La Humildad....

Dear Friends and Family,

I hope that you have been safe and healthy in these few months where sickness has been more common than ever. I hope that you are reading, praying, and feeling the spirit at church. In my letter today I wanted to talk about some of the blessed experiences that I have had in the week. But to start of my letter I want you to know that I am doing well, and I am Happy.

This week I had 3 almost full days of meetings. I went to a training on Tuesday for about 8 hours and we talked about how the mission could better their teaching. Well the sad part is I lost my voice the day before and so no one could really understand what it was that I was saying. Even though I had this problem, President still called on me 6 times throughout the meeting, maybe because he thinks I’m a good teacher or more likely to keep the meeting entertaining haha. The next day we had a meeting with the district and I gave a training on what we learned at the training meeting. My voice still wasn’t back but I feel like it went really well. Then on Friday we had the Zone Meeting that we have once a month, and I was asked by the zone leaders to give yet another training on repentance. They only gave me 10 mins, so I didn't prepare basically at all. When I saw the first elder's training and all the examples he used, I kind of freaked out and put together all the stuff I could think of that is on repentance and I prayed. When it was my turn, I just went with it and I felt the spirit super strongly. The Zone Leaders didn't stop the compliments on how well I did though. That made me feel pretty good.

One of the things I am focusing on this week is Humility. I went on an exchange with one of the Zone leaders this week and we talked about a lot of things. We talked about what would I need the most with my companion to make our companionship work and came up with being humble. My goal is to not fight, or put down anyone but more importantly my companion, no matter what he says to me or about me. I know Heavenly Father is blessing me for my efforts in being more humble and I have felt his hand in this last week helping my patience.

We had a few miracles this week and the most important one is that Paulette's husband came to church. She is a recent convert who just had her baby, and he has never really sat down with us for a full lesson nor has he ever talked about coming to church even though she is there every week with her 3 boys ages 2,1, and a newborn. This saturday we went by with a member and he actually sat down with us. Paulette said he had be drinking a little bit with his brother. (He’s not an alcoholic, just drinks sometimes) so he wasn’t drunk. He sat down and we focused on Eternal Families and the temple and how he needed to come to church and help his wife. He agreed with us and said he would try to go. I was so surprised when he walked into church yesterday. Paulette had told me before the transfer that she knows I was going to stay because she feels like I am going to be teaching her husband until he gets baptized. She said at church that the whole morning he was really slow at getting ready and said that if the ride comes and he wasn't ready that he wasn't going to go. Well right when the ride got there he rushed back in the living room and said "no! don't leave without me! Give me one second." I know that Heavenly Father softened his heart within those few seconds. After the gospel principles class that was about Baptism, he said that he knew that he needs to be baptised to go to the temple in a year. That was my miracle for the week.

Well I Love you all!

Elder Stewart