Dear Family,

This week was great! Dario got baptized! It was so awesome. He invited three of his friends to come see it, and the spirit was so neat in the baptism and now his friends are really interested. He told us that he just feels so great, so clean, so awesome now that he’s baptized. It has really been such a blessing to witness such a mighty change in heart.

So I pretty much love this ward. Because of how well the Christmas activity we did turned out, the new Elder’s Quorum President is really excited to do lots of activities and so now we’re shooting to do one every other week. This week we had another winner: A Karaoke Night. It was super great and lots of investigators showed up. The best part was this: We have this investigator that’s a 65 year old man and super cool. As it turns out, he’s a charro (the lead singer in a mariachi band) and he’s really good and has a band of 12 mariachis and they have CDs and such. Mariachi is purely Mexican, so here they are very uncommon. Well, when we told him about the Karaoke night he got really excited and told us he would come. And he showed up with his entire mariachi uniform and a mariachi guitarist to accompany him. It was really quite the treat.

We also had quite the miraculous experience last night. We were at the house of a recent convert, Monica. She’s not that strong in the church, and she isn’t able to attend that much because she usually ends up staying home taking care of her mom, who’s old and wheelchair-bound. Well we were going over the restoration again with Monica and her husband (a member for many years) and suddenly her mom says: "I want to get baptized!" My comp and I were kinda shocked because we didn’t even know she was paying attention, but we obliged her request, and set a date for early February. Although because of her age she didn’t understand much of what we were teaching, she had felt the spirit as we sang and prayed and taught, and knew that it was good. Moral of the story: when the Spirit reaches a heart, the heart changes.

I love you all! The church is true!

-Elder Spencer