Transfer to reunions

April 8, 2014

This last week was crazy nuts as predicted and written about last
week. But, we got through it with awesomeness in our wings. I
definitely felt the hands of The Lord sustaining us and giving us the
ideas that we ended when we needed them. We lost a lot of sleep, but
that's alright. That's life as a missionary, let's be serious! Ha ha.
We picked up two new investigators that are a gay couple. One of them
told us that they would come to church for three months to see if he
wanted to be a part of it. He also said that he'd have to get used to
the good feeling that he felt during the closing prayer (aka the
spirit). It was pretty sweet for sure. I hope everything goes well for
them.

Y. and C. are doing pretty good. We had some really good
visits this last week where they opened up even more about their
personal feelings about the gospel and the spirit. Teaching a marine
is a little bit of a different world. There are some concerns there
from a battle hardened man that you won't find in anyone else, but
then you add in C.'s class clown personality and it's a whole new
avenue. Ha ha. I love them to pieces though. It was awesome playing
soccer with C. and all the little kids on Thursday. While we were
there the catholic school bus lady ran over our soccer ball. It
sounded almost like the gunshots I used to hear in St. John's. It
freaked out the kids a little bit, but only for a moment. The lady,
she couldn't have been more than 25 years old, felt soooooo bad for
running over the ball. She tried to offer some knew for the ball, but
we told her it was all good. It was an old ball left over from some
ancient past missionary. Then like 4 little girls came up to us and
invited us to come to their baptist church. It was awesome. We were In
our sports clothes so they didn't know we were missionaries. When one
of the girls pointed out that one of the kids were were playing with
went to their church he tried to run away and hide, but I told him
right in front of everyone, "hey man, don't be scared, church is
nothing to be ashamed of! Church is cool." And I got him to stand
right next to me. We invited the girls to come to a couple church
activities of ours as well. I totally understand how some people react
when we come to the door, but I was actually impressed that a couple
of 12 and 13 year old girls would go out and try to muster up the
courage to invite a bunch of guys to church that are twice their age.
I gave them major props.

Conference was awesome. I loved elder Bednar's talk about the load
being the thing that gives us spiritual traction to move forward and
to grow. I also really loved the talk about "no corrupt
communication," I really want to go back and study a lot of those
talks again. I was too busy writing notes that I missed a lot of what
they said. Kind of odd how that one goes. Ha ha.

Well I got transferred yesterday. Now I'm in the Farmington Ward up
north, right by Forest Grove stake if any of you know where that is.
I'm with elder Conner Peterson from Sandy, Utah. He's my age, but
graduated a year after did. I used to know him when he was in my
district back in West Linn. I fact there are a lot of people in my
zone that I knew from back in West Linn, like Elder Pearson and Elder
Burge and a few others as well. It's the first time that I've ever
served around somebody that I actually knew before. It's an odd
concept to me, but it should a much smoother transition than when I
got transferred to my other areas.

I love elder Peterson, he's a really cool guy. I respect him a lot.
He's only been out for about a year, but he's pretty capable.

Love y'all

Your elder Lloyd

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