Month 10!

Dear Family and Friends,

     Well in 6 days I hit my 10 Month mark. Can you believe that I have 14 months left. Then I have to worry about school, work, girls again..... woooof. I''m just praying things slow down a little bit. We had an awesome week again this week despite the fact that its been 110 degrees outside all week, and I still have no hope of getting a car. Oh well. The hardest part is staying motivated to go out when its that hot and still do work, but I know why I'm here. I'm not here to be a baby and cry about the heat. I'm here to help people feel the heat of the spirit.<- (missionary jokes are so lame) But we still seem to laugh at that one. Other than that I have had some big leaps in knowledge this week, as well as some miracles this week.

     Ok well study wise. I studied up a little bit this week about making your calling and election made sure. And if you don’t know what that is I encourage you to look it up and learn about it. Anyway, I made a commitment to myself that I would see Jesus Christ in my mortal flesh. Meaning that I will either see him when I receive the second Comforter or the second coming will happen. (Which is closer than we all think) I want that so bad. Just imagine it for a second. Being able to converse with him, see the prints, feel his love for real. I feel the spirit just thinking about being able to behold my Savior and creator of this world. Thanking him in all my mortal weakness and hearing him tell me good work. There is nothing that gets bad thoughts or anger out of my head faster than that. I have a few guesses for when he will be here again, but then again there is no way anyone can know. I don’t have too long to prepare myself for that.


   I received a testimony of repentance this week. There was a night where I stayed up kind of late. Not doing anything bad, but it made it so when I woke up at 6:30 the next morning I could not focus on anything and I knew I did something wrong. And my previous thought of sin is that I'm just going to have to deal with the consequences of feeling bad till the spirit decided to come back to me. Well we got a call at 7:15 from a member and we didn’t get to it in time so she left a message, saying that she had someone at her house right then that wanted to talk to us right then. And so I called back right away. Nothing.... So an hour later I called again 2 times. Nothing. I called back 3 more times and still no answer. At that point I was feeling terrible. I knelt down and said a prayer, feeling it in my heart. Before I got done we got a call back from the member saying that we should come over right then. So we got on our bikes and rode all the way out there and we met Bridget Mota. And had an amazing lesson. She is so amazing.

Her story is that her whole family was converted to the church but her and when she was learning about the gospel in Mexico, her son was murdered by a cartel and she went into so deep of depression that she just stopped her studies with them. Well 2 years went by and she moved to the US and began work that week with the member as kind of a care taker who helps her do things she really can't do anymore. Luckily enough this lady is a powerful member of the church and knew that she needed to hear the message again. Well when we went over there and taught the lesson she cried many times, especially when we talked about the temple. She is so committed to be baptized and going to the temple for her son that she will be baptized in 2 weeks time. She has already left all word of wisdom drinks and has read non stop in the BOM. Everyday we go over, she has more questions and has read a lot more. What a blessing it has been to meet her.

    Other than that Maribel has her wedding this saturday followed directly by her baptism. It will be an amazing experience to see that and Im so excited.

Well thats all for this week.

Love,

Elder Stewart