Another Ok Week!

Hi Mom,

 

We had another ok week. It all started on Tuesday, which Tuesday has become our busiest day of the week. You would think it would be the week end, but Tuesdays are always the busiest. Tuesday night we taught a lesson to our investigator Aaron G, the football player. Nicky another friend of the youth, who is a strong non-denominational believer, was there as well. This lesson, was the most spiritual lesson that I have participated in on my mission. It was a great lesson. Nicky told us his story of how he was born when his Mom was a teenager. His mother wasn't married, and didn't marry until a few years later to another man. Nicky wasn't with the best crowd about four years ago, and he began smoking marijuana. A year later his Dad died, which got him started in Church, and from that experience, Nicky had turned his life around. He is a great example to youth, and he is going to start reading the Book of Mormon. Aaron then told us his background, which was also amazing. He grew up without a church. When he was 10 years old he began to go to a Cowboy church. After awhile he stopped going. He also wasn't hanging out with the best crowd when he started high school, but he realized that he needed religion in his life, so he began looking. He said he could feel a difference every time he walked into a church, but he didn't really know what he was looking for at church. At the beginning of this school year, he read a little about our church. Later this year, he became friends with the youth of this ward. They invited him to church one week, and Aaron came. Then Aaron told us an incredible miracle that he had seen. The moment Aaron walked into the Church, just like in the other churches he walked into, he felt the spirit, but it was a little bit different. The way he felt told him that this was the church that he had been looking for, and the church that he needed to attend. He knew the church was true when he walked in the door, that is amazing to me.

 

As well as having good experiences, as missionaries there always has to be adversity. In Sunday school yesterday Aaron C was able to attend. He drinks a lot of coffee for health reasons, and the lesson just so happened to be about the word of wisdom. It was a scary meeting. Some of the members here just don't know when to shut their mouths. Aaron brought up his concern to the class, and every one felt like they needed to answer him. Elder Lynn and I sat there praying that he wouldn't feel offended. Luckily he is still willing to come to church and take the lessons, but he is against the Word of Wisdom, or at least the coffee part. So we will try to clear everything up this week. Wish us luck!

 

Besides all of that this week was a little slow. The challenge this week for McKinney Madness was number of lessons taught with a member present. We won again, so now we are heading into the finals which is number of baptismal invitations extended, so my companion and I are going to try to invite people at the door when we go tracting. Hopefully we have some success with it. I can't believe I am 1/3 of the way done. It has gone by fast, or at least it is going by fast now.

 

Transfers are coming up next week, but I hope I am staying. Sherman has been a great area for me, and probably will be one of my favorites for my whole mission.

 

Let me know if you hear where people are going on missions. I am excited to see where the youth go.

 

I love you! Have a fantastic week!

 

Elder Stewart