Hey friends and family,
I hope you have had a good week this week. I have had an awesome week, but like always really stressful. We are still working on getting the families we are teaching baptized but the law is still making it pretty hard.
We had a cool experience this week, we went to a funeral for a recent convert named Manuel. He was baptized 3 weeks ago and this week his daughter passed away because she was very sick. At the funeral, it was so apparent from how Manuel was acting and how he was taking the death of his daughter compared to the mother (they are divorced) who was wailing and screaming and crying. Manuel handled it with calmness and it helped me realize how much of a blessing it is to have the knowledge of the Plan of Salvation and the effect it has on our lives and our decisions. The Holy Ghost really and truly is the comforter and has made such a difference on his life. Heavenly Fathers plan is so perfect and he does know every one of us, I believe that if Manuel would have not found the gospel when he did and accepted the invitation to be baptized that it would probably be another story. The cool experience came in when after the family went up and said something for their sister they opened it up to the rest of the 60-70 people there, all of them being part of the catholic or Jehovah witness church, and no one got up to say anything. Elder Hunter turned to me and asked "What would Paul do here?" I responded "He would go up and bear testimony about the resurrection." so up went Elder Hunter and he bore a powerful testimony about the Resurrection and then came to sit down. Then I felt like I needed to go up and bare testimony about what Elder Hunter had shared and added my own testimony of the Resurrection. We passed out a ton of Plan of Salvation pamphlets to everyone and it was a really good experience for us.
We had a "Ward missionary activity" this week and it was a big success. We had about 80 people who came to the activity and lots of investigators. There was food and videos and some people who played some music. Javier Cruz played a song on the guitar that he made himself and we had another family who are investigators and they have a band who played so it was really cool to have our investigators make up the musical talent.
The family closest to baptism is the Gallegos family. The father and 2 sons are so ready to be baptized. They participate in all the activities and come to church every week. The only thing they are waiting for is the wife to just make the decision to be baptized. She knows the church is true and the only thing that is holding her back is that she is worried about what others will think or say about her. I have learned a lesson that it is so important to not think too much about what anyone thinks about you or your decisions, we should only be worried about what God thinks and go forward with faith in all the things he wants us to do. I think that’s one of the secrets of this life.
Well 3 weeks left. I will see all of you so soon.
Love,
Elder Stewart
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