hey fam!
¿¡¿hows it going in Utah!?! sounds like youth conference was
awesome! seems like you guys did a ton of stuff in those three days!
that must have taken some seriously good planning! i would love to
see some pics! and sounds like slater and dad also had a good week
as well--- I hope dad had a great fathers day this week!
its been a good week here in sabancuy. its been raining a ton. and
the water is freezing cold ha. my companion got sick monday. he had
stomach problems, and then his bones started hurting him and fever and
the whole week was prettttty slow. and then things got worse friday
and we had to go to the doctor and he had to have shots and he couldnt
work saturday or sunday--- the doctor thinks he had salmanila--
who knows-, we have been eating a TON of eggs recently so that might
have something to do with it.
friday the president came to carmen and we had a Conference about the
importance of teaching the members how to share the gospel! it was a
great conference as always.
i feel super tired. and i think its because we couldnt work as much
this week-- i honestly think its more tiring not doing the work,
because you start to feel desperate to get out of the house and go
teach someone. it was rough not going out and teaching saturday and
sunday. and the hard thing is that my companion is like an anchor
right now. he doesnt really want to work, he´s still depressed. which
means i have to do double the work and be double excited right-- haha.
but its rough. luckily for me this week is going to be SUPER
AWESOME -- we´re going to do divisions tuesday wednesday and
thursday-- i´ll be with elder tlachi for 3 days straight! WOOT! and
we´ll be working here in sabancuy. super excited about that.
hopefully we´ll be able to put a good foundation so that when my
companion comes back he´ll be a bit more excited to work. pray for
me- that i can have the spirit and strength this week! and that the
lord can help us to see miracles!
this week we did find a new family. its a reference from our branch
president. they´re really good. only problem is that the wife is from
one those protestant churches where they feel the spirit and fall to the
floor and speak in tongues--- yikes. but we already taught the
restoration and it was a spiritual lesson and i think we´ll see some
serious progress this week with elder tlachi.
anyway. gtg write the president!
love ya´ll a bunch.
telll jack Happy Birthday this week! 17. holy smokes youre getting
old! =) i love ya so much jack! (also tell slater sorry i forgot to
tell him happy B-day, but i was thinking about him on is actual
birthday i just forgot to write him!)
until next week!
-elder lloyd
Letter #88 6/11/12 Another Week Here in Sabancuy!
hey fam!
hows it going? It was good to get those pics of you all this week!
you all look so great!, glad to hear that slaters scout camp and
jack´s lacrosse camp went well! And thats so awesome about kam´s
call! thats cool that he´s going stateside!, it´ll be a different
experience! i imagine he´ll have a car! and i imagine his wards will
be bigger and more well formed. he´ll be able to do lots of work with
the members! i´ve always imagined what it would be like to serve in
the states! every mission is different, and every call is inspired,
and the lord knows exactly where kam needs to go! that is going to be
a ton of time that we dont see each other though!! 4 years!! yikes!
This week was rough here in Sabancuy! We´re struggling to find people
to teach. we´ve been diligent in contacting this week but its
seriously just been worse and worse with the contacts. we´ve seen
a lot of opposition this week. friday and saturday the people we
contacted didnt even let us present ourselves. -- it was like "hey,
how are you doing today?"--- "no no no, we´re not interested"!
lots of slammed doors.
p and y didnt get baptised. they
faced some pretty big opposition this week! their family started
attacking them for listening to us! and then it turns out that since
last week other churchs have been visiting them almost everyday... all
telling them that there are no such things as visions, and in these
times there arent such things as prophets. and everything we need is in
the bible and the book of mormon is from the devil! basically they
were just bombarded, and then more family came in from out of town and
said the same thing. Basically the doubt started to enter into their
hearts. not as much with p but y said that she doesnt want
to be baptized! p is super because he wants an eternal family and
he knows he cant have it without his wife. -- and even he´s been
doubting. we did everything we could this week, we planned spiritual
lessons, we brought members, the president of the mission even called
us one day of the week and said he had been thinking of p and
y, and we went to their house and he talked with them on the
phone! and then they didnt get baptized, and yesterday they didnt
come to church for the first time in like a month. basically it was a
rough week--
my companion got desperate by the end of th week! and we were both
pretty anxious to see what would happen with the transfers. yesterday
the zone leaders called and said that there wont be any changes in the
whole zone!! my comp is pretty sad. i think he wanted to get out of
here!
but i know the transfers are inspired and if we havent been transfered
its because there´s still work to do here, and the lord needs us where
we´re at. so even though its been a rough couple of weeks we´re just
going to work harder, and try harder to recieve the inspiration of the
spirit to find new investigators and hopefully resolve the doubts of
y.
on a more positive note--
the sacrament meeting sunday was one of the best i´ve had in my
mission. it was testimony meeting! and theres this old lady in the
ward that got up to bear her testimony, she´s a recent convert. she
was baptized about a year ago. she can barely walk, she cant hear
anything, but she is seriously the most faithful member. and one of
the sweetest old ladies i´ve met in the mission. last month she gave
her testimony but had a hard time expressing herself. but this month
she came prepared with her testimony written on a piece of paper.
she got up and gave one of the sweetest testimonies i´ve heard in my
life. it wasnt more than maybe 5 or 6 sentances but the spirit entered
the room so powerfully. it was like a wave, and you could tell that
everyone in the room had felt it, and awoke in each of our hearts the
desire to bear our testimonies -- almost everyone in the room gave
their testimony, i´ve never heard such humble but powerful
testimonies. the members here have so much desires to see the church
progress. it was a seriously special meeting.
well i love ya all a bunch. hope you have a great week! be well! be
good jack and slate!
-elder lloyd
hows it going? It was good to get those pics of you all this week!
you all look so great!, glad to hear that slaters scout camp and
jack´s lacrosse camp went well! And thats so awesome about kam´s
call! thats cool that he´s going stateside!, it´ll be a different
experience! i imagine he´ll have a car! and i imagine his wards will
be bigger and more well formed. he´ll be able to do lots of work with
the members! i´ve always imagined what it would be like to serve in
the states! every mission is different, and every call is inspired,
and the lord knows exactly where kam needs to go! that is going to be
a ton of time that we dont see each other though!! 4 years!! yikes!
This week was rough here in Sabancuy! We´re struggling to find people
to teach. we´ve been diligent in contacting this week but its
seriously just been worse and worse with the contacts. we´ve seen
a lot of opposition this week. friday and saturday the people we
contacted didnt even let us present ourselves. -- it was like "hey,
how are you doing today?"--- "no no no, we´re not interested"!
lots of slammed doors.
p and y didnt get baptised. they
faced some pretty big opposition this week! their family started
attacking them for listening to us! and then it turns out that since
last week other churchs have been visiting them almost everyday... all
telling them that there are no such things as visions, and in these
times there arent such things as prophets. and everything we need is in
the bible and the book of mormon is from the devil! basically they
were just bombarded, and then more family came in from out of town and
said the same thing. Basically the doubt started to enter into their
hearts. not as much with p but y said that she doesnt want
to be baptized! p is super because he wants an eternal family and
he knows he cant have it without his wife. -- and even he´s been
doubting. we did everything we could this week, we planned spiritual
lessons, we brought members, the president of the mission even called
us one day of the week and said he had been thinking of p and
y, and we went to their house and he talked with them on the
phone! and then they didnt get baptized, and yesterday they didnt
come to church for the first time in like a month. basically it was a
rough week--
my companion got desperate by the end of th week! and we were both
pretty anxious to see what would happen with the transfers. yesterday
the zone leaders called and said that there wont be any changes in the
whole zone!! my comp is pretty sad. i think he wanted to get out of
here!
but i know the transfers are inspired and if we havent been transfered
its because there´s still work to do here, and the lord needs us where
we´re at. so even though its been a rough couple of weeks we´re just
going to work harder, and try harder to recieve the inspiration of the
spirit to find new investigators and hopefully resolve the doubts of
y.
on a more positive note--
the sacrament meeting sunday was one of the best i´ve had in my
mission. it was testimony meeting! and theres this old lady in the
ward that got up to bear her testimony, she´s a recent convert. she
was baptized about a year ago. she can barely walk, she cant hear
anything, but she is seriously the most faithful member. and one of
the sweetest old ladies i´ve met in the mission. last month she gave
her testimony but had a hard time expressing herself. but this month
she came prepared with her testimony written on a piece of paper.
she got up and gave one of the sweetest testimonies i´ve heard in my
life. it wasnt more than maybe 5 or 6 sentances but the spirit entered
the room so powerfully. it was like a wave, and you could tell that
everyone in the room had felt it, and awoke in each of our hearts the
desire to bear our testimonies -- almost everyone in the room gave
their testimony, i´ve never heard such humble but powerful
testimonies. the members here have so much desires to see the church
progress. it was a seriously special meeting.
well i love ya all a bunch. hope you have a great week! be well! be
good jack and slate!
-elder lloyd
Letter #87 New Stake Organization!! 6/4/12
Fam! its good to be writing you again. -- is it just me or are the
weeks ZOOMING by! holy cow. i feel like i just wrote you guys.
it was good to read your letters. i loved the pics! that looked
like one legit concert! awesome lax pic of slate. i loved the pic of
grandpa! good to see him riding his bike!! -- and the kitchen looks so
great! geez. i´m pumped to see the whole house when i get back.
this week has been g r e a t! p and y are officially
married! FINALLY! it all went down thursday! we got them a ride
set up to go to that town (sayva playa) about an hour and a half away.
we got their witnesses and everything set up and they both took a
day off from work! not gunna lie, its taken a ton of work to get it
to happen but it was definitely worth it. they´re doing so great!
and afterward they looked so happy!, i´ve seen a visable change in
their relationship this past week since they got married.
Sunday was Stake Conference! and it was soooo cool because it was the
forming of the stake! Ciudad del Carmen has been a district for
almost 30 years-- and they´re finally a stake! it was so great
because i´ve spent so much of my mission here in this zone! june july
august september october november of last year, and part of march,
april may and part of june of this year. i was so happy to be able to
be a part of this huge step here in Cd. del Carmen.
ok mostly i didnt understand how important it is to have a stake! a
stake is much different from a district -- a district doest have
bishops, doesnt have a patriarch so almost no one has patriarcle
blessings, almost no one has an active temple recommentd because they
have to wait for the mission president to come all the way from
villahermosa to interview them and sign their temple recommends, there
arent any high priests ordained, missionaries have to go to villa to
pic up their mission calls and be set apart, basically a district
doesnt have a ton of the the privleges a Stake has. and it was cool
this week to see them establish the first stake here in the city.
Elder Benjamin de Hoyos of the first quorem of the seventy came and
another seventy as well but i cant remember his name. and it was
super powerful. most of the conference was centered on raising
the standard, that as a stake the people here should incline their
hearts to the lord, be more faithful, more giving of their time in
service to the lord. benjamin de hoyos talked of the need to go look
for the lost sheep. he said "what father is there that in the night
time asks his wife, -- honey, its getting late, how many of our kids
have came back home? and when she answeres 4 of the 5, he says 4 of
the 5, thats about 80%, i think we´re good to shut and lock the doors
and go to sleep! no parent would do that, he said that we
cannot rest until all our brothers and sisters are safely back at
home. he called the members of the stake to be more diligent in
retention of new converts. 35000 people were converted last year
alone in mexico thats enough for about 30 more stakes here in mexico.
p and y came to the conference and loved it. also in the
conference i got to see my converts again. and that was great, i sat
by J and E and their family in the conference. i love them so
much. i´m so excited for them to be sealed in the temple in 6 months!
woot!
As for the next week we should have the baptism of p and y!
hopefully they´ll be baptised friday or saturday, and maybe it´ll be on the beach!!
that´d be pretty cool
eh?
anyway. hope you´re all doing well. love ya a bunch. i´ll be
praying for slate this week! and i hope you all stay safe and well
-much love
elder lloyd
weeks ZOOMING by! holy cow. i feel like i just wrote you guys.
it was good to read your letters. i loved the pics! that looked
like one legit concert! awesome lax pic of slate. i loved the pic of
grandpa! good to see him riding his bike!! -- and the kitchen looks so
great! geez. i´m pumped to see the whole house when i get back.
this week has been g r e a t! p and y are officially
married! FINALLY! it all went down thursday! we got them a ride
set up to go to that town (sayva playa) about an hour and a half away.
we got their witnesses and everything set up and they both took a
day off from work! not gunna lie, its taken a ton of work to get it
to happen but it was definitely worth it. they´re doing so great!
and afterward they looked so happy!, i´ve seen a visable change in
their relationship this past week since they got married.
Sunday was Stake Conference! and it was soooo cool because it was the
forming of the stake! Ciudad del Carmen has been a district for
almost 30 years-- and they´re finally a stake! it was so great
because i´ve spent so much of my mission here in this zone! june july
august september october november of last year, and part of march,
april may and part of june of this year. i was so happy to be able to
be a part of this huge step here in Cd. del Carmen.
ok mostly i didnt understand how important it is to have a stake! a
stake is much different from a district -- a district doest have
bishops, doesnt have a patriarch so almost no one has patriarcle
blessings, almost no one has an active temple recommentd because they
have to wait for the mission president to come all the way from
villahermosa to interview them and sign their temple recommends, there
arent any high priests ordained, missionaries have to go to villa to
pic up their mission calls and be set apart, basically a district
doesnt have a ton of the the privleges a Stake has. and it was cool
this week to see them establish the first stake here in the city.
Elder Benjamin de Hoyos of the first quorem of the seventy came and
another seventy as well but i cant remember his name. and it was
super powerful. most of the conference was centered on raising
the standard, that as a stake the people here should incline their
hearts to the lord, be more faithful, more giving of their time in
service to the lord. benjamin de hoyos talked of the need to go look
for the lost sheep. he said "what father is there that in the night
time asks his wife, -- honey, its getting late, how many of our kids
have came back home? and when she answeres 4 of the 5, he says 4 of
the 5, thats about 80%, i think we´re good to shut and lock the doors
and go to sleep! no parent would do that, he said that we
cannot rest until all our brothers and sisters are safely back at
home. he called the members of the stake to be more diligent in
retention of new converts. 35000 people were converted last year
alone in mexico thats enough for about 30 more stakes here in mexico.
p and y came to the conference and loved it. also in the
conference i got to see my converts again. and that was great, i sat
by J and E and their family in the conference. i love them so
much. i´m so excited for them to be sealed in the temple in 6 months!
woot!
As for the next week we should have the baptism of p and y!
hopefully they´ll be baptised friday or saturday, and maybe it´ll be on the beach!!
that´d be pretty cool
eh?
anyway. hope you´re all doing well. love ya a bunch. i´ll be
praying for slate this week! and i hope you all stay safe and well
-much love
elder lloyd
Letter #86 5/28/12 Bug Bite!
hey fam! whats up!
its been another great week here in sabancuy! working with elder
Garcia! This week we got our first hit of the rainy season--
apparently its going to be raining a lot more often now! it rained
super hard yesterday, and during the week it rained a lot in the
afternoons and at night. We only reallly got super super soaked
saturday because the other days we were in lessons during the rain!
there have been some awesome thunder and lightning though! also-
you´d think because its raining it would be colder-- its not. just
more humid! the sun is super strong, i´m turning into a mexican!
my tan lines are lookin super great haha, i even have a tan line from
where the sun has burned me through my shirt, and you can see the
mark of my tie!
Also this week i got bit by some bug, i´m not sure what it was, i
think it must have been a spider! the first day it was fine, it just
itched and hurt a ton, but after 2 days it wasnt getting better and my
hand was going purple!! so we went to the hospital and they gave me a
shot and some medicine to take! and it took about 2 days but my hands
back to normal now! ha yikes. we also sprayed the house with a bug
spray thats supposed to keep the bugs away for at least a month!
this week has also been interesting with the food, we ate shark one
day, yesterday day we had pig skin, and today they gave us oysters!
yum
On the spiritual side, we had interviews with the president this week!
it was a great experience. he always seems to know exactly what i
need to hear. i expressed to him some doubts about whether all the
work i had done in Cardenas (my last area) had been a success, and we
talked about how to know if we´ve had a successful mission. if we
feel that the spirit has worked through us on a day to day basis we
can know that the lord is using us as an instrument. its not as
important whether or not the people you teach accept-- abinadi
testified against wicked king noah, and they killed him. abinadi
never saw alma converted. moses lead his people for 40 years in the
desert and then the lord told him that they would break the covenant
and go and worship false gods-- and that doesnt mean moses and
abinadi were failures. at the end of the interview the president
told me that cardenas hasnt hearkened unto the voice of the servants
of the lord and my testimony and the testimony of the other elders
that have served in cardenas will stand as a testimony against them in
the last day-- it was pretty intense, and i felt better because i
seriously did work so hard there in Cardenas with my companions to
help the people and raise up the ward there.
also he told me i wont be finishing my mish here in sabancuy, that
he´s going to send me to another area to finish my mision!
As for jack and slate, i was just thinking this last week and i wanted
to know how you two are doing in your Duty to God?? my companion and
i are working with the young men in the ward so that they can finish
it! and as i´ve been reading the pamphlet this week í´ve seriously
felt the spirit. i know that it is an inspired program, and its so
much better than the program that i had when i did it! i dont know
how much you´ve done but i invite the both of you to sit down and put
some goals to finish it! its something that will strenghten your
testimony and help to you better understand the duties you have as a
holder of the priesthood!
As for the investigators! p and y still arent married---
but they´re way more excited. thursday is the wedding day! the wards
going to help us more this week. the branch president and his family
are going to visit them this week to keep them excited! and then
this next sunday they should be getting baptized!
well i love ya´ll a bunch!
hope you have a great week
-elder lloyd
its been another great week here in sabancuy! working with elder
Garcia! This week we got our first hit of the rainy season--
apparently its going to be raining a lot more often now! it rained
super hard yesterday, and during the week it rained a lot in the
afternoons and at night. We only reallly got super super soaked
saturday because the other days we were in lessons during the rain!
there have been some awesome thunder and lightning though! also-
you´d think because its raining it would be colder-- its not. just
more humid! the sun is super strong, i´m turning into a mexican!
my tan lines are lookin super great haha, i even have a tan line from
where the sun has burned me through my shirt, and you can see the
mark of my tie!
Also this week i got bit by some bug, i´m not sure what it was, i
think it must have been a spider! the first day it was fine, it just
itched and hurt a ton, but after 2 days it wasnt getting better and my
hand was going purple!! so we went to the hospital and they gave me a
shot and some medicine to take! and it took about 2 days but my hands
back to normal now! ha yikes. we also sprayed the house with a bug
spray thats supposed to keep the bugs away for at least a month!
this week has also been interesting with the food, we ate shark one
day, yesterday day we had pig skin, and today they gave us oysters!
yum
On the spiritual side, we had interviews with the president this week!
it was a great experience. he always seems to know exactly what i
need to hear. i expressed to him some doubts about whether all the
work i had done in Cardenas (my last area) had been a success, and we
talked about how to know if we´ve had a successful mission. if we
feel that the spirit has worked through us on a day to day basis we
can know that the lord is using us as an instrument. its not as
important whether or not the people you teach accept-- abinadi
testified against wicked king noah, and they killed him. abinadi
never saw alma converted. moses lead his people for 40 years in the
desert and then the lord told him that they would break the covenant
and go and worship false gods-- and that doesnt mean moses and
abinadi were failures. at the end of the interview the president
told me that cardenas hasnt hearkened unto the voice of the servants
of the lord and my testimony and the testimony of the other elders
that have served in cardenas will stand as a testimony against them in
the last day-- it was pretty intense, and i felt better because i
seriously did work so hard there in Cardenas with my companions to
help the people and raise up the ward there.
also he told me i wont be finishing my mish here in sabancuy, that
he´s going to send me to another area to finish my mision!
As for jack and slate, i was just thinking this last week and i wanted
to know how you two are doing in your Duty to God?? my companion and
i are working with the young men in the ward so that they can finish
it! and as i´ve been reading the pamphlet this week í´ve seriously
felt the spirit. i know that it is an inspired program, and its so
much better than the program that i had when i did it! i dont know
how much you´ve done but i invite the both of you to sit down and put
some goals to finish it! its something that will strenghten your
testimony and help to you better understand the duties you have as a
holder of the priesthood!
As for the investigators! p and y still arent married---
but they´re way more excited. thursday is the wedding day! the wards
going to help us more this week. the branch president and his family
are going to visit them this week to keep them excited! and then
this next sunday they should be getting baptized!
well i love ya´ll a bunch!
hope you have a great week
-elder lloyd
Letter #85 5/21/12
hey family!!!
good to hear alls well with the fam. sounds like it should be a
pretty busy week this week with school winding down! i hope all goes
well with jack and slate and they can wrap up the school year well.
this week has been really good. we´ve been working hard with our
investigators! Thursday we did divisions with the zone leaders.
which means i spent half the day working with elder tlachi! that was
an awesome experience. it was like a wierd trip back in time, because
this time because it was like 11 months ago that we were working
together. he´s such an awesome elder, i was very lucky to have him
for a trainer.
we´re still struggling a bit to find people and have them progress.
we´ve been walking a ton this past week. its disappointing when you
have a day full of appointments and then they all fall through. so
frustrating. but the good news is that we do have some people that
are progressing even if it is slowly ha. p and y are
doing super great. we had an awesome lesson with them, we brought
pics of our familys and talked to them of the worth of eternal
families and how we have to be willing to make sacrifices to recieve
the promised blessings. they both accepted to get married this week
and get ready for baptism. and they both came to church sunday.
only frustrating thing is that htey have to go a bit far to get
married. to a city thats like an hour from here where they marry
people for 500 pesos. which is super super cheap. hear its gunna
cost them like 3000 pesos. but we told them we could find them a
ride with a member that has a car. but we went and talked with the
member and he´s not willing to help us. sooo frustrating. he´s going
to be here, he´s got a job where it doesnt really matter if he misses
a few hours because he´s self employed, but he´s just super lazy-- so
frustrating. there isnt very much help from the ward here right now.
i hope so much we can find a way to get pablo and his wife married
this week!!!!
we´re going to be working with the leaders of hte different
organizations this week to see if we can get them excited to work!
right now they´re a little bit depressed. our branch president wants
to see the branch progess to be a ward, but he´s really the only one
in the whole branch thats visiting less actives and trying to get
things done.
i still dont know anything about when will be the day that i get
released -- my companion that leaves the end of august still hasnt
received information about what day he´s headed home-- so i´m not sure
when they´ll tell us! but i´ll try to check this week and see if
they´ll tell me
as for tranfers, they still havent told us anything, i dont think
anything will be happening until june actually!
well i love ya´ll a bunch. hope you have a great week!
--elder lloyd
good to hear alls well with the fam. sounds like it should be a
pretty busy week this week with school winding down! i hope all goes
well with jack and slate and they can wrap up the school year well.
this week has been really good. we´ve been working hard with our
investigators! Thursday we did divisions with the zone leaders.
which means i spent half the day working with elder tlachi! that was
an awesome experience. it was like a wierd trip back in time, because
this time because it was like 11 months ago that we were working
together. he´s such an awesome elder, i was very lucky to have him
for a trainer.
we´re still struggling a bit to find people and have them progress.
we´ve been walking a ton this past week. its disappointing when you
have a day full of appointments and then they all fall through. so
frustrating. but the good news is that we do have some people that
are progressing even if it is slowly ha. p and y are
doing super great. we had an awesome lesson with them, we brought
pics of our familys and talked to them of the worth of eternal
families and how we have to be willing to make sacrifices to recieve
the promised blessings. they both accepted to get married this week
and get ready for baptism. and they both came to church sunday.
only frustrating thing is that htey have to go a bit far to get
married. to a city thats like an hour from here where they marry
people for 500 pesos. which is super super cheap. hear its gunna
cost them like 3000 pesos. but we told them we could find them a
ride with a member that has a car. but we went and talked with the
member and he´s not willing to help us. sooo frustrating. he´s going
to be here, he´s got a job where it doesnt really matter if he misses
a few hours because he´s self employed, but he´s just super lazy-- so
frustrating. there isnt very much help from the ward here right now.
i hope so much we can find a way to get pablo and his wife married
this week!!!!
we´re going to be working with the leaders of hte different
organizations this week to see if we can get them excited to work!
right now they´re a little bit depressed. our branch president wants
to see the branch progess to be a ward, but he´s really the only one
in the whole branch thats visiting less actives and trying to get
things done.
i still dont know anything about when will be the day that i get
released -- my companion that leaves the end of august still hasnt
received information about what day he´s headed home-- so i´m not sure
when they´ll tell us! but i´ll try to check this week and see if
they´ll tell me
as for tranfers, they still havent told us anything, i dont think
anything will be happening until june actually!
well i love ya´ll a bunch. hope you have a great week!
--elder lloyd
Letter #84 5/14/12 Hey Fam!
We talked with Matt yesterday for an hour and forty five minutes, and he
sounded GREAT! It was by far the best conversation we've ever had with
him. We were all so relaxed and spent a lot of the time just laughing. He
is loving his mission and is excited to work hard for the next five months!
Have a great week! - marci
Subject: hey fam.
Well this week is going to be a bit short. i used my time writing the
pres. and some other emails!
But i´m so glad we could talk this week! i loved hearing your voices!
you all sounded great. i almost felt like i was there with you in
the room. and only 5 months more and we´ll be together again!
But as for right now we´re working diligently here in Sabancuy. my
companion and i are excited for a new week. new chance to start!
this week we didnt have any investigators in the church! that was my
first time not having investigators in the church in a long time! it
was rough. but we´re going to go look for new people this week and i´m
excited to start working to reach our goals in june!
after i talked with you guys yesterday it rained super hard! and
everyone says we´re going into the rainy season here in jun and july!
i´m excited because yesterday was the first time the temperature was
actually enjoyable. ha.
well i´m excited to write you all next week and tell ya how things go.
have a wonderful week
-elder lloyd
sounded GREAT! It was by far the best conversation we've ever had with
him. We were all so relaxed and spent a lot of the time just laughing. He
is loving his mission and is excited to work hard for the next five months!
Have a great week! - marci
Subject: hey fam.
Well this week is going to be a bit short. i used my time writing the
pres. and some other emails!
But i´m so glad we could talk this week! i loved hearing your voices!
you all sounded great. i almost felt like i was there with you in
the room. and only 5 months more and we´ll be together again!
But as for right now we´re working diligently here in Sabancuy. my
companion and i are excited for a new week. new chance to start!
this week we didnt have any investigators in the church! that was my
first time not having investigators in the church in a long time! it
was rough. but we´re going to go look for new people this week and i´m
excited to start working to reach our goals in june!
after i talked with you guys yesterday it rained super hard! and
everyone says we´re going into the rainy season here in jun and july!
i´m excited because yesterday was the first time the temperature was
actually enjoyable. ha.
well i´m excited to write you all next week and tell ya how things go.
have a wonderful week
-elder lloyd
Letter #83 5/07/12 My Letter to you all from Sabancuy!
family! it was good to hear from you all this week! thanks a bunch
for your letters jack and slate, and thanks to ronette tambien!
i love to hear about the lacrosse. i think i´ve been day dreaming
about it all day while i was washing my clothes and cleaning the
house! bah i´m one jealous missionary.
this week i got my new companion. elder Garcia. he has 20 months in
the mission! he goes home in september. hes only got more more
cambio than me. cool eh. he´s from Cd. de mexico! and he´s a
nice guy. we´ve been working really well together! we dont have
any problems. he knows how to cook pretty well and so we´ve been
eating more than the normal oatmeal in the mornings. we´ve had eggs
and toast and quesadillas. its actually super super nice to be
with someone who has experience. i dont have to worry about what
he´s going to say. we teach well together. we´ve had some awesome
lessons this past week.
we found a lady who doesnt go to any church because her whole life
she´s hasnt been able to find the right one! she´s awesome, her
names olga, and she sells cheese. ha she´s like 60 years old, but
shes still 100% there. she understands everything really well and
reads everything we leave with her. she couldnt come to church sunday
because she had to work but we´re hoping for the next week she´ll be
there!
also we went to El arca again this week but it was bad this time ha.
we got there and we couldnt find a ride from the bus stop to El arca
which is like 10 miles away. bah. so we started walking, and some
guy gave us a ride in the back of his truck but only like half the
way. and we walked the other half, when we got there the
investigators werent in their house..... bah. and the same thing
happened on the way back to sabancuy. we walked like 3 miles and then
some one gave us a ride the rest of the way. i think i´m going to
wait until our friend Fredy gomez gets back from working in cd del
carmen to go back to el arca so that he can help us. because when
he´s here he can take us everywhere in his car!
as for the call we´ll be making for mothers day i´m still not 100%
sure how its going to be. they say we can use skype! but there isnt
internet that works well here in Sabancuy. so i´m going to try and get
permision to call in Cd. del carmen this wednesday or not this tuesday
but the next tuesday. or if they dont give me permision i´ll be
calling sunday from the church phone and we wont be able to skype.
basically dont worry about it, i´ll be calling you this week
sometime just super briefly to tell you when and where and how we´re
going to do the phone call! =)
well love you a bunch. have a grand week. and i´m super excited to
at least be able to hear your voices this week!
much love
elder lloyd
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