Dear Family,
Well, another week. By the way, just know that people don´t get attacked by lions all the time here. You may have heard about a missionary in the South Mission that got attacked by two lions. Well, you should also know that missionaries are protected as they are obedient. This missionary that got attacked went on his Pday to a zoo on divisions with two sister missionaries..... he then climbed a wall to take a picture of these lions. That´s when problems happened. I promise I´ll be obedient.
Anyways, haha, on a happier note, this week was great. I´m still working with my companion trying to help him get some spunk in the work again. But, we did have a fantastic week of success. We had 8 solid new investigators this week. In order to count a person as a new investigator in this mission you have to have taught them 2 times and have a return visit scheduled. So it was great. We also have two investigators with a baptismal date for the 13 of August. Their names are Indira and Diego Perez. They are so humble and really want to learn more. We helped them move a couch 3 weeks ago and we asked them if they wanted to hear our message and they said yes. So we immediately went back to a member´s house and taught them the first lesson. We´ve been teaching them in the Rodriguez house ever since. They don´t want us to come there because they don´t have electricity. They didn´t come to church but we are going to teach them a lesson on the Sabaath day this week and hopefully get them wanting to come. He also told us that he doesnt have to work this Sunday. We´ll take a start any way we can get it. I hope they keep progressing. They could be so blessed by the gospel and really need it. She´s pregnant and really interested in our message about family´s being able to live together forever. We´ll keep praying.
We also found a new family, the Soveranes family in our little colony where we live. It´s a lady with a 20 year old girl and an 18 year old son. They are so receptive, have great questions, and don´t even affiliate with a different church because they don´t feel they are right. We have another appointment with them tomorrow night that should be fantastic.
We have a lady in our ward that has two daughters that are interested in the church and have been coming every once in awhile to church. The problem is that we can never get anybody to go with us and there are only women in the house. I definitely know that the rule that we can´t enter houses where there are only women is definitely for our protection. So that is one rule that I will not break. Yesterday, Hna. Lopez brought her daughters, mom, sister, niece, and her 3 kids to church! It was awesome! They also asked us if we could come back the same night and teach them all. We finally got in with a member after 6 weeks of trying! It was so great. One of the ladies told us that she was recieving the lessons from the missionaries antes and didn´t feel comfortable putting a date the last time. She also told us that she thinks this is her time now, and that she needs to join the church. Que pilas esa patoja! We also have another appointment with them all tonight! Sweet. We are going to try to work with them so hard so that we can help them do what it takes to come unto Christ.
And we have another investigator progressing! His name is Giovanni and we´ve taught him twice. We also have a lesson with him tonight and hope that his wife is there to listen to us also. We´ll see how it goes.
I looked around at church and noticed that 5 families of less active members that we´ve been teaching were back at church. The Peña family was there with their mom, who has been extremely inactive. I think I told you about her. She also attended the temple prep class with her husband last night. A man that had killed somebody out of self defense and stopped going to church was having problems with his wife. They were sitting in sacrament meeting together, he with his harm around her, super happy. We taught a lesson to some less active members last night who´s father has had problems with drinking. He was on the verge of tears because he knew they needed to return to church and prepare to be sealed. We´ve been so blessed with success this week. I can feel the Spirit guiding it also. The Lord knows how important this work is and is helping me all the way. I love it.
Well, the times up. Life in Guatemala is awesome. Definitely different. We have two showers in the house and I finally got tired of the cold water in the one upstairs so I switched to the heated one downstairs. But, it shocks like no other! If you touch your hair to it, you're gettin shocked. It doesn´t help that it's at my chest. Haha. Anyways, I gotta go. I love you all. I hope life is go. If there are other people reading this blog, know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is true. I know it without a doubt. I know that through this gospel of Jesus Christ, we can recieve all the blessings in the world. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Lloyd
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