It has officially been 5 months...

Hola Family and Friends,

How is everything going?  It has officially been 5 months on this 24 month journey and this week was the first transfer that I had the possibility of leaving the 3rd Ward here in El Centro. But it looks like I am staying here for at least 6 more weeks with Elder Perez.

Anyway this week was a really good one because we decided that if we where to leave this week that we would want to go out with a bang. So we worked harder than any week this transfer, and were actually blessed because of it.

This week we have really focused on helping Olga feel ready for baptism. She had her interview this week and she passed everything. She is living better than most Mormons live, following all the commandments, and even is able to bear testimony of this church. She just does not feel ready for it. So we just have to keep spending more time with her and lots of praying.

One of our investigators with a baptism date actually came to church, which is so much harder to do than you think.  We taught a ton of lessons this week and visited a bunch of less actives. We have really been trying to help people come back to the church and feel like it has been working. We have gotten a lot of people to come back and go to church. Too bad there isn’t a place in the numbers for "Less Actives" that came to church because we would be doing real well. But then again I guess that is the job of the members and ward missionaries.  Unfortunately, this is now week 3 we have gone without a Ward Mission Leader or anything. So all the work has basically fallen upon us. I sure hope that we can help get this ward back into missionary work and that the other wards in the mission are not like this one.

Anyway, not a whole lot this week.

-Elder Stewart