September 27

Dear Fam,

This week was awesome, with a few slightly bad news. Bad news, Carlos and Macarena can't get baptized yet because they haven't quite kicked some problems. It's all right, they'll be baptized in another few weeks. Good news, we have this really awesome investigator named Alejandra. Last week was her first Sunday in church, and after church at the night we had a little activity with her in the church and watched The Testaments. Her husband was baptized 30 years ago but hasn't been active for the last 15 years, where, in the meantime, he married her and had a family. He still doesn't feel ready to come back to church yet, but he's getting there. This week we had a lesson with them and we talked about prayer and the importance of it and at the end of the lesson we had a kneeling prayer with the whole family (3 kids) and he gave it. It was awesome. You could feel the spirit super strong after that prayer. Then, Alejandra went to the RS session of conference with one of the members on Saturday and loved it. She is already identifying here as a member of the church and is meshing super well with the ward. This Sunday she came with all her kids (no husband still) and loved it. She even gave the prayer in gospel principles class, which was super awesome. This Sunday night, we had another activity and this time her husband came instead of drinking with his friends like he did the last one and got to know the current bishop. He knows he needs to change a lot of things in order to have a happy family, but he is always there helping his wife with the discussions and she is progressing super well. She will probably get baptized the next week after conference, which is a shame because conference is a day before transfers and I won't be here. But it has been such a blessing to get to find her, teach her, and see her progress, that even if I don't get to be here for her baptism, I'll still be super pumped.

Also, other cool stuff that happened this week. After working with several investigators for a loooong time, we had 12 come to church on Sunday. The mission goal is 4. We were super blessed. Also cool thing: Veronica (my convert from a few months ago) got called as a Primary teacher and this Sunday was her first week teaching. Her son Junior who recently got ordained passed the Sacrament this Sunday for the first time. It was pretty awesome seeing them get rooted in the Gospel and I am so grateful for the opportunity I have had to be able to teach such awesome people. Anyway, that was my week. Pretty much the same as always, teach, work, see blessings. The Church is true. I'm so excited for conference this week. We have a chance to hear from a prophet of God and here the will of God in these the modern days. Listen well.

Love you guys! Thanks for writing!
-Elder Jonathan Spencer