Elder Spencer Halls

Hello!! Everyone Happy Monday from Ukraine!!  Alright so as you know from last week I'm now in a trio still on Pobeda so I've been showing my companions the ropes and the area this week but I wanted to start and tell you a little bit about them!  SO Elder Pierce he is a great missionary he's from Georgia so he's got a sweet southern accent he was a swimmer in high school and actually now he swims for BYU so he swam a year before he came out on his mission! He's just a super happy man always excited and joking around!  Elder Hansen is from New Hamphshire/Utah he lived down in Maple Mountain before he left on his mission! Really great missionary too! He's in like the Marine Corp reserves so he has all these really cool stories from boot camp and training! He's a really great man as well! So basically these two are gonna be whipping me back into just tip top physical shape and I'm gonna be eating like a champ and all is gonna be great haha! So...

Hello everyone back home!! I hope you are all having an amazing week! Things are going well for me here in Dnepr! This week I learned so much and I really feel so so much growth! I'm super excited to keep working harder and becoming more dedicated and focused because I know there is always things I can do to improve!  Alright lets get to maybe the biggest news of the week! The transfer calls came and me and Elder Rodgerson got a call from president. Elder Rodgerson is off to Kharkov to be a zone leader there and I've got two new companions coming here to Pobeda! Elder Pierce and Elder Hansen! We are a pretty young companionship so it'll be exciting! Elder Pierce got here 2 transfers ahead of me and Elder Hansen just 1 ahead of me so Elder Rodgerson has more transfers under his belt than the three of us combined. My companions will get to dnepr tomorrow and wednesday and then I'll be showing them the ropes of Pobeda! It's an exciting change and I think that it...

Hello family and friends! I hope you all had a great week this past week wherever in the world you are right now! This week was really great for me! I'm learning so much and growing more and more into the work!  IT IS GETTING COLD!! Saturday I remember walking outside and I think I shed a little tear of sadness because I had thought we were on our way back to warmer weather but that is just not the case. I think it won't be warming up even just a little bit any time soon haha. This week it snowed sooo much. Pretty much everyday! It's hard to tell how much because when you are living in a city of 1 million people and everyone walks everywhere it just gets all compressed down on the sidewalk, then after that turns into ice. People fall all the time its funny but also sometimes really sad! Lets just say we've had a lot of opportunities recently to serve Dnepr's older folks :)  Another cool things with all the snow is that usually all the moms in the city take ...

Hello hello everybody! I hope you all have had an amazing holiday season and that everything you have going on in your life is going well. I hope you have been able to feel the love of your families, friends, neighbors, and especially our Savior this holiday season!!  I'm doing well over here in Ukraine, the snow is coming down currently and has been for the last couple of days it's like a continous things but there is not that much snow on the ground so it's kind of confusing me to be honest. It's just snowing enough to get up in your face and in your eyes and let you know that it is there. The river has frozen and now the snow is piling up on that too! It looks pretty cool sadly I don't have any pictures of it ahhh. I'm loving missionary work I feel like I am learning so so much and growing a ton making huge strides every day in different areas! I love being a missionary and my opportunity I have ever day to strive to do my best to bring our message of...