Estimada Familia,
Thanksgiving was GREAT: )
THANK YOU everyone for the letters:) It was so nice to finally get those pictures of the family from my farewell and I can't wait to get more of the Big Sur trip. Things have been really good (yet a little slow on the tracting side) here in Sahuarita over the holiday week. But we did manage to find a new investigator! I am really growing to love this area. Southern Arizona seems to get prettier by the day-- maybe I'm just getting used to it. It's getting COLD though which was a surprise to me! It rained a little after church yesterday, and it's been getting below freezing at night! Supposedly it might snow up at the ranch this year! We had dinner with a family that said they are going to take Elder Holyoak and I "Jeep-ing" up in the mountains on our next free PDAY, we are really excited! Another member said he wanted to show us all of his guns and take us to the shooting range. Sadly, handling firearms is against the rules.. but we might go and watch anyway.
TODAY was the Sahuarita Zone (from us, down to Nogales) vs. Tucson Zone (my old zone) TURKEY BOWL! It was really fun to see Elders Burns and Barlow and Edmunds and Kinsey and all my buddies form Tucson this morning! They said Daniella was baptized this weekend!!!! Finally!!! I wasn't there for it, but it feels pretty cool to have someone I actually taught get baptized. I am so happy for her. The football game was really intense.. there are a lot of athletes in these two zones.. including Elder Edmunds who will be playing football for BYU, Elder Strong who plays rugby for U of U, and Elder McBride (from Canada) who was an Olympic Luge and Skeleton athlete. It was a pretty rough game. You'd think missionaries would be pretty cautious, we used socks as flags, but we still didn't stop until Elder Blake got his nose split open(he's in my district), another Elder split his eyebrow, and Elder Kinsey got a pretty bad bloody nose when Elder Nordyke (who plays football for Southern Virginia) stiff armed him in the face! The only one stitch worthy was Elder Blake's injury, but luckily he knew someone in his ward who is an EMT or a fireman or something so we went over there and got him glued back together after the game.
It was fun to see all the guys from the Tucson zone, and it felt good to be able to speak a little bit of Spanish with them and Elder Hernandez from Mexico, but I am really happy here in Sahuarita. I am especially grateful for my companion Elder Holyoak. There hasn't been a day so far that I haven't learned something important about life or missionary work from Elder Holyoak. He is such a diligent missionary, even in a really hard area, and is ALWAYS really positive and uplifting. He also happens to be one of the most humble people I have ever met. I am so blessed and I can only hope I am doing SOMETHING for him in return. He keeps on telling me that I'm not going to Mexico til he's done with me, because he needs me here--I don't deserve this kind of praise from him, but I can't make him stop!
ABOUT the Mexican visa
At the MTC they said that I would get my visa in 7 weeks or less. I learned not to trust the people at the travel office in the MTC long ago, but just for kicks, this past weekend was the end of my 7th week here in the ATM. I got a letter from Brittany saying John might be going down to Mexico soon? Does anyone know if that's true? Is John in WA still or back in Utah? or MEXICO? I haven't talked to John since the MTC, but I hope he made it down there!
One of the Border Patrol guys in the ward told me he could go to a lady in Tucson and get me a Mexican Visa TOMORROW if I wanted ha ha. All I know is there is a reason I am in the Arizona Tucson Mission, so I'll stay here til there's a reason for me to be in Mexico.
I love and miss you all so much and appreciate all the letters, emails, and prayers--they are truly answered and felt, I can promise you that. I feel so incredibly blessed and grateful every day for this opportunity I have to be a missionary and have such a great family back home. You are in my prayers.
Scripture of the week: D&C section 78: 17-19
ELDER SPENCER
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