June 20, 2011

Dear Family,

A great week, pretty uneventful though. My new comp is great. Elder Dehnike is from Buenos Aires and is the first missionary in his family. He’s super fun and before the mission he studied Gastronomy (which I thought was something medical, but as it turns out it’s basically cooking school). That’s good and bad. Good, because if we ever have a lunch cancel I’ll have my own personal chef. Bad, because it’ll be pretty underutilized here in Villa Alem, the best ward in the mission for lunches. We have lunch every day without fail. Yep, pretty spoiled. We joke around that this is the Celestial Kingdom, and I got sent here as a reward for surviving Frías. In all seriousness, it’s pretty nice. I’m pretty sure it’s the biggest ward in the mission, and more than half of all the stakies are from our ward.

The sad thing was having our last Zone Conference with President and Sister Northcutt this week. It was so good. They both gave wonderful talks. They have such strong testimonies of the Savior. President’s last talk was on two topics: The Lord knows us individually and answers prayers. He gave an experience from when he was 15 and got lost in the woods on a campout and was stranded overnight in below freezing weather, but survived (almost got hypothermia) and the next day was found. He had said a prayer that night and heard a voice that everything would be all right. Immediately his body started warming up. He slept in that spot and the next day about midday a helicopter found him. His other topic was about how to choose a wife. He said that that is the most important decision you will ever make then he told that when he was in highschool he made a "qualification" list for his wife. The most important qualification was that the Holy Ghost confirmed to him his decision. He told the story of how he met and dated Sis. Northcutt and really wanted to marry her, but was willing to follow the Lord́s response if the Lord said no. The Lord told him yes. :) It’s going to be really sad to see them go, but it’s nice that they live decently close (San Diego) so I’ll be able to see them after the mish.

Sorry I couldn’t write much this week. Everything is going well down here. I love you guys a lot. The church is true!!!!!!!

-Elder Spencer