Hey Everyone,
I hope everyone is doing really well. I’m doing great, pretty tired but great. We had a very good week this week and I had some awesome experiences on the Navajo Indian Reservation this past Monday while I was on exchanges with a stud missionary there. The Navajo people on the reservation are a very special people. Once you get past all the word of wisdom problems you find people that I believe are more sensitive to the spirit than any other race or people. But with that comes a lot of evil spirits as well. There is a lot of talk about "Skin Walkers" who the natives say are modern day "Gadianton Robbers." These people are normal people during the day, people that you could not recognize from another Indian, but at night time they have meetings up in the hills in caves and the more forested areas where they do rituals. They are apparently able to shape shift and go through doors. I saw some interesting things that will have to wait till I got home. But on the bright side I did 4 baptismal interviews in 2 days and we are planning another trip down there to do 3 more the following week. Satan may have a strong hold on some of the people here but the power of repentance is a stronger force than anything else. Many of them are being convinced of Jesus Christ and believing in the BOM. Something interesting that I learned is that almost every Indian home has something called a Hogan. It’s a small circular building that looks like one of the houses of Star Wars where Anakin is found. They are very sacred places and must be entered a specific way, then in order to get out you have to walk all the way around in an orderly fashion to leave. The door of every Hogan is faced to the east.
We had some cool experiences this week. 9 investigators came to church and are progressing towards baptism. What a blessing it is to be able to be here at this time. The only thing that is stopping 12 people in our area from being baptized right now is the law. All of them are not legally married and are waiting for certain things in the law to arrive before they can be married. We have seen many miracles come in the last few weeks but it really is just a long waiting process for the Lord’s will and time for things to happen. Meanwhile we are focusing on receiving miracles through faith and prayer.
Well it looks like as of yesterday I have 3 months left in this journey. So much to do in so little time. But I’m happy, I’m blessed.
Love,
Elder Stewart
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