December 15, 2014

This week was so awesome.

We have been using this video ¨Él es la Dádiva¨ (He is the Gift) almost every day.

 We share it with members with investigators and with random people on the street, and we have found a lot of new people because of it.

One day we were walking through a park and my companion and I for some reason automatically changed directions at the same time towards a guy sitting down in the grass. His name was Bridoir. It turns out that he is not a member but his wife is a less active from about 20 years ago and they have been looking for a way to get closer to God. We had a lesson later on that week to watch the video ¨He is the Gift¨ and they ended up in tears because they felt that this is what they were looking for.

ALSO this Friday we were with our mission leader and one of our appointments fell so we went to a nearby future to see if she had some time to talk. She ended but being an old family friend with the family of our mission leader, and lost track of each other for years. We were able to reunite them and share of Christ.

ALSO the shirt of my companion ripped so we went to a small store to fix it and we ended up sharing this video with the owners and now they are excited to go to church and understand more about the restoration of this gospel.

 We have a new Investigator named Francisco! Who is planning on getting baptized the Saturday after Christmas!

His girlfriend is a member in another town and has been assisting church over there until he found out that there one right close to his house. He came with us this Sunday and love the ward.

And Valentina (the daughter of my investigators that live in Yungay) came to church with 2 of her friends this Sunday in collao.. And her family went in Yungay. They were so nervous at first and didn’t want to go in but, toward the end of our gospel principles class they didn’t want to leave.

And I have a lot of other stories similar.

I love that I have the chance to help people feel the light of Christ and his love for us this Christmas season.

This week we had open house so that everyone could get to know what we do in the church buildings. Every church organization was in charge of explaining their function and role in separate rooms so that as we walked through the halls people could go into whatever room they want to learn about what we do. We had a lot of participation from the ward and everyone had their part to play. We were in charge of contacting and herding people from out of the street, into the church. The activity ended up being a success! We had about 10 or 11 tours... and of course at the end... we showed He is the Gift to them all...

I have probably seen that little 3 minute video more than 100 times

But if you haven’t seen it yet go to

http://www.mormon.org/christmas

Wednesday I had a mini cambio with an elder in my district named Elder Bennit.

He is in one of the biggest wards on the whole mission with about 220 members.
OH yeah... And my companion is sick... he has problems with his head and jaw... I think that he somehow pinched a nerve in his jaw... He is on hard medication and is loopy all the time... it’s hilarious...

One of the members that we worked with that day gave us 8 kilos of cherries.

I love the cherries here.

I love YOU! Have a good week

Have a good Christmas.

December 8, 2014

Brother and sisters from my lovely home ward of Casas Adobes,

 What a pleasure it is to write to you this day, it has been a, long time since I have written or prepared a talk in English so I hope that everything is understandable.

I would like to thank everyone for your support and your prayers, for my behalf and for those other missionaries that are serving from our ward. Really we are all fighting for the same goal to bring all unto Christ through his restored gospel. What a great mission we have. An eternal mission. And one that we are all part of.

The Christmas season is a beautiful time of year for other people to take a break from the normal hustles and bussles of life and spend time with the family, to go on vacation, buy presents, get presents to decorate our houses and prepare for viajito pascuero (Santa clause).

 That’s the Christmas season for some, but for us it is much different. Remember, we are special, we are a peculiar people.

We have a much deeper and much special purpose. That is to help others come to know more about the birth, the life and the atonement of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, and to gain a testimony of Him like we have.

The Christmas season is not for us to only remember Christ, we do that all the time. But it is the season to help others get to know him.

 We as members of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter day saints are so privileged to not have to wait for December to come until we can think of the Savior’s birth and life. We have the chance to remember him and renew our devotion to him every Sunday as we take the sacrament.

We have been celebrating Christmas every day of our baptized lives!

We have the Christmas spirit all the yearlong because we have the spirit of Christ.

It’s not anything new...

...we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins. 2 Nephi 25 26

But what is so special about this Christmas season is that we can help others find Christ like we have found him.

There is so many people looking for peace, for comfort, for the love that only the Lord can give.

What better gift is there, than the one that our father in heaven has given us? His son Jesus Christ.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And what better gift could we give to him then helping his children return to his presence

10 Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God;

15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!

I love a talk that our beloved prophet Thomas S. Monson gave in a December ensign in 1990 titles the search for Jesus. He said...

In this marvelous dispensation of the fullness of times, our opportunities to give ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved.

As we remembers that when y are in the service of your fellow beings ye are only in the service of your God, we will not find ourselves in the inevitable position of Jacob Marley’s ghost, who spoke to Ebenezer scrooge in Dickens immortal A Christmas Carol.

 He was the first of many ghosts that visited scrooge in this classic tale. Wrapped in large chains that bound his body he exclaimed,

"I wear the chain I forged in life...I made it link by link, and yard by yard...Why did I walk through the crowds of fellow-beings with my eyes turned down, and never raise them to that blessed star which led the wise men to a poor abode"

Fortunately we have the chance this Christmas season to render service to others and to help them look up to that star that leads to our savior Jesus Christ.

I know he lives and I know that this church is true. I am proud to represent him in his work and I invite all of you this Christmas season to do the same.

In the name of Jesus Christ amen.

December 2, 2014

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR FATHER!

Goodness it’s your birthday again? How the years fly by right? But good think you’re never going to die because you’re talking your vitamins right?? Good dad!

I love you!

What a week. Very busy week. We have been walking and running and talking busses everywhere. We had 3 different conferences/meetings in 3 different locations this week. 1. Interviews with the president in HIS HOUSE! 2. Zone class in the stake building and 3. Conference of the traveling assistants. All were really great.

In the mission now they are focusing a lot of working with the members. And I have learned that it is so much better then working alone. Maybe in the past knocking on doors and working solo was effective but now with the times changing, the way we work needs to adapt as well. And if the prophet said that we need to work with the members… I think it would be Smart to listen. We have some great members here in Collao that are willing and able to help us a lot in the work. Actually this is the first time in my mission that I actually have a useful and functioning mission leader who helps us. We actually has our first activity in the Ward this week. We have a dessert competition. I made a really good cake. An Apple and cinnamon cake but I DIDNT WIN. (I was tempted to vote for myself multiple times but I resisted the urge) it was still really fun and a lot of the people we invited went.

We have more dog Friends in our new sector as well. I don’t know why so many dogs here in Chile follow the missionaries… They are 2 dogs from the Street that follow all the missionaries. Their huge and get crazy excited when they see us.

The jump on us all the time and lick our faces... they have spoiled at least 3 of my White shirts.

I finally this week got the chance to go to the president’s house. It is so nice! I love it so much... we asked them if they were going to put up decorations and they said they are going to do it Monday. We offered to help! And then they offered us breakfast! So this morning after putting up their Christmas light we ate cinnamon rolls and fruit salad. SO DELICIOUS!

Well I hope that all is just going dandy this time of the year for you guys.  It is a great time to be alive and moving... there’s just So many things going on at this time … there’s Thanksgiving, birthdays, pumpkin pie, Christmas decorations and Turkey sandwiches. There’s family time, Secret Santa, Christmas dancing, coupons on everything buyable, Christmas lights Christmas music, debt, forced family fun,  cookie time and vacations… sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are celebrating  Christ’s birth.

I am so excited to be working in the service of our Lord during this time. And I am excited to talk and share this great message of Christ’s restored gospel.

The new message called He is the Gift is so great and we are using it almost every day to find, to teach and uplift the people here.

The church has never done something this big before for Christmas. This video will be on the big screens in New York City, it will be on the home page of YouTube on Dec 7... It will flood Facebook, twitter, and all other types of internet sites with the purpose of helping others focus more on the true meaning of this holiday.

If you have watched this video watch it. If you have not yet shared it with a friend, share it. If you are not a member of this church, pray and ask God if you should be… then do it.

God has given us the greatest of his son and his infinite atonement for us. Our gift to him is to just accept Christ more fully in our lives and follow him.

Christmas.mormon.org

Navidad.mormon.org

I love you

November 25, 2014

What a week. Because my companion and I are new to this place we have been passing by a lot of the member’s houses to get to know them. There is about 100 to 120 people that come to church every week. The church is jam packed! I haven’t seen this many Mormons since I was in Utah!

Okay maybe that’s a bit dramatic but it is a giant cambio from Yungay to Collao. I actually forgot how a Ward Works, and that there are different classes for the separate organizations.

We are still pretty lost in our sector. It is very big. Within our sector we have the Concepcion bus terminal, the Concepcion soccer stadium, 2 different colleges and a lot of houses with people inside of them waiting to hear the gospel.

Really cool story time!

We were walking around Wednesday and I heard someone shout my name…¨elder Stewart Elder Stewart! ¨

I turn around to see one of the daughters of our investigators from YUNGAY! She studies at the college here and goes back to Yungay on the weekends. She hear that I left Yungay and was a Little bummed that she couldn’t say goodbye but then saw the back of my head and then ran 2 blocks to see if it was me or not. Her family is progressing very well in Yungay and the student is going to go to an activity with us this Friday in our church! Small world! The Lord Works in mysterious ways.

Appreciate these pictures.

Some of the members from Yungay.

November 17, 2014

Well its big city life for me now. This week I will leave Yungay and head off to Concepcion as district leader and to open a sector that was white washed.

I will have a new companion named Elder Martinez, I don’t know him yet but I’ll let you know how that goes...

I am very excited to be in the city again but I’m not quite sure how I will handle it. I gotten used to the peace of farm life.

It’s been 6 good long months here and I have learned so much in this little town; yeah it was hard, but so worth it.

15 members to 35 members is a great achievement and now I am excited to see what I can do in Concepcion.

I don’t have much time because I’m going to run out and say chau chau to all of the people here before I go… but here are some more pictures!

November 10, 2014

This week we traveled a lot. We had our Zone class and Zone conference this week which meant we were on a bus to Chillan 2 days in a row for about 3 hours round trip. And the buses here are not too comfortable… One morning we got onto the bus and there was barely no one on…I sat down, fell asleep, and about an hour later when we were almost at our destination, I woke up to a man’s butt inches to my face. The bus was jam packed, making it impossible to move any part of your body without awkwardly touching people. I didn't know where all these people came from... I felt like I just sat down blinked and then appeared multitudes. The worst part was trying to get out of the bus... We sat in the way back (just like all the cool kids do) and to get through all the crowd we had to squeeze our way out, climbing over and crawling under people IN our nice suits. BUT we made it to our conference alright, and on time!

Our Zone conference was very good.

One thing that struck my attention is the message that Hermana Arrington gave to us. She is the wife of the president and the mom of the mission and lately she has been focused and worried about missionaries that are discouraged and down heartened.

She looked back at her notes of General conference and found a quote by Utchdorf that he shared in his women’s general conference address

He said that ¨It doesn't matter if your are 8 or 108 but you need to know that God loves you today and forever.¨

God is not waiting for us to be better before he loves us. He is not waiting for us to achieve greatness before He loves us.

He is never waiting to love us… He loves us today, for who we are now...

And he will continue to love us as we grow and fall, as we experience success and challenges.

This week we had a focus on finding new investigators to teach. So part of our work was to go back through the area book and look through all the futures and contacts that we have had in the past couple weeks to call and set up appointments. In my mind I have been thinking of a woman that we have talked too awhile back but she told us that she lived very far so we didn't bother passing by thinking it was impossible to get there.

But her name kept going through my head for a day or so... so we called and set up an appointment, She happily accepted and gave us the directions to her house (because she live in the forest on a farm without street names or numbers)

We set out walking to her house at 4 in the afternoon, and then we kept walking and kept walking, then got lost.

We walked through wheat fields, forest paths, crossed streams and fed a horse that I named Sterling, but still could not find this house. We called her and tried to explain where we were but all we could see is trees and hills so she didn’t know how to help us either.

She told us on the phone, “I set my three kids to go looking for you, ones on foot and 2 are on horseback¨

We kept looking for them but then our cell phone ran out of service so we found some dirt road and prayed and a car came to take us back to Yungay.

Feeling that we still needed to pass by her I called a member who had a car and asked him to help us get to her house.

FINALLY at 730 we made it to their house and taught them a lesson. They are an amazing family of 6 who only have the desire to be an eternal family and be baptized in the church which has the truth.

Being guided by the spirit feels so good.

This week we had an activity with the branch called minute to win it! And it was very successful. We had people try to bite a hanging Apple, get a ping pong ball out of a tissue box on their backs and a lot of other challenges that had to be completed under a minute.

Last week, which I forgot to mention in my other letter is that we had a Halloween party and karaoke night... the members made us costumes.

Here are some other pictures of our new house, activities and other adventures that we had embarked on.

Love you family and friends.

And we went to a gym to work out... it was really small and pretty lame but we were super excited to WORKOUT and GET YACKED

We got permission to get a membership and go in the mornings early... we did it for all of last month but we didn't re new the membership because I might be leaving in a week

November 3, 2014

This week we moved houses! For the past 5 months I have been living in the smallest house in the mission. IT consisting of a room and a bathroom, but now Elder Judkins and I are living with the other 2 elders (Morel and Watson) in a much bigger nicer and cheaper house. I’d say that’s a win win all around.

Cleaning and organizing the old houses and the new ones was such a pain though. We spent long mornings deep cleaning and scrubbing and sweeping and mopping… good thing mom worked us like slaves when I was a kid or else I wouldn’t be ready for this haha.

Today we went on an adventure to a waterfall called Salto Churaguan. It was absolutely beautiful. To get there, you need to go with someone who has been there before because it is tucked up into the forest between 2 different towns, Yungay and Huepil., and it is very easy to get lost.

We went with a member who drove us to the starting point and was there to guide us to the water fall. We were all pretty antsy to get to the water fall so the minute we saw the river we bolted off the path to see what there was to see.

Now let me explain a little. This river was very very long and divided into many little streams and creeks leaving in-between patches of forest. We were on one side of the river. And the water fall was on the other.  We thought we knew what we needed to do. We needed to cross the river and make our own path to the water fall. We spent hours lost in this maze of islands and rivers…crawling under and over trees, hopping rocks and making bridges, stumbling and slipping as we went. At one point, to get to the other side of a section of the river I had to sloth climb upside-down on the back side of a fallen tree to cross.

Once we finally got to what we though was our destination… we were happy. Right in front of our eyes was a beautiful water fall that was about 5 feet tall. We took some pictures, we threw some sticks into the water, and I found a lizard and named him Felipe. We were content missionaries. On our way back we recognized that we left our guide back on the other side of the river. What happen was when we started jumping through the forest like wild monkeys he said to us, ¨ I’ll be over here on the path waiting¨

We finally decided to go see what he was doing so we could take him to the 5 foot waterfall that we found.

Retracing our way through the islands and rivers we saw him walking along a small dirt path. We asked him where he went. He said that the water fall that was about 100 feet tall was only about a 5 minute walk down the marked path.

That is when we realized our mistake. Instead of following our guide and the paved way we wasted a lot of time lost and struggling.

Eventually we made it to the waterfall with the help of our faithful and patient friend and guide and it was spectacular, even breathe-taking. A lot bigger and better than the water fall that we had found.

I just began to think about how we as humans have the tendency to do this very same thing in our lives. We are so eager to jump off the path, make our own way and find our own joys without help. Sometimes we may think that we are happy, that we have found and seen all that there is to see, when in reality we are very lost and far from our original goal. That is when we need to back track and use the tools that have been given to us.

For example, to get to the water fall, which was our original goal, we had a guide with knowledge and experience and a path that marked the way.  But we chose to follow our limited knowledge and spontaneous desires. In our lives we have all of the tools necessary to find a fullness of joy together with our families, only on the conditions that we follow the guides indicated and the path that is marked. God has revealed his gospel in our times through prophets and apostles that are there to help us get to where we want to go. Our loving heavenly father has also given us scriptures, the Bible as well as the Book of Mormon so we can learn and grow. We have the Holy Ghost, the third member of the Godhead, who can dwell with us always if we remain worthy of his presence. And we have the perfect example of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we not only walk the path but paved the way and is always waiting for us to come back so he can take us by the hand and walk us through the path to a place more beautiful then we could ever imagine.

I love the talk that our prophet Thomas S. Monson gave this October called ¨Ponder the path of thy feet¨

He said…

¨As we strive to place Christ at the center of our lives by learning His words, by following His teachings, and by walking in His path, He has promised to share with us the eternal life that He died to gain. There is no higher end than this that we should choose to accept His discipline and become His disciples and do His work throughout our lives. Nothing else, no other choice we make, can make of us what He can.¨---Thomas S. Monson

The path that Christ walked is the path I want to be on.

And we will not be alone on this path... In the scriptures there is a great promise waiting for us if we strive to stay obedient.

Moses 6: 32-34

32 And the Lord said unto Enoch: Go forth and do as I have commanded thee, and no man shall pierce thee. Open thy mouth, and it shall be filled, and I will give thee utterance, for all flesh is in my hands, and I will do as seemeth me good.

 33 …Choose ye this day, to serve the Lord God who made you.

34 Behold my Spirit is upon you, wherefore all thy words will I justify; and the mountains shall flee before you, and the rivers shall turn from their course; and thou shalt abide in me, and I in you; therefore walk with me.

Christ has invited all to walk with him. Now who wouldn’t want to do that?

Oct. 27, 2014

This week we hit a record with 39 people in church! Whoohoo! It’s pretty exciting for me. This week I have been seeing a great change in the members. The branch went to the temple this weekend and came back on a spiritual high, like little teenagers do after EFY. During the sacrament meeting there was time set apart so that those who went could bear their testimony of their experience. The spirit was strong as the members testified of temple work and of the truth of this gospel. Just hearing them, and seeing them so happy I could see a glimpse of how God saw them, as his spirit children. He truly loves us and knows every one of our needs.

This week I overcame much temptation. We walked into the house of a less active and they were watching Hunger games 2. I want to see it so bad! SO BAD! And it was right at my fingertips, I could have just watched it then and there. But I did just what Joseph in Egypt did when Potiphar’s wife was hitting all over him. Quote ¨and he got him out¨ (gen 39:12)

I got me out of there.

It is so important to be obedient. Even to the little things. The Lord only sends his prepared children to his prepared servants. And as servants of the Lord if we are not obeying his rules or commands, we will not be prepared when he needs us.

I love the example of Nephi in chapter 17 of the book of Mormon.

After 8 years of traveling through the wilderness, eating raw meat and passing through lots of afflictions Nephi and his family finally reached the land called bountiful. I would imagine that he would have wanted to rest a little bit (maybe kick back and watch a really cool movie like hunger games 2) but he didn’t. After a couple days the Lord told him to climb mountain and pray. (vs7) now even though I’m sure his legs were pretty tired from walking practically 8 years straight he didn’t even complain, he just got up, and did it.  On the other hand he probably had really really muscular legs as well, but that is beside the point.

THEN, when he was on top of the mountain…

¨ The Lord spake unto me, saying: Thou shalt construct a ship, after the manner which I shall show thee, that I may carry thy people across these waters.¨ (vs. 8)

 Build a ship? That’s tough. But extremely buff and obedient Nephi is not fazed at all…

9 And I said: Lord, whither shall I go that I may find ore to molten, that I may make tools to construct the ship after the manner which thou hast shown unto me?

10 And it came to pass that the Lord told me whither I should go to find ore, that I might make tools.

Obedience with the right attitude is the key to success.

I want to try to develop an attitude more like Nephi, and be obedient (and muscular) like him.

I do not want to leave Yungay without knowing that I did all I could in my time here. I don’t want to go without fulfilling my purpose. I mean the Lord sent me specifically here for a reason so I have to be obedient to complete it.

This week we watched the Restoration movie 2 times to our investigators. I practically know that 20 min movie by heart.

¨José ayuda me!, me hundí…me caí…ect.¨

But I don’t care, I still love it. I am so convinced that this church has been restored through the prophet Joseph Smith. That 14 year old boy not only restored the plain and precious truths that had been lost after the fall of the gospel of Christ, but he is also a symbol, representing  every person who is truly seeking the answer to the question, What church is true, and the way to find out.

Revelation is real. It happens. And it can happen to YOU, with a prayer of faith (Santiago 1:5) (That would be James in English)

This week I bought a laser pointer, one of those green ones which are practically illegal in the states to buy without a permit. We used it for a family home evening with a family to teach them repentance. One person in the family had the laser pointed in a random direction. Their goal was to get the laser point onto a target that was in the complete opposite side of a large field using mirrors. With a lot of concentration and team work the family managed to use all 4 mirrors to change the direction of the laser beam to reach the desired point. Our lives are very similar. We want to get to a certain target (which would be eternal life, happiness, and eternal families. ECT) however, sometimes because of our actions we are facing a different direction. THAT IS WHAT IS SO GREAT ABOUT CHRIST. Through repentance (which are the mirrors) and with the help of our family we can reach our end goal together.

Families are eternal.

 Awwww!

 I love you family.

1Nephi 17:3

 3. And thus we see that the commandments of God must be fulfilled. And if it so be that the children of men keep the commandments of God he doth nourish them, and strengthen them, and provide means whereby they can accomplish the thing which he has commanded them; wherefore, he did provide means for us while we did sojourn in the wilderness[mission field].

                                          We ate s'mores in district class!

 We also did a service cutting grass with a machete scythe (that thing that the Grimm reaper has.)

October 21, 2014

Happy birthday Chris! I love you and will see you in Hawaii soon! (Mom help me make that wish come true…)

 And to all those that I have not said happy birthday to in this blog I am sincerely sorry. And I love you as well. This whole mission thing seems to be talking up every single moment and spare thought in my mind. I can’t even think about anything else. Just Gods work... The rest is a blurr. But I think that’s the way it’s supposed to be for these 2 years I think.

In D&C 4 it says,

 1 Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of men.

2 Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless before God at the last day.

So I am trying to serve with everything I got, and at the end of the day, when  I have 0 energy left, I just smile and feel great because it means I’m doing what I am supposed to do and giving what I’m supposed to give to the Lord and to others.

 And just to let you all know I am doing so good with my goals. I have post it notes all over my wall! Be proud of me.

Now for step 2. “Read and follow through with all the things you put on the post it notes”

I should put that step on a post it note as well.

Oh and I have started a dream journal. I have the most bizarre dreams in the world, but they might be worth something someday.

I think one of the abilities that I have developed here in Yungay is planning and creating activities for the branch and for the public. When you are in a small town with a branch with about 25 active members it is of the up most importance to have grand activities that are fun and (most importantly) uplifting for all ages and all people regardless if you are a member of the church of a visitor. This week we had a great Family home evening in the church on listening and following the subtle promptings of the Holy Spirit. Personally I feel that this principle is one of the most important if we want to live our lives under the protecting hand and guidance of our Savior.

 Henry B Eyring spoke about precisely this topic in his conference address this month.  He said that human judgment and logical thinking will not get us through this world that is in turmoil. If we are looking for answers to the questions most important in this life the only direction that we should be facing is to the Lord.

That is what is so great about our message of the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Our gospel is centered on the principle that God not only exists and hears our prayers but that he speaks back, that we can receive personal revelation from him and have his guidance through the Holy Spirit.

That is why God restored his gospel through Prophets. He can receive revelation for the whole world, bishops receive revelation for their congregation and parents can receive revelation for their children.

This guide helps us get through the ups and downs of life. For the family home evening that we had we blind folded a person and sent them through a maze that we created using chairs, ropes and barriers. The way was very narrow, and with one wrong step this person would bump into a chair, knock something over, or just be trapped at a dead end. On top of all of this, we had all the other people shout directions, trying to stop the person for reaching the end goal of the maze.

This person, a young girl kept knocking into the walls of the maze, listening to the conflicting voices, following them... and then tripping yet again….continuously wobbling her way through, amidst the maze of chairs. With just one step away from the exit, the jeering crowd got louder and louder causing her to give up. Ripping off the scarf over her eyes in frustration, she then realized how close she was to the end.

Our life sometimes feels just like that. Frustrated we sometimes listen to the jeering voices of others telling us how to act how to live, what to say and what to do. But if we pause and learn to recognize the spirit it can guide us and help us say, do and be who God what’s us to be.

We then blindfolded another person and set them through the some maze, but this time amidst the jeerers, there was one assigned to be the voice of the spirit. And when the person blindfolded shut out the outside noise and focused on the guiding voice, he was able to make it through without problems.

Listen to the spirit. It can be your constant guide if you allow it to be.

Through prayer and daily scripture study we can learn to tone out the crap of the world and tone in to the peace of the Lord.

It’s true. I’ve felt it.

If any of you get the chance re read that talk by Eyring it’s awesome.

I love you family and all those who ACTUALLY read through this whole letter. Your guys are the best!

That it. The end