Rainy Season

Hey guys,

Good week.  Let me give you the rundown.  By the way, I am doing great.  

We started out the week with concilio in the capital.  It was the best concilio I've had since being in the mission.  They talked about a lot of things but one of the things that was greatest was president's talk.  He talked about how, as a mission, we have improved a lot.  But the goals we have are still way over what we are getting.  He told us that his revelation was that we need to become 100 percent obedient and only in that way will we receive the success the Lord has promised us.  He then invited each one of the Zone Leaders in to his office to be interviewed one by one, asking us to confess every rule we had broken in the mission.  It was such a great time for reflection and it really helped me tighten up the loose bolts.  We came back from the capital and talked very sincerely and honestly about obedience with our zone.  I know that we are going to see huge improvements in the work here soon if we strengthen our obedience here in Coban.  It was a very impactful day for me and my mission.  And we've seen the results because of our better obedience.  

We will have 6 baptisms this week.  The Gomez family is finally getting baptized!!!!!!!!  We also have a young man named Willy that will be getting baptized.  We are going to try to make the baptism a huge event so that the whole ward gets excited about it.  Hermana Claudia Gomez has had some problems with the Law of Chastity but she finally took a stand and told her man to move out.  We are getting super excited because they've finally allowed the spirit to move in and control their life.  I know that if we have lots of faith in this week, the Lord will work miracles in that family.  Willy is just super awesome.  He will have no problems.  I was very impressed the other day because we went and had a lesson with him and 4 other jovenes, all of which are preparing to leave on their missions.  There were no adults nor parents there but they all were very serious and loved to be sharing the gospel with one of their friends.  That is very rare to find in this world, 4 young men so centered on God's purpose for them.  

Familia Marroquin has been having some serious problems with their family this week.  They are so ready to be baptized, but we have found out that the trial of faith is real.  Every investigator, before baptism, has to have a trial that tests them and their belief in what we're teaching.  For them, there have been no trals in the doctrines of the Gospel, so the Lord knew they would needed to be tested in some other way.  All of the family of Hermana Carla is catholic and hate the Mormons.  Her own mother said that she would rather die than see her child become a Mormon.  Well, her mother tried to overdose on 38 pills to kill herself this week.  Luckily she lived but her whole family is blaming Carla for the problem and saying that the Mom did it because she is listening to the missionaries and going to church with her family.  They also said that they were going to run them out of the house they were in to get them to stop.  We were able to visit them yesterday and they said that it doesn't matter what happens, they know they need to be baptized and will follow through with the commitment they have made with God.  Long story short, they are amazing!  They said even though it had been raining all day long, they had waited with the door open to be able to recieve us because they knew we would come.  They're awesome. 

Anyways, times up.  I love you guys and hope you have a great week.  By the way mom, it rains every day here now.  We are in the rainy season.  I basically just go out without a jacket now because I'm used to getting so wet.  I just have to always remember to put my stuff in a bag.  Anyways,

Love you guys.

Elder Lloyd