Not a transfer, but a new Address!

Well another week has come and gone here in Braun Heights. This week we moved apartments. It is the same complex 8711 Bowens crossing, but now it is 13306. 

8711 Bowens crossing #13306, San Antonio, TX 78250. 

We now live with 2 other Elders in the Wildhorse ward, fun stuff!!!

This week has been freezing and we have been walking everywhere. It helps members give us rides because only a few of them have trucks. Moving took up most of the week. We had some really good lessons with some converts on sacrifice and prayer. We went over the story of King Lamoni's father and the steps of prayer and sacrifice that was needed. The following lesson was with a less active part member family. Two of the girls are non-members and we went over the same lesson. It has a bigger impact on her because of her child. We asked her about baptism and she says she knows what it can do for her, but she does not believe in the church 100%. Her parents are having a big influence on her, but it is her decision. otherwise we have been walking. The Lord has blessed us and it is amazing how small and simple those blessings are. I love y'all and hope this week is great! :)

Adventures in Primary

Well this week has been pretty slow, did not do a whole lot on my birthday. We knocked, then had a dinner with a member and then went to a less active's home and let our EQP talk to him. He flat out told us that he has no testimony but that he believes the church is the best thing on the earth. The only other lesson that we had was with the guy who is on parole. He says he will be getting his ankle tracker off in January so we are looking forward to that. We taught him about sacrifice and praying and tied the two together and the spirit was really strong. on Sunday Elder Gray and I taught the CTR 4 class during the third hour of church, all the women were having a visiting teaching conference. So all the guys filled in That was an interesting class haha there was one boy asking all of the 3 girls in the class to go on dates with him. We did not know how to deal with that. i have respect for the primary workers haha. The last few weeks have been really humbling for me in learning to rely on the Lord and knowing that he has a purpose in what he does. But faith is the key, followed by your actions. I love y'all and hope you have a great week!! 

Birthday Week!

Thank you for the Birthday wishes!!! :) I look forward to serving The Lord on my birthday :)

This week was not to eventful. We did a lot of bike riding this week and some knocking. This is the most I have knocked on my mission. Either way we were able to teach a ex-communicated member last night about fasting and the power behind it. Our goal was to get her to fast so that she could quit smoking and she understands how it can help. Her 12 year old son told her that every fasting prayer he offers he mentions his mom and he prays that she will be baptized again. I love that kid!!!

As well one of the recent convert who is coming up on his year mark finally decided to get the Priesthood! After much fellow shipping and some lessons about how now that he is a member it is his responsibility to get the Priesthood. So he finally did it! Halloween we had to go in early at around 6 and so I read for most of the time.  Hopefully this upcoming week will be a lot more eventful :) I love y'all and hope you have a great week!!!

Transfer Week is here again....

Well the news for transfers is that both Elder Gray and I will be staying here in Braun Heights for another 6 weeks! I am super excited to not be moved to another area! This past week has been full of exciting events. First off we had Elder Hamula come and speak to us ( I got to shake his hand!) we were able to hear from his wife as well about a servey we took and she told us what we could improve on (in a loving way of course) Elder Hamula spoke on revelation and how we receive it. The first thing we have to do: is ASK. That is it. if we do that then we are on the right path to recognize it.

We had out trunk or treat this last Saturday and that was a lot of fun! We had a lot of people who we have not seen in a while. Many less actives and one girl (she is basically a member) and her family came to the party and they all seemed to enjoy it. The girl has been to church for several months and has a testimony already, but her parents will not allow it yet. So we have not even met with her :( But on the other hand we did receive permission to teach two girls whose parents are returning less actives, so all we have to do is ask the girls. One goes to mutual every week and attends church when she can. The other is 16 with a child and comes to church when she can. We know that both are ready so we just need to ask.

Kind of a mind twirling experience on Sunday, we have an Elders Quorum President who is amazing and comes out with us whenever we can and actually builds relationships and follows up with people. It is really hard seeing him really doing everything. And so I realized what I was like before the mission, and what I want to be like after the mission. I had a lot to think about last night. 

I love you all and I hope this is a great week!!!:) Adios!!!

The Work Continues On....

Well there is not a whole lot for this past week. We have been working fairly close with some of the less active/part member families and we are going to start pushing on some of them. One of them consists of the parents and 4 kids, the 2 oldest are out of house. But the youngest 2 are still at home. One of them has a baby (out of wedlock) and is 16 and the other is 13. and the 13 year old attends church and mutual whenever she can and we think that they are ready to take the lessons and so we are going to push for them to take the lessons. Another lesson we had this week was with JR and his parents (active members) He is waiting to get off parole and wants to come to church. We are going to try to get him to the meeting with Elder Hamula this Thursday when there is a general meeting. This week we went over the 13 Articles of faith with him, we have gone over so much with him because he has been on parole for a few months and so we are running out of things to teach about.

We were able to help at mutual this week(last minute) and Elder Grey  was Mormon and we took the youth around to different activities for standards night and "dressed them up in Armour and stuff and then got to shoot them with nerf guns as they did a little obstacle course using what they had been given haha. On Sunday we had many less active families in attendance)primary program may have been involved with that) but one of the families we are working with went to Temple prep class and so we are helping through that. There will be more for next weeks email. I love y'all and hope this week is great!!!

Did you see "Meet the Mormons"?

Well this week was a milestone for Mormons around the world with the "Meet the Mormons" movie (which our mission saw like 2 weeks ago!) We thought it was a great movie and in a lot of creative ways it can be used to show people who we are.

Some of the exciting things that happened this week. We received some contact information from one of my first companions; Elder Lundstrum, for a lady and her family in our ward boundaries. This lady's brother had just joined the church and she said he is in love with the church. And so she wanted us to stop by. We brought our Elders Quorum President along as well( he goes out with us a few times a week) and things were a lot different then we had thought. As soon as she opens the door we see her 11 year old autistic son come running toward the door ( he does not even look like he is autistic) and tries to get out side. And so his mom grabs him and he starts kicking and screaming and Elder Gray and I can not do a whole lot and so our EQP steps in to help out and he ended up having to help pull him in and sit him down and then the 11 year old started pulling on his mom's hair... and Travis(EQP) got some deep cuts in his hand from the kid and his fingers. And so he eventually calmed down and left the room and we talked to his mom and Gave both of them a blessing and Travis has connections and told her that he would find some help for her.

Our other investigator came to church and brought his two sons with him. things have been really hard for him and he acts like it is nothing (we do not know if it is faith or a self image thing) and so we stop by once a week. Other wise the work is going and our mission awaits Elder Hamula (spoke in Conference) he will be visiting in the following weeks. I love y'all and I hope this week is amazing!!!   

Conferencia General!!!

What a great week of hearing from our Prophet and other leaders :)There were a lot of great talks given and many perspectives, such as what way do I face and am I on the ship Zion? Great principles to think about. This week was very interesting. We have had a few lessons that were very interesting. One of our investigators who is in his 30's gets super off topic and has very obscured ideas when it comes to the scriptures. Somehow he got onto the topic of his friend who was in "area 51" and told him that if people knew what they knew everything would change. Right.....  teaching him is very difficult. We got to do service this week for a man and mowed his lawn and moved branches. What was bad is he has a man cave, and even though he knows our rules he wanted us to take breaks and watch SC and eat wings and fries.. man that was bad. Not a whole lot for the week, but I love y'all and God bless!