Christmas Eve

Hey guys!! Happy Christmas Eve!!!!!!!! I am not gonna write a lot because well... tomorrow we will talk haha by Skype!!!!!!!! haha but this week was crazy I finally got rid of my sickness!!!!!!! Woohoo! I am not sick anymore! Thanks for praying for me guys I love you so much and also wow my package!!!!!!!!!!!! Wow it was so cool I love it!

I will call you guys at 6 o'clock here and I don't have a Skype account or maybe I do but I am gonna try to use someones but don't worry it will all work out! Love you guys! Hope you guy have a merry Merry Christmas!  

XOxoXOxo Elder Santacruz

Christmas Package

Love it so much!

Christmas Spirit

Wow! I just love the Christmas spirit! This week I was sick and I still have a bad cough and fever but don't worry I am still working! I still have to work! haha but this week my comp and I worked really hard and we have been sharing this video http://youtu.be/y1bxL85PGGM and we have just been sharing the Christmas spirit!

We met so many people it was so cool! We practically know everyone in our area! Hopefully we can start teaching some of the people! The work is still pretty hard we haven't had a lot of success which kinda stinks but I know that we will find someone ready to hear the gospel and accept it! Other than that we had our Christmas conference yesterday with the missionaries in the mission it was so cool! and the best part is that we had a turkey dinner and my plate had a pile of mashed potatoes I love our President, he is the best! It was really spiritual, President talked about how we can arrive to be Peter! and how he changed through his time with Christ! 

but I love you guys! Until next week! Feliz Navidad! 

Les Amo!

Elder Santacruz!

Christmas Caroling

Christmas Devotional

Christmas dinner

All my peeps

Thanksgiving

Hey guys! Whats going on!? How is everything going!? How was thanksgiving!? Oh and how was black Friday!? Wow we had such a good Thanksgiving! Elder Hollingsworth and I cooked all morning and it turned out amazing! We invited other missionaries so we had 8 others and we just chilled and just enjoyed the holiday! You know thanksgiving is not the same with out family no matter how good the food is! haha I miss you guys!

This week we have been working with David and Leonera its a young couple that we teach and they had been reading the book of Mormon. We gave it to them last week! They have been saying that all these things make sense but the only thing is that they are not going to church. We will talk about the importance of it this week! It will be great! Pray for them that they will go! 

Also I have a new companion! He's a mini missionary! He's only gonna be in the missionary for 6 weeks so will see what the Lord wants me to do! All is well.....I'll let you guys know in the future! But I get to stay in the area still yes! I don't want to leave yet I still have a lot of work to do still!

But wow who is counting down the days for Christmas! Wow less than a month we will be talking on the phone! yeah buddy! that's the best Christmas present ever! Love you guys! I have a lot of pictures to send so I wont write a lot but love you guys enjoy your week! 

love elder santacruz

p.s. wow thank you so much for my package!!!!!!!!! it was the best! love you guys!

I am Grateful

Hello everyone! wow the best holiday just hit!!!

I am grateful................

God, Family, the gospel, the book of Mormon, the prophet, Christ, the mission, temples, soda, pizza, toilets, hot water, 24 hour electricity, really heavy duty shoes, mud, my investigators, the members, the Dominican Republic!!!!....

I am grateful for everything and everything is a blessing! 

I LOVE YOU YOU ALL

I had a great week! My comp and I are getting better little by little I am getting more trust so that's great! The main story this week is a really spiritual lesson that was so great! We have a couple that we are teaching and one day we shared the restoration video and they watched it with us and they felt the spirit so strong, they were saying such cool things like...... yeah we have been praying and we think these things are true... I feel that God is trying to tell us something!!!!! I was so happy I was going crazy at night time when I was going to bed! Thanks to god none of that would have happen! Its crazy how people can change in an a second! love it! So we will see their progress in the future! 

Also a our secretary, mission leader left on his mission to Guatemala on Tuesday. He is such a good friend it was a little sad but great at the same! Stinks now because we don't have a secretary or a mission leader hahaha oh well its all good! 

But yeah tomorrow we are gonna go cook a little lunch with chicken and mashed potatoes at the church with the district its gonna be cool! Ill take pictures! but hey the next one we will be together! love you all and I hope you guys read  that scripture that I gave this week I want you guys to read Alma 1:25 meditate and pray and see what you all have to do! Love you all don't have to much fun without me! haha

Love Elder Santacruz

Our district

We are pretty much chefs

Chicken dinner!

Yum

Whats a Turkey dinner without Dr. Pepper?

Jeudy!

Young men Future missionaries

Armor of God

Yeah I know my English is terrible!!!!!!! UHHH hahaha I don't care! Ill practise it when I get home! haha

How was everyone's week!!!?? Mine was so great! We worked hard this week! All things are getting better with my comp! We are starting to work a lot better together. He has a problem talking and he didn't like talking to me in the start but hey things are looking up! I worked everyday to serve him I always tried talking to him even until I didn't want to! But then I really started to get to know him more and he has a really hard background! He is a good missionary he just needs the rest of the mission to help him! I love him a lot though!

We found a couple more people this week that might be interested in the message! We had received references from investigators which was super awesome! I was surprised that people we are teaching are doing missionary work! It truly is cool! I hope we all can follow the example of these people because a reference is really a Christmas present for any missionary! 

This week we have a chicken dinner we are gonna cook as a district! Its gonna be super dope we are gonna go big because its my last one and some others! We are gonna have a good fun time!!!! Oh and its gonna be a chicken dinner hahah there is no turkey here!!! ha lame.....

But also this week I was studying a great scripture that I want you guys to study! In Doctrine and Covenants 27:15-18.  I want you all to study it and ask yourselves how should I put this armor on spiritually! Love you all! and miss you! have a good week! 

Bunnies for days!

Do Not Fear Man

Hola! everyone! I hope everyone's week was amazing and that we all worked our best to serve the Lord!

This week we had put a date with a lady to be baptized! She accepted and I know that she will receive her answer in the time. She has to prepare herself to be ready to take this covenant with God! We had lessons with her this week and she had said that these things make her happy and that it gives her joy! That makes me really happy! Ill let you guys know about her progress!

So the families that we have been working with are still taking the lessons but we are mostly focused on 2 main families that are really working to change their lives!One family that we are teaching, the parents are reading the book of Mormon together and guess where they're at!! In Mosiah!!!! Yep its so cool! they say they love the book! They are a really poor family and they are not that intelligent but they want to keep working! Ill try to take a picture with them this week! They are awesome! 

Also this week we had a conference with all Santiago and it was so good! I love hearing President's advice but he talked about FEAR what are the things we fear in the mission and so he said that we need to fear GOD but not man! We shouldnt have fear to share the gospel to man and just be diligent to what the Lord says! Such a good talk! The things he told us to do I definitely want to work on through out the rest of my mission! 

That was my amazing week and I hope you all enjoyed it love you all! 

elder santacruz

Exchange for the day with Elder Hollingsworth!

La Luz Llego

HELLO GUYS! Wow what an interesting week!

First we didn't have power the whole week! Literally 7 days haha it was pretty lame but hey gotta love the mission! We had a huge storm and it knocked out the electricity but we finally got it yesterday and when we got it we were screaming in the streets saying LA LUZ LLEGO!!!!!!!! haha it was funny but everything is all good! 

 

Another thing that was really cool is that we had some really great lessons this week we had felt the spirit so strong and found so many new people! My comp is doing better with the language he is working hard to get better but it is definitely helping me with my patience hahah  I know this transfer I am going to work on my Christ like attributes a lot harder but I Love him and I need to work on loving him even more! haha

This week we have a conference with the whole mission and so its going to be awesome we are all gonna be together! We are gonna have our turkey dinner woooohooo! but we are going to hear from our mission pres. and just be filled with the spirit! Im pretty excited! Everything is going great! Wow 1 more month til Christmas yeah buddy! I hope we can baptize a family this month! That will just be the best! 

Love you all glad that you guys got my cards! Love you all tons! 

Love Elder Santacruz

SKIMICE! The Haitians sell these popsicles 

Had a lesson with baptist missionaries

Branch Night!