Hey Family and Friends,
As always I hope everything is going well and that you are surviving the heat. Here in ABQ we have had over 100 degrees pretty consistently for the past week or so. We had a busy week this week and taught 28 lessons, a record for us considering MLC and the Zone training meeting we went to. This was President Miller's last MLC and he took all of us and the "Sister Trainer Leaders" to Tucanos. Elder Hunter and My 2nd time this month. Its super good.
We found 2 new investigators this week who are super awesome and prepared. The Lord is really blessing us for our patience with the investigators we have now and their legal problems. Sometimes I wonder why we have so many amazing people ready for baptism and that they are starting to just build up more and more. Like a dam ready to burst. I would much rather just have a steady stream. Anyway, I had a cool experience at the end of last week where we were walking in our investigators' trailer park or "The Diamond in the Ruff" as we like to call it due to the fact that we are currently teaching 8 families in a 30 foot radius. Almost all of which have a baptism date or have some serious potential. It’s called "Country Side Mobile Homes" but we hope to soon change it to "Zion Mobile Home Park" and just put an entire branch there. How easy home teaching would be! anyway, we were walking around and we have knock this one door maybe 3 times and each time we have found a different person there, almost all of them not living there, but still becoming investigators. Well I felt like we should knock the door again, and there we met Adan. He invited us right in and we taught all the way up to the apostasy. He loved it and invited us back, came to church and accepted a baptismal date in just 3 weeks. I couldn’t help but laugh relating this house to one of those bricks in the Mario games. One of the ones that you could keep hitting and it would keep giving you coins. I’m super excited for him and to seem him progress.
We also started to teach a close neighbor of his, a girl of 14 years old. While I was on exchanges, Elder Hunter and Elder Lish taught Angelica at a family home evening. She was a church the day before after only having to invite her one time to come. Then the young women in our ward really stepped up and figured out a way to allow her to go to girl’s camp. (In only one day) She had a blast. On Sunday she came to church again, on the ride home, her fellowshipper asked if she liked church, she said yes and then said, "I want to get baptized." the fellowshipper responded "So quick" and she said "yeah, because I have felt the spirit." Her date is in 2 weeks.
Well Elder Hunter and I are training again. It’s very interesting to be in a tri-companionship. His name is Elder Marler. He is from Escondido Cali, near San Diego. He has a 2nd degree black belt in Ti Quan Do and built robots in school for 6 years. He would really get along with Jared. He is waiting to get his visa to go to Columbia. How cool! His dad served in Columbia and his mother is Latina, so he has a good base in Spanish. He will learn to be fluent very quickly.
Love you All and talk to you next week.
Elder Stewart
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