June 25, 2018

Family,

This week was a little bit slower than normal. Our last P-day was pretty fun. We had a Zone activity and played sand volleyball and spike ball.

I went on an exchange this week with Elder Worthington from Montana. He was a lot of fun to be with. He is newer missionary he is on his 4th transfer. He is a super good missionary and has a lot of faith. 

We had a good lesson with our recent convert G. She is so awesome. I just love her. She has the biggest heart in the world and just wants to help people. When she came to church she saw one of the less active sisters we have been working with who is struggling and went and pulled her aside and talked to her to fellowship her. She is so sweet.

The less active lady is a returning active member. Her husband is not a member. They used to be huge into drugs and had lots of money and lost every thing. He was in prison for a long time. Now they are living in tents at a state park and have totally changed there life around in the past couple months. They haven't missed church in 2 months. He is working with a member now and she also has a job and they should be able to get a apartment soon. He listens to General Conference talks while he gets ready and while he is at work. He wants to get baptized but he is on probation right now so he can't at this time. But he will! They are awesome.

There's really not much else to write about for this week. Thank you all for all that you have done. I love you and hope you have a good week!

~Most of our investigators right now are kinda hard to meet with so not a lot of them are progressing. The only one that is would be B. but we have a hand off lesson with the YSA Elders set up for Wednesday so we won't be teaching him anymore. 

~That's exciting for Ty. If I had one suggestion for him it would be to have Dad teach him how to give a blessing and to maybe give you or someone one before he leaves. I had never given a blessing before my mission and I didn't know how and then I got out here and was pretty scared to. Luckily I had a good trainer who asked me to give him one so I could learn. But that would be good for him.

~It just wasn't a busy week and I didn't write throughout the week. It's true we all get lazy after we experience spiritual things. I think that's why it is so important to flame that fire we feel by reading and praying and also serving others every day. It is the natural man though. Peter, James and John and the rest of the apostles walked with Christ for 3 years and witnessed and even preformed many miracles themselves. When Christ left, what did they do? Well Peter said "I go a fishing." and they said "We also go with thee." they went back to old habits. and that's what we do as well.

Hey HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!! That is exciting. 25 years!!! That means your kinda old. 

Just a little bit

Love you all
Elder Ethan Stucki

June 18, 2018

Family,

This week went pretty well. We had a couple lessons with our recent convert G. and she is progressing so well. Tuesday we went on a last minute exchange with the Assistant's. I was with Elder Newville in Kent and it went well. We found 3 new investigators for them in their area. Elder Wright and Elder Christensen were in my area they put two of our investigators that we found on Sunday on date for baptism! It is a mother and her 11 year old daughter who recently moved to here from Louisiana and are looking for a church. They are pretty cool people and we are excited to continue to teach them.

Wednesday ~ We were able to meet with B. an investigator who is 18 years old and graduating high school this year. We found him last week as well and we left him with a chapter in the Book of Mormon to read. At our follow up he said that he felt like he needed to get baptized. We committed him to be baptized and he agreed so we are  excited for him. We will hand him off to the YSA Elders because he is YSA age.

Thursday ~ We had Ward Corrolation meeting. The highlight of the day was later that night after the meeting we had a lesson that was supposed to be with a lady named H. that we had found little while ago. She was not home so we ended up having a lesson with her cousin named H. and one of her friends J. that was there. They both became new investigators.

Friday ~ We saw a lot of miracles in finding new investigators. 

Saturday ~ We went on exchanges again. I was with Elder Henrie who is from good ole Panguitch, Utah!! I love Panguitch. We spent most of the day doing service helping 4 different families and individuals move out of their homes. From 7:30 am until 3:30 pm. We started with 2 families to help and ended up getting calls to help 2 more families. So we didn't get to teach much together but we got to do a lot of service!!

Sunday ~ Good day - but sad because none of our investigators showed up to church. We were able to go around and have some good lessons with some members though to help inspire them with there missionary efforts. 

Happy Fathers day to all the Fathers and Grandfathers they did a lot.

The scriptures are full of accounts of how Fathers play an important role in the lives of there families.

We read in 1 Nephi how Nephi had listened to the words of his father and was desirous to know them for himself. As he prayed to the Lord in faith he received his desire and saw what his father had seen. (1 Nephi 10:17)

Enos teaches us how he was able to have all of his sins forgiven after his Mighty prayer. What started him to pray however was "The words which he had often heard his father speak concerning eternal life."
(Enos 1:3)

Alma the younger taught how he was "Racked with eternal torment" but remember the words which his father "prophesying unto the people concerning the coming of one Jesus Christ, a son of God, to Atone for the sins of the world."
(Alma 36:17)

Joseph Smith listened to his father's advice and read in the Bible and happened up on James 1:5 which started him in the journey of being a tool in the hands of the Lord in restoring the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ to the earth again.

Heavenly Father loved the world so much that he sent his only begotten son into the world so that through him, we can all have eternal life. (John 3:16)

I want to put My Dad in there as well with a lot of these same qualities. He taught me how to work hard, do what it right, raised us in this wonderful gospel, and taught us about Christ. I know he would do anything for us kids because if the love that he has for us and I'm grateful for that and for him!

Thanks everyone for all that you do. I love you all and hope you have a good week!

Elder Ethan Wayne Stucki

June 11, 2018

Family,

The start of this week was pretty average. We did lots of finding less active members and part member families. We had a couple of good lessons with the (M) family. Mainly Brother M. His kids were running around and his wife was sick. Brother M. is a less active member who hadn't been to church for a year. (more or less) That was the last time he had been but he has never been to active. His family goes every now and again. We got talking to him about church and why he doesn't come anymore and it was because he has had people give him a hard time because he smokes. We started teaching about building our foundation on Christ and applying his atonement into our lives.

In the middle of the lesson I was trying to think of what Christ would say to Brother M. if he was in the lesson with us. As I was thinking about this I felt so strongly that Christ wants him to come back to church and be there with his family. I was kinda nervous to say it because he had already told us that he has made up his mind that church wasn't for him but he still loves the gospel just not going to church anymore.

But of course when Christ needs his message to get to someone he will make it happen. The impression grew stronger that I needed to tell him so I kinda explained to him that throughout the lesson I had been thinking of what Christ would tell him if he was there. I told him as representatives of Jesus Christ we strive to live in such a way so that we can have the Spirit to help us get God's message to the hearts of those we teach. I told him how I felt so strongly that if Christ was there, He would invite him to come back to church. We read in  3 Nephi 18:12 with him. It talks about the commandment to continue to partake of the sacrament and how that is how we can build our foundation upon Christs rock. The spirit was so strong as we did so and to see brother M. (now this is a guy who's been in construction all his life, he's 55, used to be kinda a cowboy)  Just a big tough man...  to see him getting teary eyed and almost begin to weep... was another testament to me that God knows the hearts of his children. He knows what he needed at this time. We know that he knew at that time what he needed to do. He didn't say much after the lesson but we hope and pray that he will come to church this Sunday.

Saturday was another special day. It was G. baptism!! It went really well and she had quite a bit of family come that are not members. It has been so fun working with and teaching G. she just soaked every thing right up and knew it all to be true. While we were teaching her she even helped to reactivate one of her friends families who are members of the church but haven't been out in over a year. So that was super awesome too.

Those are the main points of our week. We have found some really cool people that we have return appointments with for this next week that we are exited about. Last Friday we had interviews with the mission President that went really well. 

Thank you all for all that you do. 

I hope you all have a good week. and Happy Birthday to Ty this last week too! 

I love you all!!

Elder Stucki

June 4, 2018

Family, 

Sorry this might be a little bit shorter this week but it was still a good week! The best part was obviously this past Saturday we had 2 baptisms for the (L.) girls. They were the girls we found like Sundays ago. A member of the ward council told us about this family that had recently started coming back to church and they had 2 girls who were not baptized. So we went to their home. They wanted to learn about the Gospel so we taught them and yesterday they were able to get baptized! It was a pretty awesome day!
Really that was like the highlight of our week. Since the baptism was pretty sudden it took us most of week to get things figured out. Scheduling the building, getting clothes, people to give talks etc. We are also in the process of planning another baptism for this Saturday as well for (G.L) So we have been super busy. Things are super good as well!!

Other then that this past week we had MLC on Friday which went really well. We talked about leadership qualities that are important to have and how to help missionaries focus on their faith, desire and purpose. Especially with the mission split that is about to happen. That's really about it for this week. Thanks for all you guys do I love you all!

~I did get my package. Thank you very much!! Your the best.

~The picture was of dart night and the rest of the day we will play some basketball and do some shopping. 

~There are a couple of really nice pairs of shoes at Ross that i have been waiting for them to go on sale. Elder Wright got a sweet pair of church shoes for 49 cents!!! The lady marked them all the way down for him because they had been there for a long time. So for the past 4 weeks I've been waiting for these shoes to drop in price.  ha ha 

Have a good week. Love you all!

Elder Ethan Wayne Stucki