I seriously think that god has a neurolizer for missionary brains. It
is so hard to remember what happened in the last week because we are
always so focused on what we have to do today and this week! Speaking
of which, this week is going to be more than crazy. It will possibly
be the busiest week of our entire missions. We've got a presentation
with the high council/ bishops council tomorrow night, a meeting with
our own bishop, two district meetings, a meeting with our ward mission
leader to sync up our area books, mission coordination, weekly
planning, a presentation to prepare for mission leadership meeting,
plus that entire day at said meeting, general conference, service,
transfer calls during general conference then saying goodbye to
everyone if me or my companion gets transferred, plus all of the other
lessons that we have planned on top of that, oh and we have to compile
stake reports as well by this Saturday. Did I forget anything? I hope
not. Ha ha! This week is going to be crazy awesome!!!! Take luck,
right? Ha ha. Challenge accepted!
This last week was awesome though. We did a lot of finding people this
week. It was so much fun to get out there and hit the pavement and try
to get these people out of our potentials or into out teaching pool
(We have over 100 people in our potentials right now). We made some
significant progress this week.
We set a baptismal date with Y. this week for April 26th! Then
this Sunday at church, we saw an engagement ring that C. gave to
her. We got pretty excited about that. She's ready to be baptized
mentally, she just needs to pray about it to get the spiritual
witness. She just forgets to pray about it.
We found out why T. keeps on refusing to pray on his own time about
the Book of Mormon. He's afraid of NOT getting an answer. I have never
heard that one before, but it makes sense if you take into
consideration that tony has never been around any religion much
before. We told him that he'll never know until he tries. He said he
would do it.
G. finally is convinced that she needs to get rid of her dog.
She's really sad about that, but it really is for her benefit. She
just needs a lap dog companion, not a neurotic German Shepard that's
scared out of its mind all of the time.
We committed D. to baptism this week if he finds out that it's true.
He was pretty gung-ho about it too. He is a seventh day Adventist, so
he pretty much believes almost everything that we do. We always have
really good lessons/discussions with him.
Oh man. I went on an exchange with a guy from New Zealand on Saturday.
Phew! I ate the biggest burrito I have ever seen with him for lunch.
Then right after we went a moved a lady up three flights of stairs. I
was definitely hurting! I never slowed down while I ate it though, so I was happy. Happy and hurting :) Ha ha. It was awesome. The burrito was pretty
dang good! Later that night we saw a soccer ball in the middle of an
apartment complex field and a bunch if kids hanging out in the
stairwells freezing their butts off. As soon as we touched the soccer
ball they all came out and started playing with us. Only problem was
it had been raining for the last 4 days straight. The field was all
mud and I was still in my suit. I took off my suit coat, but
everything else I was wearing got completely covered in mud. It was
awesome! Only problem was that I couldn't drive home covered in mud,
so we walked over to Y. and C.'s apt and asked them for a
towel. While we were walking over we ran into a YSA in the dark. We
talked for a minute and then walked up into the apartments together.
Apparently his girlfriend lives directly across from C. When we
knocked on Y's door she answered super tired, and her 5 year old
daughter came out. She was sick, so we offered a blessing. She said she
wanted one. Only problem was that C. was at work, which means that
we couldn't go inside. So we knocked on the door behind us and asked
the guy if he could join us for a blessing. He did. So I washed off my
hands and arms and gave her a blessing. This was an awesome miracle.
God provided the way that he could bless little V. with a
blessing, since her dad can't give it to her yet (he's still waiting for the Melchizedek Priesthood). It was a very cool testimony to me that you literally can be asked at any time to give a
blessing, so you need to be constantly living a worthy life. We also
got a towel so I could drive home. It was way awesome day!
is so hard to remember what happened in the last week because we are
always so focused on what we have to do today and this week! Speaking
of which, this week is going to be more than crazy. It will possibly
be the busiest week of our entire missions. We've got a presentation
with the high council/ bishops council tomorrow night, a meeting with
our own bishop, two district meetings, a meeting with our ward mission
leader to sync up our area books, mission coordination, weekly
planning, a presentation to prepare for mission leadership meeting,
plus that entire day at said meeting, general conference, service,
transfer calls during general conference then saying goodbye to
everyone if me or my companion gets transferred, plus all of the other
lessons that we have planned on top of that, oh and we have to compile
stake reports as well by this Saturday. Did I forget anything? I hope
not. Ha ha! This week is going to be crazy awesome!!!! Take luck,
right? Ha ha. Challenge accepted!
This last week was awesome though. We did a lot of finding people this
week. It was so much fun to get out there and hit the pavement and try
to get these people out of our potentials or into out teaching pool
(We have over 100 people in our potentials right now). We made some
significant progress this week.
We set a baptismal date with Y. this week for April 26th! Then
this Sunday at church, we saw an engagement ring that C. gave to
her. We got pretty excited about that. She's ready to be baptized
mentally, she just needs to pray about it to get the spiritual
witness. She just forgets to pray about it.
We found out why T. keeps on refusing to pray on his own time about
the Book of Mormon. He's afraid of NOT getting an answer. I have never
heard that one before, but it makes sense if you take into
consideration that tony has never been around any religion much
before. We told him that he'll never know until he tries. He said he
would do it.
G. finally is convinced that she needs to get rid of her dog.
She's really sad about that, but it really is for her benefit. She
just needs a lap dog companion, not a neurotic German Shepard that's
scared out of its mind all of the time.
We committed D. to baptism this week if he finds out that it's true.
He was pretty gung-ho about it too. He is a seventh day Adventist, so
he pretty much believes almost everything that we do. We always have
really good lessons/discussions with him.
Oh man. I went on an exchange with a guy from New Zealand on Saturday.
Phew! I ate the biggest burrito I have ever seen with him for lunch.
Then right after we went a moved a lady up three flights of stairs. I
was definitely hurting! I never slowed down while I ate it though, so I was happy. Happy and hurting :) Ha ha. It was awesome. The burrito was pretty
dang good! Later that night we saw a soccer ball in the middle of an
apartment complex field and a bunch if kids hanging out in the
stairwells freezing their butts off. As soon as we touched the soccer
ball they all came out and started playing with us. Only problem was
it had been raining for the last 4 days straight. The field was all
mud and I was still in my suit. I took off my suit coat, but
everything else I was wearing got completely covered in mud. It was
awesome! Only problem was that I couldn't drive home covered in mud,
so we walked over to Y. and C.'s apt and asked them for a
towel. While we were walking over we ran into a YSA in the dark. We
talked for a minute and then walked up into the apartments together.
Apparently his girlfriend lives directly across from C. When we
knocked on Y's door she answered super tired, and her 5 year old
daughter came out. She was sick, so we offered a blessing. She said she
wanted one. Only problem was that C. was at work, which means that
we couldn't go inside. So we knocked on the door behind us and asked
the guy if he could join us for a blessing. He did. So I washed off my
hands and arms and gave her a blessing. This was an awesome miracle.
God provided the way that he could bless little V. with a
blessing, since her dad can't give it to her yet (he's still waiting for the Melchizedek Priesthood). It was a very cool testimony to me that you literally can be asked at any time to give a
blessing, so you need to be constantly living a worthy life. We also
got a towel so I could drive home. It was way awesome day!
I
was able to find a lot more in the scriptures this last week,
especially in alma 60 concerning the law of consecration. When we clean
our inner vessels we have more capabilities to fight off the onslaught
of satan's attacks on our borders. When I was reading through that
chapter the idea of obedience made so much more sense to me. I already
had a testimony of obedience, but this was new light to my mind. The
idea of you never being able to know how much good you could have done
if you were more obedient became very real. Many nephites died just
because there was inner conflict in the city of nephihah. So it is with
us. If we can resolve our inner conflict, we will have more to give to
The Lord. It's so simple. I love it. I was also able to read a talk by
Bruce r McConkie this last week called "the seven deadly heresies." Oh
my gosh, when I read the part about the spirit world it made the
importance of being a missionary so much more powerful. I would highly
recommend reading it if you get the chance.
In love you all, keep on trucking!
Sincerely,
Your Elder Lloyd
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