July 11th, 2016

This week we have been very fortunate to meet a lot of people!

We have started to do service at a retirement home and that is super fun! We pushed them around Walmart and we play bingo with them! They might not be "all there" but they are very kind people.

We have been working a lot with members to talk with their friend and family! It is so wonderful to see people talking with people they care about, about what matters most. If you are happy then you will want to share that joy with others. This life is a time for people to learn and to "prepare to meet God" I know that it can be really hard to talk to people about Religion. But if we don't talk about things then it becomes that much easier to forget them.

I hope that you will all talk with those people that you care about and tell them what matters the most to you.

It has been about 10months now that i have been home I didn't realize how fast the time has gone! I have learned so much in the past months and I have felt the guiding light of the savior in my life. I have come to know that every day is a gift, and if we don't use a gift it is wasted. The way that we use the gift of this life is we learn. While I was talking to a good man a few months ago he said something that really struck me. "A day we don't learn something new is a day wasted" I hope that everyone will be able to take the time to go explore something new every day. I know that as you do things will begin to become clearer in life.

I will work to make next week’s email more in depth into what is going on I can't really remember what has happened this week. It has gone by so fast...

Love you all!

Elder Stewart

July 4th, 2016

 

Happy 4th of July! I hope that you all had wonderful BBQ and firework displays, I was so much fun here in Colorado!

This past week was fantastic! We have been going out with a lot of the Young men who are leaving on missions in the next couple of weeks we have said good bye to a few of them so far I wish the best to them all they are going to be fantastic Elders of the Lord.

To be completely honest, I am pulling a blank on this past week. The past like 9months are all running together and I am not sure what week I have done what. So I will talk about this past P-day because it was a really fun P-day.

First off we went to this really beautiful hike to a water fall, it is called Zepata falls, we hiked up into the cave where the water fall is and we took a pretty sweet district picture! And I was able to set up my hammock for the first time in about 4 months! So it was already a really fun day! After that we went to the Great sand dunes and we went sand boarding for like 3 hours I was not very good but I only crashed like twice, it was so much fun! Then last night we were able to watch the Fireworks and it was a pretty good show!

I was reading through this past conference and Elder Hollands talk stood out to me again, and I was thinking about what "tomorrow" brings, it can be really scary we really do not have any solid evidence of "tomorrow" however we hope that it will come and that it will be better than today. That got me thinking about what control we have over tomorrow, I think that we have more than we realize. We cannot control what happens to us but we can control where we go and what we do when we get there. Tomorrow will come even if we don't want it to. We will always be able to control if we will be happy with tomorrow though.

I hope that we can all choose to have a happy tomorrow even if unhappy things happen.

I love you all and I know that God loves you and will look out for you, Have a wonderful today and a happy tomorrow,

Elder Stewart