Sister Andrea Muñoz Spannaus

Second Counselor in the Young Women General Presidency

As children living in Argentina, Andrea Veronica Muñoz and her older sister attended a Catholic school. They had never been exposed to other religious teachings until Andrea was nine years old. That’s when Latter-day Saint missionaries began teaching her family about the restored gospel.

Soon after the missionaries finished their lesson and left, Andrea’s mother explained that there was more than just one religion. Andrea asked her mother what church she thought best represented God. Her mother replied, “I think it is this one”—The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, about which the missionaries had just taught them.

All her life, Andrea had always “wanted to please God,” so she worried about embracing a new faith. The feeling lasted only a few minutes, however, and was replaced by a desire to learn more about the Church.

The family was baptized, “and we started a new life,” Sister Spannaus said. “It was really wonderful the way our family life changed for all of us.”

Andrea Veronica Muñoz Spannaus was born on May 18, 1968, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Carlos Alberto Muñoz and Elida Menicucci. She grew up in Béccar, Argentina. She married Alin Spannaus in the Buenos Aires Argentina Temple in October 1992. They are the parents of two daughters.

Sister Spannaus earned a degree in early childhood education, and she studied art and interior design. She is currently serving on the Relief Society general advisory council. Previously, she served on the South America South Area For the Strength of Youth Conference Committee, on the FSY Utah Latino Conference Committee, and with her husband as a leader of the Mexico Cuernavaca Mission.

She also served as a ward Relief Society, Young Women, and Primary president, early-morning seminary teacher, young single adult Spanish-speaking ward adviser, and missionary in the Argentina Resistencia Mission.