Hey,
I'm glad to hear that everyone is feeling better, as for myself am feeling a whole lot better except that I am starting to get sinus headaches every so often. But no biggie. I'll be sure to call Lauren for Christmas. I hope that she has a great Christmas there at Joey's! My Thanksgiving was pretty good! we ate at two families houses. The first one was at a investigating family. I had fun there, the food was great and unfortunately I wasn't hungry to begin with because of my illness earlier that week so I only had one of almost everything just to be nice. The other family was a less-active family that we are slowly but surely bringing back! I had a great time there! that family is fantastic! sadly I hardly ate anything but the food there was great as well. I think it was safe to say that I didn't eat a thing the next day until a we had a late dinner. So yes, transfer calls came in and I am getting a new companion. His name is Elder Payne. I know of him, he was in my last zone out in Tulsa so I've talked with him before. He is a nice guy from what i know of him. I swear this transfer was by far the fastest that I've ever had! holy cow! The area here is going good, a little slow because of Thanksgiving and no one wanted to see us that day but oh well, it's the past now.
This week for me was somewhat bitter sweet, we didn't have very much success due to Thanksgiving but that wasn't our fault. Also, remember that lady that I was telling you about that we found about two weeks ago that was interested in the gospel and accepted to be baptized? well from what her fiance' told me is that she kind of flipped out and said how she is sick of having religion in my life and God and what not, so she packed up her stuff and left for Springfield to go back to her druggie life. I was really sad to hear that but I know that it was not our fault, in a way, I think it was her fiance's fault. He was pressuring a lot of it on her and I kept telling them over and over again that we are only going to be working on her level only and no one Else's. We kind of figured that she wasn't completely done with her drug life, I just hope that she will find the light at the end of her long tunnel and draw closer to the gospel in the future. Everything else is going good, I'm still trying to become more familiar with the area better, thank Heavens for my GPS! I'm getting to know the members here a lot better, it's hard tho ha ha!. For some reason, I just feel that something is missing in this area and I cannot put my finger on it and It's driving me nuts!
The weather here is getting colder and colder, It was fine the other day then it rained all day then the next day it's been pretty chilly ever since We have yet to have snow but who knows, that may be soon. Elder Denton and I are doing good, I'm going to be bummed that he is leaving, but I'm sure I'll see him again soon. I hope that all is well with the family and I love you all so much and I'll talk to you next week!
Elder Daniel Stuart
Tuesday, November 29, 2011
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
11/23/2011
Hello everyone!
Sounds like you all are having a good time! That's crazy on how much snow that you all are already getting. As for the weather here, there isn't any snow on the ground, it has been raining a lot off and on it's been in the 50's or so during the day and almost the 30's at night. Great to hear that Joey is spending Thanksgiving at our place this year, I bet you are already preparing the food for Thursday. Are you going to watch the parade this year? I miss watching that. Next year tho! Congrats to Adam for the wedding date! Man, it's like it's a fad to get married ha ha. I'll defiantly check out Lauren's Mormon.org page, I'm on there quite often, I'm sure I'll find her, I've seen Joey's before and a lot of other people that I know from home! Thanks for the bad news with my team ha ha. I really hope that Peyton gets well soon to bring them back on the spot! They are still my favorite team! I think they are bad this year because my face isn't painted blue again as I watch it lol remember that?
So this week was pretty good, we are almost done with the outside of the house that we are working on. We've been working on that quite a bit this week, It needed to be done seeing that it has been raining a lot here, we finally got the roof on a few days ago! That went good too. So do you remember that lady I was talking about last week that we picked up as a investigator? well we have been teaching her and we invited her to be baptized and she said yes!!!! She really wants to. We are working on a date now that will best work for her. We are not sure what it is yet but I'll let you know! That was probably the highlight of my week right there, other than that nothing else really happened. Just the same old same old stuff. My companion and I are doing good, We get along really well and I'm getting to know the ward members here much better now. This place is really great! As for me, I'm doing okay, I feel like complete crap. Last night, I wasn't feeling too well, my stomach was upset and a family invited us over for family night playing games, well one of the members there wasn't feeling too well either so she ran to the bathroom to throw up and I did the same minutes later, so in a funny way, she and I took turns puking our guts out through out the night. Man, I have no idea what was wrong with me, I still don't feel well, I'm really weak. I had a pretty good ab workout when I was throwing up bile. That hurt.Haha! But anyways, that was probably too much info for you all! Sorry that this letter is shorter than usual but as you just read, I'm out of it and I cannot focus real well, I hope you all have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving! Love you all!!!
Elder Daniel Stuart
Sounds like you all are having a good time! That's crazy on how much snow that you all are already getting. As for the weather here, there isn't any snow on the ground, it has been raining a lot off and on it's been in the 50's or so during the day and almost the 30's at night. Great to hear that Joey is spending Thanksgiving at our place this year, I bet you are already preparing the food for Thursday. Are you going to watch the parade this year? I miss watching that. Next year tho! Congrats to Adam for the wedding date! Man, it's like it's a fad to get married ha ha. I'll defiantly check out Lauren's Mormon.org page, I'm on there quite often, I'm sure I'll find her, I've seen Joey's before and a lot of other people that I know from home! Thanks for the bad news with my team ha ha. I really hope that Peyton gets well soon to bring them back on the spot! They are still my favorite team! I think they are bad this year because my face isn't painted blue again as I watch it lol remember that?
So this week was pretty good, we are almost done with the outside of the house that we are working on. We've been working on that quite a bit this week, It needed to be done seeing that it has been raining a lot here, we finally got the roof on a few days ago! That went good too. So do you remember that lady I was talking about last week that we picked up as a investigator? well we have been teaching her and we invited her to be baptized and she said yes!!!! She really wants to. We are working on a date now that will best work for her. We are not sure what it is yet but I'll let you know! That was probably the highlight of my week right there, other than that nothing else really happened. Just the same old same old stuff. My companion and I are doing good, We get along really well and I'm getting to know the ward members here much better now. This place is really great! As for me, I'm doing okay, I feel like complete crap. Last night, I wasn't feeling too well, my stomach was upset and a family invited us over for family night playing games, well one of the members there wasn't feeling too well either so she ran to the bathroom to throw up and I did the same minutes later, so in a funny way, she and I took turns puking our guts out through out the night. Man, I have no idea what was wrong with me, I still don't feel well, I'm really weak. I had a pretty good ab workout when I was throwing up bile. That hurt.Haha! But anyways, that was probably too much info for you all! Sorry that this letter is shorter than usual but as you just read, I'm out of it and I cannot focus real well, I hope you all have a great week and a Happy Thanksgiving! Love you all!!!
Elder Daniel Stuart
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
11/15/2011
Hey there,
Well it sounds like you had a good week! congrats on the job interview, Mom! Prayers do get answered! I will be sure to continue to pray for you of course :) That is really awesome to hear that the girls gave talks in class! I wish I was there to hear both of them. Did Amber talk about me the entire time? Great to hear! Dwight came to church! yes! I love to hear that!!!! I too cannot believe how fast this month has shot by, I'll be out for 14 months tomorrow, that is weird to think, huh? You guys are getting snow huh? We're not. It was cold last week but it's warming up again into the 60's. I hear that it will get cold again too. Apparently, we were on tornado watch all week last week, who knew!? Well nothing happened, so that is good. I'm pretty good on my winter stuff, As soon as spring comes, I'm sending all of my winter stuff home. It takes up way to much room in my luggage! Hey, is there anything that you guys would like out here? like a souvenir? I know that I'm still in the states and nothing is really different, but let me know if you want something. If I was out of the country like Garrett or Kelton or Adam then it would be much different!
Oh, so I was going through some of my letters the other day and I noticed that I haven't written Alex as well so I wrote him and sent it off today. I feel like a jerk for blowing that off. I'm still going thought to see if I missed anyone else. Hey can you find a way to get Lauren Agoneselli's (sp?) address? I'd love to write her! Garrett is a district leader!?!? Woah! Congrats to him! He has a lot of work to do now! he will do great! he had that kind of caring, work hard attitude. And I will be sure to write Dillon, I hope he gets out of that phase, it's not fun.
This week was pretty good, we were able to teach a lot this week and do a lot of service as well! Nothing really exciting happened this week. Other then on Saturday, we had a dinner party at the church and I saw a man there that I knew from Springfield! Man, I can't believe that this happened again! we recognized each other and we started to talk to each other. He is a less active that is starting to come back and he just moved here with his fiance' and she wants to know more about the Gospel as well, so we scheduled a date for Tuesday for us to teach her. Well, she came to church yesterday and didn't want to go to Relief Society, so we taught her the Restoration and she seemed to like it. She asked really good questions too! We are going to have to take it slow with her, but that's okay! We are going to teach her again this Tuesday. I can't wait! we are having really good success! I love it.
On Wednesday, we had exchanges and I went to a town called Harrison and I was with the district leader. He is a mega stud and really hilarious! we played a game called lemon, it's when you see a yellow vehicle, you hit each other and yell lemon! It's fun, I have a bruise on my shoulder haha. On Thursday, we had a zone conference, that pretty much took up the whole day, it was in Springfield and that is almost 3 hours away from Mountain Home so by the time we got home, it was ccompletely dark. But I enjoyed it, I was able to see familiar faces again, that is always good.
I better get going but I love you all and I hope that you have a great week!
Elder Daniel Stuart.
Well it sounds like you had a good week! congrats on the job interview, Mom! Prayers do get answered! I will be sure to continue to pray for you of course :) That is really awesome to hear that the girls gave talks in class! I wish I was there to hear both of them. Did Amber talk about me the entire time? Great to hear! Dwight came to church! yes! I love to hear that!!!! I too cannot believe how fast this month has shot by, I'll be out for 14 months tomorrow, that is weird to think, huh? You guys are getting snow huh? We're not. It was cold last week but it's warming up again into the 60's. I hear that it will get cold again too. Apparently, we were on tornado watch all week last week, who knew!? Well nothing happened, so that is good. I'm pretty good on my winter stuff, As soon as spring comes, I'm sending all of my winter stuff home. It takes up way to much room in my luggage! Hey, is there anything that you guys would like out here? like a souvenir? I know that I'm still in the states and nothing is really different, but let me know if you want something. If I was out of the country like Garrett or Kelton or Adam then it would be much different!
Oh, so I was going through some of my letters the other day and I noticed that I haven't written Alex as well so I wrote him and sent it off today. I feel like a jerk for blowing that off. I'm still going thought to see if I missed anyone else. Hey can you find a way to get Lauren Agoneselli's (sp?) address? I'd love to write her! Garrett is a district leader!?!? Woah! Congrats to him! He has a lot of work to do now! he will do great! he had that kind of caring, work hard attitude. And I will be sure to write Dillon, I hope he gets out of that phase, it's not fun.
This week was pretty good, we were able to teach a lot this week and do a lot of service as well! Nothing really exciting happened this week. Other then on Saturday, we had a dinner party at the church and I saw a man there that I knew from Springfield! Man, I can't believe that this happened again! we recognized each other and we started to talk to each other. He is a less active that is starting to come back and he just moved here with his fiance' and she wants to know more about the Gospel as well, so we scheduled a date for Tuesday for us to teach her. Well, she came to church yesterday and didn't want to go to Relief Society, so we taught her the Restoration and she seemed to like it. She asked really good questions too! We are going to have to take it slow with her, but that's okay! We are going to teach her again this Tuesday. I can't wait! we are having really good success! I love it.
On Wednesday, we had exchanges and I went to a town called Harrison and I was with the district leader. He is a mega stud and really hilarious! we played a game called lemon, it's when you see a yellow vehicle, you hit each other and yell lemon! It's fun, I have a bruise on my shoulder haha. On Thursday, we had a zone conference, that pretty much took up the whole day, it was in Springfield and that is almost 3 hours away from Mountain Home so by the time we got home, it was ccompletely dark. But I enjoyed it, I was able to see familiar faces again, that is always good.
I better get going but I love you all and I hope that you have a great week!
Elder Daniel Stuart.
Monday, November 7, 2011
11/07/2011
Hello,
So I'm going to say it right now, I hate daylight savings... We set our clocks back the night before the saving hit. Well it turns out that Elder Dentons alarm clock automatically does it and he didn't know! So it turns out that we actually woke up late, real late. As soon as we ended our morning prayer, we heard a loud honk outside and we both looked at each other and Elder Denton ran to the window and shouted: No! He's here! and about 10 seconds later, we heard a knock at the door, it was our ride for stake conference! we got dressed as fast as possible, I didn't even have time to shower or shave! I looked like crap but no one said anything. Stake Conference is held in Springfield, and that is about 2 hours away and our ride literally drove like he belongs in NASCAR. He was going 90 in a 65 zone! scared me half to death... So yeah, there is a funny story for the family. Moral of the story is to double check your alarm I guess... or to shower and shave the night before something big happens. Haha.
This week was pretty good. We were able to teach quite a few lessons and also picked up 2 new investigators! they are awesome. They say that they don't have much of a desire to be baptized at the moment, but they are kind of sick of there own church. We taught them the Restoration. They loved it! they asked a lot of other questions, a lot the revolved around the Plan of Salvation. We answered there questions and they told us that they find those answers to be really comforting! This is so cool! It turns out that we do a LOT of service in the area. Like I said before, more than half the ward is really old so we always help them, especially now that winter is coming soon so they need help with fire wood and stuff like that. I've come to really like this area, the people are great and very generous. I really do love serving a mission. People ask me all the time how long I've been out and I tell them and they say: Man! your running out of time! or something like that. I am excited to be going home, but it's quite depressing when I think of it sometimes. I will never have a time in my life to do what I'm doing right now ever again. I know that you don't want to hear this, Mom but I'm really considering about extending my mission. It will only be for 30 days but the likely hood of President Merkley doing that for me isn't very likely. It's harder to do now I guess. But I'll really start to think about it more when I get even closer to the end.
Sorry to hear about the broken ankle, Lauren. I hope that it will get better soon! Hopefully before the wedding huh? ha ha it will, no worries. I really hope that you have better luck finding a job. Mom. I pray for your success all the time! But on the other side, Dwight is still working, and that is good! Prayers are answered in different ways. So I saw a movie the other day called 17 miracles. That movie is terrific! I highly suggest you find it and watch it as a family, it defiantly made me more thankful for what my ancestor pioneers have done. I actually started to tear up when I watched it, and that is saying something seeing that I never cry. I ordered it online and It should arrive sometime this week! Congrats on the mission call for Maryn! I hope she does great! she'll love it! That lady that saw that Bishop is doing great! We still talk to her. So, another funny story before I close. We were at a lesson a week or so ago and as we were teaching, the investigator looked down, paused, and said: You know, Elder Stuart, I just realized something about you. I said: What's that? He said: You have really big feet, What size do you wear? I told him then he said: WOW, that is HUGE! I felt so embarrassed when he said that but there is really nothing I can do! Oh well. Love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!
Love, Elder Daniel Stuart
So I'm going to say it right now, I hate daylight savings... We set our clocks back the night before the saving hit. Well it turns out that Elder Dentons alarm clock automatically does it and he didn't know! So it turns out that we actually woke up late, real late. As soon as we ended our morning prayer, we heard a loud honk outside and we both looked at each other and Elder Denton ran to the window and shouted: No! He's here! and about 10 seconds later, we heard a knock at the door, it was our ride for stake conference! we got dressed as fast as possible, I didn't even have time to shower or shave! I looked like crap but no one said anything. Stake Conference is held in Springfield, and that is about 2 hours away and our ride literally drove like he belongs in NASCAR. He was going 90 in a 65 zone! scared me half to death... So yeah, there is a funny story for the family. Moral of the story is to double check your alarm I guess... or to shower and shave the night before something big happens. Haha.
This week was pretty good. We were able to teach quite a few lessons and also picked up 2 new investigators! they are awesome. They say that they don't have much of a desire to be baptized at the moment, but they are kind of sick of there own church. We taught them the Restoration. They loved it! they asked a lot of other questions, a lot the revolved around the Plan of Salvation. We answered there questions and they told us that they find those answers to be really comforting! This is so cool! It turns out that we do a LOT of service in the area. Like I said before, more than half the ward is really old so we always help them, especially now that winter is coming soon so they need help with fire wood and stuff like that. I've come to really like this area, the people are great and very generous. I really do love serving a mission. People ask me all the time how long I've been out and I tell them and they say: Man! your running out of time! or something like that. I am excited to be going home, but it's quite depressing when I think of it sometimes. I will never have a time in my life to do what I'm doing right now ever again. I know that you don't want to hear this, Mom but I'm really considering about extending my mission. It will only be for 30 days but the likely hood of President Merkley doing that for me isn't very likely. It's harder to do now I guess. But I'll really start to think about it more when I get even closer to the end.
Sorry to hear about the broken ankle, Lauren. I hope that it will get better soon! Hopefully before the wedding huh? ha ha it will, no worries. I really hope that you have better luck finding a job. Mom. I pray for your success all the time! But on the other side, Dwight is still working, and that is good! Prayers are answered in different ways. So I saw a movie the other day called 17 miracles. That movie is terrific! I highly suggest you find it and watch it as a family, it defiantly made me more thankful for what my ancestor pioneers have done. I actually started to tear up when I watched it, and that is saying something seeing that I never cry. I ordered it online and It should arrive sometime this week! Congrats on the mission call for Maryn! I hope she does great! she'll love it! That lady that saw that Bishop is doing great! We still talk to her. So, another funny story before I close. We were at a lesson a week or so ago and as we were teaching, the investigator looked down, paused, and said: You know, Elder Stuart, I just realized something about you. I said: What's that? He said: You have really big feet, What size do you wear? I told him then he said: WOW, that is HUGE! I felt so embarrassed when he said that but there is really nothing I can do! Oh well. Love you all and I hope you have a fantastic week!
Love, Elder Daniel Stuart
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
10/31/2011
Hello!
Happy Halloween! Wow, It's Halloween already, I can remember that a year ago today, I was in Springfield! It's going by so dang fast. It's actually quite sad, I start to tear up when I think about it. I'm never going to experience something this spiritual and amazing like this again. Well, maybe if I go back in the future with my wife. This is literally one of the most physically, mentally, spiritually, and emotionally hardest things that I've ever done in my life. But, it's all so worth it. I love it all! even during times when we are not having success, I'm still doing what I'm supposed to do and I know for a fact that I and my family will be blessed for it and I've experienced it as well!! So this week was pretty great! I got to see more people and we were able to teach a lot as well! We have a few people that are getting closer towards the waters of baptism, but I think that fear is in there path. They just need to take baby steps to do it. People here are really nice and are willing to listen all the time. We also do a lot of service here as well, we are helping a man demolate his house and build it back up, it's actually really fun! the food here is really good! I just need to be carefull, I have to keep my hot model look going... :)
So Church was quite interesting. Remember that lady that I was talking about last week that was in Springfield? Kat? well she is having problems, problems that I won't mention, but while during a lesson in church, she just started crying, really badly, so as soon as the closing prayer was finished, she bolted out of the room and we left to find her to see whats up. The spirit is definatly working on her overtime, she feels as if she shouldn't be here, and so forth, well we told her that she needs to see the Bishop and that it is for the best, she is terrified to see him, well we finally got her to see him!!!! That night, Bishop called us and thanked us for comforting her to see him! this is fantasic news! Repentance is the greatest! Man the church is so true!
Sorry to hear about Lauren and her ankle, I've been in one of those places in Las Vegas. There fun! but you need to be carefull. Sorry that this letter is short, but I got to get going. Hope your all well and I'll talk to you next week! Love you all!!
Elder Daniel Stuart
Oh, by the way, can you PLEASE give me the Rooks address!?!? I'd love to talk to them and can you please start forwarding my letters to Garrett? I love you!!!
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