Andrea Munoz Spannaus
Andrea Muñoz Spannaus was sustained as the Second Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency on April 1, 2023, effective August 1, 2023. She had been serving on the Relief Society advisory council at the time of her call.
Sister Spannaus was born on May 18, 1968, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and served in the Argentina Resistencia Mission.
She was 9 years old when Latter-day Saint missionaries began teaching her family about the restored gospel. She and her older sister attended a Catholic school and had never been exposed to other religious teachings.
- Soon after the missionaries finished their lesson and left, her mother explained that there was more than just one religion.
- “I remember exactly the moment. We were in the kitchen. We were standing,” she said.
- She asked her mother what church she thought represents God. Her mother replied, “I think it is this one” — the church the missionaries were teaching them about, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. . . . The family was baptized, “and we started a new life,” she said. “It was really wonderful the way that our family life changed all of us.”[1]
She earned a bachelor’s degree in early childhood education and also studied art and interior design.
She has been an adviser in a young single adult Spanish-speaking ward, an early morning seminary teacher, on the FSY Utah Latino Conference Committee, and a member of the South America South Area committee to organize For the Strength of Youth conferences. She served as mission leader with her husband, Alin, in the Mexico Cuernavaca Mission (2009–2012). They are parents of two daughters and live in North Salt Lake.
