Happy Pascua!

Happy Pascua!!! This last week has been everywhere! To start off Oscar Cruz Jr. was baptized on Saturday, but it was crazy! We got to the church at around 2pm or so to start setting up and filling the font so that it could start at 3pm. At 2:30 our investigator Norma shows up so that we could give her a tour of the church. Admits all of this it is about 10 minutes till and people are showing up and the Cruz family still has not arrived. Long story short we had about 70 or so people (mostly family)

come and the baptism did not start till almost 4pm. But it happened. His uncle baptized him and confirmed him and gave him the priesthood on Sunday. Now we just need to help his dad!

So the subject of this email came from a guy we talked to this week. He sounded atheist, and he could not grasp the concept of spiritual promptings. Basically that conversation ended up being pointless haha.

 http://www.mormon.org/easter?cid=HP_FR_3-27-2015_dMIS_fMRMN_xLIDyL1-A_

So this video is amazing and I would encourage y'all to find someone to share it with!

http://www.mormon.org/spa/pascua

Here it is in spanish as well :) 

Sé que Él vive. Él se levantó y ha resucitado

Gracias a que Él vive!!!

Mucho Exito!

Hola a todos!! I hope this week has been awesome!! It has been for me!! We had a lot of lessons this week with much éxito! Hno. Z (the one who is trying to stop smoking) has been doing well. He is going to be working and so that will help him to keep his mind off of it. As well we had a zone meeting this week and that was a lot of fun! As well we had a lesson with a lady named N who is very excited to learn more. Everything is making sense and we talked to her a few days later and she told us that she has really enjoyed what she has been reading :) 

O was at church this week and is going to be baptized this Saturday. We went over the Baptismal questions with him and he understands them all so he is ready! This week we are excited to make progress with many people! :)

Love My New Area

So this last week has been really busy. We taught about 11 other lessons this week (helps to have 3 ;) One that we taught was with a senior in high school named J. We really touched on gaining a testimony and recognizing answers for the spirit. He told us that he believes that is all true. So we took a quote from another missionary and told him that it all depends on you. " What's it gonna take?" he understood it very well and understands what he needs to do.

We had a lesson with this lady named S and her two kids and it went very well. She told us that she sees that there is false doctrine being taught and that she has been searching and so we are very excited to work with her.

As well we met with O who is set to be baptized on the 28th of this month. He is very mature and understands what he is going to do. 

We are helping a member to quit smoking and so that is going well so far. Very nice man and so it is fun teaching him :)

Oh details on the branch. We start church at 8:30 in the morning. Sometimes 8:40 because people do not get there on time. Very nice people though! But we have a huge area!!

I hope y'all have a great week! 

Highland Hills Spanish Branch

Bienvenidos a Highland Hills!!! I am now in a spanish área that covers all of the east side of San Antonio! And my companions are Elder Christensen (The same one that I was in the CCM with) who is from Delta, Utah And Elder McQuinn from Palo Alto, California. I am so excited for this upcoming transfer. We have so much área to cover it is crazy! Right now there is a baptism planned for the 28th of this month for a boy named O. He is 12 years old and his mom is a member. We taught him yesterday and then the day I got here we taught HA from Honduras and went over the need for baptism. We have met with a few others since then and I am still trying to get all the names down haha It is really weird to be in a branch that is really small. I will have more details next week! Hasta luego! 

I am sorry but the computer will not let me upload pictures :(

My new address is: 

3903 SE Military Dr. #5305

San Antonio, Texas 78223

Transfer News!

Drum roll please!......... Elder Grosh will be staying and I will be leaving and I am being put in a trio! So I will know where I am going on Thursday. I really do not know how I feel. I have come to love the people here and so much work has been done. But I know that I have grown because I get frustrated with people we are teaching when they do not keep their commitments( and from the amount of stress I can tell that it, is because I love them)

This week we had a few good lessons. We met with the V again and finished the Plan of Salvation with TA. It went very well and they are doing great!

We have a new investigator; M, he has a friend that lives in St. Luis that has been working on him for a while and he has come to church a few time and we had a lesson with him in Saturday with our ward mission leader. He already knows so much about the church and so it will be very exciting to see what happens with him!

I have truly enjoyed my mission, I love it!! I know that God lives and that he truly loves us. He sent His son; Jesus Christ, to atone for our sins.

I love you all and I hope you have a great week!

This was inside the scorpion lollipops mom sent us!

I like red meat... if it's cooked right!

Found this lying around in an abandoned lot while we were doing service