To all!
Hope all is well! This was a great week! It should be a lot of fun this week! We improved a lot from last week and this next week we hope to even double our production! It will take a lot of effort, but we have a good plan to carry it out! So we will see what happens! It should be good!
This week for Thanksgiving we will be doing our part to pass by all the members in our wards or congregation to share with them our gratitude for our Savior and His ministry. I am indeed very grateful for the Savior and for the what the knowledge of His existence has done to change my life forever. It has given me purpose and direction in life and has allowed me the opportunity to reach the vast potential I have, as we all do. I am grateful for what He was willing to go through to give us that. I am grateful for my family. For loving parents and sisters, and for the giant influence they have been in my life. I love you all and am very grateful for your love. take care and have a wonderful Thanksgiving!
Elder Walter
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
New Area!.... well sort of
To all,
Well hope all is well! This week in Walmart we heard some great Christmas music... Hahah wasn't ready for that, but that proves it truly is never too early for Christmas music! Well this week I was transferred, still in San Antonio, and I was moved back to like the same area as the "South side" haha, where I used to serve before my last area. I am now on the West side, but I cover one of the same wards I covered before. I am serving in a ward in which I have 6 converts haha! It was so good to be back so many friendly faces and people who care for you!
Well this will be quite the area. Quite the transfer. And I was reminded in my personal study what it takes to be an effective missionary for God. It was found in Alma 38, when Alma is counselling with his son Shiblon. He is such a righteous person and I loved what he says in 38:5,9-14... It just makes a lot of sense and it really helped me to know what to focus on. I love being a missionary and I will always strive to be an effective one..
Hope all is well. I love you, and take care!
Elder Walter
Well hope all is well! This week in Walmart we heard some great Christmas music... Hahah wasn't ready for that, but that proves it truly is never too early for Christmas music! Well this week I was transferred, still in San Antonio, and I was moved back to like the same area as the "South side" haha, where I used to serve before my last area. I am now on the West side, but I cover one of the same wards I covered before. I am serving in a ward in which I have 6 converts haha! It was so good to be back so many friendly faces and people who care for you!
Well this will be quite the area. Quite the transfer. And I was reminded in my personal study what it takes to be an effective missionary for God. It was found in Alma 38, when Alma is counselling with his son Shiblon. He is such a righteous person and I loved what he says in 38:5,9-14... It just makes a lot of sense and it really helped me to know what to focus on. I love being a missionary and I will always strive to be an effective one..
Hope all is well. I love you, and take care!
Elder Walter
Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Transfer Time
To all!
Well what a great week! Just a lot of cool things were able to happen and a lot of success! Definitely a great way to finish the transfer... Unfortunately this also means that it is the end of another transfer... And I will actually be leaving this area... I loved this area soooooo much and it ended up being my shortest one so far. I have been serving in the northwest part of San Antonio. And it was just great and the ward... Oh my gosh I just felt right at home, this is an incredible ward with great leadership. It will continue to thrive with the great leadership it has. But I am excited and ready for the next phase of the awesomeness in the mission!
Well I am very grateful for the visit our mission had from Elder Claudio Zivic of the seventy! There was a lot that was learned. One of the things that I thought was very interesting that he talked about was the idea of limiting our potential by adhering to a predetermined mindset of what we can accomplish in our existing circumstance. He shared the story of Rodger Bannister who as an early 20th century physician thought it possible that a man could run a mile under 4 minutes when the overwhelming majority of the physicians at the time believed such a task impossible for the human body to realize. He himself trained and with diligence and proper training was able to be the first man to ever accomplish the feat. Following the broken record many more followed him in repeating the results he had procured. Thus breaking the then popular mindset of what the human body could and couldn't do. Now for a man to receive a medal in the Olympic games, he would have to drastically reduce the time in which even Rodger Bannister ran many decades ago. We have these same mindsets today. What is true and proven by science today will be changed, modified, and broken in the years to come, showing the infinitive progression and potential we have as children of God. The understanding of this concept can too influence us today. The greater and more fully we understand what it means to be a child of God, the better we can break personal mindsets we have in our lives that keep us and others from running the 4 minute mile...
I am grateful for my understanding of the gospel and the way it has influenced my understanding of what I can accomplish here in this earth. I know this is true and am grateful for the people in my life that make it possible for that to happen. Have a wonderful week! Enjoy the fall!!
Elder Walter
Well what a great week! Just a lot of cool things were able to happen and a lot of success! Definitely a great way to finish the transfer... Unfortunately this also means that it is the end of another transfer... And I will actually be leaving this area... I loved this area soooooo much and it ended up being my shortest one so far. I have been serving in the northwest part of San Antonio. And it was just great and the ward... Oh my gosh I just felt right at home, this is an incredible ward with great leadership. It will continue to thrive with the great leadership it has. But I am excited and ready for the next phase of the awesomeness in the mission!
Well I am very grateful for the visit our mission had from Elder Claudio Zivic of the seventy! There was a lot that was learned. One of the things that I thought was very interesting that he talked about was the idea of limiting our potential by adhering to a predetermined mindset of what we can accomplish in our existing circumstance. He shared the story of Rodger Bannister who as an early 20th century physician thought it possible that a man could run a mile under 4 minutes when the overwhelming majority of the physicians at the time believed such a task impossible for the human body to realize. He himself trained and with diligence and proper training was able to be the first man to ever accomplish the feat. Following the broken record many more followed him in repeating the results he had procured. Thus breaking the then popular mindset of what the human body could and couldn't do. Now for a man to receive a medal in the Olympic games, he would have to drastically reduce the time in which even Rodger Bannister ran many decades ago. We have these same mindsets today. What is true and proven by science today will be changed, modified, and broken in the years to come, showing the infinitive progression and potential we have as children of God. The understanding of this concept can too influence us today. The greater and more fully we understand what it means to be a child of God, the better we can break personal mindsets we have in our lives that keep us and others from running the 4 minute mile...
I am grateful for my understanding of the gospel and the way it has influenced my understanding of what I can accomplish here in this earth. I know this is true and am grateful for the people in my life that make it possible for that to happen. Have a wonderful week! Enjoy the fall!!
Elder Walter
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Another first
To all,
Well this week was a couple of firsts for me in the mission! All of which was just very very fun! Well to be honest Saturday was the first day of the mission that I felt really really sick. Just awful. And as I was then laying on my couch whining and "why me-ing", haha I then thought of the missionary stories I have heard where they come back and say stuff like... "There was only one day on my mission where I WASN'T sick." or "I didn't know what being sick meant before that mutant mosquito bit me." Ect. And I thought then that they only lived in huts, probably on the floor suffering... I then opened my eyes and looked around my 2 car garage, 2 1/2 bathroom, 2 bedroom, fully applied, mansion of an apartment. Smiled and said it could be worse hahah. Sorry Isaac, Logan, Chris, Taylor, Stuart ;).
Well I am completely fine. A one day bug and we were off and running! Today I finished the special edition Ensign on the Book of Mormon! Gosh it was so cool to really read and remember my own personal experience with the Book of Mormon! I loved them all but the ones that stood out to me the most was first the one talk given by Elder David Bednar of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles and another given by Elder Walter Gonzalez of the Seventy.
I have with frequency pondered and studied the the vision of the Tree of Life here on the mission. For those who don't know, the vision of the tree of life was a dream of an ancient prophet named Lehi, 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. It is recorded in Chapter 8 of 1 Nephi in the Book of Mormon. And in all my studying and ponder and praying, I never got more out of it than I did when I read the talk by Elder Bednar. If only that talk had come out a year ago, it would have saved a lot of time and eventual guesses haha. But in each of those studies, confirmed by this talk, I have left with an overwhelming desire to partake of the fruit and then stay put! I was glad Elder Bednar stated the attributes of those that did just that! I loved and I know that by a continual and daily and diligent read from the word of God, we too can prepare to receive all the blessing the Atonement has to offer us.
The next was by Elder Gonzalez! I liked this one because on my mission I have seen all of these ways in which one came to know the Book of Mormon is true! And it gave me time to reflect on my testimony of the Book of Mormon and experience that that stems from. I know anyone can as they truly seek to know. It is the the word of God and I know that because it is something that God has revealed to me.
I love my mission I love the people I am working with! Hope all is well! Take care and have a great week!
Elder Walter
Well this week was a couple of firsts for me in the mission! All of which was just very very fun! Well to be honest Saturday was the first day of the mission that I felt really really sick. Just awful. And as I was then laying on my couch whining and "why me-ing", haha I then thought of the missionary stories I have heard where they come back and say stuff like... "There was only one day on my mission where I WASN'T sick." or "I didn't know what being sick meant before that mutant mosquito bit me." Ect. And I thought then that they only lived in huts, probably on the floor suffering... I then opened my eyes and looked around my 2 car garage, 2 1/2 bathroom, 2 bedroom, fully applied, mansion of an apartment. Smiled and said it could be worse hahah. Sorry Isaac, Logan, Chris, Taylor, Stuart ;).
Well I am completely fine. A one day bug and we were off and running! Today I finished the special edition Ensign on the Book of Mormon! Gosh it was so cool to really read and remember my own personal experience with the Book of Mormon! I loved them all but the ones that stood out to me the most was first the one talk given by Elder David Bednar of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles and another given by Elder Walter Gonzalez of the Seventy.
I have with frequency pondered and studied the the vision of the Tree of Life here on the mission. For those who don't know, the vision of the tree of life was a dream of an ancient prophet named Lehi, 600 years before the birth of Jesus Christ. It is recorded in Chapter 8 of 1 Nephi in the Book of Mormon. And in all my studying and ponder and praying, I never got more out of it than I did when I read the talk by Elder Bednar. If only that talk had come out a year ago, it would have saved a lot of time and eventual guesses haha. But in each of those studies, confirmed by this talk, I have left with an overwhelming desire to partake of the fruit and then stay put! I was glad Elder Bednar stated the attributes of those that did just that! I loved and I know that by a continual and daily and diligent read from the word of God, we too can prepare to receive all the blessing the Atonement has to offer us.
The next was by Elder Gonzalez! I liked this one because on my mission I have seen all of these ways in which one came to know the Book of Mormon is true! And it gave me time to reflect on my testimony of the Book of Mormon and experience that that stems from. I know anyone can as they truly seek to know. It is the the word of God and I know that because it is something that God has revealed to me.
I love my mission I love the people I am working with! Hope all is well! Take care and have a great week!
Elder Walter
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