November 9th and 16th

Nov 9th
It has been a good week. Yesterday I taught in Gospel Principals about our Heavenly Family, it is such an amazing thing to think about! We had and have a family no matter what, who or where we are we are part of something eternal and amazing.
It snowed at our apartment this week not very much but I was still really excited about it. The snow is all gone but it was still fantastic! It has not gotten about 50 this past week and I am very grateful for warm jackets and gloves.
Thank you Grandma Brenda for the box! I gave some of the popcorn to one of our investigators son, he loved it and so did I!
On Friday night I saw some Raccoons in a member’s yard and I took pictures of them! I was way more excited to see the Raccoons than I really should have been... but it was exciting.
In my Book of Mormon studies I was reading about Helaman and the stripling warriors. They were very young men but they knew and believed that they would be protected as they fought to protect their home and their families. What are we doing to protect our Homes and our Family’s? If we are not praying and if we do not teach about Christ in the Home we have already lost the battle. There are big things that we can do but those big things are made up of little things such as daily prayer and scripture study.
The time has been going by so fast! I can't even believe it has been like 2 months already gone.
 My companion and I found this jerky place that is pretty cool.
On Saturday we went to our Branches Relief society’s Super Saturday! And we made Pillow cases it was so much fun. Elders and High Priest's Quorums should have craft days I think. They would be so much fun!
I love you all and I love hearing from everyone! I hope that everyone is doing well.

Elder Stewart

Nov 16th

It has been a good week! We have been trying to find this guy for the past few weeks; then a few days ago got a call from his wife and we were able to go over and teach the Restoration lesson with them both! They agreed to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, I know that it will be a blessing to their family’s life. 

It has been getting colder but that just means more people let us in and then we can share a message with them.

This Friday we are having a community showing of Meet the Mormons and we are hoping for a good turn out, we have been inviting people for the past two weeks and a lot of people said they would come so I am very optimistic about it.

Elder Nash of the 70 is going to be visiting our mission this week and I am singing in a quartet for when he gets here! 

We had zone training this past week and we went around Adams State and contacted several people!

It was great seeing some other missionary’s and we all went out to eat after as a zone and someone paid for our entire zone to eat! It was about 24 missionaries that they paid for. I pray that the blessing of Heaven will find them.

It has been cold! And it snowed a lot last night, so this morning we went over to the church building a build some snowmen! I had never really done that before but it was so much fun!! I learned a new skill about how to roll the snow into a ball. It was pretty sweet!

We also got to watch the new Christmas video for the church it is entitled #A Savior is Born and it was amazing I know that Christ is our Lord and Savior and I am so grateful for him and I invite all to ask and to Discover Why.

Thank you all for your emails and letters and know I love you all and pray for you all.

Elder Stewart

October 26th, November 2nd, 2015

It is crazy that Casas Adobes is now in the North Stake! That is pretty awesome though!

This week Elder Bennett and I went up to a small old mining town called Creede. It was really pretty. We talked with some less active members and one of them showed a book of Mormon that the cover had been slightly burned. A few years ago his house burned down, he was unharmed but so much was destroyed in the fire. One of the only things that survived was this old copy of the Book of Mormon that his grandmother had given him when he was a boy. Other than the cover it is completely unchanged. The Lord protects his work, The Book of Mormon is not the work of man it was not written by Joseph Smith it was written by many of God's prophets I

testify if that. It was amazing to see and hold that copy of the Book of Mormon.

I also learned how to bake bread! For anyone who does not know fresh bread is the greatest thing other than the Gospel. I am way more excited about bread than I should be but that is beside the point. It was great.

This week I have set a goal to not get in the way of the spirit teaching I have been trying to teach lessons and that is just wrong. I am not the teacher the spirit is. I know that this is the Lords work and not my own. Time has been going by so quickly I can even believe it! I am almost done with my first transfer it is Crazy!!

Elder Bennett and I went up to the mountains to help an investigator get fire wood. I got to cut down a tree! That was a first for me. We were up there dragging logs around for like 6 hours it was really hard but so much fun serving others. It was also a fantastic workout!

For morning exercise this past week we hiked up this hill it overlooks the town it was really pretty as the sun was rising to see the whole town and a lot of the San Louis valley.

Next month we are going to be having a community movie night and we are going to show "meet the Mormons" we are really looking forward to that I think it will be fun and it will help answer some questions that a lot of people have about us and we will be able to meet a lot of new people!

I love getting all of you emails and hearing from you all. Thank you for your prayers and all of your support!

Elder Stewart

Happy Birth Day Scott!! I will make bread and eat it in memory of you.

It has been a good week! It was the end of my first transfer! I am so grateful to be on a mission I love going out and talking with people about the Gospel. I understand a little bit better Alma the younger when he went to the Zoromites and he was just shocked by the ideas that they had about prayer and about how to worship our Father in Heaven. Some people have very interesting ideas about Heavenly Father. A sister in my District is going home this week she was really awesome to learn from but at District meeting Elder Bennett and I made breakfast for everyone! It was a lot of fun!

On Friday night our Branch had a Halloween pot luck. I make spooky punch! It was really awesome we had 22 non-members there! We also went on a church tour before it started which was really cool! I testify that there is a very special spirit in the Church buildings.

On the 31st we went Gospel singing with one of our investigators at this guy’s house. We sang hymns for about an hour and a half before we left Elder Bennett and I sang "I believe in Christ" for everyone it was an amazing opportunity. I love the Hymns and the different music that we have in the church. "The song of the righteous is truly a prayer unto the Most High.

Last Monday I learned how to knit!! I have started to make myself a scarf it is going to be blue and gray and it matches one of my ties! It is really fun and I am glad that I am learning new skills that I can use in my life.

Colorado has daylight savings and that started this week. It is such a weird thing. It is bright and sunny at like 6 and it is dark at like 5. Super inconvenient for tracking but we will find a way!

With this month being Thanksgiving ponder on the many blessings of the Lord. He loves all his children and will help you when you ask for it. Look for the reasons to be happy and don't let the world get you down.

I love you all and I know that the Lord will be with you as long as you strive to remain clean

Elder Stewart