11 Feb 2020: "Welcome Home"

Hello everyone!

We have had a great week here! We have a few more people progressing in our area, and we are helping prepare them to make the sacred covenant of baptism. We have seen several miracles this week. The title of my email comes from Elder Shane Bowen, a member of the Seventy, a General Authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He came to our stake conference this past weekend, and he met Ana, the Guatemalan lady that we have been teaching. When we told him that she was getting baptized on Saturday (the 15th) he shook her hand and said "Welcome home" it was so sweet, because he said it in Spanish. He served in Chile when he was a missionary, and in Spain as a mission president. She has been through so much to get here. She has changed so much, and it has been amazing teaching her.
What else... We went on exchanges twice, and learned some wonderful lessons. I learned from one lesson that I need to be better at putting myself in other people's shoes, and empathize with them. Change is really hard, especially the older you get. In that lesson I also learned to be more patient with the people. That is not easy to do sometimes! But it is so worth it. Your pride gets squashed, but that is what is supposed to happen with pride.

These people really are amazing. Even those who reject us rudely, they generally are good people. We met one guy who had just gotten done saying a friendly hello to his neighbor across the street, and then when he saw us, he angrily told us to leave the community because it was gated and we didn't live there. (legally and in reality we weren't trespassing anywhere) but he had just been nice to his neighbor, therefore he is a good man. I learned some valuable lessons, and I just keep plugging along! Transfers are next week, so I am hoping that I can stay to see these people we are working with to make the covenant of baptism!
Have a great week!
Elder Lovell 

Pics

I invented a new food: Mango sliders! Hawaiian sweet roll, BBQ sauce, deli ham, and mango, all grilled! Yum!

My first place that I lived in here in Alta Vista, in July and August 2019, and then they transferred us somewhere else because the owner's brother was going to sell it. When I left the house looked like a drug house, but now they repainted it and landscaped it! It looks awesome! I just wish I could have gone inside! 

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