March 7, 2011

Dear Family,

Another great week here in Frías. It’s been kinda hard to keep track of people because they’ve been on their summer break, but now school has started and people are getting back into their schedules so it’s been easier to find people. Also this week one of the people I worked a lot with in my last area just got baptized, so I was pretty happy for him.

Cool story, we found a really cool kid this week knocking doors and we got to talking. He let us in, and after teaching a bit, he started telling us about how he did sports and played rugby and stuff, and we asked him if he knew a kid named Lucas Galarza. Lucas played rugby a lot, and just went on his mission to Brazil about 2 months ago. He said he did, but hadn’t seen him for a while because he hadn’t been coming to rugby practice anymore. When we explained how Lucas was now a missionary and how he had been a member of our church since he said: "That makes sense! Lucas was always seemed different from everyone else." Because of the great example of that boy, he’s doing missionary work here even though he’s in another country. Your best missionary tool is yourself. I did the math the other day, and right now the church has about 14,000,000 members. If we wanted to double that number this year, each missionary would have to find and baptize roughly 270 people (540 for each companionship), or each member can find one. That’s what President Hinckley was referring to in his "Feed My Sheep" talk (look it up, it’s good). So go out there and be great examples and when people ask you why you’re different, invite them to a family home evening or to church.

Anyway, the work’s going great. Love you all tons! The church is true!

-Elder Spencer