June 28 and first baptism

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Morning Lovell family, friends, neighbors, and pets! Give ear oh earth and hear the announcements for this week!

First off! Thanks to mom and dad for their awesome e-mails! I will hopefully answer all of your questions! Whew! Well, to start off, I am no longer with Elder Aiken and Elder Lindeman. I had to take the spot of another companionship in the same zone when a companion in a different zone had to be emergency transfered. So here I am in the Dash Point Area. Still in the Federal Way zone. We set a soul every day here in Federal Way, with the promise of President Larkin that if we are obedient, we will find one person every month who will be baptized. So far this is holding true. We have three set for this month. By the way, my companion, Elder Fukuyasu, (From Japan) and I have only been in this area collectively about 12 days, so its pretty well white washed and we are starting from scratch. But With this happeneing, I remember the thoughts of my trainer Elder Sparks "Good missionaries are gonna work no matter what. Great missionaries are gonna MAKE things work." So it was just a time to put on our boot straps and go to work!

(By the way, Hyrum, I got your e-mail. Although I do love ya, this mission wont let us e-mail friends. So anything you'll send to me will either have to be through another family member or through the mail. And by the way, I ABSOLUTELY LOVE LETTERS! Seriously. Letters are the greatest. Send me a letter will you? Great. I take that as a yes. Thanks for thinking about me!)

I had my first baptism last week! I had to submerge the kid three times! He had the longest name in the world! He didnt even know his own full name! No kidding! Unfortunately the picture of us both is on Elder Aiken's camera and he didn't bring the connecting cable for his camera so I'm going to have to e-mail it to you next week!

My goodness... I think there has only been one companionship my whole mission where I wasn't with a leader. I started in the MTC with Elder Hanna who was District leader, came back home, with the Zone Leaders in NLVM, then the one companionship that wasnt in leadership was Elder Smethurst, then I was with Elder Monsalvo - District leader, then I was here with two Zone Leaders, now Im with Elder Fukuyasu, District Leader. My goodness. The day I can go to a meeting without having to worry about being chosen to say the resetation or some other thing will be a miracle!

Goodness. This week has been a blur. In this mission - we are obedient even unto the sacrificing of our strength. I do not boast in myself or in my mission but I do boast in my God. My goodness, we run from 5-7 pm doing street contacts and tracting. We run home to be on time for planning and sleeping, and then we get up and strive to be exactly obedient to the Morning Schedule. Gosh. I think this all sounds really stuffy. But seriously, I am enjoying being obedient! Sometimes Elder Fukuyasu doesn't like being obedient because he just doesn't think some of the rules make sense, but I am absolutely loving getting better every day!

By the way, I need my driving record transfered from the Nevada, Las Vegas mission to this mission. I'm going to e-mail president Nieder about that today, but could someone back home also try and give him a call just in case. Since I'm with Elder Fukuyasu, I really need driving permission so that he can go on exchanges in other areas and what not. By the way, my companion is awesome, He is the funniest guy, and he is extremely humble. I'd say that is his greatest quality. He is so kind. We live with members and they are awesome. Elder Fukuyasu, however, has flees in his bed that are biting him and he is really chewed up. Thats pretty worrisome sometimes. I haven't gotten bit at all yet. (Im on the top bunk.) All though, when I was getting into the shower yesterday, a huge spider crawled off my leg... I was suprised at how much I didn't react. I just moaned a little and jumped back. I laughed at how tiredly I reacted. It was funny. Speaking of all these bugs. we were working at a member's house yesterday and there was this huge slug... GROSS! Biggest slug I have ever seen (Besides harry potter and the chamber of secrets movie) and she stepped on it! Yea, and I beheld that much water and grossness came forth insomuch that I was astonished BEYOND ALL MEASURE. (Thought you'd like that mom.)

Well, I need more time to write in my journal but thats about the only thing I am regretting right now, I feel like this is where I need to be. The Lord's going to reveal the reason one day at a time! Well I gotta go! I have 18 minutes to put in my key indicators and write president! I love you all! bye!

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