Well, this week was a great one. Hard
work, but it payed off. I have a bus that leaves to the capital in 20
minutes so this letter is going to be a little lame. We have our
monthly zone leader meeting with President Watts so we have to travel a
lot. When we do that we have to take a 6 hour bus ride, stay the night
at the Assistants' house, go to the meeting, eat Hna Watts' food (this
time it's mom's chicken enchilada casserole), and take the 6 hour bus
back tomorrow night. It's a long trip but it's really fun. Anyways.
Our investigators are doing very very well. I think
I told you about the Gomez family of about 12 people that we found last
week. Well, we went and talked to them a few times this week and they
started reading the book of Mormon. It was a miracle in church because
10 of them came to church and they loved it. We had in total 15
investigators in church. 15! It was amazing!!! It's a little hard
though when we get that many people in there because it's kind of like
herding cattle around there are so many. Luckily we had a very great
principles of the gospel class that they all loved. Also, Marin Lopez,
our amazing investigator that's getting baptized, when he stood up to
introduce himself he said, "Well, I'm Marvin and what can I say? the church
is true. This is what you need and I invite all of you to continue
forward in the truth because it has changed our life." Awesome. The
Gomez family said that they really loved church and as they left the
building they were all saying goodbye to everyone and saying, "see you
next week!" It was one of the greatest Sunday's in my mission. It's
also cool because we have to hike up a big muddy hill/mountain to go
take them to church.
Another cool thing was that the attendance in church
as a whole was really high. We usually have about 140 people in
sacrament meeting and the attendance yesterday rose to 172. It helped
that 20 of them were nonmembers.
Familia Lopez is doing fantastic. We are really
feeling like they are ready for baptism. They had originally been
planning to be baptized on the 17th in the morning before church but we
changed it to be sooner this Sunday the 10th at 8 in the morning. So
Mary, Marvin, and their son Edwin are going to be baptized this Sunday.
When we asked them what they thought about changing the date, Marvin
said, we know the church is true and we made the decision a long time
ago, so when you guys say we need to be baptized, we'll be there. They
really are that golden family that every missionary wants in their
mission. The ward is also doing really well supporting them and helping
us out with the teachings. Tonight, even though we'll be in the
capital, they'll have a member family taking them to their house for a
family home evening and dinner. Awesome.
Well, my bus is going to leave. I love you guys and
pray for your success daily. Have a great week. Let me know what I
can do to help.
Elder Lloyd
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