Hey Friends and Family,
We have had another very good week. We are so busy and working so hard. After a night of planning I lay right down on my bed and almost instantly I’m out like a rock. But life if good. We are still getting desperately needed rain and of course miracles. Transfers are the next weekend and so I’ll be going into my last and final transfer. I pray that I stay in this area for one more, but as always, I go where he wants me to go.
We had a series of miracles this week with the Gallegos family. I’m not sure if I have already shared this story in earlier letters but now I can add on to it. The Gallegos family is a family dear to my heart, a little family of 4 that have portrayed great faith. The father of the family works two jobs as a chef for 2 restaurants. He works the first job from 8-4 and the second one starts at 5:30 and goes till late in the night. Well his story is that his mom joined the church 20 years ago and 3 months after her baptism, she dies of cancer. After all that time the missionaries are led to the family and from then on his faith has grown tremendously. Last week we challenged him to ask for Sundays off from his job. When he did, the boss told him no, and so he quit right then and there. The next 4 days he got calls from the manager and other employees begging him to come back, until Thursday the owner called and gave him Sundays off and paid him for the last 4 days he missed. So he went back and little to our surprise, his coworker call him this week on Saturday saying that he couldn’t go to work the next day due to his wife getting in an accident and going to the hospital. So he was going to have to go in. He decided to wake up 3 hours earlier to go to work and prepare all the food for the other chefs to cook so that at 9 he could be at church with his family. What faith.
At church another miracle happened where one of the members walked up to them and turns out she knew his mother and stayed with her in the hospital the entire time until his mother passed on. She told him things about his mother like it had just been yesterday. She was her mother’s fellowshipper in those days and upon talking with the son left all of us in tears. I bare testimony on the importance of members going out with the missionaries and fellowshipping and being friends with the investigators of the church. The biggest problem is that "Most" members feel like going out with the missionary for an hour or 3 is doing their part as members of the church in the Lord's work. I bare testimony that, that is wrong. Here is the example of a woman who "Truly fellowshipped" an investigator to the church who was baptized. And now 20 years later, because of the time and energy she spent becoming friends with her, she was able to remember all the experiences that she had, and she now is an instrumental part of the conversion of the family. The 2 boys of which will most likely serve missions and the Father of them will most likely be a bishop or even stake president. There are so many blessings that come from fellowshipping and I encourage you to seek out recent converts, less actives, or people learning about the church and try to be their friends. I say this in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Love you all,
Elder Stewart
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