Transfer news....

So the news for this upcoming transfer is..... Elder Christensen and I are staying here in Highland Hills and Elder McQuinn will be leaving :( We are sad to see him go this Thursday but we know that he will continue to do amazing work! So after more than a year and a half I am finally explaining transfers in case I have not already. So Sunday night we get called by either President Slaughter or the Assistants and they tell us whether we are staying or leaving. That Thursday we meet at the North Stake center to have transfer meeting. This is where we meet all the incoming missionaries and then they have call outs. They announce the area, who is already there and who is coming in if anyone. Then there is another meeting up in Austin. So there you go haha other minor details are that we will not receive another companion and we do live by our selves. and we cover the whole East Stake for the Spanish Branch. Which by the way all three of us gave talks yesterday in Spanish so that was interesting haha!

This week was interesting. We had stopped by a part member home and were speaking with the non-member husband and he received a call from his daughter. he told her that we were with him and he handed the phone to Elder Christensen and she got around to telling him that she wanted to be baptized. Miracles do happen. We met with her that night and she told us everything that was going on and that she had been thinking abut this for about 2 months now. She had spoken with her mom (member) about it and finally made the choice. Things have been going back and forth now but there is still hope!!

N is still doing really well. She has been reading and loving everything! We are meeting with her tomorrow.

Fun thing for the week. One of the guys that we are working with; J. He makes tacos for a bunch of people on Fridays and we get them for free. I think his little set up his hilarious because it is so...mexican... haha he cook his tortillas in lard on a stove and has a seperate cooker for the meat. Which he then cuts with a huge knife on a slab of wood (like a slab that was just cut from a tree) and then he has all the salsas and condiments. The meat was sooo good!

Another funny thing is we have a Part-member family and the little girl in the family speaks tex-mex. For example: " Quiero un book." or " tengo hot" it is so funny listening to her haha

that is all for the week!! I love y'all!

General Conference was awesome!

What an amazing weekend!!! I got to listen to conference in Spanish which was awesome!! There were a lot of amazing talks given. One thing that I have found very profound throughout my mission is how IMPORTANT the resurrection of Jesus Christ is. My mom sent me an article about the Holy week and at the end at the bottom there was a note that pointed out that if the Bible were to end with the burial of Jesus Christ there would be no good news to have.  Our progression would stop at death and we would be lost forever.... How glorious is it that we are loved by our Heavenly Father and Savior enough to provide that.

Things that have happened this week. On Wednesday Elder Christensen went to a mission wide District leader meeting and so Elder McQuinn and I were put in other areas for a few hours. I was with another Elder Christensen and we did some walking and biking. The problem was that his companion accidentally took the phone....and so we were guesstimating on when they would get back. I did not get picked up till almost 5pm and we did not get Elder McQuinn back till we had gone in for the night. Oh and the day before we had been on exchanges with Elder Goodman, so there was 4 of us! Hijole! but we had a lot of fun and Elder Goodman and I walked around for a little bit and we were able to have 3 lessons that night. 

As of right now we do not have anyone set up with a date, but we do have , who loves meeting with us and loves 3 Nephi. Other than that we are just bracing for the summer heat, one more to go!

¡Gracias a que Él vive!

 

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