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