Dear Family,
First i want to say Happy Birthday to Adam!! 28! that's awesome!
Thank you for your example to me over the years and especially while i
have been on my mission, your influence and reach extends farther than
you can imagine and you are affecting many of
the lives of those here in San Diego as well brother, i love you.
Congratulations to mom for making it back home safe, that truly is an
answer to prayers and I am so grateful for jon owens and his help and
grateful that mom is doing well and that she has full
help and support from the family, Dad, your talk was absolutely
incredible! i'm curious to know, how many of your ward stood up? and to
answer your quesiton about social media, we are not allowed on facebook,
but we spend one hour a week on mormon.org
familiarizing ourselves with the site so we can help others navigate and i too have created my own mormon.org
profile, i just checked yours out and i learned some things i didn't
know about you dad, thank you for sharing your
story for the world to see and i encourage our whole family to create
their own profiles and invite others to see them and to explore mormon.org. i
know that pretty soon, there will be pass-along cards with QR codes
that will
send our friends, colleagues and accquiantences directly to our
profiles, what a wonderful tool technology is and how it truly is and
can be a force for good in helping this the work of the Lord move
forward.
As for the work here in PQ, things are going well, each and every
day the Lord stretched out His hand and pours out blessings that we do
not have room enough to recieve them. This past sunday, a semi-active
member in PQ1, Carrie brought her friend Cassie
to church, we spoke with Carrie and wanted to set up an appointment to
teach her and her family (she has 3 little girls and her husband comes
with her to church every so often and is nice, but isn't quite ready to
accept the gospel yet), and she told us to
give her a call on monday to work something out and we spoke again when
she was walking into Relief Society, that's when we were introduced to
Cassie. I'll fast-forward a bit to later that evening, we got a phone
call from Carrie saying that Cassie was going
to be at her home monday afternoon around 4:15 and she wanted us to be
there because Cassie really enjoyed church and wanted to come back next
week, so our lesson was going to be then. We went over yesterday to
teach her and the lesson went well, Cassie truly
did enjoy services and plans to come back next week, we were able to
learn a little bit more about Cassie and teach briefly about the
Restoration of the Gospel and she accepted a copy of the Book of Mormon
and committed to read it and said "i'm excited to read
it" what a miracle! and then in PQ3 i think i've mentioned Tom before,
he is the husband of Melinda (a returned to activity member) and he just
got out the army after serving in the Marines and the Army for over 12
years serving many deployments. Tom has been
attending chruch with his wife Melinda since January (attending all 3
hours for the past 4 weeks as well) and we have had a couple of talks
with Tom about how he feels about the church and his concerns, he said
to us "i've got to work out a few things before
i get baptized" and we were able to have a heart to heart with him a
couple weeks ago with our ward mission leader Bro. Barnett and this week
after Elders Quorum Tom approached me and said "i'd like to set up an
appointment for next sunday, i know this may
come as a shock, but i've been really thinking and praying and things
have fell into place and i feel like i'm ready to take the next step",
amazing!! we are looking forwar to getting together with Tom next sunday
and i'll report of his progress next week.
We also had a lesson scheduled with Jen and Todd ( a part-member family)
at our EQ president's home and they were about to cancel when we picked
up and took the lesson to them, we were able to read in 3 Nephi
27:19-20 and focus on "washing our garments in His
blood" and what it takes, we talked about what it would be like and it's
not easy, it's the old school way of washing and when we do everything
that He invites us to do accept Him, we have the Holy Ghost as the
ultimate "stain remover". Their goal is to work
towards the Temple and they are taking the first steps that they need to
take to get there.
I'm short on time but i want to comment on the Holy Ghost and how
in so many cases we receive promptings NOT to do things for our
protection, the Holy Ghost also prompts us to do things that we are not
comfortable with doing but as we follow those promptings
and get uncomfortable, we have the spirits full help in helping others
recieve this gospel and come unto Christ-it can save lives. "the what
informs, while the why transforms" may we each focus of the why of the
gospel and apply it in our lives is my prayer.
i know Christ lives and loves us and this is His work, we are His hands.
"Dare to be a Mormon
Dare to stand alone,
Dare to have a purpose firm,
Dare to make it known"
may we each dare to make it know this week in our interactions with others. I love you dearly, until next time!
Love,
Elder Aaron Jordan Lloyd
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