New Companion

It's been a great week! I love my new companion, Elder Twitchell. I keep trying to speak to him in Spanish and he never understands, but apart from that, it's been great.

We've changed the focus of our work toward part-member families, partly because I knocked thousands of doors with Elder Bushman (maybe even half of the area) and partly because that's the revelation we received. One of the part-member families we found was a Nevadan, born in Vegas, but lived in Tonopah and Reno. He was an active member in Nevada, but a divorce and some ward drama led him to inactivity (and a move to Texas). He hasn't been to church in Texas yet, but told us that he still has a testimony, and would like to go back. He has a wife and 4 kids (3 are of age to be baptized). We taught them about the restoration and invited them to be baptized. They agreed to consider it, then they invited us back for another discussion and dinner. We were pretty excited.

Kenneth is doing well, and came to church for the third straight week. The 101st door family (the Hernandez) are progressing, but slowly. Many more of the people we are teaching are making some sweet progress as well.

Love,
Elder Stephen Watts

Elder Twitchell and Elder Watts

Elders from the two Tyler districts