Hey Friends and Family,
I hope everyone is doing well and
loving life like I am, because its a wonderful thing. There's a
secret, and its called the gospel of Jesus Christ. Anyway, I had an
amazing week this week. The Lord did some amazing miracles through us
over the past few weeks, and my testimony of putting names in the
temple grew so much. On Saturday Marsha and Armando got married. It
was another one of those times where someone is so willing to follow
God's precepts that they change their natural and comfortable
lifestyle to make the huge commitment of marriage. The ceremony
lasted 20 mins and there was no dress, rings, fancy appetizers, or
flowers. Just the Spirit of God. Thats what it is about. I hope my
wife will get it. I'm not saying I don’t want rings or a dress for
her. But I don’t want to lose sight of what its all about. Marsha
is preparing to be baptized next sunday in between conferences.
Sunday the Lord blessed Fabens with the
baptism of Nathan, Son of Marsha and Armando. He is such a good kid.
He was having some problems at school, and it was causing a lot of
problems with his parents. When last Sunday he asked us more about
the Holy Ghost and God. After a little explanation he told us he
wanted to be baptized as well. We had been teaching his mom for 3
weeks now and Nathan never joined us, so we went over there everyday
for the whole week and taught him all the lessons and he read the
Book of Mormon everyday by himself. He had his interview, and I was
honestly scared that he wasn’t really ready and that he would get
nervous and not remember anything. When our district leader came out,
he told us that we did an amazing job teaching him, he knew
everything, and is more prepared than anyone he gave an interview to
before. It really made me think about teaching though. We only taught
him for 1 week, and he is only 15 years old, but he understood it
all.
We had a zone conference this week
about becoming a "Master Teacher". The training was that we
are striving to become master teachers. and what I got out of it is
that a "Master Teacher" has little to do with talking
skills, or you teaching really at all. A master teacher is in how
someone prepares to teach. There are a few points that I came up with
of how we prepare before we teach:
1. Be Obedient and do morning studies
so that the Spirit can be at the lesson
2. Understands fully the principles
that are going to be taught. (examples, scriptures, concepts,
questions, and commitments)
3. Practices with a companion so that
you have the courage to "Open your mouth", share ideas and
promptings, and teach in unity.
4. When it comes to the lesson, "gets
out of the way"
Like 2 Nephi 33:1 says, It's the
"spirit that carries it to the heart of the children of men"
not my smooth talking abilities.
The baptism was beautiful this sunday.
So glad I have the opportunity to be here.
Love,
Elder Stewart
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