Faith

Hi everyone this week was sweet. Bob is still getting baptized the 21 and is studying and finding answers to his questions on lds.org without our help. He's solid. We also met a less active, Molly, who is pregnant with triplets!!!:-) She's going to have 2 boys and 1 girl. I'm excited for her but my companion feels sorry for her. She still dosn't know what names she'll give them. So I've started reading the New Testament and I like the stories of Christ's healings. Each story shows how the atonement works because for the healing the recipitant needs faith so Christ always asks, "Do you believe that I can do this?, "Is your faith sufficiant?" So we need to "soley rely on Christ" and the atonement will work in our lives. Merry Christmas! Elder S Stolp

Snow!

Hi everyone, this week was sweet. It snowed yesterday and it was 37 degrees this morning. We taught Bob, from India, more this week and we gave him a baptismal date! He's awesome, he does whatever he commits to do. We met with someone from El Salvador and he was telling us that we shouldn't be out because it was snowing and then he asked us questions about missionarys and mormons and he got to get to know us and we got to get to know him more so now we have a return appointment. I'm really excited for Christmas and it's been fun sharing the birth of Christ in the scriptures to the members. Merry Chistmas! Love Elder S Stolp

Singing

Hi everyone, this week was good. We taught Bob, Bob2's son, the plan of salvation and we taught it using a diagram that I drew, so that was fun. And I still play the piano for the branch so I'm grateful that I'm able to use my talents on my mission. I'm really exciting about Christmas coming, we have a lot of Christmas partys to go and end of the year things and we get to sing songs about Jesus like "Joy to the World" that others don't like to sing or play all year so I'm really excited about celebrating Christ's birth and to spread the good news of God's mercy to everyone I meet. Love, Elder Stolp

New Guy

HI everyone, this week was good. I tried an energy drink called Spike. My companion likes to drink Red Bulls and Rockstars and he tells me they're more healthy than Soda because the energy drinks have 0 Calories, 0 Sugars and B Vitamins. The one I tried had 300 mg of Caffeine and the others only have 120-140 mg. We found out that I'm not sensitive to Caffeine. So we have a new investigator from India, Bob. When he lived in India he spoke 28 languages of the 200 languages they have in India, Later he lived in Chile for five years and then moved to the United States for a year and is learning Spanish and English. We taught him the Restoration and gave him three Books of Mormon in Hindi, Spanish and English. The following day he read the first seven chapters of 1 Nephi. When we asked him to offer the closing prayer before we left, he prayed in silent for an hour before I interrupted him. That same Sunday he attended all three hours of church and he came by taxi because had had no transportation. We're pretty pumped about this guy. Love Elder S Stolp

Opposites

Hi everyone, this week was good, I get to stay in Annapolis with Elder Bob next transfer, we think they put us together because we're so different. I'm organized, introverted, inexpressive, Elder Bob is very open and doesn't hide anything, doesn't understand why he should spend time cleaning, has a lot of questions, etc. So they threw us together to see what would happen......We talked with an investigator, Bob, yesterday and we're planning on going to the visitor's center at the Washington DC Temple this week. I heard it's a beautiful Temple so I'm excited about going there. I know this is the Lord's work and that God loves each and every one of us. Love, Elder S Stolp