Week 62!!!

So this week was super good!

Elder Gil went up to Pico Rivera and I stayed back to hold down the fort. Elder Roberts came down here to serve with me! He is a cool guy! He is from Logan, Utah and has been out for 10 months or so. It really is nice to be with a companion with more time in the mission again.   It really makes things easier as he has some experience behind him. I really do look forward to serving this transfer with him! We are here and ready to get stuff done!! It's funny to be with another white companion. You'd think it wouldn't make that much of a difference, but it does. Whenever we introduce ourselves its funny.   We say we are the missionaries, Elder Lloyd and Elder Roberts. They say "oh are you brothers?" we say "no, just friends" they say "but you have the same name and kinda look alike.  You look like you could be brothers" "Elder means missionaries and Roberts and Lloyd are our last names." "you really do look alike" its funny. I look like every white companion I have served with :) It's also funny when they come to the door and say "sorry, no speak English" in a thick accent and we start speaking in Spanish.  Sometimes they are impressed, sometimes they look at us like great, they speak Spanish. its a good time.

I really hope you all watched conference. It was sooooo good!! I loved it! It was seriously one of the best ones I have watched! I took a ton of notes!!   One of my favorite talks was by President Monson I believe. It was about love. It was sooo good. He talked about what love is and what it means to us and what we should do if we love our fellow man. I really did enjoy it immensely. I cannot wait to go back and study the talks when the new Ensign comes out. I'd like to invite you to do two things. First, If you watched conference, I invited you to go back and re study the talks.  If you didn't watch it, I invite you to first watch it, then restudy the talks :) and secondly, I invite you all to choose one thing in your life you can do to strengthen the love you have for your fellow men. Do unplanned acts of service, smile at them, do anything. Malachi in the old testament says in chapter 2:10 "Have we not all one father? hath not one God created us? Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother" We truly are all brothers and sisters. It's about time we start treating others as such. Pray tonight and ask Heavenly Father what you can do tomorrow to show more love and make someone's day a little brighter. I read half a book once about filling peoples buckets with positive thoughts. I never got a chance to finish that book before my mission and its been too long to remember all of the analogy it used, but fill someone's bucket with something positive. as you prayerfully consider what you can do better, the Spirit will whisper to you something you should do and who you should do it for. I know that to be true. I know that Heavenly Father is anxiously waiting to help you help His other Children. All you need to do is ask. 

Elder Lloyd