Another transfer in Braun Heights

Well today is the start of my 4th transfer here in the Braun Heights ward and this week we have made a lot of progress with people. Last Monday we were able to teach the "V" family (couple). The husband is less active and the wife is not a member, but she has mentioned that she does want to be baptized. So we started teaching her last Monday and they both came to church on Sunday which was amazing!!! She already has a lot of friends and so we are hoping for more progress! As well we met with "P" this week and so far she is doing very well and the only problem is that she does not want to stop smoking right now so we have a process ahead of us.

The new Elder in the apartment is Elder Craner from Idaho, he is pretty cool. This will be a fun transfer!!

Fear Factor eating....

Hola a todos! Elder Grosh and I will both be staying here in Braun Heights for this upcoming transfer! Number 4 here I come! This week went pretty well. We has a dinner with the "L" family and were able to share the Restoration with the non-member husband. He is super Catholic and so it was a little hard teaching him. He is really friendly and non-bashy (thank goodness) he just closes himself off. Even so it was a nice reminder for Sis. L and her mom. As well we met with "P" yesterday and had a great lesson about the Sabbath day and keeping it holy and coming to church next week. As well we met with these two guys; J and V. They were outside their house and we had spoken with J before and he loved it. So we shared the Restoration with them and we were not able to get them to commit to anything but they want us to stop by again. 

Funny story for the week. We went to teach "P" last night and we show up at her mom's and they are eating baby eels....and well.... we had to try it.....

ANYWAYS Hope y'all have a great week!!! :)

Lessons, lessons, and more lessons....

Buenos días a todos! This week has been an amazing week!! We made some amazing progress with "N"; the daughter of less actives. We met with her twice and she has read from the Book of Mormon which has been awesome!! As well we were able to meet with L and W B and she as well has started to read from the Book of Mormon and has a lot of amazing questions. This week we met with JR and he will be able to come to church this upcoming week, which will be really exciting!! He has been doing really well and basically has been waiting to get off parole and then he should be able to get baptized really soon!

Some funny stories for the week. This happened last night. So one of the Elders that I lived with up in Round Rock was Elder Johnson. His family now lives here and he is serving his mission in Brasil. One of the sons told us that in the scriptures the word "bosom" would be used and he did not know that it meant "chest". So for the longest time he thought it was talking about the person's bottom. I could not stop laughing!

I hope you all have a great week!! 

Prospero Ano Y Felicidad!!

Hola!!!! This week was a pretty good week! This last Monday we were able to meet with a couple that are less active and part member and Elder Grosh was able to build a relationship with the less active husband and talk about computer programming with him. Stuff about different languages like c, c++, kobal, python and so on. They are having us over for dinner this week and it will be a great opportunity to teach the wife who is super nice to us. As well we have a few other lessons that happened. On New Years Eve we found this man named Daniel who is a youth worker at his church. We have met with him twice so far and there is some hope for him. Last night he had us over to do a Bible study with some of the people from the church and so that was interesting haha. This week has been great and we are looking forward to next week!!

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Con Amor, Elder Wanlass, Texas San Antonio Mission

Christmas Report

Hola a todos!!! Christmas was an amazing day!!! Christmas Eve a family invited us over to do some of the family festivities that they do. First we did a little skit (without acting it out) about the Christmas stories in the Book of Mormon and in the Bible, then one of the son-in laws read the Christmas story in Krio ( mixture of English, french and some African dialects) it was so weird because you can actually understand it!! but it was so hard reading it. Then we did a christmas gift exchange where we read the "Night before Christmas" and whenever we hear the words "the" or "night" we were to pass the gifts.

Christmas day we went to a members home for breakfast. Their sons birthday was that day so they had pancakes, bacon, sausage, tamales, eggs and the whole 10 yards ( the phrase 9 yards does not make sense to me because 9 is not a full 10) Anyways later we were able to skype home and that was amazing!!! What made it even better was getting to see 4 grandparents, 2 cousins, and 1 uncle as well :) we then had 2 dinners to end the day. When we could we would walk around and if people were outside we would wish them a merry Christmas and give them a "He is the Gift" card.

 Friday we had two lessons. One was with JR and his family (parents are members and he is not) we went over the Priesthood and Missionary work with him.Then we stopped by another LA/PM family and shared the Christmas video with them ad they really enjoyed it. Last night we taught Paris and she is just waiting to get paperwork from Salt Lake. We taught about Agency and Accountability and we asked her mom (whose is a short, old Hispanic lady with a testimony like diamond because it is so pure and nobody could ever break it) She told us that she has been praying for the chance for her daughter to come back to the church and she is so grateful!! I love Sis. Barton! She treats us like her grand kids it is so funny.

well 2014 has been exciting and I am now reaching the end of my dark year and I will be home this next year.

Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior, He loves every single one of us and I know he lives!!!

I love you all!!! 

TSAM Christmas Conference

Hola a todos!!! This week has been pretty amazing!!! We had our Texas San Antonio Mission Christmas Conference( I will not be there for next years...) The food was great!! An amazing talent show with some great training as well. First a funny story. We were at the Lozano's home for dinner and I was saying the prayer. Her 4 year old is distracting her and so I say "we thank thee for Jesus Christ" and she just says "amen!!", almost like you would imagine in a southern baptist church haha and all of us just start laughing, it took a second for me to compose myself to finish the prayer :)

On the spiritual side we found a new investigator last night while walking around. He invited us into his home and some of his family was there, they were not interested in listening at the moment but he did. We shared the Restoration with him and Elder Grosh asks him " Do you believe that what we are saying is true?" and he says " Yes I do." which led to a baptismal invite and him saying that he just does not believe in organized religion. But he wants us to stop by again on Friday and talk to him :) I really am looking forward to this week and the miracles that it will bring :) I know Christ lives and that he is our Lord and King, He is the Son of God. I love you all and espero que tengan una Navidad buena con sus familias!! Hasta luego!!

New Companion!

So my new companion is Elder Grosh, he is from Danville, California and is a convert to the church. We found out that he has already finished training.... so we do not know what happened there haha either way it has been interesting adjusting but all is well :) This past week we have been working really hard on sharing that Christ is the gift and on doing that in different ways. Something that I  have just realized is that the normal routines of Christmas can help us discover Christ. You have a present under the tree, and you have no idea what it is but you open it and you now know what you have been given. But do you know how to use it? It comes with instructions and you spend time with it to better understand it.

Christ is a gift that we take for granted so much. We are told of him and what he did for us. Do we really know him though? Do we really know how to use him? That is what the scriptures are for, pray, fasting, church. We open the scriptures and read about him and he was like. Now we need to embrace him.

" For God so loved the world, that he gave His only Begotten son. That whosoever should believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" ( John 3:16). We know the destination. Eternal Life. How do we get help? Through His only Begotten Son. How do we get that help? By BELIEVING in him. Believing is having faith and faith is acting. Discover the Gift. Embrace the Gift and Share the Gift.

 This week 2 complete strangers have let us in and talk to them. One was a Jehovah's Witness and the other was christian. We were able to share the Restoration and the He is the Gift video with him, and only the video with the other. As well this week i met the 1st person who has seen the video without us having to show him. That was cool :) I love y'all and espero que tengan una buena semana y Feliz Navidad !!!!!