Elder Spencer's Mexico Mexico City North Mission: Last Cambio of The Mission, First American Companion

Hola, hola! I’m doing good and you? We had cambios this week. I’m in the same area but have a new companion. More on that later though. After p-day ended last week we tried to visit Victor but he wasn’t home so we went contacting for a little bit and found 4 contacts before our appointment with Joselin. We didn’t have a lesson because we wanted to celebrate her being baptized so we went and ate burritos. Oh and I was finally able to Skype home with you because Elder Parke let me borrow his webcam and that was way awesome!

Tuesday we had district meeting and mainly focused on how we need to be more persistent with contacting. After that we went to the house of President to celebrate that in June we achieved the baptismal standard as a zone. So for several hours we played games and ate some really awesome food! We got back around 7 which was later than we planned so we had to call people we had citas with to reschedule. We did find a few contacts too. It was an excellent day with the activity and also because I got the birthday package you sent me! Thank you so much!!

Wednesday we had a lesson with Pedro Velazquez who we found a couple of weeks ago. We were able to get to know him and give him an introduction about the Book of Mormon, why we are here and what our purpose is. We weren’t able to invite him to be baptized because after some talking suddenly he jumped up and thanked us for coming. We barely had time to set another cita before he rushed us out the door. We were able to pass by with 2 other contacts and talk with them a bit and make them investigators! One of them is a young guy named Luis Miguel. We have him a copy of the Book of Mormon to read the week before because he told us he loves to read. He told us he’s been reading it and really likes it!

Thursday was a crazy day because it rained a ton and we got drenched. We did find refuge for a bit but the rain didn’t let up and we didn’t want to be late getting back. I got soaked from my thighs down but my companion got all his clothes wet. Our appointments fell through because of the rain so we went back to the casa to change and went back out. By then the rain lightened up a bit and we were able to find 2 contacts before we visited a couple members.

Friday was my companion’s birthday so I made him pancakes in the morning and then at night we went to a truck that sells burgers that Joselin told us about so I bought us some for dinner and they were actually really good! We had 2 appointments and one turned out good. It was with a man named Miguel Mendoza. He’s a really cool guy! He’s a former investigator as of about a year but is really interested in the different programs of the church and the well-being of his family. He smokes a lot so we are going to have to work hard to help him overcome that and also to get him to go to church with his family.

Saturday we had 13 appointments and all but 2 fell through. The 2 we had were pretty good though. The first was a guy named Gonzalo Cruz. He’s an ex-boxer and now a referee. He is catholic but more a believer than anything. He is really interested to learn a bit more so he invited us to come back this next week. The other lesson we had was with Joselin and William.

Sunday church was pretty good. There is a sister in the ward who is married but her husband isn’t a member. He came to church today and wants to be baptized so he and his wife can be sealed in the temple. We’ve gone to their house and talked with him before but he never really seemed interested. Thank goodness his wife talked with him about being sealed in the temple. He is a really good prospect to baptize this next cambio. Speaking of cambios we got transfers and I’m staying here. My companion was transferred to the zone Coacaleo. After 4 cambios and 6 months together we are finally changing! My new companion is from the USA and he’ll be my first American companion for my last cambio in the mission.

Monday while my companion was packing I was trying to clean and organize the casa. We had to be in the offices by 3:30 so we didn’t have time to write families. My new companion is Elder Curran who was born in Maryland but he was living in Kentucky. He is 19 years old and is really cool! After we got back to our area we went shopping so he could have food then we left to start working. The only appointment we had fell through so we contacted for a bit and were able to find some good contacts! One lady said she wants us to explain to her more about the Book of Mormon especially when Christ came to the Americas. Another told us she’d talked to the missionaries a while ago but happily said we could go back another day to visit. We had 5 contacts in total and were able to visit another contact that we didn’t have planned but we decided to go by and found him there and were able to talk to him for a bit. Then we went and visited the familia Cruz Roa to introduce my new companion. I love this family so much!

I gotta go now! Thank you so much mamá! I love you guys lots! Thanks for everything! You guys are the best! Have an amazing week!