A Baptism in Highland Hills

So this was a crazy week!!!! We had a great conference with Elder Allen and Elder Evans of the Seventy this week on being servant of the Lord in a digital age and so this upcoming transfer we will be receiving Ipads. Oh yeah and transfers are this week!! Elder Christensen is going to the border to be Zone leader and I am staying here and receiving a new companion.

So Saturday was the baptism of N and it was great!!!! :) first and last time I will see a 8-month pregnant women get baptized haha afterwards it started raining like mad and lightning and thunder. We lost power in our apartment for the whole night and then on Sunday we had to go to church in Windcrest because we didnt have power in the chapel so that was a blast :) We have had a great week and I look forward to the next transfer :)

Not tough enough to handle the half dead road kill....

What an awesome week that we had!! N is going to be baptized this saturday at 7pm so we are really excited about it! She is excited, and so are her in laws haha she has been reading over the pamphlets and reading so she is prepared. she is still super pregnant though so we are going to have to fill the font really high to help her out with that. We had another great lesson with No with week and the P's. sadly she told us that she does not feel ready to be baptized (she has not even come to church yet) but she is still reading and praying. We are going to talk about the word of wisdom with her which is one of the reasons that she does not feel ready( she just does not know it).

funny story for the week. we went to visit with N earlier in the week and they happened to be at an interview. But there had been this cat that had been run over in the road that was still alive and to spare the details it caused me to pass out. all of this while I was on exchanges haha :) great week!!!

Lots of lessons this week...

Well this week we have some awesome news! A family in our ward who's daughter in law is not a member wants to get baptized!! Her date is set for the 23rd of May. She has been coming to church regularly and has received most of the lessons so now we just have to go over it and make sure she understands! The interesting part is that she is 8 months pregnant and so that will be an interesting baptism.

Norma and Yuliana still have not come to church. Yuliana is working like crazy at Walmart and Norma has been having health problems so we are working with her on that.

We went up to Cibolo again and had a lesson with the Cabreras. It went well.... Sister Cabrera is fighting her self right now. She thinks that the Catholic church is wrong and that there is a lot of things that are not right, but then at the same time she believes her baptism was valid..? I do not understand the logic behind that. But we will be meeting with them again this week.

Kind of a funny story this week. We were visiting with a less active couple and she started talking about dreams and things she was seeing(and for those of you who do not know, Hispanic people are know for having experiences quite frequently) and she told us that she one time saw a shadow on her front door and when she was describing it, it sounded like Darth Maul. Then to make it better she had drawn it on the door in pencil. And it was still there.

Anyways that is it for the week!! i love y'all!

A slow week with no pictures....

So this week was kind of slow. We went on a few exchanges this week with other missionaries in our district and it was great! On Tuesday I had a different Elder Christensen with me and he does not speak spanish haha but he did not mind. We had a lesson with Norma and it went very well. The members that came with us were a great help ( members do so much!) She is still thinking on baptism and is still reading. She had just read Ether 2. And as always whenever she reads anything she always, always pulls something out and thinks it is talking about end of the earth or the second coming. So we had to explain that to her and then we continued on with the lesson. Elder Christensen did an amazing job! (the lesson was in english) the only sad part is that she did not come to church :(

Yuliana has been working a lot and so there has not been much contact with her.

We had an exchange on Thursday as well and Elder McKay came to the area with me and we had an okay day. We stopped by José while he was making his tacos and man that was good!! 

A few fun stories

1. We got a brand new car a few weeks ago. A 2015 Toyota Corolla, red. And it is sweet!

2. a few weeks ago Elder Christensen had an job interview over Skype( it was approved) and Elder McQuinn and I were asked questions about him haha it was great!!

iPads are coming to TSAM!

So this last week was filled with a bunch of different things. Zone meeting, district meeting, exchanges and a few lessons. First off we met with Yuliana again this week and there has been a lot of different things going on with her. It is hard to meet with her because of work which has all the time. She says she will go to church but never does because her work calls her in to fill someone. And so her baptism will be pushed back.

We have not been able to meet with Norma for a bit. From what she has told us she loves reading the Book of Mormón.

I went on exchanges with one of our zone leaders; Elder Graham. We had some very good lessons and a youth that is not set on baptism.

Exciting news for the whole mission, we will be meeting with a few members of the Seventy in a few weeks in a meeting that is called "Disciples of the Lord in the Digital Age." I am sure yall can figure that one out :)

But we were told about the condition of some of the Apostles and so please keep them in your prayers!!

I love y'all!

USA vs. Mexico... go USA!

So this week has been somewhat of a slow week. We were able to meet with N this week but she did not come to church :( but she is loving the Book of Mormon!!

Highlight of the week was that a less active family that we have been working with came to church yesterday and so that was awesome watching them walk into the chapel!! They have been going through a lot of things that they have not made know to us but they finally came!!!

Moments for the week. Mexico came and played the U.S. in the Alamo Dome which happens to be in our area and so that was an exciting day for everyone. Our Branch mission leader and his family were watching it and our whole branch was going for Mexico even if they were not from there. We passed by the stadium and they were tents everywhere and Elder Christensen and I  were being tortured with it all. but we found out that the U.S. won 2-0 so we were excited about that, while everyone else was depressed. That is about it for the week. I love y'all!! 

Last P-day

USA! USA!

The Front of my Planner for this transfer

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!