July 8, 2012

Dear Family,

Gotta make this quick, I have about 20 minutes before I need to write president. Gotta get my awesome typing skills in gear!!!!

Annoucnements! Shout out to Mom, Dad, Elizabeth, and Erik for the Awesome e-mails! (P.S. I did not get any mail yet. I seem to remember someone telling me they sent me some stuff. But I dont think that gets here for a total of at least 6 days because the office takes a while to forward the mail to the home the missionary is living in.)

Ok, well this week was pretty tough. Oh my goodness. Bed bugs? Are you kidding me? Satan was just laughing as we had to interrupt a whole days work to effectively clean out our room and call in an exterminator. My goodness. Not fun. Although, it did cause me to organize my mail that I have recieved into a nice neat binder where everything is hole punched. How I enjoyed reading that mail this week.

My companion and I witnessed many a miracle this week! We're teaching a lady, kymberli, and her son Paris. Kymberli is a coffee addict, and has been set on date for baptism on July 21st. That means no coffee or anything close for three weeks!!! So we gave her a priesthood blessing, and she allowed us to take all of her coffee packets and throwthem into the TRASH! Oh gosh! That felt so good. Unfortunately she couldnt make it to church last week because she had a bad athsma attack and went to the hospital. But we are still praying for her!

We also had a part member family open their door to us for the first time!!!! They are the Haleys. All of them except their ten year old daughter, Kathleen (KK for short) are members. And this is because the Husband is a less-active that is worried about loosing his job from a company that hates the church. I think that has made him a little Anti, or just scared of loosing his job. Anyway, we started teaching the ten year old daughter with the mother (Who is so AWESOME and wants so much for her daughter to be baptized.) The Kimberly is so so SO smart and has the best testimony of ANY little girl! She knows the church is true. So we set her on date for july 21st! Her dad didn't like that, so when the mom and Kathleen told him about it, he got really upset and made them cancel our appointments with us and started telling Kathleen why she shouldn't be baptized. But Kathleen simply bore her testimony and confounded her father!!! I loved hearing that. So we'll see what happens with that. I think God put Kathleen in that family so she could reactivate everyone.

Today I finally felt like I started learning to loose myself in the work. That has been something I have struggled with. But finally as I studied this morning, I really felt like I thought about how I could really, truly fit the lesson into the investigator's life and really help them to feel the spirit and know they are loved. I guess stressful weeks really do yeild blessings in the long run! I hope it just keeps on growing. If anyone can offer suggestions as how to loose myself more in this work, send me an e-mail or letter! I love you all!

Your Missionary,

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Elder William Lloyd Lovell
Washington, Seattle Mission
10675 NE 20th Street
Bellevue, Washington 98004

D&C 6:36 - "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not"