Week 87!!!

Hello Everyone!

So its Columbus day again.   I'm not really sure why we like to shut down all the libraries on p-day, but ya know.  Whatever.

This week was good!   Highlight from this week: we went to Ignacio's house on Monday, I think, to talk a bit, review Conference and stuff.  We walk in and Trinidad, his wife, was being really friendly and stuff.  She has been not very willing to talk to us lately.   Back in the day they went to Oregon to see Ignacio's dying brother and he bore testimony of the Virgin Mary and Trinidad got re converted to the Catholics.  Well, on Monday we went in there and she is all hey, I have good news!  Then went away for awhile.  We talk to Ignacio for a bit, she walks by and I'm all hey, whats this good news??  Then she tells this story about how she was trying to get a passport and stuff all figured out, but accidentally left it in a shopping cart on the road.  It's really important cuz it costs like $700 to replace and someone could steal her identity.  She prayed really really hard for like a few hours, finally was able to retrieve her passport and stuff and it was kept safe.  Now she knows for fact that God lives and although she was being stubborn, and wouldn't talk to us or anything, now she realizes that this is God's will for her, then she apologized for being so rude to us and ignoring us.  Then, she said a closing prayer and in that prayer, pleaded for forgiveness and to be pardoned and promised she will take the church seriously again.  She was the only thing holding back Ignacio.  They both came to church as a couple yesterday, and the ward was very happy to see them.   Ignacio had no idea of her experience till she told us all that.  He was very happy.    We didn't get another lesson with them because they had family stuff, but we did get some homemade fish tacos which were super super good.  I love fish tacos :)   We look forward to finally getting them to accept baptism.  I really do know that God loves each of his children and He cares about what we care about.  The Supreme Governor of the Universe probably really wouldn't care too much about a passport.  In the eternal scheme of things, it really doesn't matter too much.  But being our Father, He really does care for us so he helped her out and now she is interested again.

Doctrine and Covenants 58:26-27 states "For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward. Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;"  I like this a lot.  a lot of times we wait so long to act, really needing to be guided for everything and worrying to much about if its something we should do.   But as this scripture states, we should be always doing good things by our own accord, even if its not from the Spirit necessarily.  In doing so we will be very effective servants of the Lord.

I hope you have a good week!

Love,
Elder Lloyd