I can't think of the word.. one day I will discover it and tell you all what it is..

Good Morning! What a marvelous day it is to be alive and to be on the Lord's side! and to be breathing the breath He gives us each and every day! and my goodness I tell you what- I am so thankful to be serving in a place where it is sunny ALL THE TIME! I do miss the storms that happen in Utah and the gloomy weather- but that weather is only good to curl up with a really good book and hunker down for a couple hours in front of a fire- that is not possible as a missionary- so I am glad the sun is shining here! Find victory in the little things- it makes like heaps better.

But also in news of being on the Lord's side - last night we had a wonderful lesson with one of the less active gentleman,Doyle, in our ward where we studied Jacob 5- thank you Keni for the diagram!! It helped so much! anyway- the highpriest group leader and first assistant accompanied us and I learned so much more from that chapter- and I just wanted to share some of it with you! 

Starting in verse 61- actually no...I am going back to the general idea of the chapter and sharing with you some thoughts - that may be totally off kilter - so remember this is not doctrine.. just thoughts according to sister stuart. So whenever I have read this chapter I always ave read it as the Lord of the vineyard being the Lord Jesus Christ - which makes sense right? But then as I have been studying it this last time I was thinking - if Crist is the Lord, who is te servant? Is that us? But that didn't really make sense to me... so then I rethought it a bit- maybe the Lord is really Heavenly Father and the Servant is Jesus Christ - hmmmm - I mean it is always the servant that is pleading with the Lord to give tem another chance is it not? Isn't that what Christ does for us? Kind of sounds like Doctrine and Covenants 45:3-5 to me! okay- back to Jacob 5 - verse61. the Lord calls servants- the missionaries duh duh duuhh! which is the obvious answer - but if you think about it? Who truly are those other servants? the prophets, the apostles, our leaders, and EACH AND EVERYONE OF US!! we have all been called to labor in the vineyard- which is wherever we are! and the coolest part about all of it is that we are not alone. If you look over to verse 72 The Lord of the vineyard is laboring with us! how neat is that? what a promise! and if we labor diligently - the promise in verse 71 will be ours- we will have joy in the kingom of Heavenly Father in the the fruits of our labors! sounds a bit like doctine and covenatns 18:15-16 eh? Yep! but the real eye opening thing that I ained understanding of occurs in verse 62 - talking about the last and the first (please forgive my typing -as usual.. but even more today - this keyoard is sticking. especially the b key and the h key- I have been fixing some errors- but not all.. it takes too much time and when you want to write yor family a novel.. that time is precious!) as we read that- th HPGL asked Doyle if he understood what that meant - he said no - then the HPGL turned to us.. Uhhhhhh. yeah I've got nothin.. so then we went into a great discussion about it - and I learned an important thing about how the spirit works. You can't just sit there and wait for him to put something into your mind before you start talking - you just have to start going and trust that the holy ghost will enlighten your mind as it happens! sounds like Doctrine and Covenants 33:8-10 huh? and that is exactly what happened last night! Who was fist? well the Jews were first- they walked and talked and were ministered unto by Christ. Sounds like first to me - and the gentiles were last - so in this the time of the gathering of israel - we do not see many jews coming to the gospel- it is not their time yet. but the inspiration goes further ( you maybe won't appreciate this like I did.. but it was so awesome!) Who is flocking to th gospel right no? Those who are of the tribe of Ephraim mostly- one of the blessings of coming from the lineage of Ephraim is having the ability to recognize te truth when heard so it just makes sense- and if you think about it, when was ephraim born?  He was the younger son of Joseph, the 11th of 12 sons of Jacob- sounds like the last to me.. and Judah- the one from which the kingdom of the jes hail - was one of the older sons - sound like the first? Hmmm... it was so awesome! and our lesson on sunday in gospel principles was on being covenant people of the lord- beasue of the abrahamic covenant and the additional covenants we make. neat. so be true to your covenants family and labor in the vineyard and your joy will be full. 

Aonther thing I want to share with you from my scripture study- it was the one I was alluding to last week - the one where I was looking for the literary term that explains when the reader knows what is going on and the characters don't - so whatever that word is.. that is what this story is about. Go with me, if you will to the year 62 BC- a mighty leader is doing all he can to reetain the cities they have take over and maitain their possesion of such so the enemy cannot take it back - but he knows he cannot do it alone. so he asks the government for help- and none comes! He does not recieve anything he asks for - not even a letter back! as you can imagine - his anger is boiling! so he sends another letter! does the stoy sound familiar? it should.. but if not, you can read it at the latter end o alma- I will be referring specifically to chapters 59-61. As you read this account- your emotions seem to match those of Moroni and you really feel for him. You can't imagine hy Pahoran and his governamnet are just sitting on their thrones not helping out any of teir people. Dang overnment!!what are you doing??? and then you read Pahorans response... oh. I get it. Sorry about my anger. and what an awesome guy is Pahoran? he says to Moroni -" in your letter - you have chastised me and yelled at me and thought I was a good for nothing little sleaze - budon't worry, I am not mad! I am so happy! I do rejoice!" and then all is well- but if you remember.. I am reading the Book of Mormon backwards at the time being.. so I read Pahorans response first.I kew what his situation was and what the affairs were like in Zarahemla - so when i was reading Moroni's letter, I was so incredibly uncomfortable! oh my word it was awul!!! I just wanted to call out to him- no moroni, don't write that! you will regret it! you do not know what is trylu going on! If you could see the whole big picture- you would know wy Pahoran has stilled his hand! don't say things you will regret!! and what a lesson it was for me - ho often do we suppose somthing is going one way- ut in reality it is completely different. Heavenly Father knows all- He knows what is best for us - not just in the moment, but in the long run - for the eternities! We need to trust His always - he knows. We don't want to be like Moroni (well we do- He is pretty much incredile - but just in this one circumstance we don't) and question God and his working, or lack of(as we may perceive), in our lives. and what a good lesson or me to learn right before the news of transfers come in... I AM STAYING! for another transfer in the star heights ward of Rio Rancho new mexico. That will make at least 7 months here. Holy toledo! and what is even more mind boggling- sister Brown and I are staying together! that willmake at least 6 months toether. whoa. but there is a change... We are getting a third companion! Trio number two! Bring it on!

sorry this last week was a blur- too much anticipation for transfers.. so I don't remember what work we really did (we did a lot though. promise) so that is why I shared with you the things I am learning from the scriptures. I love the scriptures. Best things ever. feast on them. They will tell you everything. 2 Nephi 32:3.

I love you all! thanks for reading. Thanks for loving me- even when you can identify my bipolarity in words.

Love Sister Stuart

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