Photos!

1 Me clemens and Elder LeBaron in the mission home when LeBaron got here!

(Elder Clemens is headed home so Elder LeBaron will be the new AP with Ryan)

2-3 At the airport saying bye to everyone.

4 Elder Elwood

5 The Office

 6 Elder LeBaron and me

Photos!

1-2  The office! back row: Elder Newman, Mendoza, Ortiz, Madruga

Front: me and Elder Clemens

3-4  Me and Elder Clemens in Villa Regina!!!

5-7  With some old comps in zone conferences

Elder Elwood

Elder Ortiz

Elder Lloyd

Photos!

0&1 - Saying bye to Elder Elwood and Hello to Elder Nielson

2 - Also a Minions tienda here!! It is cool :)

3 - Making Ñioquis! (Joy Gibb, these always remind me of you!)

4&5 - See that mountian in the distance, yeah it has snow!!! First time seeing it... from a distance.. a long distance.. in like 7 months!

6-8  - Our pension is so nice because we stole it from the hermanas!!

Photos!

hahah sorry for all the photos! (But we LOVE all the photos, right?)

We went to a fruit factory.. it was pretty cool! And they gave us a but load of fruit! 

Bored waiting for the bus.. Elder Elwood doesnt like pictures. 

attacking the chicken! (YUCK!)

Service

Hola! This week i have learned a lot of things! First. If you are going to give lunch to the missionaries for them to cook... give them something easy.... not just a full raw chicken. hahaha this week that happened to us! A family couldnt have lunch with us so the night before they just gave us this chicken to cook. We dont have an oven so we couldnt cook it like that... so Elder Elwood just looked at me and said ´well i guess we arent eating tomorrow!!¨hahaha it was so funny, but we ended up making something and it was actually delecious... kinda.. haha! But that was a skill that we learned this week! THis week i have also learned a lot about service. We have been in kind of a slow patch here in Godoy trying to find new people to teach and help them along. We decided to change up our methods, because if something isnt working you need to change it until it does. So we decided to look for more ways to do service this week. And it worked so well!! Matias is now progressing so much better because we went and helped him with some things he was building and cleaning up in his yard and we just created a bond and he opened up even more with us. We were just trying to do service where ever we could and we found a lot of people through that! When they see that we are normal people and that we are here to help and not just talk about Christ, they are more willing to open up and let us talk about Christ becuase they feel more comfortable. Makes me think of what we learn in Mosiah 2 how when we are in the service of our fellow beigns we are only in the service of our God. It is so true!! Go out and do some service this week! It is great!

Also this week i feel like all the other churches had a ¨bash the Mormons about Joseph Smith´week. Because we had more people than ever talking bad about him and yelling at us and stuff like that. I just want to testify to you all that I KNOW that he was and is a Prophet of God. Just like it says in Doctirne and Convenants. He did more for mankind than any other person save Jesus Christ himself. I am so greatful for Joseph Smith and all that he did for us and all we have today becuase he was brave and humble enough to fall on his knees and ask God. Now we have the book of Mormon and i can learn more about my Savior and how i can be more like Him. I am so greatful for that. I will defend him, and my Savior forever. (rant of the week over. haha) 

I love this gospel. I love my Savior. I know this is the truth and it can change lifes. Have a great week everyone. I love you all!!!!

Love,

Elder Stuart

Photos!

The zone

And I decided to teach Elder Elwood a few things... :)

Parkor Leads to Lessons

Well it has been a good week! Things are going pretty well with Elder Elwood! We had a pretty fun experience this week! We were walking by the plaza and there were some kids doing ¨parkor¨ hahah just some cartwheels and basic stuff like that. So i told Elder Elwood that we should go over there, we did and I made them a deal. If I did some tricks then we got to teach them something about God. They said yes thinking i was a stupid gringo, hahaha I am, and then so I did some things and they got really excited and then we had a great lesson with like 8 kids from 9-18 years old about God and Christ and Baptism! It was a great way to find some new people and we are going back tomorrow to see what we can do with them!!

We also had an experience that made me really think. We ran into a lady that didnt believe in God. We started talking with her and she just kept shutting us down. I decided I would just bare my testimony to her, so I did, and honestly I have only felt the spirit like that a couple of times. Then when i finished she had tears in her eyes, then after a couple seconds she got herself together and continued to bash us telling us it wasnt true. It was so sad to see that people are so taken by Satan that they wont see the light. I know she felt something and I am hoping it will start to Change her.

I know my Heavenly Father lives and loves each and everyone of us personally just like our fathers on earth. I know he is there and i have felt his overwhelming love many times. If we just pray sincerly and ask, he will give us an answer to all the questions and we will feel him there. I love you all!! Have a great week!!

 

Love,

Elder Stuart

Transfer

Well another transfer... and another change! I am staying here in Godoy and Elder Barrios is headed off to Bariloche. I am so grateful for the time that I got to be his companion. I learned so much and really learned that the Lord knows who and what we need in our life to help us grow into the people that he needs us to be. Now I am with Elder Elwood from Idaho. Another Gringo! haha gringos have their ups and downs. But i am way excited to work with elder Elwood and see what I can learn from him and what we can do together here in Godoy!

 

We had kind of a rough week. Juan and Antonia who came to church with us and were doing so good, their pastor came by their house and talked with them, and now they dont want to be baptized and are going back to their old church. That made me so sad. Because they were so close to opening the gate to a million blessings and because of a pastor they now cant recieve those blessings yet. We are going to try and see what we can do with them to help them see that this is the truth. On the bright side, we were teaching this lady this week and her daughter was there and didnt want to listen, but half way through the lesson she came and sat down and was really intereseted and so that was awesome! We are going to keep working our hardest to help her and our other investigators come to the waters of baptism!

Not much to write this week. But I know that this church is true. I know that it is only in the church of Jesus Christ that one day we will live with our families forever, and that makes me so happy! I am so happy to be a missionary in this day and see the Lord Hastening his work and seeing all the miracles that he does to help people recieve the gift of eternal life. I know that it is only through the grace and the atonement that we can be saved, and I am so grateful for the oportunity to preach his gospel. I love you all and hope you all have a great week and remember our Savior always!!!!!!

 

Love,

Elder Stuart