Hey guys,
This week went well. Things were really tiring with the transfers. After the 6th time doing it, it gets a little old. Oh well, it's over and we have some great new Elders here in the zone. We are headed off to the capital again this morning for zone leader concilio with President. Should be fun. I'll try to cover everything that we did this week. I'm kind of sad, I did a half hour recording of my voice so that I wouldn't have to write much but it didn't work. So, here we go.
We did not have too much time to work with all of the transfers. Our job is to pretty much entertain the Elders and give them a hotel and pay for all their taxis and buses. It wears you down. On Wednesday night we had over 40 missionaries in front of our house and about 100 suitcases that got dropped off from the bus. It was insane. We handled it well though. We finally got everybody out of the house Thursday afternoon and got some time to work. It seemed though that most of our appointments fell through. Oh well, it's only once every 6 weeks.
The crowning event of the week was Church yesterday. We had 14 investigators in sacrament meeting and in our classes! That included a really awesome new family we have. They are the Marroquin family. They were a referral from a member family here in the ward. When we contacted them, they had already been to 4 Family Home Evenings with the family without us knowing. It was awesome. After two appointments we were able to put a baptismal date with them for the 8th of September with a possibility of moving it up to the 1st. They are really awesome. Golden investigators. There names are Carlos and Carla with 3 kids. We love visiting them because they understand and love everything we teach. So they are 3 people planning for baptism.
We have another fellow named Johnny that will be baptised. He lives a little far away but he is awesome. He is planning on being baptized on the 18th of August.
There is another kid named Willy. He's 17 and will be baptized on the 18th as well. He has been staying with a member family and they have already taught him most of the lessons.
The Gomez family is doing really well. Ana, Claudia, Evilyn, Ricardo, and Harry are all sure baptisms for the 18th as well. They have been so wishy washy for 3 months about baptism but they finally found their answer. Each one knows it's what they need to do. Yesterday Ana and Claudia were anouncing their baptism to everybody at church. They're all super excited.
Marina, another daughter of Ana Gomez, came to church with her husband for the first time yesterday. She told us that when everybody was bearing their testimony and saying that they knew the church is true, she felt this huge calm power in her chest and knew what they were saying was true. So last night we went over to the Gomez family and were able to challenge Hendrin and his wife Marina to be baptized and they both accepted happily. It was a wonderful day.
So in total we have 12 people that are waiting for their baptism. The work is great and we are loving it. I am tired. So tired. I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight in the AP's house. These trips and transfers kill me. Oh yes, today I have 16 months in the mission. I'm getting old! Haha. I'm celebrating by drinking an A&W Rootbeer. Delicious! Haha. I gotta go. Everybody's presuring me that they want to go play soccer so I better go so we can get on our bus on time. I love you guys. Sorry my letters are kind of lame sometimes. We're just working. It's a wonderful thing. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Lloyd
P.S. I got ringworm from all the elders that passed through our house this week. Nasty.
This week went well. Things were really tiring with the transfers. After the 6th time doing it, it gets a little old. Oh well, it's over and we have some great new Elders here in the zone. We are headed off to the capital again this morning for zone leader concilio with President. Should be fun. I'll try to cover everything that we did this week. I'm kind of sad, I did a half hour recording of my voice so that I wouldn't have to write much but it didn't work. So, here we go.
We did not have too much time to work with all of the transfers. Our job is to pretty much entertain the Elders and give them a hotel and pay for all their taxis and buses. It wears you down. On Wednesday night we had over 40 missionaries in front of our house and about 100 suitcases that got dropped off from the bus. It was insane. We handled it well though. We finally got everybody out of the house Thursday afternoon and got some time to work. It seemed though that most of our appointments fell through. Oh well, it's only once every 6 weeks.
The crowning event of the week was Church yesterday. We had 14 investigators in sacrament meeting and in our classes! That included a really awesome new family we have. They are the Marroquin family. They were a referral from a member family here in the ward. When we contacted them, they had already been to 4 Family Home Evenings with the family without us knowing. It was awesome. After two appointments we were able to put a baptismal date with them for the 8th of September with a possibility of moving it up to the 1st. They are really awesome. Golden investigators. There names are Carlos and Carla with 3 kids. We love visiting them because they understand and love everything we teach. So they are 3 people planning for baptism.
We have another fellow named Johnny that will be baptised. He lives a little far away but he is awesome. He is planning on being baptized on the 18th of August.
There is another kid named Willy. He's 17 and will be baptized on the 18th as well. He has been staying with a member family and they have already taught him most of the lessons.
The Gomez family is doing really well. Ana, Claudia, Evilyn, Ricardo, and Harry are all sure baptisms for the 18th as well. They have been so wishy washy for 3 months about baptism but they finally found their answer. Each one knows it's what they need to do. Yesterday Ana and Claudia were anouncing their baptism to everybody at church. They're all super excited.
Marina, another daughter of Ana Gomez, came to church with her husband for the first time yesterday. She told us that when everybody was bearing their testimony and saying that they knew the church is true, she felt this huge calm power in her chest and knew what they were saying was true. So last night we went over to the Gomez family and were able to challenge Hendrin and his wife Marina to be baptized and they both accepted happily. It was a wonderful day.
So in total we have 12 people that are waiting for their baptism. The work is great and we are loving it. I am tired. So tired. I'm hoping to get some sleep tonight in the AP's house. These trips and transfers kill me. Oh yes, today I have 16 months in the mission. I'm getting old! Haha. I'm celebrating by drinking an A&W Rootbeer. Delicious! Haha. I gotta go. Everybody's presuring me that they want to go play soccer so I better go so we can get on our bus on time. I love you guys. Sorry my letters are kind of lame sometimes. We're just working. It's a wonderful thing. Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Lloyd
P.S. I got ringworm from all the elders that passed through our house this week. Nasty.
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