May 4, 2020

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a great week. 

This week was super great and a lot is happening. 

Tuesday: Today was good. We didn't have a ton of visits with people but we had lots of contact. Me and Elder Corry went to Charities to do service and we just watered the garden and turned the compost pile. It went really quick but it was pretty hot. It's been slowly getting hotter and this week and it got up to a hundred degrees. It's not all bad right now because we're inside the church most of the time but when we go back to doing regular mission work outside and stuff it will really be hot haha. We had a really good lesson with this person named Lydia about faith and hope. We invited her to read Ether 12 because it talks about having faith a lot. She is super nice and loves to hear from us. We got chipotle from one of the members in our ward and it was so good. 

Wednesday: We had our first follow up lesson with Rita since she was baptized last week and it was really amazing to see her. You could just see the light in her life and could just know she was happy. We talked a little about the temple and what we do in the temple and why it's important. She totally agreed and wanted to learn more. She asked us if we could help her learn some English because we do English classes as well. Later this week we taught her how to pray in English and it was really cool. We found out that she works at a hair salon and she told us that if we ever needed haircuts she would do them for free. The only thing is that the place she works at is super far haha. We had a mission call this week and one of the area seventies came and talked to us. Elder Villareal and his wife talked to us for about an hour about what an area seventy is. One of the things that I really liked that he said is that “We aren't Finishing our Mission, The Lord is finishing us". It was a really cool experience to be able to listen to him and we learned a lot from him.

Thursday: For our district council today we got to have a recent convert call in through zoom and we had a little Q&A with him. His name was Anthony and it was really cool to ask him what he thought of missionaries the first time and what testimony is. He has been able to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood and bless his family. He is an amazing person and I'm so happy I was able to meet him. We had a really nice visit with the Avalos family and we shared 3 Nephi 11:7 and talked about different ways we can hear Jesus Christ in our lives. We are having them help us friendship with a person we are teaching and it's just amazing how much a member can help.  For dinner today we got a ton of fried chicken from Church's from the Rosario family. Usually they take us to a restaurant named Luby's but this time we got this haha. We also had our interviews with President Tveten today and that was super awesome. We did it through video call and he told me we could possibly be getting a new missionary into our area because of missionaries being reassigned to missions and stuff. Me and Elder Corry are super excited if we get a missionary. 

Friday: Today we were able to call our families for Come Follow Me and it was really fun. This last week's come follow me was on Mosiah 7,8,9, and 10. One of my favorite scriptures was from chapter 7:19. It talks a lot about putting our trust in the Lord and I really liked that. We had a really cool lesson with this family in Converse named the Gonzalez family, and 2 sister missionaries, as well as a return missionary from Mexico. There were about 8 people on the call and the reason we were there was because the family speaks mostly Spanish and the sisters don't. We were there to help translate and teach with the return missionary. It was really fun to meet the family and they were really nice. We all talked a lot about temples and eternal marriage and the spirit was really strong. 

Saturday: Today we found out that we are going to be getting 2 missionaries in our ward. One will be in our companionship and the other will be in the other Elders. So we will basically have 6 Elders in our ward haha. It's super exciting and we spent some time cleaning our apartments and making room for the new missionary. We don't know where he is coming from or who he is but were excited to have him. We had a really cool discussion with another person we are teaching named Justin about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and a little of our Heavenly Father's plan. It was really cool because he totally agreed with everything we were talking about and the funny thing was that he brought it up to us and asked us if we could meet with him haha. For dinner we got food from a member who owns a restaurant. It was really good Mexican food. 

Sunday: We had another really cool pass of lessons from an area named Bulverde where my trainer Elder Waite is right now. We were teaching a Man named Antonio and he is super great. He is super humble and willing to listen and change and wants to be baptized. We sent him a link to the Gospel Library App so he could download it to his phone. Later today we were calling and setting lessons up with people we are teaching and we sent a text to these recent convert members and then they randomly video called us. We talked to them for a minute and set up another visit for Monday. We also had a mission call and found out that there is going to be about a 100 missionaries coming to our mission. About 15 are coming this next week and they're going to be coming in like waves. It's really exciting and crazy but our mission is going to grow a ton before it gets split into 2 different missions with Austin.

Monday: For today we're going to pick up our new companion at 6 and were going to go shopping with him and help him get settled in. We're spending most of our day at the church and calling and emailing family. We went running a couple miles today. We decided that we were going to go running every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

I hope y'all have a great week. Love y’all lots!! 

Pictures from this week:

1. The 4 of us are eating dinner from the Guerreros restaurant.