LAST TRANSFER, BACK TO MY OLD AREA IN CHIMBOTE!!!!!!



Well, so I know that everyones questions are 2.  how are things with my companion, and did I get my b day package.  The answer to the second is yes.  Its here, open, and I had milk dud popcorn last night.   Those milk duds were an awesome idea.  thank you Janae and family for the cookies.  Me and Elder King have eaten just a few.  I love cookies haha.  

So to answer question 1 there.  So, I truely found out why we never got along.  He wants to be assistant.  Or we could say a somebody....  He doesnt want to obey Gods will.  I have learned that we need to just follow his will even if we dont understand why.  I tried doing all that I could to just stay calm all week long. 

So to help with the calming, I went with Elder King to his area.  Ya...  That was fun haha.  we just went walking all day long.  haha And we did a really fun Family home Evening.  We could try it at home but just a warning,  it makes a big mess of flour haha.  So that day really helped me calm down and just be a lot more chill.

So yesterday,  We received changes.  Well... Lets just say that I wont be here with Elder Vera, or here at all.  In fact I am leaving Trujillo.  I am going to Chimbote.  BUT,  Im also doing one that I never thought would happen in my mission.  Im going BACK to my OLD AREA in Chimbote!!!!!!!!!!!  And my companion is going to be a North American!!!!!  Im gonna try to stay focused but wow haha.  President sure is doing something crazy haha.  I will be able to say that I only had 4 areas but 5 different changes haha.  I always wanted to end my mission down there.  Im excited.  So tomorrow, I head back to the crazy heat in Chimbote but to the greatest ward that I know here in Peru.  

Love you all sooooooo much!!!!!!!!!!

Elder Sam Spencer

PS:  for every moment of suffering, there is a greater and more amazing blessing. 

Love you all.  5 more Pdays........

 Preaching the Gospel in Ostuzco

Can you believe it.......John Deere in Peru

Our small Branch, but amazing members

I found a donkey hmmm to take me on my travels.                  I'm not sure these are big enough!

On top of the world

OH MY HECK...  Where am I?  I just learned today in the morning that yes, I can write whoever I want now in Pday using my email.  Wow that was super crazy to get that announcement so Im adding the only 3 emails that I know or are in my email to the list. 

Well This week has been an awesome week.  I got a new companion last tuesday.  His name is Elder Aguilar.  Can I just say trip down memory lane haha.  He started his mission in the same area as me.  He also was down in Chimbote and always talked with my converts from there.  I am super excited.  We are working extremely hard and we are just going to continue.  Idk why Im so happy. haha.  Maybe its just the really awesome fact that you can just publish my email address to the family now haha.  Im gonna be looking into it a little bit more.  So this is whats going on here.  This week, we focused a lot on bettering our relation with the members.  And then we learned what we need to better is the relation with the leaders.  I had my mind kinda blown this past week when I heard from our zone leaders that our mission has the same structure as a ward.  I was confused at first but then I realized that it is actually a big responsibility to be part of a quorum presidency.  It is really necessary to work really hard and rely on the counselors in your quorum.  It was a big eye opener. 

Well what else haha.  BRYCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  What!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I thought you were waiting to leave until after summer.  July!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That is literally going to come in.... well 2 or 3 months...  Oh how weird....  But IM SUPER EXCITED!!!!!!!

ALSO, JAXSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  And a photo?  hahaha That is so awesome!!!!!!  I have been here in Peru and tried working with parents to allow their children to get baptized.  When they dont accept, it really hurts because the parents arent helping their children.  Parents say that they want to wait to let their children make the desicion on their own and really it doesnt make sense.  They dont help their children.  They inhibit them from being able to progress.  Im so happy for him as well and hope to see a photo real soon.

 Grandpa Spencer and Jaxon

Well Im actually out of things to write now.  ummmm  Oh Grandma, yes last week I received the letter from the Stout Family.  Please tell them thank you for the letter and if they want to send anymore, well just send it straight to the email.

Well Love you all,

Elder Sam Spencer

2 BAPTISMS AND ITS MY 21ST BIRTHDAY!



So first off....  Baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Actually 2 Baptisms!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  That made the week awesome haha.  Charlie and Sandra got baptized this week!!!!  It was awesome.  I was so happy for that.  I was able to help them out to become members of Gods church.  And they are definitely going to be enduring to the end.  They are both really excited to continue learning.  Charlie should receive the priesthood this next week.  How awesome no?  So that is what happened today in the awesome area of progreso.

So today, we are in central for a little bit and then we are going to go to the mall and eat.  They have a lot of food there to eat.  Im not sure what else to say.  

Love you guys a ton,

Elder Sam Spencer

BORING P DAY....WHAT???

Well this has been a pretty boring pday.  I just went to downtown trujillo with my companion all day so that he could buy souvenirs...  idk how to spell haha.  No, it was actually one of the funniest things today.  As we were there, we saw... well about every single missionary in Trujillo and the part up north.  We were only missing like the people that are an hour south from trujillo.  It was really funny.  I got to see elder may, elder cottle, elder mano, wow...  honestly, im not so sure how many missionaries I saw just in one day.  It was pretty funny.  

So last pday, we ended up going to the mall.  It isnt that fun at the mall here...  Everything is way to expensive, you cant bargain with the people.  The only good thing about it is the food court haha.  

So what happened this week...  Well this week I got to celebrate my companions birthday. It was his birthday yesterday.  Really, not a lot happened this week.  It hasnt been too eventful.  Really.  I havent had an eventful week or really month haha. I just have been working hard trying my best at every moment.  I am really loving this area, and this work.  I dont know what will be happening this next change, that starts next week but whatever.  Its all good.  We will see some miracles in every moment of the day.  Well, I love you all a lot.  Im sorry that I couldnt write more... this computer is so terrible...  It erased everything that I had written for President Turk.  But whatever. What can I do haha.  

Love you guys,

Elder Sam Spencer

CRAZY WEEK

What a crazy week its been haha.  So first off, my companion is still here haha, Elder Yaicate.  He is supposed to be in Argentina or something at some point.   When, we dont know but we are waiting to see what happens with him.  We thought that maybe he would be taking off today but nope he is still here sitting next to me and cant understand what I am writing about him.  It was even funnier telling him that I was writing about him haha.  It has been a lot of fun with him.  We are working really hard down here.  But we werent working eficazmente this week.  We didnt work a lot with members at the beginning and it just went downhill from that one.  But its ok.  We are going start coming out of the rut we hit.  I think one of the biggest problems is that we dont have money in our phone to make calls.  The phones are like prepay but we cant go put more money on them.  Elder Aguilar made the mistake of using our phone and credit to call whoever he wanted....  I was a little annoyed but whatever... its ok.  

So in our area, we really didnt have a lot of success.  It just passed by really fast haha.  Oh also, we are now living 4 elders together.  Im not exactly sure how all will work out this time around.  Haha.  We got to work a lot on keeping up with our schedule.  

So I am thinking about what is going on in our area.  Not a lot really.  We are just trying to start working a lot more with members.  Its what we need to do.  We need to apply the things we learned from last Sunday in the leadership training. 

Well, there is my week.  Sorry its short, but not a lot happened here.

Love you all,  

Elder Sam Spencer

BEST P DAY EVER!

Alright, this week was so much better than the other ones haha.  We didnt really have a lot of lessons, but we visited with a lot of members and well they are all ready to help.  The problem from last week... we couldnt call anyone......  Elder Aguilar ended up using all of our credit.  Oh well.  So this week we really only found a few new people to teach.  But the few we found, WOW...  2 are preparing to get baptized the 27th.  That was awesome when they accepted the baptismal date.  Their names are Charli and Sandra.  They are progressing really well.  When they told us the first time that they hadnt read, we were sad.  We started reading and he said, oh now I just want to read because its interesting.  We realized that maybe if we read with our investigators what we had left with them to read they would realize that its something really important.  We tried it out with other investigators and they didnt really pay much attention....  It was sad to know that we wouldnt be going back as often to visit them because they dont want to progress but we know that it may just not be their time right now.  

So, we played monopoly as a district.  Since we live together, Sunday nights have become another time to be together, just like Otuzco haha.  It was great.  But ya, we played real monopoly.  I realized that I really dont like the game at all... It takes so long to play... It was a long night haha.  

So the real fun was today haha.  We went to a place called Conache.  Its like a little lake out in the middle of nowhere.  But that wasnt the best part because, well we cant get in.....  The best was behind the lake, there were sand dunes.  Like a sand mountain.  And one of the little tiny attractions there is...  Sandboarding.  Yes.  I, with my comp, zone leaders, and other missionaries went sandboarding today in the sand dunes.  I realized that it probably was one of the coolest pdays of my life hahaha.  I honestly dont know if it was 100 percent legal as a missionary, but our zone leaders told us we could.  Good enough for me.  I got a video of it.  Im sad that I wasnt able to get the other photos.  The other elders all have the good photos.  haha.  I just watched the video and realized, I dont have as great of balance like before haha.  I just got to practice again haha.  Well, at some point in September. 

So that was my week and pday haha.  I had an awesome week.  I think the sandboarding helped, but really it was to find these two children of God, Charli and Sandra.  

Well I love you all, see you soon, 

Elder Sam Spencer