May 30th, 2016

Happy Birthday Sister Strachan! I love you and your husband, you both are awesome!

Elle! Happy Birthday! I hope that you are having a great week!

So it has been a crazy week! I have loved it but it has been really hard as well.

We had a zone conference and it was wonderful we had a great discussion that was led by Sister Rehm, she talked about the different motivators that we as people have the physical and spiritual. We were able to talk about different ways to help each other out all in all it was a great meeting!

However President Rehm told us that we had a special meeting with him Saturday and that was all he said, so needless to say we all started to panic a bit. Then a lot.

Finally on Saturday we all gather together at the stake center and president Rehm tells us that the mission boundaries are being changed!! The entire Parker South Stake is going to be handed over to the Denver mission starting this Wednesday, so we have been packing up everything the past few days and getting ready for the great exodus of the Parker south stake. It has been really hard to say bye to everyone but I know it is the will of God so I will do what he wants me to do.

I am being transferred back down to the San Luis Valley, I am going to a little town named Sanford! I am looking forward to it, I think it will be a great experience!

I have been thinking a lot this week about different choices that we make and what they will lead to and how we can change. First every day we make at least one very important choice, we can either do something or not. the choice is up to you every day, that choice will lead you to one grow or two drift if you grow you will be able to control that growth if you drift you will not be in control you give that up.

second how we can change, first we have to have so idea of who we already are, then we have to make a goal of who we want to become, then every day we have to make a choice to change and not look back. It is not a fast process but it is one that everyone has to go through to make steps forward.

I love you all and hope that things are going well!

Elder Stewart

May 16th, 2016

Happy Birthday Uncle Roger!

This week has been interesting, we have spent probably 40+ hours in service. We have moved people, cleans things and built stalls. All while teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

 It is the time of the year when there are moves and so we have been going around helping people move in or out and just helping get people situated in life and what not.

On I think Thursday night we were told that a guy we hadn't finished moving that morning would be finishing up at 8pm so we went after to help out how ever we could. We show up at 8 and no one but the elderly gentlemen is there and he can't move any of the big stuff. The U-Haul is still filled! No one is there and it getting late and he live on the 3rd floor and the stairs are small and the hallway is even smaller, so my companion and I get to work. We move his huge bed, desk and dresser and then we have to leave and then we go back with our district the next day and finish up, it was really fun to see how grateful he is and it was great to see how we were able to help him out.

I have recently gotten in to tie trading and so Family I need you to send me all of my ties... I do not have enough... Lot of love :)

We spent a couple hours Saturday building a horse stalls and ripping posts out of the ground with a jeep. It was great!

Thank you Grandma and Grandpa Stewart for the Birthday Card! And thank you Brother Andrews for your card as well!

I love you all and I prayer for you all often,

Elder Stewart

May 9th, 2016

Happy Mother’s Day! I hope that you all felt loved yesterday! You Mothers and pretty much all women are just awesome! You are great people and wonderful examples to me!

It has been a wonderful week! Sunday I got to Skype for a little while my fantastic family and it was great to hear and talk to them!

We had a pretty eventful week, we helped chase horses down, passed out burritos, move boxes and met lots of new people!

At a ranch that we volunteer for we went out to a pasture to get a horse and the Horse just was not going to have it. This horse proceeded to take four elders on a high-speed chase all around this field, we spent 20mins sprinting around and trying to corner the Horse so that we could move her to another field. It was really pretty to watch the horse run and all that however I only wish I had not warn my boots.

Then the next day we helped some people clean out a storage shed and we filled a dumpster all the way up with boxes of just stuff. It was taking a long time and was really boring so we figured out that we could just make a bucket brigade with the boxes and it worked out really well, it sped up the process a ton!

There was a 5K run that we helped out with as well we, got there at 7 and helped people in the Parking lot for a couple hours then we passed out breakfast burritos to everyone after the race finished. We also played in the park for a little while as well because why not.

We also found a new Part member family and we taught them the message of the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It was a great lesson! We were able to invite them to draw closer to our Savior and learn more about him.

We got a copy of the May Ensign and I have been going through the Conference talks in it. It really struck me this week just how much and just how important we are to Heavenly father. He has done so very much to give us the choice to be happy if we want to be. That is why He sent his son, that is why he gives us prophets and leaders, family, friends, Trials and every other earthly experience. It is all done so that we can chose to be happy or to not be.

He loves us very much.

I love you all and I hope that you have a great week this week!

Elder Stewart

May 2nd, 2016

First off Happy Birthday Uncle David!! One year younger!

Also Happy Birthday Sayre! You are not a year younger but you are getting old now. Hope you have a great Birthday both of you!

It has been a pretty good week we have been filling a lot of our empty time with Service and Finding activities which has been really great!

We also went to the Parker South Stakes Family Discovery day! Which was so much fun. I learned about a bunch of really cool websites that you can do some really awesome stuff with. There was one where you can print out a family fan chart and you can see where the holes in your family are its called Treeseek.org I recommend it as well as Relitivefinder.org both are really great and super fun!

Genealogy is really important everyone it tell you where you came from and you can help them as much as they help you! Listen to the last word of Malachi and "turn your heart" to those that came before you.

I am very grateful for the chance that I have on a mission to study so much as well I have been reading the Book of Mormon and the New Testament a lot this week and it has been amazing to see the Life of Christ and the Prophecies of Christ!

I love you all!

Thank you Eliza for your letter! And thank you Sister Hurst for sending it! I loved it!

Elder Stewart

April 25th, 2016

So I forgot my camera again... I am really bad at taking pictures though so there really are not very many new ones... whoops

It is the week of transfers; both I and my companion are staying here in parker!

It is really awesome here now that i kind of know where things are at we have been able to get a lot more done!

We are trying to find more people to teach and it is starting to pick up. It has been really awesome to meet so many new people in the wards that we are working in!

This past Sunday at church the speakers were great in the YSA one Brother talked about how if you want to be happy then you have to follow the plan that leads to happiness and compared it to wearing a retainer after braces. If you don't wear it your teeth will become crooked again but if you do they won't just like in the gospel if you are doing the small things every day it will be much easier for you to make those good choices.

We have been doing a lot of service this past week we went to one horse ranch and shoveled snow for like 2 hours after the freak blizzard dropped like 20in of snow on us last weekend. Then we went to Goodwill the next day and helped them out going through the donations. (Weird stuff comes in to Good Will, like really weird) And then we helped out at another Horse ranch! I did not know how much I liked Horses until I came here to Parker. It is really awesome how many horses there are up here.

We had dinner last night with this really awesome family and they had 2 sets of twins! it was so much fun to talk with them they are super young and so we got some very interesting questions about our lives and they were very excited to hear that I like the color green it was something that they went back to very often to make sure that I wasn't making things up.

I have been studying a lot in the Book of Mormon this week and I have been reading about Ammon and his service to King Lamoni. Ammon came in and was taken all tied up before a man who could have killed him in a second if he chose to, and when he was invited to become a member of the Kings family he just said that he would be a servant to the king instead. He then risked his own life so that he could help safe the king’s flock. The king was in shock when he heard about all of this and he asked Ammon who he was. Then Ammon just taught him the plan of God to bring all of His children back home.

Let us all chose the better part and serve each other that is what leads to the most happiness in this life and the life to come.

Thank you Brother Andrews for your letter this week! I always love hearing from you!

I love you all and I hope and pray that you will know and feel how much our Father in Heaven loves you as well this week.

Elder Stewart