Elder Spencer's Mexico Mexico City North Mission: District Goal of Eating 100 Nutella Sandwiches :)

¡Hola Mama! I’m doing great! I have struggles every now and then but for the most part and most of the time I’m doing really good! Yeah it was awesome to get 6 more names done. I wasn’t able to grab them though because we didn’t have time to wait. Yeah today marks 1 month! It’s kinda crazy but kinda cool at the same time. I have 23 months left! I like to go by weeks though because at the end of the week it feels like it went by super fast. Only 99 weeks left! I don’t know a whole lot about when I’m leaving the CCM yet. I heard the A.P.s might come pick us up in the afternoon and then we might get to call home. The day we do leave here we will stay that night in the mission home. I’m not totally sure though but yeah it’s not super far from here at all.

Yeah I got an email from Shawn saying he got transferred and that he’s a ZL now. That’s okay, I will still give Elder Goddard stuff to take down. I’m glad to hear things are going good at home! I hadn’t read dad’s email before I read yours about Koda so I was kinda confused but then I went and read it so I’m good now! That’s good they are finally cutting them off. I will definitely pray for him too!

Thanks for those thoughts Mama! This isn’t my spiritual thought but I wanted to share that my mission has been rough and I knew it would be. I feel like coming out a lot older is helping me too. I know if I would have come out when I was 18, I would most likely be falling apart and breaking down. I feel the spirit and Heavenly Father here helping me not worry and keeping me lifted up. As long as I am obedient, I know I will continue to receive this help. I always joke with other missionaries here saying I am 24 so I’m tough and I do what I want (just joking when I say I do what I want) but I know because of what I have been through and coming out later, it feels easier for me; but it’s only easy because of help from God. My Spanish is coming slowly but I have made pretty good progress from not having taken Spanish classes in the past.

Devotionals here are pretty awesome! On Sundays they get broadcast from the Provo MTC and other times the Presidency here teaches it or they bring up a video from past devotionals from Apostles! On Sunday we watched a devotional from Elder Holland titled Feed My Sheep from January 2011. You should definitely look it up and watch it! In the video he talks about missionary work and some of the things missionaries don’t do and do. He talks about the apostles and what they did after Jesus died before He came back and talked to them and asked Peter 3 times if he loved him. And if he does then Peter needs to feed his sheep. He then related that to us missionaries, that what we are doing is something we can’t go back from, at least until after our mission. But even then, what we are all doing is a life long journey. I have another thought I wanted to share with you but it’s in my other notebook that I forgot to bring so I will bring it again later and tell you!

Oh one other story for you haha. So a couple weeks ago we decided we wanted to have a district goal of eating 100 Nutella sandwiches in a day here during our meals. Last week Elder Davis told his mom to send him Nutella that we could use so we wouldn’t have to use and deprive other missionaries of Nutella here. She sent him 4 containers of Nutella! Monday was the day we decided to do it. The sandwiches we made were just with one piece of bread with Nutella folded in half. During breakfast we knocked out 51 sandwiches! Although that sounds good, it was not easy. My comp decided he was only going to eat 3 and one of the Hermanas only ate 2 so we had to pick up the slack during lunch and dinner. We did achieve our goal of 100 sandwiches, in fact we made it to 104! Elder Davis ate a total of 18 sandwiches, Elder Martin got 14, I got 14, my comp Elder Wilhelmsen only got 5, Elder Goddard ate freaking 20, Elder Christopherson ate 16, Hermana Ballard only ate 2 but her companion Hermana Larsen ate 15! We were all so glad when we were finished and were able to eat normal food haha.

Spiritual thought: The other thought I wanted to share is from another devotional Sunday that Elder Gary E. Stevenson and his wife spoke at. His wife said it doesn’t matter if you say you will go and do. The Lord needs you to say I went and I did. I really liked that a lot. Elder Stevenson talked about PMG (Preach My Gospel) and what an awesome tool it is for us. It is an awesome talk!

Today we went and lifted in the morning and then cleaned up our room and got ready and studied for a bit. After I wrote you, we all went and got haircuts then played volleyball and basketball then went to the Tienda and got some stuff and went back to the casa and took a nap. Then we came back to write some more emails. Yeah I do hope I get to call home or send an email or something. I’m pretty sure they will let us know this next week.

¡Te amo!