Hey Friends and Family,
I hope that you are all doing well and enjoying your summers, and that its not to hot out there. It is super-hot here. 110. But at least it is a dry heat. We had a really good week though, we are so grateful to be in this area at this time and to be doing the work that we are doing.
We had a visit from a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy Elder Echo Hawk this week. He is the only Native American Seventy as far as I know and he came to our mission to speak to us and also had a meeting with the Navajo Nations Government. He told us that the meeting with the Navajo Nations President was a really good meeting and that at the end, the President asked him for a copy of the Book of Mormon, How cool right? He talked a lot about our calling a missionaries. Elder Villarreal and Elder Echo Hawk are both converts of missionaries knocking on their door and they expressed their gratitude. Elder Villarreal told a story about how he once was visiting a mission and a missionary came up to him and showed him his name badge. It didn’t ring a bell to him and so he asked him who he was. Turns out he is a convert of Elder Villarreal’s daughter from her mission. He then called the missionary who baptized him and said that he met one of his other converts today. The returned missionary had no idea who he was talking about. He said because he baptized him. His daughter went on a mission and since his daughter went on a mission, this young missionary was baptized and went on a mission. And that missionary will have many baptisms in his mission, and that they will all be his converts. I thought about the effect we have on the future generations and into the next life. I’m so grateful to be part of this work in these Latter Days.
We met our new Mission President and his wife yesterday. They are also named the Millers. All of the Zone Leaders got there early to have an interview with him and his wife before the meeting. I feel so privilege to have the opportunity to sit down with them and to talk to them individually. It was a very special experience for me to meet them. Both of the interviews with them where very spiritual and even though I only will have 8 weeks with them I am so grateful for the experience.
Well we had a missionary in our little apartment go home due to his Cystic Fibrosis. Which was a very sad experience for us, also Elder Marler had to change companions to an English area so we are kind of sad about that. One nice thing that happen to us yesterday though is that we got a brand new Nissan Tacoma truck for our area. It has a whole 17 miles on it. It’s a good upgrade from the truck we had before. Well I don’t have much else this week. The Work is good, I’m happy.
Love,
Elder Stewart
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