HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY!
I love you all, here are some pictures from a branch picnic that the missionaries were all invited to today:
con mucho cariño,
Elder Stewart-Chester
Hey familia,
HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY! I love you all, here are some pictures from a branch picnic that the missionaries were all invited to today: con mucho cariño, Elder Stewart-Chester
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Hola querida familia!
It has been a crazy week! (At least weather wise) It was really heating up and then all of the sudden this week has been pretty chilly. We had a tornado touch down right outside of the city of Rockford. It ran for 20 miles! But luckly just in rural farmland areas. So that was fun! The sirens were going off that night with lots of hail and lightning, I'll send a picture. Some pretty great things have been happening this week! One highlight that I will share was meeting a woman named Maria Inez. We were out and about talking to everyone that we could, and got referred to knock on her door. The way that she responded to our message was definitely another one of those, "wow" moments on my mission of how prepared people are. She is a religious woman who has been seeking to come close to God all of her life. She has visited many different churches throughout the years but has never really found anything that she felt completely settled in. When we taught from the Book of Mormon and read passage about "other sheep" (John 10:14-16) Her eyes got a wide and she said, "I knew it! No one else at my church believes me, but I knew that there had to have been more prophets in the world than just those in the Bible." It was really impressive and we have already taught her twice! Pray that all goes well! Another hilarious experience happened later in the week when I was on exchanges with Elder Western. We met a man walking on the street on his way to the liquor store and offered to replace his beer with a burger from McDonnalds. We sat down and talked with him and the poor man had quite the story. The funny part is that I pulled out my pen to write our phone number down and he said totally serious, "Put away your pen, man. I've got a pen fettish whenever I see nice pens." Hahaha He was going to steal my pen after my companion had bought him a burger. We laughed about it. My title "Jambo" means hello in Swahili. I gave a baptismal interview to a lady yesterday who is from the African Congo. I had to have a translator in order to communicate. It just goes to show how many different cultures we come across here! It is so much fun. They are incredibly kind people! I love my mission more than words can describe! I love the people of Illinois. Los quiero mucho familia! Con amor, Elder Stewart-Chester So our investigator took us to a 12 story building in downtown Rockford that used to be the Rockford trust builing, his company is renovating it. Aparently, Al Capone used to use the building during the prohibition. It has huge vaults and secret tunnels and entrances. Intense! Here are a few others from our area:
Heyyy! You can all plan on me skyping in next week! I am excited to see you. My schedule will be pretty flexible so you can plan for anytime after 1PM your time. What time is your church? So that I can try to plan around that? Love you all! See you next week! *besitos* Elder Stewart-Chester 1 Our investigator from Honk Kong, Farren
2 The Brandeu family from Romania 3 The Dasilva family (Brazilian) 4 Making salsa ft. Elders Riggins and Elder Maughan 1 Thomas and Brother Schwartz
2 (Grandma) Betty, Mikyra, and Serenity at church! 3 The Korella family 4&5 Logan Judd, I gave him a tie and the Judd family Ayy
Familia How is everyone?? Wow! What an incredible week thus far! The mission is incredible, and Illinois is incredibly wet. We have received and incredible amount of rain recently. Hello humidity. SO. The biggest news of the day is that I am being transferred!!! (Well, I actually knew this two weeks ago but it is still the news of the day). That's right folks. Area number 5! *drum roll please* I will be headed up to Rockford! There is a Spanish branch up there in the city and my companion and I will be 'whitewashing' into the area. (It means that we are both brand new to the area). I could not be more excited. My new companion will be Elder Gubler. I picked him up from the airport about 6 weeks ago so he will be starting his second transfer with me as his trainer. In the mission we call it, 'whitewash district training'. Oh boy. It is going to be fun. It has been an interesting process in the whole selection of things this transfer. There are many changes happening throughout the mission. But I have to admit, the best part was sitting in an interview with President Griffin in his office looking at the transfer board and having him ask me, "Where would you like to go?" Hahaha. Don't worry, the Lord made the final decision. So pretty much my entire week has been the ups and downs and all around of transfer preparations. We are going to pick up the new missionaries in a few hours from the airport. And then I will officially be transferred tomorrow. Time is flying by incredibly fast! This week we also saw like 1.5 mil miracles in our area, which is pretty unusual figuring that our schedule was so tight. The best part was Sunday. We had 6 investigators at church and some of them I have been working with for along time. We also put Thomas on date to be baptized, so I am hoping that I will return to the area soon to see some of these people make promises with God. I am excited looking towards the future, there is much to do and things to accomplish! I am grateful to know that my Heavenly Father is mindful of me and my family. I feel very indebted to many different people in my life for the things which I have been blessed with, but ultimately, I know that there is a God in Heaven that provides all things for all people. I couldn't be happier! Know that I love you all! Que tengan una buena semana! Los quiero mucho! Elder Stewart-Chester 1&2&3 Our tire popped on our way home... 4 five elders on air-mattresses in our apartment ft. the 'tate' smile |
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