Hello mother and father!!
Thank you for all of your love
and support. It was an incredible week here in Richfield. We broke our record
for lessons taught that we set last week, and we had a miracle baptism! It is
so different serving in two stakes up in this town than in St. George, but I love
it.
This weekend Elder Fragoso
baptized J on Saturday and I got to confirm him on Sunday. It was pretty crazy
working with his family to get him baptized this weekend. He is 9 and he lives
with a family that was formerly less active. Elder Fragoso and Elder Chadsey
(the Elder who went down to Snow Canyon to be DL down there...small world) had
tracted into the family and they mentioned they wanted to get reactivated.
Well, the family has been coming to church, J was supposed to be baptized on Halloween
(they postponed it though), and yesterday A-the mom-told us that after Js
baptism she felt like she needed to be setting a better example of keeping the
commandments for her kids. We are super excited to be seeing all 5 of the Js'
at church (plus 2 nonmember friends that they bring;] ) consistently now. You
can count on the Holy Ghost to help change people's lives.
We kept working with J C and her
family this week as well (they are all Navajos) and she told us before we had
even invited her that "I need to start going back to church with my
kids". Yes!! We also invited her daughter to be baptized this week and she
threw up both hands and said "Yayy!!" It was nice to see such
enthusiasm and understanding from little V =] So we got them all to church on
Sunday, and the family took up almost a whole pew. J had invited all of her
kids, some cousins, and other family members; the only one that we were missing
was her nonmember husband.
We also found three new
investigators this week who have already been going to church. One is named N S,
and he has been attending the YSA ward in the Richfield stake since he
graduated high school in May. It has been really hard for the missionaries to
contact him however, and Elder Fragoso and I are the lucky ones to start
teaching him. After one lesson, he told us that he really wants to serve a
mission himself, and that he doesn't "understand why more people aren't
members of the LDS church". I really love this kid. He reminds me a lot of
people who were in my classes at Braddock, and he is such a straight
arrow...Elder Fragoso and I are buying him his own Preach My Gospel today, so
that he can prep for baptism and a mission at the same time.
Sorry it’s such a short email. I
just want you all to know that I am incredibly happy, Elder Fragoso is a great
companion (he is from Salt Lake as well, can you say post mission roommate?),
and we are tearing up Satan's kingdom here in this town. More than anything
else, I feel like it is a pleasure to serve the Lord at this time in this
place. It is so obvious to me that everyone I meet, every lesson we have, and
even every missionary that I serve here has been prepared for me. The Lord is
merciful with all of us, and when we sincerely want to serve him he will make
everything possible for us to make a difference.
I love you all! Keep praying for
missionaries! Just exercise a little faith and the Lord can do miracles through
you!
Un corazon muy lleno, (With a
full heart)
Elder Michael George Stewart
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