Be BOLD!

Another great week in the mission. Last week for preparation day we went to the empty cross of Kerrville. It is on top of a hill and is a huge cross and has statues all around it. It was an interesting place to visit I'm not to sure what church the cross was affiliated with but they were quick to come and talk with us and try and teach us a thing or two. They were very nice people and it helped me appreciate the pure and true doctrine that we have in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. It is amazing to see what others think about baptism and about how we can be saved. What a blessing the Restoration was in the early 1800 and that we are able to live in a time were the gospel is on the earth.

This week we also had exchanges with our Zone Leaders. They are such great missionaries and it was an exchange were I was able to learn a lot of how I can continue to improve and also help my district do the same. I was able to go into their area which is the Spanish Branch that covers the whole stake. We picked up dinner from the Orellenas who is a family that lives in the parkwood ward (my second area) and I ate dinner with them on Christmas eve two Christmases ago. It was so great to see them and we were able to talk briefly about the fun times we had in there home eating all of there tasty Chilean food. It is fun seeing old members and investigators that you work with at one point or another.

We are still doing a lot of finding. We have been walking around, knocking doors, working with members, and we also tried contacting people to see if they would be interested in learning more about there ancestors by coming to the family history center that we have at our church. Im sure that we will be able to find someone this week that will be ready to change when they hear the glad message of the restored gospel. Last night we had a dinner and a family home evening with the bishop and his family, the first councilor and his family, and they invited a non member family to come as well. It was great to get to know this family the Pates and hopefully bishop and the first councilors family will be able to stay in touch with them and that they will have a great desire to come to church next Sunday and we will be able to soon start to teach them. The Pate's were taught once by missionaries in the past but the missionaries were very pushy so we had to be careful to not come off that way yesterday. There seems to be great things going on in the area and I am looking forward to the many miracles that we have ahead of us.

"Be Bold, Be strong for the Lord your God is with you."