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Hello Family of the Promise!

What a wonderful week it was- especially to be culminated in hearing form our dear dear Prophet!  How wonderful was that! I carried on the blessed tradition of conference crepes! (thanks kemp for the recipe- they were delicious as always!) We tried to get permission to watch in our PJ's - that was quickly denied.. so I wore slippers :) 

As we fed kiddos physically, i was most definitely fed spiritually by the many wonderful testimonies born (beared, bared barren??) by those we sustain as prophets seers and revelators. What a wonderful oportunity it is for us to have them! To have a church that is so truly led by Jesus Christ - as President Packer so clearly related to all of us. And what a wonderful way to start the conference - reminding us all who we worship and who stands at the head. What a great reminder. whad what a fanatastc way for the conference to be ended! by Elder Bednar speaking to all those who are not members- stating that our simple desire is to share the truths of the gospel with everyone! to invite them to come and see. I also especially loved his conviction! I feel all the speakers this time around had a lot of that too! there was not a lot of fluff - just straight to the point- this is what you need to be doing so get to doing it! how wonderful. I especially loved elder klebingat(maybe?? Jorg is his first name) message to all of us! When he asked the question about having a PPI with the savior in one minute my mind went crazy! am I ready for that?? I most definitely should be - So I loved the six points he listed to increase our confidence so we can stand resolutely in front of the Savior when that time comes. And who knows- it might just be in one minutes time. So in essence - I just absolutely loved conference. And as you all know me - general conference usually meant time for the BEST NAP EVER! (I don't know why, but I always seemed to get the best sleep ever during those broadcasts... probably becasue the spirit was washing over me like it did so many in the Book of Mormon:Alma, King Lamoni, King Lamoni's dad etc..) but I wasnted that habit to change.. a goal of my mission, and the three general conferences I would be able to listen and enjoy while serving with a name tag, was to stay awake for an entire general conference! not sleeping thorugh any of it! october and april of 2013 I missed it.. so this last one was my last chance! I rocked the first two sessions! no problem! and then came sunday morning.. I was a bit drowsy - and sitting on a really comfy couch in a less activ'es home was not helping that - but Iwas determined! especially becasu the prophet would be closing the session - and every single talk it seemed was leading up to his address! Nad explinaing the importance of following and heeding the counsel of the Prophet - so I wanted to hear what he had to say! And I made it! to his talk! yay! and I was so excited! but then.. my head started nodding. and I was out. bummer... but I did get some good notes! Until one lines says (and this is an actual quote from my conference notebook where I was taking notes) "all those who are left-handed have left the Lord- but there is a way back" I am pretty sure President Monson did not say that! My brain is crazy! Needless to say- I will be listening to that talk today when I finish this email... oops. So I did not accomplish my goal as a missionary -but I still have a lifetime to do so! Until next april.

But I will tell you- I had a really really good nights rest Sunday night - so much so that I fell asleep while writing in my journal - with my foot in the window- and my lovelycompanion took a picture - she said of all the crazy ways she has seen me fall asleep- she had to get at least one picture... 

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and in other news of miracles - we have four people right now preparing to enter the waters of baptism and making acovenatnt with Heavenly Father ! Yahoo! 3 of which will be happening in this lovely month of October.

I also- want to share with you about the lovely day we had yesterday - We had a lesson cancel - so we thought our whole day was going to fall apart. yay! taht ususally seems to happen - especially if it is one of the first lessons of the day- which this one was.. so the lesson cancelled but this allowed for us to have dinner earlier with one of the less actives in the ward who does not like to eat late - so we called and she said great! come over at 4! so we did - and the first miracle was - we had GF pizza! from papa murpheys! so delicious! I highly recommend it! the second miracle - her neighbor, who she has been trying to get us in touch with but he just wont commit happened to come over at the same time we did and so we had a fantastic lesson with him and read the book of mormon with him and he most definitely felt the spirit! it was awesome! and then we left dinner as it was about 5:40 at this time. and now the day we had planned is totally mixed up - we dicided to try the investigator we had planned to drop by after our originally planned dinner was over at 6:30- so we went by 45 minutes earlier than we had planned - and she was home! we had a really great lesson with her and finished up right as she needed to head out the door to go pick up her son from football at - what time do you think? yep- 6:30. and then we went to help a member in her home and it was just the best night ever! full of miracles! so thank you stevie for being sick and cancelling our apointment - becasue we saw many many miracles baceause of it. just goes to show how much wiser Heavenly Father is than us huh. Becasue If we would have taught Stevie - we would have gone to dinnner at 5:30 - the pizza still would have been there- but Robert would not have. we would have still had a great lesson with Carmen - then we would have gone to see Katherine and she would have been running out the door so a lesson would not have happened there and we wouldn't have seen her face light up as we talked about the restoration. It was just a night of miracles. neat. And let me tell you a side note miracle about katherine- the spanish sisters contacted her one day- gave us the referral - we only had 15 minutes before an appointment when we stopped by so we quickly taught about the book of mormon did the get to know you kind of stuff- what do you know about the church - what role has religion played in your life? you know - that kind of stuff.. she told us that she is good friends with a member fmaily in ABQ- their sons play on the same football team snd have for years so they have gotten quite close. And that family lives in the first ward I served in! Crazy! but it gets better- Katherines little baby girl comes running out and I recognized her - so I asked katherine.. have you ever been at the Begay's (the fmaily in ABQ) when missionaries were over - I think I have met you before? she thinks about it and says _ oh yeah- but it was about a year ago and I think they were leaving or something like that. It was me!! and My first companion! we were being taken out of that ward and so we had our last dinner with the begay family and katherine was there! she didn't want to learn more about the church then- but now, one year later- I am teaching her! and she is so excited to come to church! crazy huh? yep I thought so.

So it was a pretty good week. Always exciting things happening here - including breaking the law. 

I love you all!

Sister Stuart

Onward and Upward- and on, on to the victory! forward and not backward

the pictures were not loading as I was composing the email and I tried and tried and tried... then tehy loaded!.. so you get blessed with loads of copies of it! whoops...

and upon re listening to President Monson's adddress - I most defintely was sleeping.. He didn't say anything like what I thought he did! whoops! But what I did get from his address was that we need to become like Christ! follow His glorious example - but how can we do so unless we come unto Christ? Watch this video- it'll melt your heart.. https://www.lds.org/youth/video/come-unto-christ-2014-theme-song?lang=eng

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