View from study room window and speed boat!

Burning cockroaches

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

november 9, 2015 pics

After a super long day of biking, rain, popped tires, beer thrown at us and we still got it baby!

November 9, 2015 No more car and helmet stolen but life is good

Hola querida familia! Como esta? The mission is still going good! The weather is perfect not too hot or too cold and the rain aint that bad. Thanks for all the exercises! I am gonna try them all out but yeah you can only send videos of like family events and stuff soooo you should send me some! But guess what they took our car so now I dont have to worry about the president taking my license haha. They took our car because another missionary got hit by a car and he has some heart problems so they have to go to the hospital quite a bit so they need the car more than us. But its fine biking is super fun! My helmet got stolen someone flippin cut the straps off the lock and just took the helmet part and left the straps but I got another one that looks more crappy so nobody will steal it. Hopefully my bike doesnt get stolen but all of the other missionaries told me it will happen no matter what. But yeah thats miami baby but I love it!

Yeah last saturday we ate at a sports grill and we saw all the highlights and top 10 plays of college football and they were crazy!!!  All we get to watch during the week is soccer at peoples houses nobody likes football its lame. I heard the Jazz have a decent team this year though and have a chance to make the playoffs that would be really cool. We are teaching a family of 5 and they have 2 sons 17 and 15 and they are the BIGGEST nba fans I have ever met. When I asked if they knew Jimmer they immediately replied yes and told me that he is in the D-League now haha I thought that was pretty funny. We had a barbecue with them and it was super fun! They are from El Salvador and are super nice like everytime we visit them they give us a ton of food! They also all came to church and it was super fun to hang out with them and they love hearing about the gospel like if you saw them you would think they were mormon haha. 

The work is going good hopefully we can get some baptisms soon! We are teaching a bunch of people that want to get baptized super bad but they wont take work off to go to church so they cant get dunked. People here work harder than hard and everybody here drinks beer and smokes so to get our baptisms its gonna take some work haha. 

Well yeah nothing too exciting happened this week. My ear is a little better it still hurts but it looks alot better. I havent gone golfing yet but i am positive I will go golfing in one of the upcoming P-days. I haven't seen Dan yet because hes in the english ward but he lives really close to me so I probably will see him sometime. 

Alright well thanks for everything! I hope life is good in Utah and I hope the dogs are doing okay. Send me a pic of the new car too! Well i gtg we are going to Calle Ocho apparently its pretty famous but I know nuthin about it haha you guys can look it up. Well peace out fam 

Con mucho amor,

Elder Spencer

PICS FROM NOVEMBER 2, 2015

NOVEMBER 2, 2015- CARVING PUMPKINS, UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI, DRIVING AND EAR PROBLEMS!

Wassup family! Thanks for your emails! Thats pretty cool you guys got a new car! Its probably a good thing you bought it with me or else it would probably be broken by now haha. We have a pretty nice car here though! We get to use the car every other day and then we ride our bikes on the days when we dont have the car. Althoooooough I have already gotten 3 aggressive driving warnings! The mission cars have a sensor in them that measure rpms, sharp turns, slamming on brakes and speed. I have gotten a warning on rpms, sharp turn, and speed so far. The mission president called me and told me if I get one more hes gonna take away my privilege to drive which is super dumb but hopefully I can not get another one for the rest of these 700 days or so. Biking is rough out here! We bike an average of 30 to 40 miles a day and I am always suuuper tired after bike days. 

Dang it sounds like the hunting season is going crazy good!! I miss it quite a bit and I hope it is still good when I get back! And hopefully Sonny and Shadow will still be there also. Oh yeah and who won americas got talent? haha just curious

Well I had to go to the hospital last week cuz I had an infected abscess in my ear!! It made my whole ear puff up and hurt suuuuper bad but the Doctor drained it and gave me some medicine and it felt better like immediately. I didnt have my insurance card though so I am just gonna send all the stuff they give me to you guys and hopefully my insurance can cover it. But other than that this week has been beast!

Halloween was super fun! We got to carve pumpkins and it was a good time. I suck at carving pumpkins but it was still fun. I will send you guys some pics fo sho. We also have an investigator that is a student at Miami! We got to go to the campus and it was really awesome. There were a few cute girls there too (okay maybe alot hehe) but I overcame every temptation! He is a super cool kid his name is Connor and he was super interested in us because his values are the same as ours. Miami is a HUGE party school and he is not a fan of it. He wants to transfer to BYU but wants to learn about us mormons first so it was really cool to talk with him.

Well nothing super crazy has happened this week. On the 14th however we should baptize a few people which I am super excited for! Its really tough to teach families here because nobody is married! Latins apparently dont believe in getting married so every family that we are teaching we are trying to plan a wedding for which takes alot of time and its really tough.

I am starting to gain some weight here though! We eat sooooo much food here! Its mostly all rice and beans and balseadas and I love it already. I also have some protein and I drink a protein shake every day and thats helping too. But we have no weights so working out can get kinduv boring. You should send me some exercises that I can do without weights that well help me get some muscle! I have been mainly doing pushups and its getting boring. Oh and send me a flashdrive or 2 por favor I dont have any and we cant buy them anywhere cuz there are no stores here! My address is 220 nw (WRONG ADDRESS MARK).

Alright thanks fam for everything! I love reading your guys emails and I cant wait for christmas!! - Con Mucho Amor, Elder Spencer