So because of some time complications and transfers I didn't have time to finish my email to you all last week. but I did write a little bit from last week. It goes as follows:
"This last week
was a lot of fun. Elder Peterson and I worked our butts off and had a
lot of fun this last week. We had some pretty awesome miracles to tell
too.
We taught the B's again this week. We thought we
were going to teach 2 new investigators at dinner that night along with
them, so we prepared a couple different videos that would be able to
relate to everyone. Well, the new Spanish people didn't end up showing
up, so we still thought giving the prepared message would be good
instead of continuing on through the lessons with them. As we were
talking about God and his role as the Father of our spirits and the fact
that he is eternally invested in our future and the idea that he will
always allow us to choose our own road regardless of the fact that he
knows what will happen, the father got talking about society and how
much it has decayed without the influence of religion with the children
and parents that neglect their kids in the parenting aspect. Things were
going in a depressing way, so we quickly diverted the whole thing to
all of that being the exact reason why believing that we have access to
the priesthood or the authority of God to act for the salvation of man
is what holds us up to higher expectation. The amazing part was I hadn't
watched the video "The power of God" in months before I thought to
watch it, and the video nearly quoted the father that we were teaching
almost word for word. I think it really hit home with both of them."
So I got a new companion. I never really
served around him, like at all, even though he's been out for 15 months.
His name is Elder Dierks. He's a wrestler. He likes
to talk in a funny eastern coast accent even though he's from Arizona.
He reminds me of one of the kids from a Norman Rockwell painting.
This last week was all over the place. We had no
time to just recoup and get organized until like Saturday. It was nuts.
We picked up 3 new less active families to teach this last week, which
was awesome. One of them told us that unless she sees God and the
thunder and lightning then she's going to have a hard time believing.
She's hurting though. Her husband has had some major health issues for
the last 8 years. She used to be super active, but has just been
searching for answers as to why these things have been happening to her.
She's mad at God. It came to a point where she was just dissing on God
too much for me. I bore my testimony to her and her husband for about 10
minutes, and the spirit totally took over the room. We got her to watch
Earthly Father, Heavenly Father. After that she was happy to invite us
back. It's going to take some time and a lot of raw emotions, but we'll
try to help her through her own journey of healing and peace. She's
actually a expert marksman in archery. She showed us her $1,200 bow. Her
brother is 4th in the World and her sister is 16th in the Nation. I
would NOT want to be in the hunger games with this lady. She practices
for like 3 hours a day! If the Zombie apocalypse hits though, I know
exactly whose house I'm going to though, hoping she's still alive! ha ha
About half of our zone got new companions, so
everyone is going through the adjustment phase at exactly the same time.
It's kinda fun to see people testing the waters of the other
missionaries, so hesitant because they don't know anybody.
I got to see D. for the first time in 8 months
last Monday. It was really good to see him again. I'd post a picture but
I don't have the battery from my camera today. I'll have to post it on
Facebook this week or something.
I'm pumped for this week. We've got a lot of new
people to teach and the R.s finally opened up to us this last week,
so we can actually address their concerns.
I
love you all. Hope this last week has been good for y'all. Take it easy
and try not to talk to too many opinionated grandma's. The one that we
ate with yesterday ripped into me because I don't recycle as much as I
should and blamed it on me being from Utah. "Just look at their air, it
just looks dirty!" to which I responded "Isn't air invisible?" ha ha
Love yall
Your Elder Lloyd
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