Christmas Report

Hola a todos!!! Christmas was an amazing day!!! Christmas Eve a family invited us over to do some of the family festivities that they do. First we did a little skit (without acting it out) about the Christmas stories in the Book of Mormon and in the Bible, then one of the son-in laws read the Christmas story in Krio ( mixture of English, french and some African dialects) it was so weird because you can actually understand it!! but it was so hard reading it. Then we did a christmas gift exchange where we read the "Night before Christmas" and whenever we hear the words "the" or "night" we were to pass the gifts.

Christmas day we went to a members home for breakfast. Their sons birthday was that day so they had pancakes, bacon, sausage, tamales, eggs and the whole 10 yards ( the phrase 9 yards does not make sense to me because 9 is not a full 10) Anyways later we were able to skype home and that was amazing!!! What made it even better was getting to see 4 grandparents, 2 cousins, and 1 uncle as well :) we then had 2 dinners to end the day. When we could we would walk around and if people were outside we would wish them a merry Christmas and give them a "He is the Gift" card.

 Friday we had two lessons. One was with JR and his family (parents are members and he is not) we went over the Priesthood and Missionary work with him.Then we stopped by another LA/PM family and shared the Christmas video with them ad they really enjoyed it. Last night we taught Paris and she is just waiting to get paperwork from Salt Lake. We taught about Agency and Accountability and we asked her mom (whose is a short, old Hispanic lady with a testimony like diamond because it is so pure and nobody could ever break it) She told us that she has been praying for the chance for her daughter to come back to the church and she is so grateful!! I love Sis. Barton! She treats us like her grand kids it is so funny.

well 2014 has been exciting and I am now reaching the end of my dark year and I will be home this next year.

Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, He loves every single one of us and I know he lives!!!

I love you all!!! 

TSAM Christmas Conference

Hola a todos!!! This week has been pretty amazing!!! We had our Texas San Antonio Mission Christmas Conference( I will not be there for next years...) The food was great!! An amazing talent show with some great training as well. First a funny story. We were at the Lozano's home for dinner and I was saying the prayer. Her 4 year old is distracting her and so I say "we thank thee for Jesus Christ" and she just says "amen!!", almost like you would imagine in a southern baptist church haha and all of us just start laughing, it took a second for me to compose myself to finish the prayer :)

On the spiritual side we found a new investigator last night while walking around. He invited us into his home and some of his family was there, they were not interested in listening at the moment but he did. We shared the Restoration with him and Elder Grosh asks him " Do you believe that what we are saying is true?" and he says " Yes I do." which led to a baptismal invite and him saying that he just does not believe in organized religion. But he wants us to stop by again on Friday and talk to him :) I really am looking forward to this week and the miracles that it will bring :) I know Christ lives and that he is our Lord and King, He is the Son of God. I love you all and espero que tengan una Navidad buena con sus familias!! Hasta luego!!

New Companion!

So my new companion is Elder Grosh, he is from Danville, California and is a convert to the church. We found out that he has already finished training.... so we do not know what happened there haha either way it has been interesting adjusting but all is well :) This past week we have been working really hard on sharing that Christ is the gift and on doing that in different ways. Something that I  have just realized is that the normal routines of Christmas can help us discover Christ. You have a present under the tree, and you have no idea what it is but you open it and you now know what you have been given. But do you know how to use it? It comes with instructions and you spend time with it to better understand it.

Christ is a gift that we take for granted so much. We are told of him and what he did for us. Do we really know him though? Do we really know how to use him? That is what the scriptures are for, pray, fasting, church. We open the scriptures and read about him and he was like. Now we need to embrace him.

" For God so loved the world, that he gave His only Begotten son. That whosoever should believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" ( John 3:16). We know the destination. Eternal Life. How do we get help? Through His only Begotten Son. How do we get that help? By BELIEVING in him. Believing is having faith and faith is acting. Discover the Gift. Embrace the Gift and Share the Gift.

 This week 2 complete strangers have let us in and talk to them. One was a Jehovah's Witness and the other was christian. We were able to share the Restoration and the He is the Gift video with him, and only the video with the other. As well this week i met the 1st person who has seen the video without us having to show him. That was cool :) I love y'all and espero que tengan una buena semana y Feliz Navidad !!!!!

Transfer news....

So for this upcoming transfer Elder Gray will be leaving and I will stay...and I will be finishing the training of a missionary! This will be an interesting transfer! haha it will be fun.

So this week week our stake( San Antonio West stake) held a huge event called "The Messiah" based off of Handel's Messiah production. It was fantastic!!! :) We were able to get an investigator there as well and she use to do choir and she loved it!! It was great!! A lady in our ward was directing all of it and she did amazing. Yesterday we had a lesson with one of the member's daughters and went over Alma 34 and the Atonement.

This week has been awesome with the "He is the Gift" initiative that is happening. It is going all over Facebook thanks to members and yesterday the church bought out the main ad for the video. So i hope it was viewed a lot! :)

i love you all and I hope that this week is amazing!!! Adios!!!

Domino's Delivery, Anyone???

I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!! I know I did!! This week we had a great Zone meeting with out quarterly President interviews. We went over a lot about being God's missionaries and being consecrated to the Lord. As well we went over this new video that the church has put out called the "He is the Gift" Initiative. It is a really powerful video about the first gift of Christmas, who is Christ, the Son of God. Go to   http://www.mormon.org/christmas to see the video and website that the Church has put out. we have been able to share this video with a few of our members is the ward and they have all enjoyed it :)

Thanksgiving day we went over to our ward mission leader's home and had dinner with his family. We ate so much. Later we went to our Elder Quorum president's home and did the same. This week we were able to visit with a less active/part member family and have dinner with them.

Interesting stories this week. All time low here. Normally we get asked if we work at the store and stuff like that, but the day before Thanksgiving we were going to a dinner, walking, and a guy pulls up in his car and asks us if we are from Domino's..... all time low. Two guys in white shirts and ties and he thinks we are from Domino's. Second we get to the dinner and we find out that the family and been married in Montana..without being in Montana, marriage by proxy. Then we got to an investigators home and find out she has gone to the hospital for some serious health issues. To finish of the night the Elders quorum president smashes his finger with the lid of his truck. Great way to lead up to Thanksgiving! :) I love y'all and i hope you discover, embrace and share the Gift this Christmas and for the rest of your lives!