Bad Eggs

Hey guys.    Another good week.  Sounds like you guys had a blast without me at the reunion.  Oh well.  I got to go to a waterfall.  Not quite the same as Silverwood, but that's ok.  I'm glad you guys got to get together and that you had some time to play with everybody.  Just wanted to clarify and let you guys know that the baptisms we were going to have are actually planned for this Saturday, the 28th.  We actually didn't have any planned this weekend, even though it was a great week.    The start of the week was a little shaky.  I got sick on Tuesday from some eggs and tortillas that some of our investigators gave us on Monday night.  We actually didn't even leave the house all day Tuesday because I was feeling so sick. It was actually the first time I have thrown up on the mission.  I just count my blessings that I haven't had a problem with that up until now.  Usually Elders get sick a lot in this mission.  But, the good thing was that I got over it fast and was ready to go on Wednesday.   Wednesday I got to go on a division with an elder from my MTC group from Texas.  He's kinda an interesting Elder.  He's 27 years old but he acts in really immature ways to get attention from everybody else.  I love him but he has been struggling a bit.  We felt that we should do a division with him and his companion this week so we did on Wednesday.  I got to go over to his area with him and we had one of the best divisions of my entire mission.  We walked so much in the first couple of hours and had no success whatsoever.  After having nothing though, we had some amazing success in the evening.  We were able to find 2 new families with total of 7 new investigators.  The great thing about the one family was that they were just chopping firewood and we offered help.  They just laughed and said, gringos can't work.  All the do is work with their eyes, managing people.  Haha.  Little did they know that this Elder is exactly like Bear Grylls.  We got Elder xxxx in and their jaws dropped when they saw him split the first log.  They didn't know that was even possible.  After helping them for a while, we were able to share a lesson and leave them a Book of Mormon.  It just goes to show the power of service in missionary work.  After the division, Elder Xxxxx really opened up to me and we set some great goals together on how to improve.     Thursday was interesting/a huge waste of time.  We had a senior couple of missionaries come and inspect all of the houses in the zone and they didn't know where any of the houses were.  So it was our job to take them around all of Coban and the little pueblos to show them the houses for a day and a half.  They were really great people, also from Arkansas James, but 70 year old missionaries in the middle of the jungle are high maintanance.  Oh well, it was fun to get to see everybody in the zone and take some people on a tour of Coban.    Our investigators are doing kinda well.  I have learned in the mission that with more success that comes in the work comes more temptations from Satan for our investigators.  Satan has been hitting our investigators sooooo hard and it is really hard to get people to be baptised.  We have planned for this Saturday 7 baptisms, but things are shaky.  I know that if we have enough faith, the Lord will provide.  Just please pray hard for familia Gomez, Nemecio, and Edwin.  They really need the help.  We've been doing splits everyday with the priests and elders of the ward to be able to visit everybody and we are going to keep it up this week in hopes that everything leaves well.  Ojala.   Today we got to go to a huge waterfall.  It was really nice.  The zone really appreciated some time together to destress and enjoy themselves.  This next week is transfers so everybody gets kinda trunky.  Kinda lame really.  But that's how it is with a bunch of 20 year old boys.  Speaking of which, it is possible that I get a transfer this next week.  I'll let you know next monday how it goes.  Pray for baptisms! Lov, Elder Lloyd