Hey Family!!!
Today is Sunday February 28th. Well it's been a while since I've recorded but nothing significantly crazy happened this week but it was a good week! So yeah Sunday, today, was an awesome day. We were going to church and our branch. We have like a really good day when 20 people come to church that's like a good day! It's really weird, a lot different but everyone is super close so it's nice but there was a branch conference so All the people from the stake came and gave a bunch of crazy good talks! It was really awesome! Our new convert Chris was with us and he loved it! He wears a suit every day to church every time! It is awesome Elder Marsden gave him the suit and it fits perfect. Yeah, Sundays man are super fun in the YSA branch!
Lotta drama too it's kind of funny and ridiculous in that we have to help people out with their dramatic problems. You know those young single adults and college! Yeah it's a stressful life! Yeah Today was a good day, after church we uhh did a good late night knocking session. I do not get it when people here think 8:30pm is late! They act like 8:30 is like midnight! Sorry but their whole family is awake and not doing anything. But it was a good night when I said this prayer for this really sweet old lady that just barely got an iPad. We helped her figure it out and get a passcode and stuff. Which I really needed to say that prayer cause people are throwing stuff at us and I got into a scuffle with our district leader. Oh man the leadership in the mission can be ridiculous, but I can put up with it! I'm kind of known as a rebel in the mission. The way they pick district leaders and zone leaders can be a joke. I don't have a lot of respect for them sometimes. So yeah I got into a scuffle but luckily I took debate at Sky View so I took him down pretty good.
 So I was kinda in a bad mood but saying the prayer with the sweet old lady helped and it was awesome and it blessed her life!
Another thing that happened was we knocked into this guy and he was a member and going to medical school in Miami and that's pretty weird and he was pretty feminine but he went to BYU so that kind of explained that
 It was funny because we didn't know he was already a member when we first contacted him and introduced ourselves. You don't get that a lot because there is not that many members around here but it was kinda cool  He seemed like a smart guy going to medical school living the good life. Living in a super cheap apartment prob like Mom and dad when he was going to Med school. Wife was working full time kinda like my mom and dad. I sent a pretty funny birthday card to mom. Met a guy from Brazil who is a new investigator and loves racing cars and he was going to come to church but he rescued a dog but it got in a fight with his other dog and he had to help it and find a new home for the one he rescued. He's super chill. Mission life is going good tho! Give some tips and pointers on how to write better emails and dad send me some more misson stories. Ok family see u later!
Bye, Love, Mark
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Monday, December 5, 2016
February 29, 2016- Davie YSA branch, Leap Year Day- 2nd Sony Digital Audio Recording transcribed by Genia Spencer
February 22, 2016 Hey Fam! Jam session and Mike the news anchor
Hey Family whats up! Thanks for all your emails they are always super awesome to read! You all should get separate emails though I think that would be easier to keep track of haha. Well this week has been super fun as always! We found this guy named Jayson who produces music for a living and hes only 20 years old!! Elder Marsden is super good at guitar so him and Jayson had a pretty sick jam session. I felt left out I gotta learn guitar haha. But he came to church and he also has a good voice so he went hard singing and he loved it haha. He also showed me some awesome music and I will share it with you in another email. Well that was definitely the highlight of the week but something else that happened that was super awesome is that my recent convert Chris got sustained sunday to be a Ward Missionary!!! It is going to be the best to go teach with him I am so excited! Well I am trying to think of anything else that happened that was cool haha but it was a short week oh wait I got one more funny story haha. So while knocking we found this gay guy named Mike! He was super cool and nice and let us inside. He was in the middle of coloring haha kinduv weird but hes gay so its alright. Turns out Hes a news anchor for channel 4 news and he has an Emmy which was awesome! It was fun lesson my first lesson to a gay guy but he was super cool and not like flaming gay but classy gay haha.
Well thats pretty much it for this week but I will try and send my recordings I hope they work. I recorded late at night so I was super tired haha so it might sound a bit weird. Well have an awesome week Family! Let me know how lifes a going!
Te Quiero!
Elder Spencer
Elder Spencer
oh check out this music I bet you will like it, The Raveonettes - Recharge and Revolt. American Football - Never Meant
On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Mark Daniel Spencer <mark.spencer@myldsmail.net> wrote:
yeah we are visiting them this wednesday actually it should be awesome! dang another surgery on your knee? Yeah its pretty dangerous out here I have seen some pretty crazy thingsOn Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 1:10 AM, genia spencer <spencerfamily_ski@msn.com> wrote:Hola elder spencer!
Cannot wait to hear about the Holocaust survivor thing you guys visited, that sounds really interesting. That sounds fun playing so much volleyball. I used to play a ton Also. On Grass was my favorite. Went skiing with Sarah a few days ago but have an appointment with the orthopedic surgeon this week to see if i need another surgery, that would be lame! Sarah wants to go out for the golf team so I talked to Matt Sickler and he's going to give her some lessons. The problem is their mathces start in a couple weeks and usually it is still really bad weather for them. I was looking through some binders as I needed one in the spare bedroom and I came across your mission acceptance letter, All I could say was wow! Very touching and sincere. You have always been a lot more mature and spiritual than I probably thought you were, although everybody always told me how good of a kid you are. Which was always nice to hear. I Heard about that 8 year old boy on the news in Miami that was killed while he was playing outside, be careful and watch for stray bullets!
Pues, ojalá que la obra del Señor siga adelante contigo y Elder marsden y que tenga mucho éxito y que Nuestro padre celestial se les cuide mucho.
Te quiero mucho,
Dad
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| We got a new friend this week(: |
February 16, 2016 What's up Fam? NOVA YSA
Hey guys hows a going? Thanks for all your gifts and valentines day chocolates!! This week has been pretty awesome as always. But last night we got the call that Elder Marsden and I are both staying here for another 7 weeks! I am pretty happy this YSA branch is super fun! On Monday we played volleyball for hours with the YSA branch and it was so fun haha I am not gonna lie I was pretty good because of all the volleyball I played in the CCM haha. Well walking the college campuses is starting to get alot funner because more and more people are recognizing us and wanting to talk to us! Elder Marsden gets all the cute girls to come talk to us and I get all the basketball and football players haha. We found a super cool girl named Maria who is from Venezuela and she is going to college at Nova. She was super interested in the Book of Mormon and we talked for like 2 hours on the campus about the Book of Mormon haha it was crazy sick. Shes a super smart girl so she asked alot of good questions but she is super committed to coming to church and she came and played volleyball with us and the branch and Monday and had a super good time! We also went to her house and taught her which was pretty fun as well haha. She has a couple of younger teenage brothers who are straight punks haha. I challenged 1 of them to a game of one on one and smoked him with my threes. Gained his respect pretty fast haha it was nice.
Well something else that is really cool is that for service this week we get to go to a Holocaust survivor refuge and talk with all the Holocaust survivors which I cant wait to do! I will let you know next week how it goes! Well thanks for all the lovin family have an awesome week!
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| Sunset in YSA |
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| YSA BRANCH |
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| Crew of NOVA |
Sunday, December 4, 2016
February 8, 2016 Awesooooome week!
Whats up Family!!! Thanks for all your emails! Those pictures of heli skiing look insane! You can now cross heli skiing off your bucket list haha but I still gotta cross it off of mine! Buut I can now cross off doing baptisms for the dead with someone I baptized off of mine! That was definitely the highlight of this week. It was also my first trip to the Fort Lauderdale Temple which is really beautiful! But more importantly Chris LOVED the temple! The spirit was stronger than ever while we were doing baptisms. And also since now I am endowed I got to actually perform the baptisms! Super awesome. Anyways Chris is beginning to be a really strong member! He blessed the sacrament for the first time yesterday and hes giving a talk in sacrament next week! And even better he has already started home teaching haha its crazy hes like super boss. Hes gonna get a calling next week and I cant wait to see what it will be. Next week we get to go to one of his concerts as well! He plays bass guitar for a christian rock band its pretty sick.
Have a great week fam!
So Saturday we got to go to the Book of Mormon Musical after the show which was WAY funner! We handed out a few hundred book of mormons and TONS of people wanted to take pictures with us the REAL missionaries haha. I felt like a celeb it was pretty fun. We also got to meet all the actors in the musical! We got a picture with the actor who plays Elder Cunningham who is one of the main actors and hes a super funny guy haha. It was crazy meeting all those Broadway actors they are super talented singers and dancers.
Well that is about it for the week! Pretty fun! This Transfer has probably been the best transfer yet! Next week I will get a call to let me know if I am transferring or not so we will see what happens!
Have a great week fam!
Con Amor, Elder Spencer
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| Christopher and us at the Temple!!! |
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| ACTOR Elder Cunningham from B of M Musical!!! |
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| Temple Trip :-) |
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| Book of Mormon Musical the REAL Missionaries |
February 1, 2016 Woooooo Christopher my homie got dunked!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So we are knocking and this girl answers the door who looks like shes from the Middle East. We ask her what her name was and she says F-Off! I was pretty shocked and say "Excuse me?" Turns out her name is spelled Effaf pronounced F-Off. haha thought that was pretty funny
So guess what? The Book of Mormon Musical is in town for a couple weeks and me and my companion have been chosen to go there and hand out Book of Mormons! It was SUPER fun and we go to meet many cool people and even some fellow mormons haha
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Mark Daniel Spencer <mark.spencer@myldsmail.net> wrote:
Si llueve aqui mucho! Tengo que llever una chaqueta cada dia
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 11:01 AM, Mark Daniel Spencer <mark.spencer@myldsmail.net> wrote:
YSA is like the funnest thing ever we go to activities every day and play soccer and games and such it is the best. Claro que si! Puedo practicar mi espanol mucho aqui porque mucha gente habla en espanol solomente. A veces tengo que traducir haha y Sofia quien es un miembro de este branch y ella es de Espana corto mi pelo y ella habla nada ingles haha pero ella es una muy buena peluquera y somos muy buenos amigos entonces haha
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| Elder Derek Marsden, Christopher and me |
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| Book of Mormon musical handing out the REAL books! |
January 25, 2016
Thanks for that video of Sarah that was pretty funny! I cant wait to go home and do that myself haha. Well I am doing better than ever down here Nova YSA right now because of our miraculous past week that we had! We had the biggest miracle happen to us on Sunday! Christopher passed his Baptism Interview and is getting baptized this Saturday! He bore his testimony at church and he himself is inviting everyone to come! What makes this even more amazing is that a few days before Sunday his Dad looked up some Anti stuff on the internet about our church and now we arent allowed to visit Christopher at his house and he no longer has any support for Christophers baptism but that aint stopping him! Christopher's testimony has just gotten bigger because of it! And to make things even better after church we saw 2 YSA age people from India just walking around the church and since we didnt recognize them we went up and talked with them. Aaron and Amulya are their names and they are awesome! They just moved here from India a week ago and they found our church using google and they said they have heard alot about our church and want to come to our church from now on! We got a return appointment with them and I cant wait to teach them!
Well I also dont have much time because I am going golfing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will see you guys next week baby!
Love, Elder Spencer
Saturday, January 23, 2016
January 19, 2016 Moroccon People
Hows a going family?? So this week was super boss as always probably the best week ever to be honest. On Monday evening a security guard told some other missionaries about a kid who needed a blessing. Some other missionaries went and gave him one and he turned out to be YSA so they told us to go visit him from now on! His name is ----- and hes only 19 years old and when we talked with him we found out that he was in the hospital because he tried to kill himself due to depression mainly because he had no friends. Well when we told him about YSA he freaked out and was so excited to come! He got released from the hospital a day later and came to institute with us and he loved it and made many new friends! He then came to stake conference with us and loved that even more. He is getting baptized on the 30th and right now since we have already taught him we are teaching him on how to be a missionary because he wants to serve a mission! He is the coolest kid ever we hang out with him every day haha
Another super awesome thing that happened this week was that we knocked into a group of students living together from Morocco! When we knocked into them they were just starting to have dinner so they invited us to eat with them! There was 6 of them and they literally came from Morocco the day before! They fed us some weird Moroccon food but it was pretty good. I am not even going to try and tell you guys what its called like they told us but it was a weird name I cant spell or pronounce but it was good! Then we just talked about religion for a couple hours while listening to Moroccon music haha it was super sick.
On Saturday we got to watch the Chiefs Pats game because we ate at Buffalo Wild Wings! It was seriously the saddest thing ever seeing them lose I was pretty mad but it was fun to watch.
Well everything is going good down here in Florida I got some cool pics of us hanging out with our zone hope you enjoy! I will talk to you guys next week! Sorry we dont have much to email today because we have interviews with the mission president!
Love you guys!!
- Elder Spencer
January 11, 2016 NOVA YSA Fort Lauderdale
Hey family whats up! So I just arrived here in the Nova YSA branch and it is crazy different! There are about 10-15 active members and only 3 active women haha. President sat Elder Marsden and I down and gave us a long talk about how this is a rescue mission and that we will be dealing with alot of Less active members and reactivating them so that this branch will grow. Usually missionaries dont serve in this YSA branch because it is so small but it is also a good thing because this branch NEEDS our help haha. Elder Marsden is awesome hes probably been my favorite companion so far. I am so pumped to work with him and hopefully we will be together for more than 1 transfer haha. Well we also have a car! The YSA branch covers our whole stake boundaries which is basically all of Fort Lauderdale so we have to drive alot but it is cool because we get to see alot more of the area. Well I honestly love it here! Most the people here are black but I love them haha. Walking all the college campuses around is super fun too. Thats super dope that the Chiefs won! If they win the Super Bowl that would be super awesome. Alex Smith needs a ring! Oh actually there are alot of spanish speakers haha just not at church. I am still speaking spanish with people everyday which is nice.
Well anyways a couple really cool experiences happened this week! First one was just we were knocking some college dorms and this girl opens her door and she is RIPPED!! She is like addicted to Crossfit and has competed on American Ninja Warrior and she is seriously the coolest! She is half German half Puerto Rican and she has a pet micropig named Wednesday. Haha well we first go into her room and she has vodka bottles everywhere and a huge bong on the table so I cant wait to teach her the word of wisdom but she is so active and healthy that it should be easy for her to stop. And she is a 28 year old lawyer. One of the smartest women I have ever met. Teaching her is so awesome because she knows nothing about anything but when we teach it she fully understands it it is amazing.
Well anyways a couple really cool experiences happened this week! First one was just we were knocking some college dorms and this girl opens her door and she is RIPPED!! She is like addicted to Crossfit and has competed on American Ninja Warrior and she is seriously the coolest! She is half German half Puerto Rican and she has a pet micropig named Wednesday. Haha well we first go into her room and she has vodka bottles everywhere and a huge bong on the table so I cant wait to teach her the word of wisdom but she is so active and healthy that it should be easy for her to stop. And she is a 28 year old lawyer. One of the smartest women I have ever met. Teaching her is so awesome because she knows nothing about anything but when we teach it she fully understands it it is amazing.
Another super cool thing that happened is that we met a guy that plays basketball for Broward College and it turns out he is actually a less active member in our branch! His name is Jacob and hes like 6'4 and just looks like a straight baller haha. When he came to church everyone was so pumped to see him because he hadnt been in forever! He wore like a super slick suit too and it was super awesome talking with him about basketball he is super cool.
Well thats all i got for this week! This Transfer i will be working harder than I ever have before on my mission haha so wish me luck! The address of my new house is . Davie, FL 33314
Have an awesome week family!
Love, Elder Spencer
January 5, 2016 New Years and 10 party people come to church! Transfer to Nova YSA and from Elder Wolfe to Elder Marsden
Hey Family hows it going!? Hope New Years was awesome! Here it got pretty crazy in our little cuban neighborhood haha. We opened up our window and stuck our heads out and watched all the fireworks it was pretty cool! That is really cool you got to ordain Caleb to a priest! I cant wait to come back and see him give his mission farewell! He would be a super hard working missionary I can already tell! Well as you know since I am emailing on Tuesday this week was Transfer Week!! I got Transferred to Nova YSA! It is the YSA ward in Fort Lauderdale. So from now on I will be teaching young single adults from the ages 18-30! I am super excited to be serving there! My new companion will be Elder Marsden. I dont know anything about him yet but hes cool. Hes a singer I do know that but thats it haha. The really sad part about this though is that it is english only!!!! So it will be very hard to keep my spanish but I will try my best to study as hard as I can but for me just talking with everyone in spanish is what helps it the most.
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