September 5, 2011

Dear Family,

So I have very little time to write today, but I have some crazy news. So this week was transfers, which was sad, because I didn’t want to leave Villa Alem. I totally love that ward. Well anyway, you will *never* guess what happened. We got the phone call for transfers and the district leader said: Well I think there’s been a mistake because it says here that you are going to Jujuy (who-whoey) to be with Elder Petersen!!! I was pretty excited, but since it wasn’t for sure, I kept my cool. That night in the apartment, we called up the mission president to see if he had everything worked out and our district leader asked the mission president if he was aware of what had happened with my transfers. The mission president said yes, and told him to ask me if I believed in revelation. I told him of course, and the president replied with a chuckle, well then, no problem. Everything will stay the same. I went pretty much nuts at that point and now I’m up in Jujuy with Elder Petersen and we’re just kinda in euphoria.

Anyway, not much time to write because of the 6-hour trip that took up most of the P-day, but we have baptisms planned for every week this month. It’ll be difficult, and we will need miracles, so please pray for us to see miracles here and help these people to come unto the waters of baptism.

Elder Petersen wrote up a brief about each one. Please pray for them.

Monica - Sept 10 - Wife of a member, they have one daughter who was baptized a year ago. She is totally ready to be baptized except there are some legal problems the family has in selling a property in Buenos Aires. She as the legal owner might not be able to be baptized this week if the final meetings/legal papers/signatures get scheduled for this week.
Gabriela - Sept 17 - "Spouse" of an inactive member. She was 7th day Adventist and was baptized there with much faith and desire. She is reading the Book of Mormon and believes it is true, and that Joseph Smith was a prophet - but she hasn’t recognized her answer from the Spirit. She will also have to get legally married before this date. She wants to be certain before she makes a drastic change, but she likes the church meetings and prays amazingly.
Gisela - Sept 24 - She is ready for baptism. She has already received and recognized her answer from God. The only thing that stands in her way is she needs to be legally married to her spouse and understand the rest of the doctrine/commandments.
Graciela - Oct 1 - She has also received and recognized her answer from God that Joseph Smith was a prophet who restored the priesthood and that the church is true. The problem we have is that she is very hard to find. She is a single mom who works and has a very sick daughter (and thus is always going to doctors’ appointments.) We only need to set fixed times to teach and help her understand the rest of the doctrines/commandments.

I’ll fill y’all in more next week. I love you all so much. The church is true!!!

-Elder Spencer