Mar 14
Dearest Family,
It has been an incredible week and it just keeps being a missionary just keeps getting better!
Weather: Today it is...get this...50 degrees! WHOO HOOOO! It is awesome because earlier this week it was about -25 with wind chill one day. So that is a 75 degree difference. :) Elder Gillespie (one of the other missionaries in our apartment) went running this morning and it was awesome. We ran across the Mississippi River and around the outskirts of Minneapolis. It was still dark when we started, but the sun started to come up during the run. Ahhhh I love being here!
The work: Well, the greatest thing of all my time here in Dinkytown happened today. Sarah was baptized! We had the baptism earlier today and it was glorious. She was so happy! The ward came out in full force to support her too, it was great. Elder Sorenson baptized her and he was way excited to do that. I will confirm her tomorrow on Sunday too! I sang a song from the Primary songbook "When I am baptized" and it was just realyl really good. Yay for Sarah!
Last week: Last week on Pday I did not mention an exciting activity I got to do. We got to go to the UofM basketball game! They played Michigan and it was their last home game of the season. It was so fun! The band was there and there were tons of people, but most excitingly I got to watch sports!!! It was a great game, but at the end Michigan pulled ahead and won. I did wear a pretty good UofM tie to show my support. This was just one of those blessings of being a missionary on the campus :)
Interesting news: So, I just got a phone call from my mission president about 2 hours ago and I have some exciting changes coming this week. My companion Elder Sorenson will no longer be my companion as of Wednesday. Yes, it is an interesting move, but I can assure you it is not considered an "emergency transfer!" haha. This is what I know so far. My new companion (who I will get on Wed.) was serving in Germany, but had some health problems so he had to come home. Now, he has been reassigned to Minnesota and will be coming out Wed. I hope he still remembers english...ha...but seriously that would be weird...Anyway, we were pretty shocked because it's really rare to have this stuff happen. I am sad to lose Elder Sorenson, because he has been great, but I am excited for this new thing. It's times like these that I can define a mission as: happiness and change. So there will be some more updates on this next week!
Eating experiences: I had a funny experience with dinner yesterday taht I have to tell you about. I will begin by saying that when I was called to Minnesota I did not think I would be eating any exotic or interesting foods as a missionary, but now serving in a college campus that thought has been challeneged...Yesterday we had dinner with 3 guys from the ward who live together. Now, kudos to 3 college guys accepting to feed the missionaries on a friday night, but the meal was pretty interesting. One of the guys is from China so he made a chinese dish of pork, peas, and some kind of noodles? One of the other guys brought salad. And the last one made scrambled eggs and potatoes. Also on the table was shredded cheese, tortillas and various condiments. I didn't know what to do...or how to put it all together and neither did anyone else. So, I ended up making a burrito with a chinese dish of meat and peas, with cheese, sour cream, and barbeque sauce on it. I thoguht the barbeque would give it a better flavor adn make it more delicious. But I was wrong. It was pretty funny and we all had a good time. This experience is almost as good as one of our dinners that a guy made us frozen burritos with a slice of kraft cheese on top. And unfortunately the cheese was burnt. haha. I love student wards! And they do a great job being involved and such so it is all good :)
Well I hope you all have a great week! I love you all very much. Also, we have a count down of 3 weeks until general conference!! Whoo hoo!
With love,
Elder Spencer
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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