Hey Everyone,
How are you all doing? I hope you week went well and everyone had a safe Halloween. Things over here are doing really well. We are still working hard and the training is coming along. This week we are focusing on the plan of salvation and practicing it together. We had a zone meeting last week and there are a lot of things happening in the field of missionary work. Sister Miller's brother-in-law is now the new MTC President and she says that there were 8000 new calls going out the weeks following Conference and over half of them are young women. And that the MTC is freaking out because they have nowhere to put them. We got news that the max amount of missionaries for our mission went up from 170 to 250 missionaries and that starting next year they will be opening up 41 new areas in the mission. They are saying there will be 2 sets or more missionaries in every single ward or branch in the mission. He said that a lot of us will be trainers probably several times. I just think of all that greenie fire coming in.
Well I don’t know too much about the election but the change in the missionary ages points to me that God plans to have Romney win. I would bet all the money Romney has that somewhere in his patriarchal blessing it says something about a presidential call and that he is not just doing it because he wants to. If he gets elected I have a feeling that he will have a lot of success making friendships with other countries, especially the ones that we do not currently have missionaries in. That is just my thoughts, not any doctrine, but I also have been noticing some parallels in the Book of Mormon. Reading through Mormon this week we see that even though the people where wicked, God put Mormon at the head of the armies, even though he had already resigned from the position once. This was right before the end of the Nephites, within 30 years of them being wiped out. But I won’t spoil it for you. Read through Mormon and you will see for yourselves.
Well this week has been kind of slow. We had Halloween and we had a party with the district because we are not able to go out past 6 o’clock. We are teaching this new family called the Ruiz family. We found them knocking doors and the story is pretty funny. It was Elder Keddington's turn to knock and he knocked on this door and out came their 20 year old daughter who had just signed a modeling contract for 4 years. And he froze before he could even get out a greeting. After a minute or so I took over trying my hardest not to laugh and she said that we could come back. So the next night we went over and sat down with the whole family of 6. We watching finding faith in Christ and didn’t say anything about the restoration yet. But I did tell them that we had a lesson to teach them and they said we could come back. The next time we went back I was with our district leader on exchanges and just completely knocked them out with the spirit. A few days later we found out that the mother was so affect by the story of Joseph Smith that during her lunch break at work she made the mistake of looking him up on Google, wanting to know about his life. I knew something was up when they didn’t call us back to confirm the appointment. So we went over there anyway. Even though she had read some horrible stuff on Joseph Smith we saved the lesson and that family and committed them to read and pray.
Well that is all basically for this week.
-Elder Stewart
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