is okay because I know Spanish!  Haha.  I love you guys!  Have a great week!