September 24, 2012
Hey it’s me... Elder
Stewart!
Everything is going just
splendidly here in the glorious Texas McAllen Mission. This week was great!
Elder Eggli was a little bit sick in the beginning of the week so it started
off a little difficult, but the work still must go on! Elder Eggli was sick
with a pretty nasty cold so I worked with Elder Aguilar in his area for a
day and Elder Wilding stayed home to take care of poor little Elder Eggli
and clean the apartment. But he's feeling a lot better now... he just has a
nasty cough and loads of mucus! But he's good enough to work!
We have been working
really hard to focus on our progressing investigators and helping them get to
baptism, and I'm afraid we let some of our other goals slip this week like new
investigators and referrals. We were still looking for them, but not with as
much ganas as we could have I believe. But our progressing investigators are
doing SO GOOD!
This Thursday Samantha
Garcia was baptized! Her baptism was SO amazing and the Spirit was felt
strongly by everyone there. Bro. Kline from the Sherryland Ward baptized her
and when she came up out of the water she had tears in her eyes. It was
beautiful. This Sunday I confirmed her a member of the Church and then the
Branch Presidency invited her to give her testimony of her conversion in front
of the whole Singles Brach. She did SO good! During Relief Society she texted
and said, "I’m just so happy!! Thank you guys!" She is a miracle and
one of Heavenly Father's choice daughters. She even said that she wants to
transfer to UVU next year to play for their golf team! So I might get to go to
school and hang out with one of my converts when I get back! I already invited
her to Sunday dinner haha.
Bro. Harkrider is doing
really well. We moved up his baptism for this next Sunday, on the 30th and
he's really excited for it. We also invited his 10 yr. old son, Derek, to be
baptized on the same day and he accepted! So this week we'll be preparing to
help them be baptized together. We mostly have to focus on teaching the son.
Bro. Harkrider is a great man and will definitely lead his family to the
Temple! Last night Hna. Harkrider texted us, "Sebastian (their 5 year old
son) hizo su 1st oracion. Creo nuestras vidas estan cambiando." I love
that family!
The rest of our
investigators, the Camacho Family, Ana, and Julio, didn’t come to church so
we'll have to see what happened there this week. We bring it up every time we
visit with them so there shouldn’t really be an excuse. But we'll see...
The only thing I think
Elder Eggli and I need to work on right now is diligence in all of our goals
especially finding! So that will be our focus for this next week.
I'll definitely check out
Walmart for that box stuff and I'll try to fill it to the brim this time with
goodies and pictures! Sorry it's taken so long!
I love you all y iespero
que tengan una buena semana!
-Elder Jordan Stewart
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