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.

Divine Intervention

So this week on "The Mission":

We had an amazing week!! To start off we had a lesson and dinner with a less active-part member and we talked about the commandments and they loved it. And then we showed them the Bible videos on Mormon Channel. The next day I realize that my flash drive was not in my pocket. I had felt it in my pocket at the lesson the day before but I never took it out. So went through most of the day and then we went back to their house to see how they were doing (and as well I wanted to see if it was there :\ ). So we show up and We look under the cushions and they started telling us that they are getting a divorce. so that was bad :( Then I see my flash drive sticking out of their Book of Mormon. And when I had asked them they had no idea what I was talking about. And I knew I never took it out of my pocket. So we start to help the husband move all of his stuff and some of his family show up to help. And the less active member told us not to leave because they wanted to hurt her....so if we had not been there who knows what would have happened. Divine intervention??? And the less active came to church on Sunday and she was super happy!! :) 

This week we are starting to teach a new family, Joseph and Nakita and their 4 sons. They are so cool!! They both want to get baptized, they just have to get married and they already want that. So it will be great. One of our potential investigators went in to have induced labor and she asked us to come to the hospital this morning and say a prayer with her. So we went to the Santa Rosa Hospital and did that for her, and we talked to an Irish Nun that worked there haha.

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

Aliens have come to the West Side, LOL.

Oreos after a long day of work

More Changes...

So this was an interesting week!!! Our ward boundaries were changed, and the area we lost has most of our investigators...... :( But we did teach them! We had a great lesson with some of our investigators together, because they all had word of wisdom problems. The one who had been smoking week stopped, then went back to it after a week. The other one drinks and wants to stop but has no confidence. 

 We have 4 new people we are teaching and they are really cool!!!  

Not a whole lot this week. Oh we had a Pioneer day party and had 2 tours of the building!! It was sweet!!!

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!!!