Love This Temple! :)

Transfers are coming up on the 20th so I will know next Monday!haha But anyways we have had a very good week besides Elder Tapia getting sick yesterday so church was very short for us :( But we have been working and we have found quite a few people (all in the same complex) All of them speak spanish (and English) We were at the creekside apartments and we were visiting some of our investigators and their friend was visiting and we started talking about the church and at first it seemed like she was bashing with us, then we realized she really wanted to know. So we went through the restoration and the Book of Mormon, and even though we were focused on her I could see one the guys and his girlfriend that we are teaching and both of them were wide eyed and they had no doubts at all. We had the opportunity to give the less active mom a blessing and her son who is 22 (the wide eyed one) asked if we had the priesthood that Christ gave the Apostles and he thought it was so cool!!! And he had no doubt at all (as a missionary it is so hard not to breakout in excitement during a lesson haha). Lets see then we had a few opportunities to do service this week. We went with Leon Springs (they have George Strait and Tony Parker in their area :p) But anyways we helped one of their families do some cleaning on their land and had some awesome waffles for breakfast haha One of the young men in our ward left with his parents to go to Provo before he left on his mission to Argentina(he knows no spanish even though his mom and grandma are from Paraguay haha but he is so cool and his going to do great!!! This morning we had the amazing opportunity to go and clean inside the San Antonio Temple :) Amazing experince!!! Hope Y'all have a great week and I love Y'all!!!

Some Funnies from Elder Wanlass....

The 13 Articles of Faith of the Missionaries

1)     We believe in as many suits, white shirts, assortment of ties as possible and that Sisters

   should have as many outfits as necessary.

2)     We believe that a Missionary will be punished for their own sins as well as their

   companion’s transgressions.

3)     We believe that through little effort of their own all ELDERS will start to go bald and

   that all SISTERS will have bad hair days according to the laws and statutes of nature.

4)     We believe that the first counsels and advice of the mission are

               First: Faith in the nutrition of peanut butter

          Second:  Macaroni and Cheese

             Third:  Milk of Magnesia for the remission of errors

          Fourth:  the leaning on of members for the gift of free meals.

5)    We believe a Missionary must tract in rain, wind, and in other circumstances due to  

        the threats of those in authority to restrict our privileges and administer the punishments  

  thereof.

6)    We believe in the same organization that existed under the previous mission leadership;     

   namely the Mission President, Assistants to President, Office Elders, Zone Leaders,  

   District Leaders, Senior Companions and so forth.

7)     We believe in the gift of cakes, candies, cookies, donuts, letters from home,  

    Birthday and Christmas cards, money, etc.

8)     We believe the Mission President to be the head of the mission until he is translated  

    accordingly.  We also believe his Assistants to be his mouth pieces until then.

9)     We eat all food members have prepared, all they do now prepare, and we believe they will  

          yet prepare many great and inspiring meals according to the persuasions of the

          ELDERs/SISTERs. 

10)  We believe in the literal departure of ELDERs/SISTERs and in their tendencies to discuss

    things they are going to do once home; that Zion will be built upon this fact; and that we

    will not be trunky until dismissed and given honorable releases.

11)  We claim the privilege of writing letters home according to the dictates of our own   

    schedule, and allow all ELDERs/SISTERs the same privilege; let them write how, when,

    where, or to whom they may.

12)  We believe in not being subject to stop signs, yield signs, speed limits, nor common sense

          in smashing, crashing, and abusing mission cars or bicycles, or whatever the case may be.

13)  We believe in being good looking, full of food (and ourselves), CHASED, magnificent,

   flirtatious, and in saying “HI” to all members of either sex.  Indeed we may say that we  

   follow no admonition at all.  We question all things, we bother all things, we put

   off many things, and we hope to be able to put off all things.  If there is ANYONE

   virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy we seek after them immediately.

The work continues in Boerne, Texas!

Alright well it was different being out on a mission for super bowl sunday!!!!! haha But this week has been an amazing week full of the work of God!! We were knocking at an apartment complex by the river that runs through Boerne and we found all these people that are from guatamala and all of them are some how related and or are really good friends!! So now we have so many people to teach in those apartments, we just have to get a time when they are all there. one of them is 26 and plays soccer and was even offered a spot on the reserve team of the Huston Dynimo, but he was not able to and has to take care of his daughter and he is getting married soon. But he told us how he has seen the hand of God working wonders in his life and in his families life and he is super open and loves the missionaries and he such a cool guy!! We are also teaching his family, his mom happens to be a less active and remembers a lot!! But we shared The Restoration with them and the Book of Mormon and all of them asked for one!!! So we are super excited!!! We were knocking in the same complex a few days earlier and it was like 30 degrees!!ahhhh!! And one of our less actives called us telling us he had time to have us come over. So we went over and we talked about spiritual experinces we had. And some of the ones he shared were amazing and then he told us that he can feel that his time is coming to come back to church and it is soon. So we are so excited to seem at church!!!

This week we had some service for a member and we were replacing a whole floor(including the bases and all the support beams) and it was sweet to get dirty!!!! And the Elder quorum president; Brother Johnson had to go feed his bees so we had to tag along before going to change and it was sweet, they werent aggressive at all and we just stood there and watched( he put the suit on because he feels cool doing it haha ) Then yesterday we had Stake Conference and Elder Villareal spoke along with Sister Slaughter (my mom here on the mission haha) :) she is an incredible woman and i am super lucky to have her here in the mission the whole time I am here!! I love Y'ALL and i hope you have an amazing week!!!

Another great week in Boerne... say it like Bernie... :)

Hello everyone!!! Another amazing week has gone by!!  where to start??? well last week the library was closed so we went to a members home and emailed shortly so sorry for the lack of details and no pictures :( 

This week has been very interesting, We had extreme lows with the tempature and had a freeze warning and could not drive for a bit because the roads were iced over and no one here knows how to drive. There were quite a few accidents. 

This has been another hard week with trying to set appointments and when we go to the appointments no one is there. But Monday night we ran into a big group of spanish people in an apartment complex and we found nearly twenty or so people that we could teach. What is funny is that most we have knocked into and the ladies home that they go to is a less active who was baptized when she was 12 in Guatamala and she has two children, one we taught before without knowing she was a member. So it was awesome and we are hoping to get in today. I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Elder Hernandez this week and we had cool experiences with going to members gome and having lessons with them. 

We have some amazing members down here in Boerne  and a family brought two friends this sunday who are doing a multicultural project for school so we were able to talk to them and give them Book of Mormons and resources for them to look at and we are hoping that their interest will be spiked past the educational need and more to the siritual need :) 

I love Y'all and i hope you have an amazing week and keep sharing the light of Christ :)

Happy MLK day!

Okay so this week we had a really good week!! Last Monday we had a nice tour from a member in the fair oaks ward and they have a lot of cools things on their property and then we had exchanges on Tuesday and I had the opportunity to be with Elder Rodgers(cousin to sister Rodgers from my mtc district) and he was super cool!! He had served in this area about a year ago so he was super excited!!! Through out the week we had various activities and of Friday we had a Elders Quorum social and we had a non member there, we played board games and had wild meat (deer and stuff like that) and so it was really cool!!! Then on Saturday we did some service for some members in the Leon Springs  area and we did some farm and barn work, it was smelly haha. Yesterday we went and knocked Comfort for a little bit and found a few people that could have  a lot of potential so we are excited, then we had a little downer because we were dropped by one of our investigators. But we have a lot going on this week so we are really excited!!!! :) 

Elder Bednar visits TSAM!

Well this week was an incredible experience!!! On Friday we had the amazing opportunity to hear in person from Elder Bednar :) After wards it felt like that one commercial where the guys it talking to the kids and they are like "what about infinity times infinity" and the guy does a head explosion. Yup, that is what happened spiritually all night for 3 hours :) haha I can not tell y'all a whole lot because he said he would find us and do bad things to us haha.  He is actually a very funny man and made it a great learning environment!! He is kind of short also haha it suprised me when he first walked in. But anyways it was a once in a life time opportunity, even though I did not get to shake his hand. But the focus was on faith and a few weeks prior we were given 3 talks that he had given, all of them were based on learning by faith and acting by faith.

Also this week I had the opportunity to give a talk about The Restoration of the Gospel in sacrament meeting. I feel like it went okay haha :) I was able to incorporate certain points that Elder Bednar spoke about. We found a few new investigators this week through good old knocking on doors!!! One of our investigators is going to be baptized on the 1st of February as along as we can keep teaching her and she comes to church. But she had a really hard week this week and had quite a few miracles happen to her. One was she was not able to pay the phone bill and was going to have no way to talk to anyone, but it never shut off so someone paid her bill. Just a lot of things have happened to her and her husband recently and being 19 with 2 kids.. she has really recognized that this is a trial from God testing her faith.     

Our district having a goodbye lunch for Sister Feist (The short blond sister haha) with our super hero capes that Elder Tapia made

While we were out knocking doors

At a members house, same breed and color as Max!

Staying in Boerne for another six weeks!

Well this week has been interesting with New Years going on and such! We received transfer calls last night and me and Elder Tapia are staying in Boerne!! As well as Elder Knudson and Elder Hernandez, so this transfer will be so much fun!!!! :) 

We have a lot of potential  here in this area, if we can get past Word of Wisdom issues we would be good!! But there is opposition in all things, So we have a bunch of ideas to find people! We wanted to start an activity night every week and we wanted to do soccer. We talked to a lot of people and they said they would love that and they would invite their friends and come!! So our ward mission leader said he would build some goals and we will get that started!! So we are super excited for that!! Also we talked about having a multicultural event and having booths for individuals and families to share their heritage. This would help the ward unity and be a great way to invite people! Our ward has everything from all over Europe to several different countries in central America.

 A fun little thing that my companion is doing is making capes with our super hero names on them. And so my MTC nick name came back haha we honestly have such a cool district!!! On Saturday the sisters had a baptism of a young man who is 17. We is truly an elect young man. We have become very good friends with him and he says we are like family and he really wants to serve a mission! He has such a strong testimony of the Gospel, Just like him I know this church is true with all my heart. I would never leave this church for anything. Jesus is our Savior and Redeemer and God is our literal Father in Heaven who loves us and knows us. Have a safe and an amazing week!! LOVE Y'ALL!!!!!