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