Hello

Well today was aweome. We got to attend the temple. It was amazing. I loved how peaceful it was. I dont think youll ever understand how loud it is here. Its always super loud. And there are no laws for music and the loudness. We also went to Wendy´s today. It was awesome. I had a >FROSTY and it was amazing. Im in the capital now in a huge plaza. It is huge adn super loud. There are people everywhere. Well we are having sucess here and a lot of it. We had an investigator in church for the first time last week and he got up and bore his testimony. I was scared out of my mind when he went up there. But it was awesome. Even though he wove his hands around a lot and said "Grasias al Dios" it was awesome. HE testified of the the peace we have brought to him. He then said he is in our family now adn wont ever miss church. He was also reading the scriptures all through church. We also have another man named Gustabo the other was Leo who bore his testimony. Gustabo loves the church adn loves the peace and happiness the gospel gives him. He told one of his friends visiting how much peace he feels when were there and to let us in. We have an appointment in 2 dsays . Its so amazing how hte lord works. He is awesome and really blesses us in ways we dont know. Well thats pretty much it. I love you all and wish you good luck in life. My health is good. I am the same at 165 lds and had a really low pulse and blood pressure. I do sit ups almost every day, and run up a hill we live on and we also have weights made out of cement. Ill send pictures later. Well talkto ya next week.

Spud

Hey Everyone, Im doing great here in my mission. Ive had some great experiances this week. General Confrence was awesome. We had it in the stake center in Bani. 6 american elders watched it in english in a little room. I love every single talk. they were amazing. We had 2 investigators there. One is going to be baptised on the 20th. Last night we also invitee a young man to be baptized on the 27th. The work is pretty good. We have families and men were talking to. They are awesome. Its so cool being a missionary, its a great opportunity to get to preach the gospel and serve the lord. Today im in San Cristobal and am visting the families of elder macy that he taught. So i dont have much time. But I want you all to know i love you and am working hard. I hope Drew can fit in living back in our society. It would be hard for me too. I love ya and hope all goes well.

Love,

Spencer

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Hey Everyone, Im so glad to here from you. Im also excited for Drew to come home. Im glad he is such an awsome bro. Well things are going great here, we are teaching families and men. Which is great. Im so grateful for the lord and all that he does for us. He has blessed Elder Macy and I tons. Pray has also been a great experiance. Ive really grown close to my father in heaven through prayers and can testify that through are faith adn acting upon it in coming down to prayer. God will do miricles. Through us i dont know but i know things get done. Thats all i can askl for. The other day I was amazed at my spanish. I realized how far i have come. I can understand almost every thing and can now in my mind create sentences and not just remember words and phrases. More and more I am talking more in lessons. Its alot funner when you can understand a little and speak to them. Elder Macy and I went on some splits with some men this last week. It was sweet but a little scary. I was with the 1st counselor of the branch and of course he couldnt speak english. It was really fun and rewarding. I was surprised by my spanish adn how to talk to less actives. We went to the houses of less actives and talked with them a little. Most cant go and havent gone because work on sunday. It is sad but that is also our job to. to perfect the saints and bring them back. We also get more done if i go and do stuff while elder macy does stuff. It is reall efficient and we want to do it more often. This is my last tranfer with Elder Macy so hes starting to think about home. But Im trying to think about my upcoming mission. The Dominicans are awesome adn we have tons of fun together. We always joke around. It is awesome. We are teaching eachother our diffrent languages. Its awesome. I love the people here. Its weird though because i havent been with this many dark people in my life. Its hard to think that their are white people in the world. But everyonce and a while weel so a blanco or a whiter dominican. They have lots fo spanish blood in them. BUt i love them and they really are a beautiful people. They are very wicked though and its hard to work here. But we find the people who are ready. And God is who im thanking for them. The work is great and im trying my hardest. I hope all is well.

Spencer

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Hey Everyone, Im having an amazing time here in the Dominican Republic. Well we had transfers last week and we got 2 dominicans. To put it in short. They´re crazy. They are fun to talk to and are wild. It is really fun in the night when were trying to unwind. THey are working pretty hard though. Elder Macy and I are only working in Nizao and the others are working in Don Gregorio. So Ill probably be here for 6 months in tital. Its a huge amount of time but thats just what our mission president does. He was told to do that I belive. I love that because i can honestly say I lOVE THE PEOPLE here. It is really amazing. I love them and dont really want to leave the area but thats just the mission. So im going to work hard adn leave a spot for the people here in their hearts. We had zone confrence this last week. It was special because we had President Mask the Area authoruty for the carribean come. We was a great speaker and i learned tons. He gave us a huge booster and reminded me of how much better i can be. We can always do something a little more or a little different. I really enjoyed it. It was sad for my companion because this was his last confrence. So he wont see many of hte other missionaries again. ONly 3 were going home from our zones in the campo of field. Campo is pretty much everything other than the capital, Santo domingo. And San Cristobal is considered half half. There are about Half the missionaries are dominicans and the other are americans. This place will soon be just dominicans coming. The work is going very well here. We have many investigators we only had 3 come but we were expecting tons because last week we had 6 and 2 were new this sunday. The one lady is already baptized in her mind. We are going to have to wait a little because she wants to be baptized with her husbanmd but we havent talked with him very much. She is awesoem. We are also teaching other families are they are really taking in the lessons. We also are teaching the husband of a less active member. He is super smart and is loving our message. We told us that every thing was clear and made sense when we talked and that we did it way better than other religions. He really respects us. He is super smart and loves teh bible. He has prayed and told us last night he knows the church is true and Jospeh Smith was a profet. We were so pumped last night when we talked with him. His wife also said she would go to church again if he started to attended. I really know the lord works in mysterious ways and that we will be baptized. I see him as a stake President and as being a great leader in the church. I m so thankful for my heavenly father and for his blessings he gives me. Im thankful for this grand opprortunity to serve him and also to help others find out the truth adn remember that this is the true church. It is an exciting work and im eating it up. So are our investigators. I love all of you and wish you the best luck. I know that God will bless you for following him. Ive seen the changes in so many people. There is such a diffrence in the amount of love and happiness these families have. I love ya again.

Elder Spencer William Anderson

Hello Everyone.

Today was transfers but im not leaving. Ill probably be here for 6 months though. Which is a long time. Im really enjoying Nizao. It stinks because 2 of the other elders left. But we are getting to dominicans. One will be a trainer and the other one just out of the CCM. I´ll really be forced to speak spanish all the time. But i think it will be awesome. All the dominicans are crazy so ill know i will have a great time. Well We are having great sucess here now. Im so grateful for the lord and I know that he helped us out. We were in a tough situation and now we will have much sucess. We have found many families that are ready. We also had 6 investigators at church. But we should have had more. We are also seeing the less actives come back. I love talking with them. They really want to come back but are embarressed. But we are telling them that once they step in the doors for the first time everything will change . We also are telling our investigators about that also. All that came loved it and wished they would have done it sooner. They noticed the spirit there and also felt that this is Gods church on hte earth. Im so thankful for his divine help and now i know not to worry and to work hard. If we do we will be blessed. Im learning a lot of patience here and other christlike attributes. Christ is the perfect example. I dont have too many storys other than we found a moth the size of our hard in our house. ahaha. At least it wasnt a huge araña= Spider. Well i hope you have an awesome time this week. I hope you can check out my blog. My family has worked real hard on it. and I am thankful..

Adíos

Elder Spud

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Hey Everyone,

Im doing great here in the Dominican Republic. We are having a lot of sucess in the small town of Guale. We went around with a lady to pretty much the entire town and told them who we were. Then we invited them to come the next wendsday to her house. Well tomorrow is wendsday and we are expecting a multitude of people. SO We will try a savoir on the mount approch and teach a whole bunch of people in a little park. So we are very excited for that. We have so good investigators adn are really close to having baptismal dates for them. Im really excited and they are to. We have one lady who is in love with the gospel and is already acting and calling herself a member. She is awesome and her husband is really excited and they are super pumped about living together forever. Im really learing the gospel and the language here. The language is coming slowly but steadily and the gospel is just out pouring, I have gain such a strong testimony of this church their is no doubt in my mind. I have had the spirit whisper to me too many times to deny it. It is one of hte best feelings you could ever have. I also the the joy the church brings and how much better off we are knowing hte things we do. But this is the hard part helping people change their ways and their realigion. All we can do is invite them but they have to search for the truth they need to read the scriptures escpecially the book of mormon and also to pray and ask if the church of jesus christ of latter day saints is the same church that has been restored through Joseph Smith. Its so awesome to know that we have the same church that christ establised and also the prophets before himj. It is such a great blessing. I challenge all of you to share this with some one you love or one of your neighboirs. Well this week i went on an companion exchange with Elder Peguero. He is our district leader and is a native Dominican. We nows only a couple phrases in english so it was pretty much all spanish for 2 days. But it was really awesome and a huge learning experiance. We have also started a prech my gospel class for all the leaders here in Nizao and Don Gregorio. They have a huge love for the book even though it was their first time seeing it. It is scripture. We talked for almost 2 hours and we had to stop it because we had an oppoinment. They were really interested. We focused a lot oin them getting refrences and famililes ready for us. That will help us so much so we can have families that already have friends and a knowledge of the church. Im so thankful for all of you and wish you the best of luck this week. I really miss you all but this will be just a small moment. I know imk supossed to be here and serve here. Im thankful for this great opportunity to give back to my lord and savior. Because he is our savior and he want everyone to come unto him adn his church. But he isnt here and he needs our help to do it. Again I love you all.

Best wishes

Elder Anderson

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Hey Everyone,

This are getting harder and harder here. Its not a physical thing but mental. No one in our city wants to hear the gospel. Weve contacted the whole city and have our good investigators. But our investigators are not progressing and were actually losing some. Its very difficult right now but if we endure we will recive blessings. We have talked to the president in our interviews last week and he said we should stop contacting and work on the less actives. So we have switched our whole techniques and are now working hard in finding the lost sheep. We have found many and almost all of them left the church because either someone offended them in words or they started to work on sundays and gradually left. But we have lots of ones that have been offended. SO we are working on them and also sticking with our investigators. We have also been setting up tons of service with anyone we meet. Also on wendsdays we are having a dominoes night. the people here are always playing dominoes and we had 12 show up for the first week at the church. we think it will grow and grow. We are trying to think of anything to get people interested and getting us known in the community. Our Peloteros or Baseball players are even better then what i thought. One was offered a 1 million dollar signing bonus with the dodgers and the other $600,000 dollors for a signing bonous with the reds. but we dont know if there going to take it. The million dollor guy we probably wont baptize because we think hes doing it because his friends are. and he hasnt shown the fruits of wanting to be baptized. we really look for those in our investigators. we want members for life not like all the town of nizao who we baptized and have fallen away. But we have good news. When we were at the hospital visitnig the sick a lady that showd us around invited us to here house in a far away city but still in our area. Missionaries have really never been there. Its name is Pizzarte but she lives on the outskirts in in a town called Guale. She and here family were really into the lessons and were begging us to come back. It was amazing. So tommorow were going to go their all day and shes going to cook us dinner. and then bring us to all her friends. We prayed about it and we feel really good about this really far away city. It costs a lot of money to get their adn takes a long time to get there but we really are feeling that thats were we should be working. These people are receptive. If all goes well tommorow we will probably go their 3 times a week. We will sacrifice our little money we have but these are the only people showing fruits. So I love you all and hope that you all will have great weeks. Your all examples to me.

Elder Spud Anderson