Week 50!!!

Hey Everyone!!

So, I loved this week. Kind of a lot actually. This was the best week we have had together. I think I said that last week too, but this one was better!

So, we had two lessons that I really enjoyed. One was with the Zavala family, some less actives who just completed one year in the church, and therefore can go be sealed, if they come back to church... So, we have been working with them as long as I have been here to get them at church, but they wont come. This last Saturday, we went and had a lesson which we watched the Mountain of the Lord, a video produced by the church about them making the Salt Lake Temple. It was super spiritual. Part of it, Wilford Woodruff, the fourth president of the church in the dispensation, promised how the work of this temple will touch millions of lives. The Spirit hit me so strong from that as I pondered what it means. How this House of God has touched millions of lives. The Spirit bore witness to me that the promise is true, and I am living evidence of it, as because the early saints built this temple, I am sealed to my family for all the eternity. Man I love this Gospel, this work, this mission.

We also had a super spiritual lesson about the restoration with Laura. She loved it and is very open to the idea that God spoke to mankind once again. It was super cool. Her son was there as well. He was baptized a few months back, the weekend of conference. The Atonement is very real. As a man, who's past I don't really know but we were talking about his old mustang he has that he is fixing. It was his first car that isn't running right after he "got in a bit of trouble and it sat for a while."Lets just say, he is a fellar my mother would probably be scared of me being friends with :). Anyways, it was such a tender moment as he bore sincere testimony to his own mother of the Divinity of Jesus Christ and how she too can be made clean as he is from anything (and I'm sure he meant ANYTHING) in her past. I really love what I do. So much! It never fails to amaze me or strengthen my testimony as I watch a full grown man cry as he realizes, treasures, and shares a great truth that has helped him to use it to help others.

I was thinking a lot this week about prayer. We had a training on referring first to prayer to solve our problems rather then it being a last resort when we come to grips on the fact of we cant do it alone. It was really neat. Doctrine and Covenants 10:5 says it better then I ever could so "Pray always, that you may come off conqueror; yea, that you may conquer Satan, and that you may escape the hands of the servants of Satan that do uphold his work." Really, always pray. It aligns your will with Gods. It really will provide you with the strength to conquer all.

Love you all!!
Have a great week!
Elder Lloyd