It was snowing in Albuquerque this week as we traveled north for a full day of meetings and boy am I happy to be in Las Cruces still! My prediction is that it will hit 75 degrees on Friday- Sister Montini's guess is for Thursday. Winner gets a milkshake- so everyone pray for cooler weather until Friday! yesterday we got close - 73 - so needless to say, it is warm here and I don't think I am ready for it.. I can be here in the south for one more transfer and then send me north to Sante Fe for the summer! Now becasue I said that- I will go to El Paso.. I will go wherever the Lord has need for me. Even if I stay here in Las Cruces for 9 months like my companion has! So next week- I expect she will be leaving here and I will get a new companion. Training calls come tomorrow- I don't think either of us will be training though - then transfer news comes Saturday night and I will let you know where I will be on Monday - well I guess I won't be able to tell you where - unless I stay. Otherwise I will just tell you I am leaving. But I guess I will stay. But we all know predicting can get you into trouble so I will just keep my mouth shut.
Stuart - is it Stuart of Butte? or is it the Royal Stuart? What is the story of our name? I once heard - I don't know from who - maybe I dreamed it - that the spelling of Stuart changed a long time ago when Mary Queen of Scots was unhappy with the French and decided to change it from Stewart to Stuart. Am I making that up? or is that real? and how do we know that? From where did the Stuart name come? I tried to look up my Stuart ancestors of FamilySearch and it goes back to the father of David Marshall Stuart - John Stuart, who married Mary Anne Marshall, and his father was John Stuart who married Anne Marshall and his father was also John Stuart who also married Anne Marshall. My guess is that something is wrong there. So needless to say - I did not learn where our name originates. Dad, willl you help me out? and for the rest of you who no longer share with me the same name - where does your name hail? Ure? maybe Sweden. Wolcott? Denmark. Althouse? Germany. Yuo should find out. then you should find out where your coworkers names are from. and if they don't know - invite them to find out! Invite them to do family history with you! there is a family history center near you. find it! and invite someone! (although- as you can tell.. I don't know how to use it correctly yet becasue I can't even figure out my own name! let alone someone else's! so better luck to you than me...) and when you do this - let me know!
And I need to tell you - yesterday, we met with the Director of Activities on campus to find out what we can and cannot do to proselyte here on the NMSU campus and they have this clause called the Freedom of Movement and Expression Act (or something like that) which allows anyone to share their ideas on campus- we can set up tables we can hand out flyeres we can color on the sidewalk with chalk! we can do all kinds of fun things! the only thing that we really can't do is chase people down:( And now I am super excited! but I need your help- if you were walking around on campus and saw two girls in skirts - what could they be doing that would intrigue you enough to come talk to them? Ask your friends too.. and remember - we have quite a bit of liberty here.
Here is to a new week of finding!
Love Sister Stuart
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