Well to start of first Happy Monday!!:) I’m glad that you
are liking your conference in Las Vegas even though it's cold! But here in
Quellón (kayon is the pronunciation) ;) it is pretty bomb sector! We have a ton
of people we are teaching and right now we have 2 people with baptism dates
(Ortencia), (Jaime pronounced Haime...haha). They are 2 awesome people and I hope
we can continue to help them. It is crazy here. The people are a lot easier to
find and teach. In Villarrica it was almost impossible to keep citas; but here
we still have citas fall through but we have been teaching a lot!:) This last
week we taught Denise about the plan of salvation and she really liked it!:) Also
it was really cool to get to know her more. She helps researchers from around
the world come here then puts them on a boat with her husband and takes them
out to another island to do all sorts of studies! It’s so cool!:) So tell dad
that we have a cool fisherman family!!:) We hope to talk more with her husband
this week but we will see how that goes. They are actually really cool here. Some
like to talk more than others... but if I get them talking about fishing,
they talk for a long time!;) it's cool.
The weather is a lot cooler here, and it rained a lot this
last week off and on. One day there was an insane rain storm with wind and rain; and needless to say, we were soaked... haha but it was a good day of
teaching!!:) For New Year’s we were with Waldo who is our ward mission leader
and his wife. They gave us some good meat!!:) but no I was asleep at midnight
because they don’t do fireworks...:( but someone did shoot a flare so that was
kinda cool...:) haha it woke me up and kinda scared me at first... As for a
cool story yesterday we didn’t have any citas set so we decided to go past an
old investigator named Roberto. He lives out in the campo in Quellón. He was
sooooo sick!!! His son served a mission in the states and now lives in Osorno.
But as for him he has received all the lessons and likes the mormons but is
just really busy for his work (so it was a miracle we found him). But he needs
to be married first and said he is happy where he is at but he said he would
like to receive us and talk more. So we are going to continue sharing with
him!:)
As far as me and my companion, we are great!!!:) haha. He is
from Canada and we are both really weird so it works out great!!!;) haha no but
really I love him.:) Woah that sounds pretty sweet about the conference in Las
Vegas! I want one of those massage chairs!!:) haha but I’m glad you enjoyed it
and I hope that you can make it home safe as well!:)
That’s sad that aunt Karen passed away but I’m glad that she
is with uncle Wayne now and that she doesn’t have to be in any more pain or suffering.
That is the miracle about this life is that we know where we are going after is
a lot better than here!!:)
That talk is bomb!! (The
one from Carl B. Cook entitled Serve from October General Conference). That
is so true when we actually embrace and do the best in our callings the Lord
will not only help us along the way but he will give us more power to continue
to do the best we can in our calling!!:) That is what I’ve been focusing on is
doing the best I can to love and magnify my calling as a missionary and I know
that God is helping me to be better and better every day!:) I have a simple but
cool quote from Elder Uchtdorf which says “Forever—is composed of Nows. Faith
gave me the hope I needed to live joyfully now!” I love this quote and I know
that what we do know can affect how happy we are and how effective we are in
our service and life on the earth! Love you mom and I love your goals and yes please
keep my posted on how they are going!!:) Stay safe and remember that with the Lord
nothing is impossible!!:) Have a great week and can’t wait to hear back!!:)
Love you to forever and back!
Elder Shawners Spencer
(These are a few more pictures from last week. He also sent a cool video from the ferry but it was too big to upload...)
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