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

Zone Conference

This week has been an interesting week. We had a zone conference about these things called "black boxes". The real name is Tiwi by Inthinc. They were put in all the cars in the mission.

It has been somewhat of a stress filled week. Understanding people can be so hard and it has been hard to understand people this week.

We had a lesson with the L family and share the videos on light and truth on the Doctrine and Covenants DVD's and how reading, praying and coming to church helps us gain light to understand eternal truths. And prayer was a big topic with them. And it was a very tender moment and the spirit had a very strong presence.

We also had a lesson with a man named "S", who is a big cyclist. He understood principles that other people do not, and so he understands that he does need to read and pray and that it is a big claim that we make of being the only true church.

Espero que tengan una buena semana!!

Singles Ward Escapades

This week has gone very well!!! We had Stake Conference this last Sunday and it was great!! I went on an exchange with one of our Zone leaders; Elder Wilson. And so I got to work in a singles ward for a day haha that was great! we had a crazy night! We had a few church tours scheduled and one of them did not happen and so we went to the apartment complex right behind the church and started talking to people and the second person we talk to wants to know about the church and accepts an invite to do a church tour right then and there. So we go back to the church and start her tour and right at the end the other two people taking the tour walk in and it is already crazy inside the building with activities. So we just combined the two tours and finished it off and got return appointments and commitments to read the Book of Mormon. That was probably the most happy that I have felt in a long time. God places people in our way and he does provide! We then had an incredible experience on Saturday and Sunday. it goes as follows: We were searching for an address on this one street called "watchtower" And we passed by this family that we were going to stop by right after. The address did not exists and so we were turning around and the mom of the family is walking up to us and tells us " If you do not have a dinner tomorrow you are welcomed at our house tomorrow night" and so this is where i started thinking about the saying of how everyone freaks out because mormons are so nice, well missionaries freak out when non-members do the same thing!haha and so we return Sunday evening and it was so cool!! The "L" family was having their kids friends over as well and they were just popping in and out, but what was amazing is that Sis. L told us that they have a lot of mormon friends who have kids out on missions and their friends told them that if they ever have a chance, feed the missionaries. And so that is why they had us over. They are such a sweet family that I am really looking forward to working with. They are very open and we can tell already that they are a strong family. I hope y'all had a great valentines day! I know we did with finding the L family! Hurrah for Israel! 

Elder Grosh

Our roommates

Getting' some work done!