Sunday, September 27, 2009

August 18, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized. Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.
Love Ya All tonz
Elder Loveless

August 17, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized. Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.
Love Ya All tonz
Elder Loveless

August 17, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized. Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.
Love Ya All tonz
Elder Loveless

August 17, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized. Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.
Love Ya All tonz
Elder Loveless

August 17, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized. Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.
Love Ya All tonz
Elder Loveless

August 17, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized.

Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.

Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.

Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.

Love Ya All tonz

Elder Loveless

August 17, 2009

Alright so we have had a fantastic week. At this time we have 13 progressing investigators THIRTEEN!!!!! The lord has been blessing us tonz. For everyone that is wondering what is going on with Johnny De La Rosa, He is back on the map, has been reading and praying for the last few weeks AND he has promised to quit smoking Drinking and completely obey the Word of Wisdom AND receive the saving ordinance of Baptism ON THE 16 OF SEPTEMBER! tonz of prayers still needed to get him and his family to be able to come to church every week so that the conversion will be able to last but, your prayers have been working!!Right now we are working with a lady named Candy. We have been working with Candy for the last four months she has been going to the "Cowboy Church" down here. For the last 2 weeks it has been do or die time for her. She has progressed so much in the last 4 months she is one of those investigators that just dove right into the Gospel and has been studying about the gospel almost non-stop. Right now she still hasnt got her answer. She is still drinking coffee and tea so we have commited her to stop and continue to pray and fast about it. Hopefully she will stop and get baptized.

Elder Tervort is sick for the 5th time since i have been with him. This time the virus he had attacked me as well. we were only out for a day and have fully recovered this time. Elder Tervort still hasnt been able to go see a doctor to see what he has so we have no idea if he will get sick again. Also our A/C unit is starting to learn when we get sick, because the only time it breaks is when Elder Tervort gets sick and it has broken 3 out of the 5 time hes been sick. I will tell you what there are few things closer to "misery and endless woe" than being stuck in an apartment with nothing to do, with no A/C, while it is 105 degrees outside. But we survived once again.


Last but certainly not least, OUR ZONE GOT THE "TSAM SHOE". Thats right we got da shoe, which for everyone that doesnt know what the TSAM Shoe is, it is has been passed around for the last 10 years to the zone that got the most baptisms each month. This month we got 14 baptisms in the South San Antonio Zone and we got da shoe. Ah yeah.


Anyway Tonz of sweet things happening here in the TSAM. On the 25th of August i will only have 18 months left. 6 down 18 to go. I know you guys cant wait to see my smiling face but your gonna have to wait a few more months.

Love Ya All tonz

Elder Loveless

August 8, 2009

Texas has been great. It is still hot as ever. I stopped trying to wipe sweet off my face cause it back in 4 minutes anyway. We had zone conference this week up in san antonio which was sweet. We had an awesome talk by president Cutler one using the Book of Mormon to go over the most come question we faced like, Why do i need to be baptized again, or Whats the difference between your god and my god. Anyway way sweet!! We split up on to go on exchanges on the way back.

So elder DeLeo, our ZL and i went were on our way back to Hondo and we had the funnest ride home. To start it off we had a Kamikaze bird hit our windshield about 10 minutes into the trip. next we turn off the freeway onto the highway. And as a precursor the layout of Texas road suck they are just the most confusing thing in the world. Anyway driving down the "Highway" and about a mile down the road there is a sign ROAD ENDS 500 meters. Turns out our map was wrong and that side highway didn't exist and it was a ranch road now.So we get back on the Freeway and find a dirt washboard Country Road to go down, and make it to La Coste a small town about half way between Hondo and San Antonio. We get our do some tracking and found the sweetest family taking a family walk and were talking about their faith. Sickest family ever. on the sick scale the were deathly ill. So we were just pumped and we drive out to go back to Hondo. Found a gap in traffic and got on the highway. as soon as i got to the other side i see these flashing blue and red light. It turned out you are supposed to "stop" on a red light. Who knew? So we a stopped there the officer come to the window we explain we are missionaries and we just did not see the red light. he takes my information. Comes back AND... gives me a warning. I kissed my plaque after that and drove home with the cruise control on the whole time.
Anyway Love ya

August 3, 2009

Hellllloooo everyone over in Utah
This week has been fantastic as always. IT RAINED THIS WEEK and we caught up to Nina Gonzalez. And dont you guys worry the TSAM is still here and cooking.
So first off we have Nina our downstairs neighbor. Nina has been in the hospital for the last few weeks getting her knee replaced. we had an awesome lesson with her. I cant go through all of it but the highlights are that she has chosen to come to The church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saint to learn the gospel. so we are stoked about that. She hasnt decided to "join" the church just yet but that will come with time.RAIN!!!! So for the 3rd time in 2 months it rained here in hondo. And its not like Utah rain where you can go play in it for 15 minutes before getting wet. When it rains here in texas its like a bucket of water comes from the sky and hits you in the Face SMACK! It was way sweet to feel cold for a day though. and it kinda greened thing up.
ANyway thats all for now.
Elder loveless

July 27, 2009

Alright so missionary work is a emotional roller coaster. the week has been a perfect example. This week we have gained 9 new Investiagators, WOOHOOO!!!!! But both Sylvia and johnny have been dropped, BOOOO. I guess easy come easy go.
Johnny- Johnny was in the hospital over the last week around thursday we were able to talk with him. Turns out like most people around her he has liver problems. While he was in the hospital he had alot of time to think about life though and i have to say it is one of the most rewarding thing ever to here your investigator say that he knows god has a plan for him. Boo Yah! In the end he still has some problems that he has to work out and he was dropped.Sylvia- So we have had an awesome appointment with our her and her family over the last week. Her daughter Sergina came to mutual. they all loved church last week. It was going good going good going good, and now we cant get a hold of she missed the last appiontment and we saw her and her family in the library and she completely avoided us. So we have no idea what happened to here whether we were to over bearing or she got antied or what but for now she is dropped.

Anyway that is all for now Talk to ya all next week
Elder loveless

July 21, 2009

So this week has been an awesome week but there is not to much to report on. We Found a sweet new family, we had had transfers.
Sylvia And Kids- So we found the sweetest family on Saturday. It is a single Mom Sylvia and her three kids. She has one daughter Surgina (13) and two sons Ricky(9), and Ezkiel(7). But Saturday we had a real long day with no success and so finally @ 8:30 before we were going to stop for the night we knocked into Sylvia. It turns out that she had been going through a rough time and had been praying for a church to go to, to find more knowledge and we show up. So we talk to her for about 45 minutes set up a ride for her to go to church. Next morning comes and has a fantastic experience. We set her kids up with Young womens and Cub scouts. Everyone is really excited.That is the end of the story so far because we havent been able to meet with them. But we have really big hopes for their family.
Johnny- Johnny is now in the hospital with ulsers so no new on him.
Transfers- So we had transfers this week and.... nothing changed we are both staying here in Hondo.
Anyway i was thinking about it and on August 25 i will have been on my mission for 6 months, a forth of my mission, which is crazy to think because it has flown by.Thats all for now but thanks you guys for your love and support. I love you all a ton.
Elder Loveless

July 13, 2009

Alright so this has been a great week over here in the TSAM. This week we had A BAPTISM with Eddy, an awesome experience with our next door neighbor, we had another lesson with Johnny, and when to the San Antonio Temple.

Eddy- So this week we got Eddy Baptized. It was sweeeet. He had his best friend Curtis Beck baptize him. It was a water side confirmation and Bro Beck confirmed him a member. All and all just a fantastic baptism. And like i said earlier since his family arent supportive at all with his decition, the Beck family are basically his home away from home. Eddy is a sweet kid and if he can stay out of the crap here in Hondo he is going to go far.

Nina- Alright so We just had a sweet experience with Nina our 60 year old Nieghbor right below us we have been teaching her son Alec for awhile and before that we had taught her for a while with no success (she has been doing bible studies with the J-w's and she cant remember anything past a day so). But she promised us that she was going to church this week and see what our church was like. Well right before church we went over to see if she was ready for church. She comes to the door looking horrible. She invites us in and about every third she is wincing in pain and grabbing her stomach. It turns out that she had a hernia in her stomach and she couldn't come. Earlier she went to the ER to get it fixed and they told her she need surgery. In the back of my mind i am thinking to give her a blessing, I ignore the prompting and continue talking. On the way out the door i get the prompting again this time i thought "you are going to refuse this women a witness of the power of the priesthood because you wont offer her a blessing. Come on just do it". So we give her the blessing. After it was done she waddled over to show us the dress she wanted to wear. Well we leave and go to church and about 15 minutes into sacrament meeting here comes Nina to go church. She looked greated and she not only stayed for the the 3 hours of church but the baptism afterwards and she didn't wince once, not once. so we made an appointment to talk to her and debreaf her about what went on in the baptism. It turns out when we left she got up and told herself "I am going to go surprise those boys". So she got up, put her dress on and went to church. We only live about a block from the church so it wasn't to far for her to walk. During our appointment later that night she said she "Just felt happy". And it was true when we were eating dinner before the appointment she never stopped moving, she was doing her laundry walking around the neighborhood. It was cool how she explained the feelings she felt while getting to blessing and while she was at church. She said she just felt cold all over ( or the chills) and then the pain was gone. There was also a ringing in her ear that she had been praying for it leave and in her ears and in her words: it was ringing ringing ringing and pop it stopped and i haven't heard it since. It was just the coolest experiences ever.

Johnny- This week we learned Johnny's mom is trying to ship him off to Houston. And we have had to post pone his Baptism for 2 week because of the word of wisdom. Sooo, we will see what is going to happen with him later. On a side note his two daughters and ex wife weren't able to come to church yesterday. We called them 10 minutes before church started and they said they were just on their getting to youngest boy, Juanhelio in his cloths and they would be there. I guess they got lost in transit.

Temple- We went to the temple this week. Its cool because it is a small temple but out of the small temples it is was the most expensive per-square of any other temple. I don't know what it what but it just reminded me of the Shire off of Lord of the Rings. I think it was that All of the stain glass windows on the outside where of either the forest or of grain, all the doors had circles on them and there was a very short man in there. Anyway past that it was a very cool temple.

Raschel- Tell Kelani and jimmy that my arm feels great and that her prays worked!!!!
Mom- Alice is johnny's ex wife and we are trying to first get her approval before we can get Sabrina and Vacilia baptized, But she wont give her apporval until she comes to church but she seems to be having troubles coming to church so...yeah. And Thank you for trowing away the Crisco
Everyone Else- I read your emails and i loved them i just dont have time to write back to them

see yeah

Elder loveless