Elder Spencer Wilkinson

My favorite outfit February 24, 2020 Hello everyone! This week was good and cool, lets talk about it So monday we went and ate hotpot for Elder Bakers birthday (70 years old!) Which was delicious. After that we taught the wife of one of our elders quorum presidency, chị my. She is doing super great and we have a baptism date for her! So that's awesome. It started raining during her lesson (like hard) so we had to bike home in the rain which was nice and amazing. Another highlight of the week for me was that one of our investigators house got broken into which was not good at all. But we went and bought him some fruits and snacks and brought it to his house as a gift, and got to meet his mom and brother! And luckily, as it turns out, nothing was even stolen, so it was just an inconvenience to have to report it to the police.  We had some lessons this week, but this Saturday the President came to the chapel for interviews and to sit in on district coun...

Hey all!  Dont have much this week, sorry. Monday we played soccer again with a lot of the south zones and some members, which was great. Tuesday was normal but wednesday we had a special fast for our mission to help out everyone's investigators since we have a lot of baptisms this month.  That day was super special for me, and we had the chance to meet with the wife of one of our branch presidency and she agreed to start learning with us! We have been focusing a lot on their family this week since them, which has been awesome. I can really testify of the power of unified families, and how much joy and compassion they can bring and how much strength they give to the other members. Family is super important in the Vietnamese culture, and so when families are split between religions, it brings a lot of discord sometimes. But I have seen that families who have decided to be unified in the gospel have received so many blessings and really thrived in all aspects of life, not just ...

Phép báp têm ( Baptism) Caption by Spencer's companion's mom. The long awaited baptism of Chú Cường, a very nice Vietnamese man and piano teacher who, as a little boy, attended church and was taught by the missionaries until the war when the missionaries and many members left. And now after 45 years he found the missionaries and has been taught again and now baptized! A very special day! ♥️ Hello everybody!  I want to start off by saying: I am fine. Some people have expressed concern but Corona isn't even that bad, and there are only a handful of cases in Vietnam anyway. It has mostly been an impediment to meeting with people, but other than that we are completely safe and healthy! (The scare is worse than the virus itself, really) Anyway, the government shut down all schools this week and continuing into next week, so everybody in the city has been super bored and they all have a lot of free time. And yet, at the same time, the streets are empty and ...

Tết Zone Conferences - Saigon East Zone Jan 29, 2020 February 3, 2020 Xin chào mỗi người!  How are you all doing? This week has been really great actually. Things have been slowly picking up after Tết, but the big scare from the virus has kept people from returning from their hometowns and returning to the city, so things have still been pretty empty. And we've had to implement a lot of policies for virus prevention and to help make people feel safer because theres been a couple cases here in saigon, so everybody's pretty scared.  Anyway, last monday after playing bang at the church in district one for pday, all the trainer s and new missionaries had the chance to meet with the mission president and talk about our feelings from being new missionaries and to recommit to some things we were getting lazy on. It was so good! We learned lots, and it made me feel revigorized to keep on going.  Tuesday the Thủ Đức missionaries filmed a special video ...