you will have time for this one..

Happy new year all! 

What a wonderful time of year this is - truly it is no coincidence that we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus Christ and then a week later we celebrate a new beginning full of resolutions and goals to become better! and how perfect that our thoughts were so focused on Christ - that should not change in setting goals for 2014 - so my challenge to you all- amongst all your other resolutions - set one that will strengthen your relationship with your older brother mmkay? 

We had an exciting week this week mostly - it is hard with all the students gone still but we are still working hard and doing what we can - remember I told you about Carlos and Yumi? well they are still fantastic as ever! they even came to church on sunday - and brought another friend-  brian - and they are just so wonderful! teaching them is so great! we taught the plan of salvation a couple days ago and we had 2 members with us who have both returned form their missions in the last 6 months - anyway- as we are talking about the pre earth life carlos asks where the devil comes from - hmmm... and one of our members wanted to wexplain it! that probably shouldn't have happened.... he went into a little more depth than you normally would go into in teaching the plan of salvation for the first time... I was geetting confused myself! but thankfully carlos said it made perfect sense to him! oh thank goodness the spirit was working in that lesson! 

I can't really think of anything else exciting that happened this last week.. see this is what happens when I don't make a list! I am way too young to be experiencing this level of dimensia!! I hope you are all looking forward to taking care of me in my old age when I can't find the cell pohone that is still in my hand! 

Know that I love you all and am looking forward to hearing of your resolutions for the new year! (that means you can email me back and let me know..)

Love Sister STuyart - i don't know why it is so hard for me to type stuart.. but it rarely comes out right on the first try...

this is what santa clause looks like in new mexico -who knew??

and this is the Heiner clan that hosted us for christmas eve- such a great family!

this is where we spent christmas eve - in Old mesilla and we felt like singing the song the whos sing around the christmas treee- but instead we sang silent night.. much better!