Transfer 7

Dear Friends and Family,

Well it looks that I will be spending next transfer somewhere else. I’m not sure where but it will be somewhere here in El Paso so I’m excited to go somewhere new. I’m super sad to leave Elder Vallejo though. We only got to spend 1 transfer together and feel like we kind of got robbed. But I guess I am needed somewhere else. I don't know if I told you last week but he will be going district leader of the new district. He is not very excited and repeatedly asks me to switch him as a joke, but I wouldn’t want it unless God called me to it. Like yeah sure I would love to have the opportunity to be a leader. But I know that I already have a lot of those qualities. So God is helping me learn humility and obedience. Plus it will be nice to be able to just put my 100% in the area and God's children there. Anyway, it’s kind of sad to leave 12th ward, the only thing is it is super big. So I only really know a few families and really the only ones that live in our area. I think I’m up for a challenge though.

I have gotten to be the one to go to for the "Transfer Gossip" news. I don’t know how I ended up getting that spot but I find out everything really quickly, and because President does transfers super secretly, everyone doesn’t know anything until Tuesday and it drives us nuts. We call it "Secret combinations" but I pretty much know more news than anyone else and then as they call me I get whatever news they have dug up and give them whatever I have. So I don’t even have to call around to get transfer news anymore. But it turns out that all my previous companions are training. Richardson, Perez, and Humphreys. I’m super excited for them and that chance, even though I wouldn’t want to train. It’s too risky ha-ha.

Well this week we worked really hard. The Standard of Excellence is 20 lessons a week and the week we had the baptism we only taught 15 lessons so we wanted to finish with an all 20 average. Meaning we needed to get 25 lessons this week. Well we got 27, on bikes. Which is awesome, but it also helped us realize that we could have gotten more the other weeks... So we raised the bar a little for Elder Vallejo and his new companion. I feel pretty accomplished though because we had the chance to say goodbye to everyone I wanted to say goodbye too. We also went by some families that were reactivated when I was here with Elder Humphreys but slowly faded away.

Well I know it’s not much but I’ll have lots to say next week,

Love,

Elder Stewart