Another incredible week. It started out pretty interesting when we got home with my comp and it turned out that there was no power. My poor comp had all his stuff packed up and when we got back after teaching that night there was no light to unpack. Our neighbor gave us some candles and we spent that night in the dark. The next day, my birthday, there was still no light. I was planning on making some birthday pancakes, but with no power, I ended up taking advantage of the breakfast time to defrost the freezer. We worked that day, the member where we had lunch surprised me with a cake, which was super nice of them, and when we got home there was still no power. However, ten minutes after we walked in the door, they turned it back on and I was able to blow out the candles!
After that the week went great. We had lots of awesome appointments and we are going to have a baptism in 2 weeks, so we are pretty pumped about that. Every day I am more thoroughly convinced that the success of missionaries is 100% blessings. We can work the whole day with investigators who are nowhere near progressing and use our very best knowledge of the scriptures and we will not succeed. In the end, though, all the people who progress and are baptized are people that we have to exert almost no effort in teaching because they accept everything and understand everything amazingly fast. The Lord has tons of people out there who are ready to receive his gospel, but they just don't know where to find it. It’s been such a blessing being led to find some of them.
This Sunday we were running a little late for church and walked in during the opening hymn of priesthood meeting to find nobody other than the area president Elder Arnold sitting in the room. I immediately felt completely embarrassed and decided from that day on I would never ever be late for church, because you never know when a General Authority will show up to your ward. He is a super great guy and taught us a lot. We also had the Primary program this Sunday, so all in all, despite the embarrassment, it was an awesome Sunday. Today I decided to give myself another shot at cutting hair and it actually turned out really good! (Except I think it’s a little short in the back; oh well, the difference between a good haircut and a bad one is 1 week, so I’ll live.) My new comp and I are doing great and I'm loving it here in Salta. It’s hot, but beautiful.
Anyway, got to go. Love you all tons! Send me pictures! I want to see your bright smiling faces!
-Elder Spencer
Salta the Beautiful
Saying goodbye to Elder Miranda in the bus station
New haircut, done by yours truly!
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