South Padre Island!

Today was a super awesome Pday! Some members, Brother and Sister Gardner volunteered to take us to an island in our area to their condo resort!  South Padre Island is super cool and has a lot of big resorts and some people call it the Las Vegas of the sea.  We spent the day driving around and eating some of the best fresh seafood!!

The other big thing that happened this week was was stake conference. We went down to Brownsville for the meeting in the morning. The first talk was the stake president. He asked all of the full time missionaries to stand. He then told everybody to know who their missionaries are and to help them. And it's very true we do need help. Missionary work is impossible with out the members! He then asked everyone who is a convert to the church to raise their hand. About 3/4 of the people raised their hand! The church is growing and it is growing fast! At the end the seventy that was presiding spoke. He shared the story of his conversion. I don't remember what else he talked about but his story of his conversion started when he was 14 and ended as he was finishing college. It made me think, where do I fit in to all of this in other people's lives. We never know what is going on in others lives and something as simple as saying hello can change someone's life. 

View from the condo

The Beach!

Sand Dunes.  When it gets windy the sand dunes cover the road!

Fresh Sea Food

More fresh sea food

The temple trip last week was super awesome! The ward rented some big vans that everyone drove down in. San Antonio is kind of like Salt Lake.   It's a smaller down town but all of the buildings are way bigger then they are in Salt Lake. It looks completely different then we're I am right now. In the mission it is almost entirely flat and San Antonio has a lot of hills and it's less green. We went with the youth in the ward so we did baptisms. The ward wanted us to help so we baptized the young men. We were in the temple for about 2 and a half hours. Almost everybody had family names so we did a ton and the temple worker let everyone do 10 temple names as well because it was such a long drive and nobody else was there.

On exchanges with my zone leader Elder Wynczk

From Elder Blackham's facebook page this week:

"Mas buscad primeramente el reino de Dios y su justicia, y todas estas cosas os serán añadidas." Mateo 6:33. Por el año nuevo esta tiempo para crear metas! Como esta escritura, cuando enfocarnos en las cosas de Dios, se dan todos otras cosas.