4 June 2019: Families Can Be Together Forever

Hello Everyone!

It was a great, yet busy week, full of meetings. But the definite highlight was Andre's baptism on Sunday!!! He is 17, but he was the last member of his family to be baptized, and since I have been here I have seen two of his cousins and his younger brother be baptized. It was such a cool experience, and his mom had returned to activity about a year and a half ago. It was so spiritual, and the closing hymn was "Families can be together forever" it was hard to not get emotional during that hymn. What a day.

We also had zone conference on Wednesday, and I got to sing a special musical number for that. I was glad for the experience, it got my performance nerves pumping again. It was a great experience. Friday was our Mission Leadership Council, which went really well. We got to talk about a lot of concerns in the mission. 

Our zone did really well this month, and we saw 16 people get baptized in our zone! This month we are hoping to have 17 baptisms this month in the zone. Its really exciting to see all the hard work our missionaries are doing. I love being in this position, because I get to see the progress of all the missionaries and their people that I have really grown to love.

Yesterday we had a really powerful lesson with Carol, about the Atonement. It was a really emotional lesson, and I just want to bear my testimony that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is REAL. As we turn to Him in faith, our love for Him grows. We feel His love for us even stronger. I invite all of you to do all you can to apply His Atonement more and more in your life through sincere prayer and scripture study. They are the mainstream things we do to grow our faith, but there is a reason they are mainstream. 

Love you all!
Elder Lovell

Pics
Elder Loutensock, myself and the whole McGruder and Wallace family at Andre's baptism. This whole family has been either reactivated or baptized, because Daysha, the lady in the middle decided to go back to church a year and a half ago.

Andre with Elder Loutensock and me
MLC normal and goofy pictures outside
Zone conference inside with goofy pic included. My acrobat game has jumped to a whole new level since I have been on my mission, ha ha.

Other zone conf pics

And all the kids that I have taught are now baptized in that family. Their uncle was the one that baptized all of them








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