Another Good week here in Texas....

Hey Everyone,

I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying the fall weather. Things are going really well here and the weather is just beautiful. This week it was between 70-85 degrees. We had a pretty good week this week where we spent most of our time trying to find new investigators and get some referrals from the members. Since we have baptized almost all of our current investigators, we have needed to start looking for more. Marsha was given the Holy Ghost this week which alleviated my fears of her not receiving it and falling off the path. I was super happy and relieved that it went through.

This week we had President and Sister Miller come all the way down here to Fabens, for interviews. They do interviews in the apartments during October and it was nice to have them in ours. They said it was very clean and that the Spirit could be felt there. Part of the reason we keep it so clean is due the cockroaches that we have that freak me out. We have a lot of them and have been battling to kill them all the past two weeks. I caught some bigger ones and keep them in this jar. I know, it’s nasty, oh well.

Well my companion has made some big steps this week. He for his first time had menudo (I had to make him eat it) and Chi Charon which is pig skins that idk if I told you about. He absolutely hated it. I don’t think I have laughed that hard in a while when I first saw his face with the first bite of cow stomach/ intestine. Training a greenie brings back so many memories, and also makes me realize how different I am now. How much I know and how my interests have changed.

One of the things we focused on this week is revelation through the Holy Ghost. We had a district meeting this week on helping our investigators receive their answer through the Holy Ghost and how to recognize an answer given to them. We had one lesson in particular with an investigator named Lily. We had been trying to get her to read the Book of Mormon and she has said that she just hasn’t had the time to read it or they have been really tired lately, or that they forgot. But when people say that it is because they don't fully understand how to use it or what it can do for their lives. So we sat down with her and talked about how important receiving an answer would be for her life. We read Moroni 10:3-5. And then all of a sudden she says "I wanted to ask you, what is the Holy Ghost." that’s when it hit me that most of the time we just assume that they know who the Holy Ghost is. Growing up in the church we were always taught what it is and what his job is. We then started asking if she knows or has ever felt what the Holy Ghost feels like. We then were able to pinpoint a moment in the past where she did; she was so excited and is very excited to look for that same answer when she reads the Book of Mormon. I felt like it was a huge turning point him her conversion.

Anyway that is all for this week,

Love you,

-Elder Stewart