Half Way, Hump Day!

This week on Wednesday is my official half way point  on mission, HUMP DAYYYY!!

In New Braunfels we have done a bit of knocking and finding and are still trying to dfind people to teach. We have stopped by so many less actives in hopes of catching them at home or even getting in the door. But we have had a few less actives come this Sunday which was an awesome experience!! Elder Mclean is awesome!! Not only does he love Pysch, he is just an awesome missionary with a great drive to work hard.

(Christy here.... an ensuing email convo about his "actual" hump day left some confusion about when his hump day actually is... here in Chandler, we are celebrating on September 3rd, which was the day he flew to the CCM.  If he comes home a little bit sooner than that, we'll be super excited!)

An AWESOME week!

Another week here in New Braunfels!!! 
Really quick I messed up on my address. 
It is 1231 Huisache Ave. #710 New Braunfels, Tx 78130.

So this week has been an awesome week!! We have a family of 3 that want to be baptized! We had our first lesson with them last night and taught the Restoration to them and they loved it! Through the whole lesson they were all paying attention and listening and the Spirit was so strong in testifying to them. By the end both boys (they are 10 and 11) said they wanted to be baptized :) Then as well we had dinner last night with the Peterson family and they had a man over named David Smith who has been meeting with other missionaries off and on for a very long time. He is an awesome guy and is doing some deep investigating (makes sense since he served in the army and is a cop very close to to my last area, and you have to be tough around there) So after dinner we read the Book of Mormon and what was cool is that he even has his own Quad with his name on it that he bought! MIND BLOWING! We read 3 Nephi 16 and 17 with him and asked some really interesting questions that no one ever asks. And he understood it all, even in 16 when they are talking about the scattering of the tribes and the other "sheep" that Christ must go visit, He is a really smart man. And he shared a story that while he was over seas he ran to military camps, one had a chapel and the other did not. The one he stayed on did not have one so he decided to build one. And the only 2 LDS servicemen on the camp help set it up in 6 days and on the 7th day (Sunday) they rested and had service. And then a President of the Seventy who was a retired 4 star General visited and had heard about the Chapel and so he got to meet him. He is truly elect!!!

Hard part about the area is that there is the famous Guadalupe River which is a big tourist attraction and as well as the world famous Schlitterbahn resort and water park. Ugh it is so hard haha I love y'all!1 The church is true and I see the blessing every day!!

New Area, New Comp, New Adventure!

Well my new companion; Elder Mclean, and I got doubled into a new ward and area called New Braunfels 2nd!! It is crazy!!! this ward and the 1st ward were created by 2 other wards, all they did was change boundaries. But we came in having no ward roster and no investigators. And neither of us had a GPS. So a trip to radio shack and 135 dollars later we were rolling. New Braunfels is not what I thought it would be. I went from being in the ghetto with seeing mexicans at HEB to white people and nice houses.  

 #nowsociallyawkwardwithwhitepeople
 #spanishspeakerproblems. 

Elder Mclean is super cool! He is a really happy Elder from Sandy, Utah and has been out about 4 months longer than me. And he has a dairy allergy so I already know about that.  ;-)

Our new address is:
1231 Huisache #710 
New Braunfels, Tx 78130

Last night with Elder Johnson in the "hood"

New area

Elder McLean and I

We are super excited and this will be an adventure!!1 Love y'all and have a great week!!!

A transfer is coming...

Well I am going to be transferred this Thursday!!! Kind of sad :( we have some really cool investigators here. 

So news for the week, This upcoming transfer youth from our stake are going to be doing one week "mini missions" and be put all over the mission. That will be interesting haha as well this week we have had some interesting experiences. On Tuesday we had to drive some other Elders to drop off their damaged car up in Selma. Then because they did not have a car we had to take one to urgent care because he drank 4 gallons of water and went pee a lot and was really cold to the touch. So we spent 4 hours there and were there long enough to watch a couple hours of TV, and the doctors never found out what was wrong.

 Otherwise there has not been a whole lot of activity this week.