O-15: Horses! November 4, 2024

There were transfers this week and we received the news on Tuesday that I'd be staying with my current comp, which is what I was expecting. So we went out and worked all Tuesday. But then at 10:55pm I got a call saying I'd be leaving early the next morning! So I stayed up late packing my things and I left.

I'm now in an area called Vivaceta, if you want to see where it is look up Hipodromo Chile and you'll see what I can see off of my balcony. I'm finishing up the training of Elder Hood, and Elder from Missouri. Awesome guy! And I'll be serving as district leader again. And guess who is in my district, Elder Pereira! I trained him when he first arrived to the mission. I'm excited for the opportunity to be with him again!!

Speaking of the Hipodromo, it's this massive race track for horses, and every morning they have horses and riders training and I've also seen a lot of races with jockeys . It's some great entertainment because we have a perfect view of it all. The only downside is that in the middle there is a massive grassy area that they use for concerts. These concerts last until 3am and the speakers are loud and pointed at my apartment building. And then our neighbours downstairs like having after parties until 5am. So I'll probably buy ear plugs this transfer haha.

Halloween was this week as well, I actually have a couple more spooky stoies to tell with evil spirits, so if yiu are interested to hear those let me know. We also got some candy from when we did our door to door contacts haha. Also we had a couple trick or treaters show up we'll we did studies so that was fun haha.

We had a funny moment while in a lesson with a family. We were talking about the gold plates which mormon wrote on to put the Book of Mormon together. And the Mon asked her 7 year old daughter if she knew what they were. Now in spanish, to say gold plates you'd say "planchas de oro" so she said yes it's when you "planchar la ropa" which means to iron your clothes. We all got a good chuckle out of that haha.

Well there is a lot more I could write about, but it'll have to wait till next week.

Here is a scripture that stood out to me this week in Moroni 10:32-33

"32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.

33 And again, if ye by the grace of God are perfect in Christ, and deny not his power, then are ye sanctified in Christ by the grace of God, through the shedding of the blood of Christ, which is in the covenant of the Father unto the remission of your sins, that ye become holy, without spot."

Question of the week: How can you deny the ungodliness in your life? Or better yet, what are you willing to do or change to deny yourself of ungodliness?

Elder Spencer