This week was so good but as you can probably guess I have
like no time to email. so here are some of the highlights!
First off.... THANKSGIVING! Oh how I love Thanksgiving. We
had a great day. We had one dinner at 1:00 and another dinner at 3:00. We ended
up staying at the 3:00 dinner until like 7:00 haha. It was with a family, The
Stephens, who are awesome! I love them so much! They both went to culinary
school so dinner was AMAZING. Their little kids have basically become
additional siblings to me so that was so fun. After dinner we played Candyland,
Uno and Headbandz. So all in all Thanksgiving was pretty great!
Another highlight from this week is that we were asked to
speak in church yesterday (the 26th) and we found out last Sunday (The 19th) So
that was a little bit stressful. They asked us to speak about how serving a
mission has changed our relationships with Jesus Christ and that was good
because I actually know something about that topic! :) So I think it went
pretty okay. The biggest thing that I talked about was how, coming on a mission
has taught me to not just love Jesus Christ, but trust Him and His Atonement
more than I did before. On my mission I have truly seen and experienced Jesus
Christ carrying me or others through their hard times and I'm so grateful that
I was able to learn that.
Another highlight from my week was we did service at the
Retirement Home again. I was in the kitchen and I turned around just in time to
see Mikey walk into the dining room and he saw me and said "SISTER
LLOYD!" and this old guy pushed his walker away from him and did the
cutest little shuffle over to the kitchen to give me a hug and tell me Happy
Thanksgiving. He was so sweet! After we served lunch we played the piano for
them and this one lady made a point of asking me, "Will you play that
Titanic song?".
This week we also were asked to come into Primary for their
"I can be a missionary now" lesson. It was so fun! The kids were so
excited that we were there and almost all of them told stories about what they
were doing to be missionaries now. It was so sweet!
One fun experience that we had this week is that we have been
"heart attacking" people in the ward. Which is where we cut out
hearts and write some scriptures on them and tape them to people's doors. Well,
this week we went and did a couple of people who live in apartments right
across from each other. The first guy, Dave, is pretty homebound. So we figured
we would remind him that he is loved and missed. But when we got to his door we
noticed that it was cracked open but we couldn't see him through the window so
we decided to just be quick. So we taped all the hearts on and we only had
about 5 left... .when all of a sudden... his dog starts barking. and all of a
sudden the door opens as I'm reaching out to stick a heart on the door. He was
so surprised until he realized who we were and then he just said "OH!
Hello girls! What brings you here?" and then he saw his door. So we talked
with him for a little while and then left to do the other member's door. but as
we were leaving I looked over towards his apartment and he was sitting there
looking up all of the scriptures that we had written on the hearts. It just
made me so happy to think that maybe they were something he needed and brought
a little light to his life. The next day at church the other lady we heart
attacked told us how much she loved and appreciated us doing that and that it
even opened up a missionary opportunity for her. Her neighbor asked her about
the hearts so she got to explain it was the missionaries and who they are. I
thought that was so neat!
Well... this week was pretty uneventful so I'm sorry that
this email is a little different than normal but it's kind of been a weird
week! But I do want to invite all of you to participate in the Light the World
Initiative that the church is putting out. YOU GUYS IT IS GOING TO CHANGE
CHRISTMAS FOR YOU! If you participate in it I promise that it will bring more
of the light of Christ into your holiday, it will make you feel better, it will
make others better, and it will give you opportunities to share Jesus Christ
with others that you wouldn't normally have. I promise that if you participate
in the initiative you will be blessed and you will feel a difference! I love
y'all! Have a great week!
--
~Sister Madisen Lloyd
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