Hey Everyone.
Wow what a great week again. You know they told us a million times that being obedient on your mission will bring success, but to be honest a lot of us just put it in the back of our minds until we actually try it for ourselves. I don't know if I said this in the last letter but President made a rule that we could only listen to MOTAB in the car, and we hated it, and still do kind of. It’s so hard to stay awake during the day. Anyway we have been doing it anyway and also cut some other things out of our lives and we have been blessed a million times over for it.
Alicia and Raul passed their Baptism interview yesterday! So next Saturday we are going to have 2 baptisms at 6 o’clock! Yay. What a way to end this transfer. They are so ready. It’s amazing how the love of Christ works. I have known these people for 3 weeks now and already I’m planning to be friends with them for the rest of my life and most likely into the eternities. And they are almost 3x my age. I could honestly say I would do anything for them.
Also this week we had 7 people at church, which is another record breaker for me. I have come to realize that people at sacrament meeting is almost more fulfilling than getting baptism dates. The record for this area is 9 at church as far as we know, and we have 10 progressing investigators. So we prayed and decided to set a goal this week to break that record. Then if the Lord really does call me out of this area, which I hope he doesn't, it will leave a lot of good work behind for the missionary that comes in behind me.
So you guys want more of the non-spiritual stuff so I’ll focus a little more on that. Let’s see. Last week we went and played sports with the zone, volleyball and basketball. When we got there I thought there was going to be a bunch of giants who were amazing at b-ball but was surprised to see that they all were pretty bad. So it was a lot of fun. Let’s see my companion. The hardest thing to get over is that he is always burping, farting, or spitting. I can’t stand it sometimes because it’s just too nasty, but I don’t say anything. I figure it’s going to be something I’ll have to get used to eventually with kids someday. (Hopefully not my wife!) But his Spanish is good and he is a good teacher. Plus he is very understanding when I bring up something that is bothering me and he changes right away. He also is a workoutaholic he helps motivate me to get up every morning and do the P90x, which is going very well. I have built up a pretty nice set of workout equipment and knowledge. I got some dumbbells, pushup bars, weight balls, P90x and Insanity disks, from some recent converts, plus some bands that I have. So that is going good as well. I ate something this week that is called Mole. It’s like egg mixed in a chocolate sauce that is pretty spicy. It was super nasty.
Anyway that is all for this week.
Love you all,
Elder Stewart
It's so fun to hear you so pumped up! And I got a chuckle out of hearing that you hope you don't have to deal with your wife doing nasty things.... Funny. Cool that you are doing P90X. I do those dvds sometimes. I prefer Insanity because they are harder I think. They're just different I guess. Love them. You know, Albert's Mom has made Mole for me that was SO delicious! I've only had it once but always wish she would make it more! But it doesn't sound like the same thing you had so maybe their are different kinds of mole? Albert said the one his mom makes is pretty time intensive. So glad that things are going well for you. Are prayers and thoughts are with you.
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