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Latter-Day Saint Women Podcast Transcript Andrea Veronica Munoz Spannaus | the Lord Multiplies Our Efforts July 21 Latter-day Saint Women Podcast Transcript Andrea Veronica Munoz Spannaus | The Lord Multiplies Our Efforts SHALYN. Hello and welcome to the Latter-day Saint Women podcast, where we share the legacy of women of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. You'll get to know the faithful woman who shaped our past and hear from inspiring women of faith today. I'm Shalyn Back. KARLIE. And I'm Karlie Guymon, we are your cohosts. And today we are so thrilled to welcome to the studio Andrea Veronica Munoz Spannaus as our guest. Andrea, welcome. ANDREA. Thank you very much. I'm happy to be here. KARLIE. We're so happy to have you. As a quick introduction, Andrea was called to serve on the Relief Society Advisory Council just last year in 2020. She was born in Argentina and joined the Church when she was just nine years old with her family. She's shared with us just the wealth of experiences and opportunities that she had, at a pretty young age, to serve and to lead in the Church, and she is very passionate about how we can give those same opportunities to the young people in our lives. Andrea also served as a young missionary in Argentina and then as a mission leader with her husband in Mexico. And personally, I've just loved getting to know Andrea, she's so wise and so loving, and we're just excited that our listeners get to hear from her today. So again, Andrea, thank you so much. ANDREA. It's a pleasure to be here. © 2021 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. English approval: 5/17. PD12345678 SHALYN. Andrea, you shared with us that you feel very strongly about discussing how as women we can help strengthen children and youth in the Church, this rising generation. And we want to begin by asking why this topic has specifically been on your mind? Why is it important to you? ANDREA. Well, the other day, I read something Elder Eyring said in 2004. Speaking of the youth, I'm going to read it. He said, “Many of them are remarkable in their spiritual maturity and in their faith, but even the best of them are sorely tested, and the testing will become more severe.” So, we have the responsibility to teach them, to support them, and to strengthen the faith in Jesus Christ. They have a great and sacred task to do before the Second Coming of the Lord in gathering Israel. So, what a privilege. We are living in a wonderful time where evil is growing, but there is also growing goodness, revelation, and heavenly knowledge. So the heavens are really open, we don't need to be afraid of asking the Lord, asking for knowledge with faith. We need to increase our faith, no doubts, as our prophet asked us in the last general conference, I think this is key. So therefore, on one hand, we have this adversity growing, and on the other hand, we need to gather Israel. So as parents, families, friends, leaders, we need to make our best effort to help the children, the youth, single adults, to grow to their potential, to achieve this great work of gathering Israel. SHALYN. I really love how you just emphasized, the heavens are really open. And I think it's cool because as you said that, I just imagined us as women, in trying to guide children, that we can receive revelation, how to do that. But then also that's an example to them. When we're calling down the powers of heaven, they can see that and they can see that it's a normal and natural part of our lives to receive revelation, and hopefully they can follow that example. ANDREA. Yeah. That's wonderful. KARLIE. © 2021 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. English approval: 5/17. PD12345678 And I just think it's interesting that there is both, right? There is good and there is evil. And we know that good can overcome evil. And it's kind of like focusing on that and letting that grow and letting us find hope in that. And I just think it's so interesting 'cause I was so surprised that when we reached out to you, a member of the Relief Society Advisory Council, that you were thinking about the young people. And it was fun to hear your story because I think that knowing your story and knowing your past, it helps me understand why this is so important to you. As we shared earlier, you joined the Church at a young age, and you had to defend your testimony of the gospel at a very young age. You attended a Catholic school, you were given callings to teach just as a teenager, and then you were called as the Young Women president just at age 18, right as you were finishing Young Women yourself. So we'd love for you to share your experiences with our listeners and then how you grew from these really unique opportunities at such a young age. ANDREA. Yeah, of course. So, well, as you were saying with my family, we joined the Church when I was nine years old, and my sister and I were raised in a Catholic family, and because of that, we attended a Catholic school. And after our baptism in the Church, we continued attending this Catholic school, and my mother told my sister and me not to tell the nuns at school that we had changed our religion. KARLIE. Yes. ANDREA. But something happened, and when I was 13 years old, in one religion class, my sister told the nun the truth, that we were not Catholics. So the bell rang, the class was finished, and this nun came to me without losing a minute. KARLIE. Directly. ANDREA. © 2021 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. English approval: 5/17. PD12345678 Yeah. So my sister didn't have time to let me know what had happened, so the nun took me to the library where we had a one-on-one conversation, and she asked me, “Is that true that you are not Catholics?” And well, for the first time, I was able to defend the Church, to tell her about my testimony with the power of the Spirit. I remember I was crying and talking all at the same time, and I remember this feeling very well, because for the first time I was able to defend the knowledge of the truth, and it felt so good. And of course, that was our last year in that school. KARLIE. That was the end. ANDREA. Yeah. So growing in Argentina, we belonged to a small, medium-sized ward, and that was a blessing for the youth in our ward, because we were usually called to help teach the Primary kids when we were very young. And that was my case, when I was around 14 years old. And then, as you were saying, as soon as I finished Young Women, I was called to be a ward Young Women president. So those experiences were a wonderful opportunity for me to grow, to be mentored by the members of my ward who knew me, who loved me, who knew my heart, my skills, the skills I didn't have, who were willing to nurture me and to help me in strengthening my faith in Jesus Christ. So I remember being in ward councils and being taught by my wonderful, and also very young, bishop, Bishop Torre. So it was a defining time for my testimony, and you know what, after 35 years, I'm still friends with one of my young women at the time, my beautiful friend Vera. SHALYN. That's so neat. ANDREA. Yeah. And you know, my mother still belongs to that ward. So when I go to Argentina, I always visit them and there are a few members from that time and, yeah, it's great to feel that love again. KARLIE. Such a great foundation. And I mean, I just think of... You were a very young member yourself when you're asked to turn around and teach © 2021 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the USA. English approval: 5/17. PD12345678 children and then be a mentor for other teenagers, other young women, and I just think there's so much that we can learn from that. Even from the opportunity that you had to defend your faith. I think if we can see these opportunities for growth as ways to solidify the testimony of young people, instead of like, I don't know if they can do that, I don't know if they have a testimony that they could defend, I don't know if they would be able to teach. Instead, like you said, you were nurtured and mentored and you were in such a loving environment where people, it sounds like, just took you under their wing and they saw this was the way for you to grow and develop your own testimony. ANDREA. Yeah, it was a great experience. SHALYN. Well, and I think there's a lot to be learned from your experience as such a young Young Women president. You really were their peer... Yeah, more of a peer, but I imagine you kind of learning together in that environment, and I just think anybody can learn from that.
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