Everything is AWESOME!

Alright this week has been awesome!!!! This week we had a zone conference and we talked about the gathering and scattering of Israel and we got really in depth about it. and It all led back to me thinking about our TSAM purpose statement:

"I have been called of Jesus Christ through inspiration, to serve in the Texas San Anotion Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I will bodly invite others to come unto Christ, by helping them recieve the restored gospel, through faith in Jesus Christ and his atonement,repentance,baptism,recieving the gift of the Holy Ghost and enduring to the end. I will stand for truth and return with honor. Behold, I am disciple of Jesus Christ the Son of God. I have been called of him to declare his word among his people, they they might have everlasting life. He aqui, soy discuplo de Jesucristo, El hijo de Dios. He sido llamado por El, para declarar su palabra, entre los de su pueblo. El fin de que alcancen la vida eterna. Every Sister, every Elder, every month." 

So this really has impacted me this week and how I have worked. and It has been awesome!!! We started the non smoking program with our investigator last Monday and he has not smoked since then and he says he feels so good!!! He is doing awesome!!!! We have a few other investigators who are kind of progressing as well and so our main goal is to get them towards baptism and get that desire.

This week I saw a bit of the germany and Brazil game when we stopped at a less active part member's. Man germany destroyed. Anyways I hope you have a great week and I love all of you!!!

Happy 4th of July!

What a great week we had with 4th of July this week!!!! 'Merica! Anyways this week we found a really cool family where the wife is less active and the husband is a non-member and they had us over for dinner so that we could talk to the husband about the church. We shared the Restoration with him and he was so excited about it all and when we got to the Book of Mormon he thought it was so cool!! The wife's mom is not a member and she started to get a little defensive about it (she had been out of the room for it) and was wondering why we did not read from the Bible. The wife got really into it and started sharing her testimony of it and then the husband even read a little to her and that kind of calmed her down haha. As well we were able to visit one of our investigators who is trying to stop smoking and he read chapter 4 of 1 Nephi and thought it was really interesting and he wants us to help him stop smoking weed so we are going to start that with him!!!

This week I got to go on an exchange with Elder Watts and we had a great morning work out of playing soccer on a really really nice high school field at 6:30 in the morning and it felt so good!!!

New Comps and the Zoo

So this week has been an exciting week!!! Last Monday we went to the San Antonio Zoo and had a blast!! Not as good as the Pheonix Zoo of the San Diego, but it was good!! Elder Campbell is now gone and enjoying the life of a normal RM. And because of that we ha a lot of weird things happen. One was we had to help another area because a missionary went home as well and we had to adopt that missionary comp in for 2 days. The next day we had to go to Stone Oak for a DL meeting for Elder Gonzalez and it was pouring!!! It felt like I was driving through Niagra Falls!! We then got back and heard that we had another Elder with us as well. So I was with two english speaking Elders and Elder Gonzalez was with Elder Warren. On Thursday we had Transfers and Elder Warren and I had to wait till 5pm to get our compaions from Austin and so we tagged along with the North Zone leaders and had a blast. Saw some of the World Cup when the U.S. was playing Germany. 

My new companion just came from Round Rock, Elder Johnson and he is super chill and half Mexican haha we have had so much fun since he got here. He thinks it is so cool that we have such a ghetto area :) 

We had a few lessons with some of the people we have been teaching and we are trying so hard to get them progressing even farther. some jsut need to come to church or get over surgery!!We are making a game plan and then go forward in faith and work hard! I love you all!!!

Transfer News!

Well I have news for transfers!! Elder Gonzalez is leaving and going District leader and I am staying and getting a new companion.

Well this week has been really interesting!!! We got to teach a less active family who referred themselves to the missionaries. The catch. The parents are deaf and the son had to translate. It was so cool learning a few new words in sign language!!! During this week as well we happened to drop by on a few families who were watching the world cup.We did not get in haha but I did see a glimpse of Mexico giving Brazil a challenging game haha.

This week I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Elder Jackson; one of the President's assistants and it was really cool! They had been looking for new people to teach and so we were stopping by someone who they were teaching, but no  one answered. So we stopped by a random door. A lady answered and we told her what we did and what we shared and she wanted us to stop by again and she had been looking for a church to get baptized and so we found them :)

Soldiers for Christ

Well to start out and get it out of the way, the Spurs won!!! When all the cars started honking and fireworks and cars driving to down town started happening it got crazy!!!

Anyways this week we were able to talk to a lot of people and share the Restoration with them!!! There were a lot of open hearts this week and so we are really excited!! This upcoming Sunday is transfer calls and next Thursday is Transfers so we shall see what happens this upcoming week! Otherwise there has not been a whole lot this week besides working hard and trying to get people progressing. That has been one of the challenges for this week. 

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

Meet our new friend, Rocky....

I have heard so much about all the Spiritual events going on at home. Camp, Mission calls and so on. It is truly incredible with what is happening in the world!!! Congrats to you all!!!

So this week we had a really good week!! We stopped by the man we have been teaching and his brother happened to be there as well! And so we taught both of them, and both of them were so sincere!! And it is crazy!! His brother was wearing a white tank top and he had tattoos and looked like some from Fast and Furious. But they had a true desire to listen and try to figure out for them selves!! It was so cool!! 

As well we were given an amazing referral this past week (and it was from Boerne!) This man has a heart of gold!!! He knows a few members who just moved up to Boerne and so he was curious about the church. We have not been able to meet with him all week till yesterday when he came to Stake Conference with this family!!!! He loved it and later that day we had a lesson with him and he really wants to know for himself! There were so many things that he noticed during the talks that he brought up during the lesson and it shocked me that he absorbed so much!

So bringing up Stake Conference, at the adult session we had a really cool experience! President Slaughter gave an awesome presentation about member missionaries and all they have to do is say a simple sentence. " Would you be WILLING to listen to a BRIEF message about(any topic)" The main words are the ones in all caps. He made it really exciting because then all 20 missionaries got up and went around the Chapel and helped them practice saying the sentence. Everyone really enjoyed it!!! What was funny is that he said if they say no, just say "okay well the invite is always there. So how about them Spurs?" haha it was really relaxed and so we are excited to see the members apply that!!!

P.S. we had another dog follow us. his name is Rocky :)

It's all about the Spurs...

Well this week has been interesting!!!! First off the excitement of the Spurs going to the Finals, All saturday night we could hear car horns, yelling and I think a few gunshots as well haha it is hard not to get caught up in the excitement while being in San Antonio. The only thing is that people do not want to talk to us as much because they are busy haha.

Anyways this week I got to go on exchanges with Elder Prince this past week. So I went to the South part of our ward (there are 2 sets of missionaries covering the ward) and I got to ride bikes around. We rode like 20 miles haha but we had a few really good lessons with some of their investigators. One is from Africa and speaks english and french and so we talked to him about baptism and its importance. But he did not understand the divinity of Christ and he does not want to change religions (Islamic).

In our area we met this really cool family and The Husband really wants to learn, but he is trying to stop smoking weed. But he has that desire to try and Him and his family came to church on Sunday and really enjoyed it!!