Here is a quick update :

These last two weeks have been busy. Three classes graduated so we had to say good bye to a lot of new friends. Rich was able to commission two of the guys.(One was Chris!!!) We met their wives & Moms & Dads. Attended the pin on"s and the parades.

Really great to see.

New classes start this week so we will start to get to know the new students and then send them off in a few weeks.

We continue to work with the ward here too.

We Have 3 investigators we are teaching. And two more we hope to put into the pool(teaching first, baptism second) One is a student who called us and asked for help on a class project she was working on. We met with her and three other students and answered their questions about the church. This was for a class in spirituality for a social work class. She is a single Mom with three kids. She is from New York and knew some LDS people there. We plan to meet with her again and talk to her more. She was very interested in the family aspect of our church.

Two spiritual experiences we had this past week or so.

When we were talking with Chris(Student who needed the blessings) at one of our family home evenings he said when did you start thinking about coming here on this Military mission? We told him we started looking into it in April of last year. We knew we wanted to do the military mission and we talked to Tim who knew President Tate here in Birmingham. We talked with him and he needed a military person here. Chris said I would like to think you are an answer to my prayers. The end of April I found out I was coming here to Montgomery for this training. I started praying someone would be here that could help me. He said" when I met Elder Stewart that first night in the Chaplains office I knew my prayers were answered!" How can anyone think there is no GOD?? He answers our prayers! he puts us in places at the right time! He knows each and everyone of us!

One of the other guys here told us about his first week here at training:

He said as he was marching around he would see a guy in the upper class and he seemed familiar. He was not allowed to talk to them or even really look at them that first week. But the first Sunday when he was allowed to go to church, he walked to the area to meet the bus and there were the four or five guys he thought he knew. He talked with them and he didn't really know them from any where . But he seemed to know them through the spirit. He had unknowingly picked out all the LDS guys in the upper class. They were kindred spirits. These guys here are great. CREAM of The CROP! Our military leadership will one day be in great hands again!!!

Got to go. We love our mission and feel really blessed to be here. Thanks to all of you for your support.

Love Elder and Sister Stewart