Hey Everyone!
I hope everything is doing well and that you had an awesome
holiday. I’m doing pretty well. The last week has been pretty successful, and I
feel like it’s a lot easier out here. People living in small towns are a lot
kinder and friendly than people living in a huge city, and so people are
generally super nice to us and there is not a ton of opposition like there was
in El Paso. Elder Hernandez and I have been doing pretty good. This is the
first time that I feel like a super duper old missionary. I have been in the
field double the time my companion has and I’m the oldest Spanish missionary in
the district. I never thought that would be the case but then again here I am. And
it’s nice when we do district meeting in Spanish and everyone asks for help
with words and also comments on my Spanish. But I keep the pride from getting
to me ha-ha. Here in Fabens we have the biggest truck probably in the mission
that is the biggest thing I have ever driven. It’s like a tank and built for
off-road.
We had some cool experiences this week. We got a referral from
this less active member of the church who is looking to come back. The sad part
is that he is an ex-missionary and that he messed up somewhere down the line
and stopped coming to church. But he is looking now to come back and be fully
active. His wife is not a member and we had a lesson with her on Saturday.
We taught one of the most powerful lessons of my mission there. Not only was
the first vision and the testimonies of the missionaries so strong, but the
returning ex-missionary bore his testimony of the church and its truth when we
asked him to throughout the lesson, the spirit could be felt as a real person
in the room and she was brought to tears many times. This puzzled me at first
because he knew and we knew that he had not been doing the things he needed to
for the past 10 years and yet the spirit was so strong. I gained a testimony of
repentance and humility right there. When a man has made a real
desire to humble himself and make the decision to repent and come back, he
is often times at his most powerful point. I realized that I need
to constantly let myself be humbled, in order to have the same power and
the power I desire with my testimony. She accepted a baptism date for 3
weeks and came to church the next day. Including reading the section we gave
her to read. I’m excited to continue to see her and him grow and progress and
come back to the church. We also had 3 non members come to church this week
which is such a great feeling. But even greater is the fact that they stayed
for the baptism of 2 young girls at the end. It is said that 80% of
investigators that see a baptism will be baptized. I’m hoping this is
true.
Anyway, that is all this week.
Love you all,
Elder Daniel G Stewart
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