Week 96!!!

Hello Friends!

This week was really fast, and kind of a trip! It started with the Temple and having P-Day on Tuesday really just messes everything up. The whole week just went super fast. I honestly cant remember much of the missionary work we did this week.

We were not able to get in with Ignacio and Trinidad this week. They have been doing a lot of stuff with their family and stuff this week, and he also had to work a lot with his son  in law. .He still reads and prays though. He is still progressing with baptism.

We also got a lesson with the Torrez family. They are a less active family who we have been working with since I have been here. But, they didn't talk to us for quite a while. The dad walked out on them a week ago, and it was sad, but he decided to come back. Everything we talk to them, they express desire to come to church and they all say that they want to and they will try to come next week, but then they don't. It is frustrating. I wish that we could really get them there so they can see that they are right, that the church will bring happiness back into their lives. Deep down, they know it is true, we just cant figure out what is really holding them back.

This week was kind of a trip. Usually the Sunday before you go home, there is a big fireside where you can invite your friends from the mission to go and say good bye, and the Monday before you eat dinner with the President. Well, because there are some missionaries going home this Tuesday, and I go home the 30th, this all happened this week. It was crazy! I remember walking into my trainers fireside when I sent him home about 18 months ago thinking man, I'll never be there. Then it came. I walked into the church last night to see a lot of people I truly have come to love, and it really hit me hard that I really am going home now. My time really is coming to an end .I am very thankful that I still have two more weeks to serve the best I can

Hello again. I lost track of time and the computer kicked me off. Thank goodness for autosave drafts! :)

Alma 22:14 reads "And since man had fallen he could not merit anything of himself; but the sufferings and death of Christ atone for their sins, through faith and repentance, and so forth; and that he breaketh the bands of death, that the grave shall have no victory, and that the sting of death should be swallowed up in the hopes of glory; and Aaron did expound all these things unto the king." I like this a lot! It is about the atonement of Jesus Christ. I really do know that through Jesus, we can overcome anything. He suffered it all so that we can look to Him for help. In the good times, as well as the bad times, He can comfort us.

I hope you have a good week! And sorry to all those who I haven't been able to respond to lately. I have been busy getting home stuff worked out. But hey, we can talk in two weeks, right?!

Love,
Elder Lloyd