And to think I Saw it on Mulberry Street

The first thing seen was good ole Socorro, New Mexico! Which is 2.5 hours north of Las Cruces. We drove up there last Wednesday night to drop off a sister who went home this last friday because she has been sick and the doctors can't figure it out - so she is going home to get better! So we took that 5 hour adventure in the car, missed the exit to get some icecream on the way home so we did an 8 mile loop (all for ice cream!! I am my mothers daughter!) and we gained a new companion! yay for being in a trio! Sister Field was serving in a family ward in the stake - well she still is, and so are we! we now get to cover two wards and it is crazy! but so wonderful! - anyway, she is from Garland Utah and is just the cutest little thing ever! She laughs all the time and it is little high pitched squeal that is just so wonderful! so with the three of us now covering two wards - we are living in two apartments kind of - Sister Fields apartment, which is right next door to my first apartemtn in Las Cruces on Venus Street and still the apartment on Espina - and at the end of the month we are moving yet again to another apartment on Wyoming Street becasue out lease is up on espina - it is wild! but we are making the most of it!

The next thing seen- was actually something not seen - and that was Carlos's baptism. We are bummed. But he wasn't baptized because he doesn't want to be - he still most definitely does -But let me tell you the story of what happened. We were supposed to see Carlos last Saturday night and then again on Sunday night to teach him the last lesson he needed and then to plan his baptism. Well he canceled on both of those. and I was a little bit tense - but everything would work out right?? But I really wasn't feeling too great about the situation.. So what did I do? Well I prayed of course! and I asked Heavenly Father if Carlos was not supposed to be baptized on Saturday to let us know in a way that we could not misunderstand! And the week went on. Thursday night came around and Sister Yenchik and I had a training to prepare for the next morning to present to themissionaries in Las Cruces and we definitely stayed up later than we should have.. and the night before we didn't get back to Las Cruces from Socorro until 11:25pm so that was a late night too- and it is somewhat tricky to handle stressful situations when you are lacking on sleep! but - President Miller taught us a few weeks ago that when we are on the Lord's errand, He will sustain us! there is some scripture that says that - but I don't remember it.. sorry! anyway -back to my story - only I need to back track a little bit- We were able to see Carlos on Thursday morning at 8:00 (definitely were supposed to be studying at that time- but extrememe situations call for extremem measures) and finish teaching him what we needed to- but still nothing for the baptism program. We still didn't know who he wanted to baptize him! Gaaa! (that is something you really have to worry about as a sister missionary who doesn't hold the priesthood..) We finally got that later that day and went and got him some baptism clothes and for the person baptizing himn and we figured that we would just take care of the program!  no need to stress him out with that stuff. and he still hasn't had his interview!! And all this time I am about to lose it! I still didn't feel all that good about the situation - but it wasn't anything that I couldn't misunderstand - so we kept moving forward! 

Then Friday morning rolls around - Sister Yenchik packs up to go to Alamogordo for an exchange and we head to Zone training. Our training went well in case you were wondering. After a wonderful lunch and a leadership training, where we had another trio of sisters in the zone call us about 17 times wanting to borrow Sister Field so they could go on splits for the afternoon adding to the stress of the day but we didn't answer becasue we were in a meeting, we switch companions and Sister Yenchik heads out to alamogordo 1.5 hours away until Saturday afternoon. Then we get a text from Carlos that says "Hi sistas! I got serious injury during physical conditioning on the A mountain." Theres your sign. Sorry Carlos that I prayed you to wreck your knee so you couldn't babaptized on saturday... I didn't mean it that way! But that was something I could not misunderstand. He got three deep cuts in his knee that have stitches and staples and a knee that can't bend. oops. But he is still great and still wants to be baptized. Thank goodness!

There you have the snapshot of Mulberry Street in Las Cruces New Mexico! I love hearing about what you see- so keep that coming!

I love you all!

Sister Stuart

Our Trio!

hard at work.. (totsally staged! I love it! but this was during our weekly planning that lasted waaaaay too long! I guess that is what happens when you have to plan for two wards)