Wow, this last week has been
incredible. We picked up two new investigators from a member referral at
dinner. We had dinner at the non-member's house with the member family
there as well. These guys have been having dinner with the missionaries
for about 4 months now, but they've been asked for about 4 years now
every now and again if they'd like to take the missionary lessons. For
some reason it just seemed to click totally naturally this time and they
were super interested for the first time! They are super cool. T. is
a marine. He works for Intel and really knows his beliefs in the Bible
really well, but wants to get educated on a bunch of different
religions. His wife L. is super cool too. They've got a bunch of
kids. I'm excited to teach them. I'll tell you what though. I was
sweating a TON in our last lesson. It was stinkin' hot in their place. It
was kind of hard to identify the spirit because everyone was hot and
tired. But then the member stepped in right at the end and bore a super
powerful and concise testimony of Joseph Smith being called to restore
Christ's church to the Earth and the Spirit bowled everyone over. It was
awesome!
Things are changing mission wise. My mission
president mentioned that at his last seminar with Elder Cook this last
month, he was notified about how the work is going to change. Pretty
much we are completely going to slowly reverse everything that I know
about how to be a missionary. Instead of giving 4 hours of service a
week, we're going to be doing service everyday from 10-4 and then
tracting from 5-7. Normally I try to tract before 12-4. from 5-7 people
usually get mad because you are interrupting their dinner whether or not
they are actually cooking or eating to begin with. It's going to be an
interesting switch to see phase slowly in.
I don't know why the Apostles want us to do it this
way, but I know I'm going to follow it. Prayer will always help you feel
calm about the new things that come into your life.
Love yall!
Your Elder Lloyd
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