Week 49!!!

Hey Everybody!!

This week was super good. Probably the best week me and Elder Gil have had together. It was super good. We had a few really good lessons.

We met this lady named Laura. Her son got baptized some three months ago into the English ward, but she speaks no English. She told the son that she wants to learn why he is so happy. So, he asks the English Elders if they know anyone that speaks Spanish. If there is a Spanish ward at all. SO, they say yeah, we know two guys and sent Elder Gil and I over. It was really cool. We met her other son out washing his truck who said that he would love to join the lesson, but he is busy. He wasn't expecting us till 6. (We learned later the English Elders did teach him at 6). But, we went in and met Laura. Every now and then we will contact someone on the street that says they don't know the church at all really, but they see us walking or on our bikes and they cant help but notice how happy we are as missionaries and wonder why on earth we are so happy in white shirts, slacks, and a tie in 115 degree weather. It is always kind of cool when that happens. My testimony of being a good example really was strengthened with Laura. We went in and hardly got to teach a lesson because she was just so thrilled that we were there. She told us how much she has seen her son grow and progress and how happy and easy going he is now in the 3 months since his baptism. She said how she doesn't understand anything of what the missionaries say because she speaks no English, but her son has told her a little bit and she is beyond belief excited to get into her life what her son has found because she has seen profound blessings first hand from her son. This really goes to show what Mosiah says is true. That when we "are willing to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that [they] may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that [they] may have eternal life" (Mosiah 18:9). That people can see your good examples. They will notice that you have what they don't, and they will want it. So, always know people recognize you as something special. Always be on your best behavior. You never know who that will touch.

Me and Elder Gil

Love,
Elder Lloyd