August 22, 2016

This has been a really great week! We had our Mission tour and Elder and Sister Anderson of the 70 and Elder and Sister Nattress of the 70 came and spoke to us and taught us. It was so awesome to see and hear from them.

We drove up to Pueblo Thursday night and drove back to the Valley Friday after Mission tour was over. From this trip I learned a lot about myself, I like road trips, I like to drive during road trips. We drove up with the Elders serving in La Jara, Elders Soller and Tillman. We are a small 4 man district but it is so much fun!

One of the things from Mission tour really stuck out to me, Elder Nattress said it. "Any man can do the work of ten men, However it takes a great man to get ten men to work." In life we can work really hard and that is a really good thing we must work hard and learn as much as we can, but just as we must work hard there are many times in life when we need to help others work hard and we can if we choose to not do that. However when we help others work as hard as we work then things that seemed impossible become possible.

So pretty much everyone in Sanford has at least one apple tree, and apples cost more than I want to spend money on so for our lunch day we went and picked 2 huge bags of apples and then we realized that we picked a lot of apples. So we were trying to figure out what to do with them all and we came up with the idea of making apple sauce. so after all our lessons Saturday night we started the process of making apple sauce and we did not fully understand how much we would get we had 4 pots boiling constantly for about an hour and a half and we were mashing the apples and the end result was about 2-3 gallons of apple sauce! So if anyone has recipes that us applesauce send them my why, we could us them.

Also it has to be said. Congratulations Taylor and Anthony! I am so excited for you!

I love you all and I hope and pray you look and take the time to recognize that our Father in Heaven loves you as well!

Elder Stewart