16 April 2019: I'm Movin' Out!

April 23, 2019

Hola todos,

Its been a great week here in Paradise! We have had a lot of miracles happen here the past week. On Wednesday I dealt with some bruised ribs for no known reason, but we stuck it out and found some really cool people. I learned a really important principle about enduring to the end. This week I saw countenances change as we shared the gospel. We got to teach a lot of families, and the Echipare kids all had successful interviews!

On Thursday we had zone conference, in the really rich part of Henderson, and when we got there, all the early morning seminary kids in that stake were using the building. We had to wait an extra hour to start zone conference, and I was conducting! That was fun. We went to the temple to do baptisms for the dead with recent converts, Jazmin, Jalen and Junior. After that Elder Hernandez crashed at the apartment, and when he is asleep, you cant wake him up, so I phone proselyted for the rest of the night.

On Wednesday we were proselyting in the morning, we were contacting people in a trailer park, when we looked up a space number at the map at the front of the park and a lady comes out of the office there, and says "Is there anything I can help you with?" And I said "No thank you, we were just looking for a house number but we got it. Thank you so much!" And we walked away. On our way to the house, we talked to a lady on her porch who had called us over. We had a nice talk with her, and set up a time to come back. We then went to our contact. After that, we were stopped by a guy in a golf cart who had apparently been following us, and he told us that we had to leave immediately, because we had talked to more than one person, after we had "told their property manager that we were going to one house and one house only" (we didn't say anything close to that). Not wanting to fight anything, we left. After we left, we realized that we had an appointment with a Part Member Family in an hour in that same park, so we called Elder Hernandez, and he told us to just go straight there now, and he would call them to tell them we were coming. So we did that, and the same guy in the golf cart "pulled us over" and told us that since we didn't make our intentions known to the property manager in the first place, he was going to call the cops if we didn't leave in two minutes. We eventually had the member pick us up. Apparently the same guy in the golf cart went to their house and told them that two guys were coming wanting to harass them or something goofy like that. I'm just confused. We weren't soliciting, even though a few days later, we saw the sign on their office saying that visitors have to sign in. So maybe we just have to sign in from now on. I didn't want the cops called just because I know how much of a time waster that is. Oh well.

This Saturday we have a mission conference with one of our apostles, Elder Jeffrey R. Holland!! The next day we have stake conference also with Elder Holland! We are so excited!!

Spiritual thought: we need to endure to the end. This is probably the hardest part of following the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because it requires daily effort. We endure to the end by reading the scriptures every day, praying many times a day, and attending and participating in church. I loved the messages we heard in General Conference, because they were all focused on how we endure to the end. I invite all of you to seek on what you need to do better to endure to the end.

Have fun!

Elder Lovell