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Lost the odds....Dunked my head in a fountain |
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This drawbridge was pretty dope |
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The Marina! |
Friday, December 18, 2015
pics of Fountain, Bridge and Marina
December 14, 2015 Woman screaming! :-D
Hey Fam whats up! This week has been super fun as always! I dont have much time to write this because we got to bike super far as always to go to a zone activity to play some tennis and basketball. Well we taught a lot of families this week which was super fun its just that none of them really have the desire to go to church sadly. The Latins here love the missionaries and our lessons just not going to church which is a problem haha. But since we have been teaching so much my spanish has gotten way better!
So yesterday we found a woman from Colombia who has a crazy story! We decided to go to an area where like no missionaries have never gone because it is really dangerous but we didnt really care and we needed to find some people haha. But when we were biking down the road she came out and was like screaming at us to come back. We went back and she was like crying because of us and she said she hadnt seen us for 30 years since she moved here from Colombia! She showed us this book of mormon that the missionaries in colombia 30 years ago it was pretty cool. Anyways she wants us to come by as much as possible and she really wants to get baptized so hopefully we can do that.
Well not many crazy things happened this week. We taught this girl from Russia who was super cute and barley spoke any english which was super awesome and she taught us some Russian. Privet! - Hello! Paka! - Bye! We also found a family from Brazil of 7 with 4 daughters and 1 son they are super cool but they are just visiting so we cant really work with them. They only spoke portuguese but we could understand them and they could understand our spanish so it actually went alot better than expected haha. Spanish and Portuguese are pretty similar to be honest. There are alot of Portuguese speaking people here and it is super fun talking with them and I get to learn a bit Portuguese on the way.
Well everything is going good and the work is awesome! No Baptisms this week sadly but hopefully we can get a few before Christmas! We still dont know what we are doing for the skype thing but next monday I will let you guys know for sure! Thanks for all the pics and your guys emails! Hasta la proxima semana!
Con Amor,
Elder Spencer
Elder Spencer
Wednesday, December 9, 2015
December 7, 2015 Felt like Alma and Ipad!
Hello once again fam! Thanks for all your emails really appreciate it! Sounds like you guys had a pretty fun week in provo and at AGT! That would be really cool if Jenna gets the chance to perform in front of the judges! Yeah it is weird not having a Christmas tree in the house but it is alright because this week we went to this super awesome Christmas party in Miami where they had a band and they lit up a super big tree it was cool and they had fake snow falling from the sky which was pretty funny haha. Well that is really sad with what happened with Austen. A super awesome Colombian family in our ward just had their mom die and we attended her funeral last week and it was quite sad. She was only in her 40's and she was super active and fit but she just had a sudden heart attack and died. The family took it quite hard and were really sad so we actually went to their house and shared a short message and shared a video called El es la dadiva with them and then went to the Christmas party in Miami with them and it was super fun!
Cuidense Familia y con mucho amor,
But yeah this week has been a blast! another one of our investigators got baptized this saturday! Her name is Whitley and shes 22 years old and shes from the Bahamas and her older brother was a member so it was alot easier to teach her! Her brother performed the baptism and it was his first time doing a baptism and he loved it so much! I still havent got a chance to actually do a baptism because most of the people that we have taught have had friends or family in the church but we are baptizing a couple people this week and I hope they choose the missionaries to do it! haha but yeah anyway I got to give the Holy Ghost to Whitley which was pretty cool! I could really feel the spirit during it it was super cool.
The Christmas devotional was super awesome! Our investigators really loved it and like the majority of people there were nonmembers so after we stayed after and talked with all of them for like 2 hours answering question after question about prophets. I felt like Alma just standing infront of a bunch of people preaching the gospel except it was all in spanish haha. My spanish isnt perfect but I can understand the people so much easier now its amazing. I cant wait to go back to Utah and talk to all the spanish people!
So something cool that happened this week was that I got an Ipad! haha This family from Peru of Less Actives that we found and rescued bought me an Ipad and gave my comp only a tie haha. I cant use it though until after my mission though which sucks but its still pretty cool to have haha.
Well thanks for everything fam! I hope you guys have an awesome Christmas and I will let you know next week what I am doing with the skype thing this Christmas I still have no idea haha. It will be super cool though and I will try and send you guys something for christmas! Well have fun fam I gtg play some soccer!
Cuidense Familia y con mucho amor,
NOVEMBER 30, 2015 THANKSGIVING WEEK!
Hey family whats up! It seems like you guys had an awesome thanksgiving week and that Dad had a super fun birthday! Thanks for all the stuff you guys sent me! Really the only thing I am going to use is the Butt Rubb but thanks for everything else I guess haha. Something I actually need tho are some gray golf pants! The only pants I have are suit pants and I can only dry clean them. I tried to put one pair in the washer on its slowest setting and now its destroyed haha. So I only got 3 pairs of pants now that can only be dry cleaned so some gray oakley golf pants would be nice especially for the super hot weather and all the rain! Well My week has been pretty good too, we had an awesome thanksgiving dinner with a brazilian family I will send you guys some pics. But It honestly feels alot like christmas here! Basically every house has lights up and we just saw a christmas parade there is alot of christmas spirit down here!
Well my new companion is Elder Wolfe and he is super awesome! Hes from Colorado and his spanish is suuuper good and he has been helping me a ton with my spanish. He was so excited to get called into my area because he said it is one of the few areas where the only language is spanish so now he finally gets to show off his spanish. But yeah we have been working really well together and all my investigators love him! We did have a baptism last week! His name was Arturo and hes from Spain and hes a super humble guy who lives in a tent in the woods. I didnt do the baptism but I did find him and teach him with Elder Gamez. He got baptized by a member who always drove him to church and gave him clothes to wear to church.
We are still teaching the family from El Salvador but they just dont have the time to go to church so if they dont go to church next week we will focus on some other families. We do have 2 baptisms planned for the 12 though of Alejandra(17) and Bryant(15). They have both come to church around 10 weeks in a row now and we have been teaching them forever its just they cant get their parents permission but we will get their parents permission this week.
Nothing to crazy happened this week except for getting a new companion but I really like Elder Wolfe so it aint a problem. I will talk to you guys next week and hopefully some cool stuff happens this week! Sorry for the short email but since we have to bike to get groceries we have like no time to email haha but I might be able to get on a bit later today hopefully. But I will send you guys some super cool pics of thanksgiving and we are playing soccer for P-Day today so that should be fun. Well have a great week family! Florida is still boss as ever!
Les Quiero Mucho,
Elder SPencer
NOVEMBER 16, 2015 -MET A LOT OF COOL FAMILIES AND FLOODED ROADS AND ANOTHER HELMET STOLEN
Hey whats up fam!! Thanks for all the stuff you sent me I really appreciate it! It seems that the Spencer household is still going strong without me there! That new car looks super dope I cant wait to see it when I get back! And it is fine you sold that red car the speakers didnt work that well so I couldnt blast my music. Music aint really that big of a problem here since everybody here parties all day and night so we hear music nonstop haha. But the weather is starting to get alot worse here! We have been getting dumped on all day for the past few days and alot of roads we cant bike on because they are flooded! But we push through it and people are more nice to us when they see us soaked in rain so we get alot of food during rainy days haha. Hows the weather in Utah right now? I heard it snowed already thats crazy! I wont see snow for awhile here haha. But its not that big of deal, I kinduv like the warm rain and sunshine all the time. That's really cool that your going to Mexico! I didn't like Mexico City and I would never go back there but maybe Cancun is different haha.
Well we met alot of cool families this week! We found a Ukrainian family and they are super cool and they told us about all the bad stuff happening over there and that is why they left to come here to Miami. We had to give that family to the english speaking missionaries because we can only speak spanish but the family barely speaks any english because they got here only a few months ago! We are still teaching the basketball crazed family from El Salvador but they didn't like church too much because a speaker talked about how only humble people can go to heaven and the father took it as if only the poor can go to heaven and he is reeeeeeallly wealthy so it offended him but we tried our best to explain what humble actually is to him. He is still on the edge of baptism but I am confident that his family will get baptized sooner or later.
Something interesting that happened this week was my second bike helmet got stolen and I saw some dude trying to pick my lock by hammering a screwdriver into the key hole but he failed and we just waited for him to leave he was a really big black dude so we didnt bother him but now the key wont fit into it so I have a permanent lock on my bike which is really annoying. So yeah Miami still is Miami luckily i havent gotten robbed yet but my companion it will happen sooner or later no matter what I just gotta make sure I dont have that much money in my wallet haha.
My spanish is still struggling but its improving! Dad if you could give me any study tips or what helped your spanish the most let me know! I am just trying to talk as much as I can in spanish which is pretty fun but also hard especially with the cubans and dominicans. Well I hope you guys have fun in Mexico and that Sarah will have fun partying every night in the house while you guys are gone!
Con Mucho Amor,
ELDER SPENCERRRRRRRR
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