Week 46!!!

Hey Everyone!!

How are you all doing? Is everyone getting ready for Christmas in like a week and a half?! Crazy!! I seriously cannot believe that it is already the end of the year. Time has completely flown by. It is really kind of cool to look back over the past year and see all the good times, hard times, and growth. It really is neat.

This week was good! It was a rather odd week though. Well, we did odd service. So a lady in our ward that we have been trying to get back to church, the friend of Alma, is going through a rather rough divorce right now. It is super sad. So then she got word that her lawyer is helping out her soon to be ex husband. So, she calls us up one afternoon and asks us to come help her translate a ton of legal stuff from English, the language is written, to Spanish. The language she speaks. It was really kind of difficult. I'm sure you have heard from missionaries that they get a good grasp on the "church talk" in the new language. Well, they are right. Turns out, all the legal stuff isn't "church words".... but thankfully God makes up the difference for His servants. A few times I said stuff in Spanish that I didn't know before but it felt right. Elder Gil, who's parents are from Columbia, looked at me surprised and said "I knew your Spanish was good, but I didn't know it was that good..." I smiled and said "Yeah, well me neither" It was super cool.

Another cool story: so this same member brought another friend to church today. It was super cool. After the meeting, we talked to her. She told us how she absolutely loved the services, and wants to learn more and join our church. Her only complaint was it was far away. Timidly we ask where she lives, not really wanting to know the answer. She says in Torrence. Right in the middle of the Los Angeles mission. Super lame we can't teach her, but on a happy note, some other lucky set of missionaries will get the referral. I hope they aren't knuckleheads and get the job done with the Spirit.

A lot of what happened this week really just set the stage for an AWESOME week this week, starting out with tonight booked full of appointments. I am really looking forward to this coming week. Really, every week here is a little better, but regretfully, a little faster.

Alma 30:8 reads "For thus saith the scripture: Choose ye this day, whom ye will serve." I really don't have much to add to that. Choose today, right now, as you are reading this who you will serve. There is no middle ground. As the world turns darker, choose where you stand. Will you serve Jesus Christ and accept the blessings and long term joy and happiness? Or will you choose Satan, which may offer short term pleasure, but in the end, long term misery. I pray that you will choose a life as a disciple of Christ, as this is the way to eternal happiness.

Thank you all for all the love you have shown me and my family week to week.

Love,
Elder Lloyd