New Companion

Oh MY GOSH! Guys I have a new companion and I am senior companion. This week was pretty crazy and  I cant believe Elder Feliz left the area. I thought we were gonna have another one together but oh well... Any way my new companion is from Honduras and his name is Elder Centeno! He is so cool. He has about 6 months in the mission and he is such a hard worker! I am so happy to have him as a companion. We knew each other in my other area and we became good friends. We are gonna kill it in our area! Everything is great! He also speaks English so my English will get better because it is terrible! haha

Also this week I finished the LIBRO DE MORMON I was so happy and I felt so accomplished! Its crazy that I started the book not understanding a word and now I understand mostly everything that it says so that is so cool! President Gordon B. Hinckley's promise is true.... if you read the book a mormon in another language you will learn that language!! 

I cant believe how different things are gonna be now that Feliz isn't here but it will be great because I know the Lord gave me this responsibility for a reason to learn more everyday and to progress! I love you all and I hope you all had a great week! 

Shout out to my father Happy Fathers day dad! love you so much!

Elder Drury who just left our zone

Hola a Todos

This week was so great! We worked our butts of like always. I told my companion that we needed to work harder and he was looked at me like I was crazy. We have been leaving earlier and doing everything over the top already so I told him we need to talk to everyone in the street. We started contacting in the streets to meet new people and it was so great. We met so many new people this week I loved it! Hopefully we can have new progressing investigators soon!

On top of all that we had a baptism this week. One of the girls from the Garcia family was ready to get baptized so she got baptized! We felt SO happy that the family is trying every day to better themselves!

This week I have been hurrying to finish up the Book of Mormon  in Spanish and I read Moroni 7:47-48. It's so great, it talks about charity. I used it a lot this week with the members. I hope you guys read it and ponder on it! Love you all so much! You all look so happy, that is so great for me. The lord is definitely blessing me by making my family happy! Love you all so much, miss you a tonnnn! My work is here though! We are having transfers next week wow.... this transfer went by so fast but I think my companion is leaving idk we will see! I will let you all know next week!
 LES QUERO!!

First baptism of the Familia Garcia

Played soccer in this stadium with my district

La Obra Missional (The Missionary Work)

SOOO HOLA FAMILIA,AMIGOS, VECINOS

This week was definitely a challenge but every time I write you guys I feel like I overcame a challenge and I'm stronger!! Yeah! Well I have some good news! The family that we have been teaching, FAMILIA GARCIA, have been preparing to get baptized. The mother, she is so awesome and sweet. She was living with her husband but they weren't married. She bore her testimony this last Sunday of what she knows to be true and she told us the next day she doesn't want to be with her husband anymore so she kicked him out of the house so that she could get baptized!!!!!!!!!!!!!! How crazy is that she is so awesome I will take pictures with the family this week to show you them. The oldest daughter is getting baptized on Saturday. She is ready, she knows everything! These people are so humble they are fairly poor but I'm so happy that they will be rich with blessings!

WOW every time I look back I just think of all that has happened here and I am so grateful for all the things I have experienced! I love being a MISSIONARY! Having the name ELDER SANTACRUZ! Man time is flying by..... I just have to work even harder. No time to waste! This week we had a training meeting with the members and it went well. We are hoping the members will work harder with us! We are hoping that it showed them that they can trust us. There are so many bad missionaries who do tigre things so the members don't trust missionaries for that reason. We are already gaining their trust! Well the Lord is definitely helping out!!! ESTOY FELIZ! 

LES QUERO 

ELDER SANTACRUZ

D&C 4:1-2

 Here are some beautiful pictures from this weeks special trip to the beach. Elder Santacruz definitely enjoyed himself to the fullest and the Dominican Republic looks absolutely beautiful in these pictures.

Exito! Success

Hello everyone! This week! was of course successful! We worked a lot with the members and that is what makes me happy more anything, when the members work with the missionaries! I am adjusting to the area! Its crazy that I am living with Latins haha Sometimes I start talking and I forget that I have to talk in Spanish so I start talking in English and they're like COMO (what) haha its funny then I start speaking Spanish! They all ask me questions about English I try to help them. They all want to learn English, so that's good! This week we had some lessons that were just full of apostasy like people are so crazy sometimes. We had a lesson with a guy who was saying that he doesn't believe in the second coming, gosh what has the world come to!

Guess what! The whole zone is going to the beach next week were are going to Nagua, our mission president is so awesome!

 We have an investigator named Memphrey. We were teaching the whole family but none of them want to go to church except Memphry, he goes by himself! He's so cool, he has 14 years but the problem is the family is Catholic and the mom wants the whole family to be Catholic so we are going to have to work hard with them! That's what happened this week! It was pretty great! Other than that! I want to give a shout out to MY SIS AND MY POPS HAPPY CUMPLEANOS!!!

Love 

Elder Santacruz!

San Fran Yo!

Hola a Todos Como Estan!
I am loving San Fran its Crazy! I am learning so much everyday, my Spanish is getting really good my companion tells me he is surprised that I had 2 american companions and that my Spanish is so good. My week was a little tough but I love it, I like a little challenge..... hehe This Sunday was crazy, we had a member faint during third hour and I tried to help. I helped pick her up with a member and then all of a sudden I hear a rippppp hahah My pants ripped right in half hahahahah funny story. My companion was the only one that saw but we were dying when I told him to help me make my way to the bathroom. haha We walked home and I changed my pants haha. A couple of members saw... hahah awkward.....That same day we were teaching a lesson with a investigator whose name is Juan. He's so cool, he's 16 years old and he kinda reminds me of me. He's having problems with his parents and I told him that through this gospel the spirit will be with him and that he can feel more comfortable in the house. He knows English and he loves music from the states and we talk about music all the time.

That's all folks for this week! Thank you for reading another email of my crazy life haha 

Love you all Mucho! Peace be unto you all 

Love from Elder HOLYCROSS.......(Santacruz)

Beautiful San Francisco

P-day fun

We love our Elder Santacruz

First week in San Francisco

Hello everyone! My first week in the Area was so great! We have a lot of investigators and everyone wants to listen to us so that is great. Its weird changing areas because its like starting the mission all over again but I am getting used to it and I am learning a lot from my new companion that only speaks Spanish... haha but its awesome!

There is a family that we are teaching and they are so awesome and humble. I love it, we taught a lesson this week and it was so spiritual. The family's name is Garcia and I love them! They go to church and everything and in just a few weeks and they will get baptized! I love you all and miss you all! It was so great talking you you all last week! If it seemed that I was a little homesick.. I'm sorry but that's just normal hahah No but I am great! 

love from the Dr Elder Santacruz!

Elder Feliz

This is how I got to my new area!

New Area

Well everyone I got transferred!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am out of Cristo Rey! Thank you so much for everything, for all the support. You guys have helped me so much! I got transferred to an area called.... Sanfrancisco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This area is crazy! haha I think brother Perry served in this area so make sure you tell him! I had a great time in Cristo Rey. Thank you so much for my birthday presents.That was so awesome of you guys to do that! I seriously loved it!!!!!!!

You guys are awesome!

My companion is Elder Feliz. He is a Dominican. He only speaks Spanish and I am living with 3 Latins and none of them know English haha. I am all good, everything is great! I have to cut it short because the power went out and I don't have a lot of time but love you all!!!!!!!!! Miss you! 

Elder Santacruz 

Thanks for all the wishes!!!!

Happy Birthday Elder Santacruz

Our family made him a birthday video and this is him watching it.

He loved it. Special thanks to Elisa on the right for contacting me to make it and putting his party together!

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