Hello family!
Welcome to the start of week five in NM! one transfer is almost over! Holy!
This past week our nation had the opportunity of celebrating its birthday! I love America! We had an incredible sacrament meeting in one of the wards (the one I didn't speak in) about America and the service men and women. It was so cool. It made me really think about how blessed we are to live here where we have so many freedoms. Thank you dad for instilling patriotism in me. Thank you for serving in the Army. Thank you for teaching me about this country and how wonderful it is. Thank you for being proud to be an American. Thank you mom for supporting him in his service over the years. I know it probably was not easy to pick up and move every few years but that is what was necessary and you did it. Also, thank you Aaron for serving in the Army as well. It is people like you who inspire me so much because you have such a desire to serve our nation and preserve these freedoms that we all hold so dear. It truly is an incredible thing you are doing. You too Amy. I wish you the best as you embark on this journey of being an Army wife. I know it won't be easy all the time for you- what with your honey in class and busy and such and with the moves, but know you are doing the right thing in supporting him! And remember you will have an instant network of friends wherever you go in the church!
How cool is that? (new paragraph because this isn't just for amy and aaron anymore it is for all y'all) No matter where in the world we end up, we have support from people with our same standards. We don't have to go church hunting. We don't have to worry (so much) about finding friends. We have all we need in the gospel of Jesus Christ in this His church. and now my plug for missionary work - don't forget your neighbors though. Meet them. Befriend them. invite them into your home that is centered on Christ. Let them feel the spirit in your home and INVITE THEM TO LEARN MORE! The missionaries will love you for it :) so will Heavenly Father because you will be actively engaged in the work of salvation!
Speaking of the work- we set a date to meet with Christies mom!! It is not quite as soon as we would like - *EEEEP* BREAKING NEWS *EEEEP*- Sister Brown and I are sitting in the library typing away in our emails and the gentleman at the computer next to sister Brown is getting up to leave and is very impressed at how fast she is typing, so we begin chatting. then he asks us what church we are from and we proceed to tell him we are from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and he says "oh mormons?" Yep that is it! then he tells us that we are good people! (all right mormons!) then we ensue to have a quick discussion on Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon - and then proceeded to give him a copy with a
mormon.org card with our phone number on it and he said something roughly amounting to being an open minded person but that he doesn't believe everything he hears to which we were able to direct him to Moroni 10:3-5 which encourages us all to find out for ourselves of the truth. then he proceeded to thank us profusely and left. So cool! -*EEEEP* BREAKING NEWS *EEEEP* - (just imagine that popping up at the bottom of your screen) now back to your regularly scheduled program - So we are with Christie's mom on the 16th. She didn't want to meet with us until Christie was home from NY - we are really hoping the permission will come that night( we should maybe learn her name first..). and then four days later she will be baptized in to the fold of God! Yahoo! and we can almost say [s]he's gonna be baptized
tomorrow! (what movie?)
Back to the fourth... How were your celebrations? I tried to imagine what y'all were doing and I guessed mum and dad would be out on the bikes and it sounds like I was right! I miss that a little bit. Sounds exciting to be caught in the rain - was Keni on the ride? (ha!) speaking of getting caught in the rain, we went to help a sister clean out her pond this past week (yes, you can ask the missionaries to do that mum) and she was so kind as to let us sit on the side with only our feet in the water and she would bring the buckets of lilies over to us for us to clean the algae out of so we wouldn't have to get wet and then the rain, which has not come in a long time, definitely came. and it rained hard. and we were soaked to the bone. and it was cold. but we finished and it was wonderful!
Pass my congratulations on to Rich and Andy! and to Danny and Kenna I guess.. and to Austin! How exciting that he got baptized! Keep me posted!
Good luck dad on your marathon! Is anyone running it with you? Keni? Michael? Steve? and mum you can do the half! I know you can! get some of the ladies in the ward to do it too! How fun!
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| Sister Brown, Sister Miller (New President's Wife) and Sister Stuart |
The new president is wonderful! I am so excited for them! They will be so wonderful! I talked to sister Miller about here meeting you Ken and she got so excited! so she made sure we took a picture so I could send it to you!
Sorry this one is again scattered.. but we are off to exchanges tonight! I will tell you more next week about the new president and also how exchanges went!
I love you all again!
Sister Stuart
p.s. if you need a pep talk- read 2 Nephi 1. Lehi gives the pep talk of the century while on his death bed! Love him!
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| And thank you Amy for the picture to hang on my wall! I love it! |
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