Hey Everyone,
How are you all doing?
Hope everything is well and that you are having a good summer. Well this week
was kind of slower. We still taught a fair amount of lessons but I feel like
nothing out of the ordinary happened. Apparently as you start getting older and
older in the mission, you start running out of things to write home about
because the usual "Spiritual Experiences" happen so often that you
start to not recognize them as well. But we will see how I do.
So the best thing that probably happened this
week was the party on Tuesday night for Father’s day, and basically the whole
ward was there. This ward seriously throws the best parties of any ward I have
ever been in. No offense to the English wards back home, haha. Anyway we had
some less actives show up and also Maribel, Bernie, and Lorenzo. I honestly was
so surprised when they came by because it’s not something that they would
normally do, but they where there and we were able to fellowship them really
well. But the best part is that the Bishop had the chance to talk to them about
the law of chastity and marriage, and how she cannot be baptized unless she
gets married to Bernie. And she accepted! It’s so great to see the kind of
drive that an investigator has to change completely their way of life to be in
accord with the will of the Lord. Even to the point of obeying the word of
wisdom, tithing, and the law of chastity. One of the things I thank God for
every morning was the opportunity I had to be born in the church and receive a
testimony of it at a young age, because if I honestly think about it, I know
that I would have such a hard time accepting the church, and stopping all the
things I know I would have gotten into. I feel like God knew that before I came
to earth and for some reason (either by righteousness in the life before or I
won the lottery in heaven) I was put in a place where I would be able to grow
up in the truth. Anyway, she and Bernie are going to get married by the Bishop
this upcoming week and she will be baptized soon after.
We are teaching these
2 Cuban guys that live in our same complex and they absolutely love us. I think
I talked about them last week having accents that are so difficult to
understand. Anyway, we had the chance to talk to Adrian on Wednesday or Thursday
this week, and talk to him about faith. We really had the feeling that we
needed to go over our purpose as missionaries again and talk about Faith
needing actions. It went really well and Adrian knew what he needed to do after
reading the scripture in Mosiah 18. He told us that if he was going to be
baptized, it wouldn’t be for anyone else but himself and the Lord. And that the
last thing he wanted to be is one of those "Sunday Christians." You know
the ones that go to church on Sunday and act super perfect and then throughout
the week they completely forget about God and do whatever they want. So we were
able to set a date with him and his roommate Horacio came to church on Sunday
and loved it. We are planning on setting a date with him as well and
having them both again at church next Sunday.
Other than that nothing
real exciting happened this week.
Love you, thanks for
everything
-Elder Stewart
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