Dear Family,
I hope all is well and everybody is happy and healthy. I take it as a good thing that everyone is
pretty busy, Dad with work and Mom with School, summer is quickly
approaching and i know that everyone is making every
necessary preparation for this season and i hope and pray that all goes
well and that this week brings joy and peace and wonderful experiences.
To begin, we've had some really neat experiences with those whom we
are working with this past week, I'll start with James, a 13 year old,
i'm fairly certain i've talked about him before but i will tell you what
happened this past week. We went over to
teach James and his mom was waiting for us out front and said that James
would be coming out in just a minute, a few moments later out comes
james in a white shirt and tie, shined shoes, and he made his own
"Elder" nametag (which was simply a black piece of
paper with white crayon written on it and put in his pocket), it was the
coolest thing ever! His mom took pictures and so we talked to james
about being a missionary and we had him teach us a lesson based off what
he has learned and experienced from coming
to church and from meeting with missionaries in the past. He taught us
about the Holy Ghost and about how important Faith is and then we taught
him a "hold to the rod" object lesson in which we tied a rope from one
tree in his back yard to the other end and
placed objects in his path of "growth in the gospel" that will
ultimately lead him to the savior. It was a really neat experience and
James knows and understands the gospel, we are just working with his mom
right now to reactivate and work towards some ordinances
with this family. Herbert has been coming to church and continues to
tell us the more he comes to church and reads and prays every day, the
more he enjoys it and it makes sense (hmmm Alma 32, the SEED??). We will
be following up with him this week and helping
them out in their yard as well this weekend. We also had a new-member
lesson with Samantha and Santiago this week as well, we taught the plan
of Salvation but gave everyone in attendance a portion of the lesson to
teach which turned out to be a really fun lesson
because everyone was able to bear witness of how they individually
learned and gained a testimony of the Plan of Salvation and Samantha is
nervous about her calling to the Relief Society enrichment board, but
she has the support of the whole pq1st ward family.
Phil came to gospel principles again this past week and asked some great
questions! The lesson was about the Lord's covenant people and the new
and everlasting covenant and amazingly Phil and Tom, are non-members in a
part-member family, that lesson was truly
inspired and both Phil and Tom were active and interested in the lesson,
it was incredible to see. We were able to have our first lesson with
the Forkas Family, the husband is a less-active member from the age of
14 and is now late 40's and has been wanting
to become active and his daughters were interested in learning about the
church and the gospel and his wife was also in attendance at the lesson
and actively participated as well, we were able to teach them the
Restoration of the Gospel and likened Prophets
like unto Coaches seeing as both daughters have coaches, in softball,
soccer, cheerleading, and many other sports. We are also currently
working with 3 individuals and helping them learn english; melissa,
sylvia and antonio, and i am quickly finding out how
much the spirit is involoved in those lessons as well, we are working on
teaching them through a program and through the Book of Mormon as well,
i'll keep you posted on how things go!
If you could keep the Narvaez family in your prayers i would
greatly appreciate it, they have recently had a tragedy in the family
and the husband of the Family is struggling with the loss, i know that
with the combined prayers we can call down the powers
of heaven in the life of this family and they can recieve peace and
comfort from the Lord.
I do apologize this week is a shorter one, but i want you to know
how much i love and care about each and every one of you and hope that
you all have a wonderful week and I know that our Savior, Jesus Christ
lives, that He loves us and that love is manifest
is so many different ways,. especially as we read from the scriptures,
and pray daily. i know the Book of Mormon is the word of God and will
help us through every hurdle and mountain to climb in this life. Until
next time,
love,
Elder Aaron Jordan Lloyd
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