Week 2 in San Antonio!

Hello,

Wow the work is incredible here!! The field is sheer white and prime for picking!! And Elder Berntson and I are out there reaping! We already have 5 people with a baptismal date, 4 of which are on the 29th haha. So that might be a little problem, but if that might be the greatest problem in the world!! This is the sweetest area in the entire mission!! Hahah if I am ever transfered that will change ;) But yeah things are going great!! The Lord has blessed us in incredible ways!! The heat isn't even bad, it is hard to notice after 95 degrees... It is just HOT after that. So that 5 pounds I gained at the MTC... Gone!! Haha we are on our bikes from 11-9. Wow we work all the time! I love it!! I already have a wicked famers tan too!! Its pretty hard core. Its only going to get better :)

Bambi is one of our investigators with a baptismal date on the 29th and she is soooooo SOLID!! She is awesome! She has a firm understanding of what the gospel has to offer and she is taking it!! She reads daily even with classes that she takes and she prays and always attends church!! She is incredible!!

Charles is so sweet!! He is 17 and he is so funny! He just loves the direction the gospel of Jesus Christ contains and is willing to follow the Lord in his actions to make sure that he recieves the fulness of those blessings! He was actually the person I have ever commited to baptism and he will be baptized the 29th as well!! He is a sweet kid and he always has a smile on his face!!

Anna is the funniest person I have ever met!!! honestly!!! She is a short Phillepeano (sp?) lady and just loves to crack the jokes!!! Haha I love her to death!! She had a crazy cool experience as she went to church last week!! She lost the directions to the church and instead of giving up, she got in her car, prayed and she said was guided by the Spirit to church!!!!!! That's like the most perfect example of faith and we had only benn by to see her twice... Wow she is incredible!! She will be baptized the 29th as well.

Terry has a sincere desire to change her life!! And she really is trying to do so!! It is such a great testimony to me of how much the fulness of the gospel has to offer us and how much we are blessid as we live the gospel and become the person our Father in Heaven needs us to be. She will do great as she continues to fight. She is set to be baptized the 5th of September and is excited to do so.

Trisha is a really cool story!! Her brother is a member of the church and because of the example his family, she wants to learn more so that she can have that same family! And it just so happens that Elder Berntson and Mangum were knocking that street. So she is super excited and we look forward to her coming unto the gospel!!

Next we have Thomas!! I love Thomas Hutchinson!! Thomas is a special person and is on medication for a bipolar and schitzophrenic (sp?) lifestyle. But he has one of the choicest and kindest spirits I have ever met!! I learn SOOOOOO much from him. He loves everyone with the purest love ever. And he always wants to do his very best. That got me thinking that, I know at times I have not given my all in some aspects of my life. And I know I am not perfect, but too many times. It really changed my life. I have tried to give my all in every aspect of what I am doing since that experience and I have only seen blessings in return!! He is so great I love talking to him!! He has been baptized for 5 years and loves the church. We visit him once a week so he has company because he calls us a ton everyday. He is so funny. He is 40 and his dream is to become a professional soccer player, but he can't decide between that or coaching so he constantly is accessing his stand haha. He has this great saying!! Hahaha I love it!!! When we ask him, "How's it going?" He says, "Life's good, yeah life's good....But Nike is better." With a giant smile on his face and I promised him i would get a pair of Nike Air Force Ones when I get back haha.

So yeah that is me haha. Really it is so much more I just wish everyone could be here to experience it as well haha. I am so blessed to see miracles everyday!! I love this gospel and for everything that the God does for His children. I know that God's love is expressed in John 3:16. That he loves us because He sent us Jesus Christ. And I know that as the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, we carry a fulness of Jesus Christ. We will forever give more the these people because the fulness of God's love lies within His church. And I am so grateful to have the opportunity to share that with everyone. To let them know of how much Our Heavenly Father loves them!!

- Love yall ;)

Elder Tommy Walter