Feliz ano nuevo!

Friends and Family,

Feliz ano nuevo!  This week was a pretty good one with some neat experiences.  We started off the week deciding that we needed to start mostly all over again from new because a lot of our investigators just were not progressing.  Or just had some problems that they where not able to get over.  So we are going to keep their info and give them a little break.  Now we are starting with almost a clean slate and getting a chance to find more prepared people.

So we spent a lot of time this week finding news and getting a new ward list to look for unbaptized children and part member families.  And we realized that there are so many of them and inactive members that it is affecting the area.  Its hard enough to get people to come to church, but when they actually do come to church the ward is not very receptive, and we end up losing them anyway which is even worse.  So we have decided that this area needs our focus on the members.  And if we can do well in re-activating people into the ward then maybe we will get a couple unbaptized children or get part member families baptized together and on their way to the temple.

We also had a fun time biking this week.... kind of. We had run out of miles to early this month and had to bike the last 3 days. Man what an experience that was.  On Friday night we had 2 referrals we had to go contact way downtown, probably 5 miles away.  Well we went anyway and it was pitch black outside and we got lost.  We never actually found the house.  But we did bike through an abandoned train station and through the ghettoest part of Texas.  It was pretty scary and all that.  But we were fine.

Its good to hear my Utes won.  I didn’t get to go but I heard it was an amazing game.

Until next week,

-Elder Stewart