August 5, 2013 - Indianola, IA

Well it has been another week in Indianola.  It has been a good week.  We meet with a lot of people and got to know the members a little bit more and set up a lot of appointments with people.  We had a little tragedy that happened to a member family on Monday.  They had several parts of there house burn from a fire and have been told that the need to find a new place to live.  Sadly this has happened to them a few times.  But because of this the members were able to share there love and go to help this family.  It was very good to see that most of the members that bore testimony yesterday talked about there love for the family.

Well this week we will be meeting up with our zone for a meeting.  Other then that we just have appointments to look forward to and meeting with some members.  The weather has been great here for the past week.  Not hot at all for the most part.  Today it will be raining so we will probably be getting some humidity for this next week.  Should be fun.....

Well I love you all and I know this Gospel is true!

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti

July 29, 2013 - Indianola, IA

Dear Family:

Well it has been a great week in Indianola.  We had a very productive week and visited a lot of members.  It has also been very cool as far as the weather goes for the past few days.  It has just been heaven with this weather.  Not too hot and not to cool.  We were able to go to the town fair this week with an investigator of ours and had a interesting time there.  Got to watch my very first truck pull which was very interesting.

We were also able to have our first interviews with our mission president on Wednesday which was good to do.  He is a very interesting man and has many good ideas that will help the mission.  This week we were also able to see a lot of hot air balloons fly by.  Apparently it is a big thing to do in Indianola.

Well that is about it.  I love you guys and I know that the Gospel is true and does bless peoples lives so much.

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti

July 22 mission photo

Good luck trying to find me!  I am in the back row.  You can only see above the nose of my face.  To my left is a tall blond Elder.  Hope you guys can find me!

July 22, 2013 - Indianola, IA

Dear Family:

Well greeting from Indianola Iowa!  Indianola is south of Des Moines about twenty or thirty miles.  My new companion is Elder Ashworth who has been out for 20 months now.  We are both serving as senior companion in our companionship which is very confusing.  But oh well.

The work is going good here in Indianola.  We have two people that show promise in getting baptized.  We just need to meet with them and give them a specific date that we feel they could be baptized on.  We also have a lot of potential investigators to contact here so we have a lot of potential.  The members here are awesome as well.  Oh and one of the Zone Leaders in our area is one of the Elders that I came out with so that is exciting. 

Well that is all that I have to share.  I will find out a little bit more about the area for next week.  Love you all!

Sincerely;
Elder Spencer Ariotti

July 15, 2013 - Fairfield, IA

Dear Family:

Well it has been another great week in Fairfield.  Unfortunately I have heard some interesting news concerning my stay in Fairfield.  I will be transferred this week from Fairfield.  Yep I have only spent six weeks here and the Lord has called me to somewhere else.  Fairfield will actually be changing to a Zone Leader area and Elder Beck will be staying to assist with that.  It was sad yesterday at church when everyone heard I was going away.  This is not something that usually happens to missionaries.  But I am sure there is something I am suppose to do in some other place.

Well this past week, besides getting that phone call, was good.  Nothing very special but it was just a good week.  We meet with a bunch of people and had good times with them.  On Saturday morning we got to help the branch members with a service project.  We painted the side of a less active members home and that was good to do something different.  Well as many of you may have noticed today marks the 7 months until I come home.  It has all really gone by fast.  It is kind of sad but time does that sometimes.

Well I have got a lot of packing to do for this Thursday and a lot of people to say goodbye to.  Hopefully I will only have to do this a few more times.  It is always really hard to do this to people that I have grown close to.  Love you all and this Gospel is true!

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti

July 8, 2013 - Fairfield, IA

Dear Family:

Well it has been a great fourth of July week in Fairfield.  The fourth of July was a great day.  We had a branch breakfast that morning so we spent time helping and talking with everyone during that.  Then later in the day we were invited by the branch president son to have dinner with them and some other members of the branch.  It was a very fun day.  Then the other days of the week were kinda hard.  A lot of people were gone because of the holiday and that was hard but we tried to make them as productive as possible.

We had a great time meeting with our new mission president and wife on Wednesday.  They will be great as the leaders of the mission.  I hope everyone had a great week themselves.  It has not been as hot as you guys may have had.  It started to warm up a little bit near the end but it didnt get above 90 very much.  It was a little humid but not to bad so it was very mild.  I remember that last year at this time it was very hot.  It has certainly been a very different summer for me being a missionary.

Well I am glad all is well.  I love you all and I know this Gospel is true!

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti

July 1, 2013 - Fairfield

Dear Family:

Well it has been another week in Fairfield.  It has not been as hot as you guys have been getting.  It has been staying around 80 degrees and it is not very humid so it is not as bad as you guys have it. Well this weekend we had the official switch over for the mission president.  We will be meeting President and Sister Jensen on Wednesday for a zone conference so that is exciting.  We will also be having a breakfast with branch members and also other people on the fourth so that will also be very fun for us.  We have been passing out invites like crazy to people so we are hoping that we will get a lot of missionary opportunities with this.

This past week has been a very interesting one.  We had to drive a lot and we also have been giving a lot of blessings to people.  I think I have just doubled the amount of blessing I have been a part of in my entire life with this past week.  But I was able to feel Gods love for people and be able to help them.

Well other then that not much else to say.  We are working our hardest and hoping that we will get some new investigators this week.  Love you all and I know that this Gospel is true!

Sincerely;

Elder Spencer Ariotti