A Great Time in Roca!

Buen Dia Familia!!!

This week was super great! i had the chance this week to go to Roca for a few days to be able to work with some of the Elders that are there and it was great! i had a lot of great experiences this week, one of the greatest experiences that i had this week was with an investigator named Aimara. She is super prepared! she has been reading a lot of the book of mormon and i swear she knows more than i do. but she said that she hasnt felt yet that she needs to be baptized, she knew it was the right thing to do but said that she just didnt feel it. we were able to have a very spiritual lesson with her where we bore our testimonies and taught her the doctrine that she needed to know. at the end she couldnt stop saying thankyou because she said that she felt the same way that she did when the missionaries first taught her! (that was Elder Lloyd!! ) and she said she would prya to know when she needs to be baptized! i then got a call last night from the Elders and she is going to get baptized this friday! it was a great time there in Roca! i am back here in Nequeun so we will see what happens this week! Have a great week! Love you all!

Elder Stuart

Ps. my next pday will be on saturday due to transfers!

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Conference in Cipolletti. This is about the 4th time the 3 of us have had the opportunity to see each other, together! Elder Lloyd [Ryan's MTC Companion], Elder Stuart, Elder Bliss [Traveled to Houston and then to Argentina with Ryan]

Elder Stuart in Zapala!

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Me and Elder Lloyd! He is heading out of the office.

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Zone Conference 

1 - Group of Neuquén and Plottier Zones

2 - Food!!

3 - The Office Elders: Ramirez, Newman, Stuart, Esplin and Lloyd with LeBaron in back

4 - Elder Newman, Elder Ortiz and Elder Stuart

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1 - Lidership council!! Elders Stuart and Barrios

2 - Lidership council!! Elders Nachreiner and Stuart

3 - Those that have been in the office:

Me, LeBaron, Espinosa Peña, Mendoza, Barrios (dont know why he is there, he wasnt in the office haha!), Ramirez, Bliss, Madruga, Nachreiner, Johnson, Ortiz, Lloyd, and Jensen in front!

4 - MTC reunion, again! Elders Lloyd, Stuart, and Bliss!

5 - Thank you for all the christmas letters!

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1-3 Zone Conference with Neuquén and Plottier Zones

4 Welcoming 29 missionaries at the airport!

5 Elder Stuart welcoming missionaries at the airport

6-7 Feeding the new missionaries

8 The 29 new missionaries with their trainers behind them, along with President and Hermana Casariego, Elder Stuart and companion, Elder LeBaron

09 Elder Stuart and Elder Esplin, who is a new Office Elder

10 Part of the office! Elder Ramirez (new to the Office being trained by Elder Mendoza), Elder Stuart, and Elder Newman. Elder Lloyd, Elder Esplin (new to the Office being trained by Elder Ortiz, not shown), Elder Mendoza.

Elder LeBaron, y Elder Ortiz weren't here right now.

11 Sorry for the overload, but Ryan really enjoys Elder Ortiz and he made it back into the office for a picture. They ran together over 3 miles this morning!! 

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LImay District!

Hna Little, Hna Howard, Elder Lloyd, Elder Newman, Elder Mendoza

Elder Ortiz, Me, Elder Clemens

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Last p-day

We went to a city named Roca for a zone training!

Me and Lloyd with the argentina jerseys!

Me, Elder Clemens, Elder Lloyd, and Elder Ortiz!  

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1 - Well if anyone knows me, sometimes I just random bloody noses when the seasons change... so yeah that happened! luckily my comp has allergies and had tissues! good way to start talking with people! ;) 

2 - MTC group back together again! Elder Lloyd and Elder Bliss!

3 - freaking huge Rubix cube that Elder Lloyd taught me to solve last pday. dope

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Playing pool on pday!

1 - Me, Elder Madruga, Elder Clemens, Elder Lloyd, Elder Ortiz

2 - Me

3 - Elder Ortiz y Clemens

4 - and a nice hot dog stand here in Neuquen!! haha

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1 We went out to eat on P-day for Elder Madrug´s birthday! 

2 Then we got tired... haha!

3 Guess who is in the office now!  (Elder Thomas Lloyd, MTC Companion. He is now an Office Elder)

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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

Hola!

Hola mi familia y amigos!!

This week has been a pretty great week so far! Nothing really changes because we have the same schedule every week so I will just share some of my favorite moments of this week!! First off we had a lesson with our TRC investigator, Mercedes, and it went amazing!!! Half way through teaching the plan of salvation me and Elder Lloyd decided to sing "I am a child of God" to her. The spirit was so strong and she started to tear up. (even though i can't sing... good thing Elder Lloyd can and he carried us!) But i learned how much music and simple doctrine can really help someone. Just those simple words were able to bring our investigator so much joy knowing she had a loving Heavenly Father who wanted her back with Him. She wants to be baptized but still wants to know more so that is really cool!!! The language is coming along pretty good and I can usually understand what someone is saying, and I am getting better at being able to convey my feelings! The only way this is possible is through the Power of the Holy Ghost. Without Him. I am nothing. He is the teacher, and I am merely the instrument that He can work through. I love teaching people and helping them feel of their Heavenly Fathers love for them.

My second point is about the Tuesday night devotional, Elder Oaks of the 12 came and spoke to us!!! I felt like a celebrity was among us!! It was so exciting and so good and I just wanted to pull as much out of it as I could. The things that stood out to me the most was A the importance of the Sacrament. The sacrament is how we renew our covenants with God and become new again. Next time you take the sacrament really focus on the blessings that are in there if we strive to be more like Christ. Elder Oaks said that every member should know the sacrament prayer by heart. Becasue this is the way to become clean again and renew covenants so we can return to our Father in Heaven. The second thing I learned is that we must always teach with power and be worthy to teach of that power. No matter how good of a teacher and speaker i may be, i will never be successful without Divine help. This makes me think of one of my favorite scriptures, Alma 26:12, i encourage you all to read that and live it. I am trying to do the same. Those are just a few points of his talk that i loved.

Finally I am almost finished with the Book of Mormon!!! I can defintiely see the blessings in my life that have come from this. I started when I got here, and anytime that I have a question about anything i go into my studies thinking about that question and it is ALWAYS answered. The book of Mormon contains all the answers to life. If you need help with anything go to the Book of Mormon. Strive to read it daily. I can promise that you will see blessings in your life because of it. 

I am having so much fun here and I feel so much joy because I am surrounded by the spirit and my Savior Jesus Christ. Knowing that and that I have his name on my chest over my heart brings so much comfort. I know that He lives and wants to help us always. He is there always. All we have to do is pray and ask. He literally is just a prayer away. When life gets too hard to stand... Fall to your knees. The power of guidance and the atonement are there for us to take if we only ask in faith. I love you all and thank you all for your letters and emails, i will try and write you all back as much as i can. Hopefully some of my words will touch your hearts and answer your questions, because i know yours do that for me. 

Hasta Pronto. Con amor,

Elder Stuart

Photos! (Week 2)

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Left to right: Elder Russel, Me, Elder Luke Shill, Elder Nathan Moser, Elder David Edwards. Elder Benjamin Bliss, Elder Hayden Rathmell, Elder Benjamin Buzan, Elder Thomas Lloyd, Elder Holden Fielding

Sister (Brittney Johnson look alike) HIll, and Sister Zerilli

At the temple for our Sunday temple walk.

​Me and Elder Kim from south korea serving in south Korea!! He was in the neighboring room and he is so cool!! he was in south korean special forces!!haha

our district being weird after a long day... haha!

Christmasverssary!!!! hahahaha

Baseball in our room! Elder White is pitching, elder Moser is batting