Cuenta tus bendiciones! (Count your blessings!)

Hey Family!

Hey! It sounds like you had an awesome Halloween! I had totally forgotten about Halloween! Tanner, it looks like you need to lay off the French fries! Haha I´m glad you had a great night, and I´m glad you gave out hot dogs dad! That´s really a cool thing, like Christopher said, I´m CONSTANTLY amazed. The more I learn, the more i´m impressed with my Dad, Mom, Grandpa, Grandma, Uncles and Aunts. We were out with a member of the bishopric last night, and I was telling him how that´s one thing i´ll DEFINITELY do when I get home, is just go sit with my relatives and talk! I never really made an effort to have a good relationship with too many of my relatives, and I kind of regret that!

They eat some crazy food here to celebrate the “day of the dead” called “Fiambre.” Fiambre is a big mix of tons of different kinds of food. To me it looked like a big salad. I totally wanted to try it but it had pig meat so we couldn´t. Oh well! Haha They don´t celebrate Halloween here by trick-or-treating very much. A lot of the different churches have called it evil and stuff, as well as it´s just straight up too dangerous! The gangs and stuff really make the most out of that, and it´s just not worth it to the people. It gets a little too “REAL.”

I´m so glad you were able to find Yisel! She´s the coolest ever, she´s just an awesome person. She helped so much with mission work here in Monte María… She was always praying and taking us to meet people in her colony and her ward, and she will be so thankful for what you have done for her! Her mom grabbed my hand last week and was just crying and crying and said “Please tell your mom to take care of my daughter!!” I told her that I had already told you, and that you were on it! You´re awesome, thanks for everything. Her mom is awesome! She makes pupusas (food from el Salvador), and they´re DELICIOUS! So if you can whip up some pupusas for her, that would be great… haha Just kidding.

Well, I can´t even begin to explain the blessings we received this week! First of all, I did a bunch of baptism interviews, because the Elders in the district are baptizing like crazy! I was interviewing a certain Sister that I had had the opportunity to teach on divisions, and could just tell she was an AWESOME person. Well, I asked her who she wanted to baptize her, and she said she wanted me to do it! Just like last time, even though I think she´s awesome I felt a little funny because I wasn´t a constant in her conversion process. She said that´s what she wanted though, so I accepted! She and her husband were baptized, and it was such an awesome experience. They´re Carlos and Glenda in the pictures we sent.

THEN, when I thought I was receiving about all of the blessings I deserved and then some, we had a MIRACLE in sacrament meeting. Yesterday 8 people showed up, 4 of them being a mom and her kids that I had never met. She has been taught by elders for a while, but never could be baptized because she was living with her abusive boyfriend and he didn´t want to get married in order to live the law of chastity. She picked up her kids, and the lord just happened to place her here in our area! She showed up to church and said, “I´m ready to be baptized!” I still can´t believe it! I´ve just been in shock. We went and visited her yesterday and put 4 baptism dates. THEN we went out with the first counselor in the bishopric last night, and today we will be putting our 6th baptismal date for the month of November. Just two days ago we had been talking about our goals here in the area, and we put a goal of 1 baptism… haha The Lord is blessing us in HUGE ways.

Tanner, GO BIG! Seriously, it will be really really hard, but that´s the only way you´ll learn! That´s the best advice I have for you. Don´t ever think you´re not capable of doing anything. YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU PUT YOUR MIND TO! I know that some things seem hard, but that doesn´t mean you should just take the easy road. You´re so cool! I´m so proud of you!

I just want to tell you all I love you so much. I´m loving life here in the mission, and even though I can´t wait to see you, and I love you all so much, I just love this mission thing! I´ll see you all WAY too soon… ha

Elder Micah Melville

P.S. this is the district!




Carlos and GLenda,
one of the little girls that just showed up to church wanting to be baptized!

WOW......

Ok, so I wanted to be all mature and make like I´m one of those weathered missionaries. You know, make it sound like nothing phases me right? Haha, Well, I opened those pictures you sent, and I can´t lie. I´ve been sitting here in the internet café squealing like a little girl for the past 5 minutes or so. Geeze, don´t do that to me! Haha WOW! Tanner, I admire you, you have some sort of gift that I was never blessed with… Maybe it´s persistence? Who knows! I was in a used clothes store the other day trying to convince a guy to buy some stuff from the owner (a member), and it made me think of Dad and his selling skills… I just don´t think I was too blessed in that area…

Family! Ok, really speaking though, I just want to tell you that I love you. The topic today in our district meeting was love… How we can use love to reach our goals, and really be the kind of missionaries we want to be. It was our companionship´s turn to give the message, and it was just a good, fun meeting! I´m really impressed with my companion. He did so well! We went around and every missionary had the chance to write in each other´s journals about things they admire in other missionaries, and all of that. It was really cool, and I just learned so much about love! I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! I can´t show it too well right now because i´m far away, but soon enough i´ll be home trying to figure out how to SHOW it, and not just SAY it.

Wow, so it´s been such a great week. A great week in the mission means of course it was as hard as all get out, because that´s how it is, but at the same time it means that it was SO rewarding. We found out last night that a big part of our area really isn´t our area, but the area of another companionship in our district. That kind of hurt a little bit, realizing that we´re just going to need to let the other missionaries teach all these investigators, but they´re incredible missionaries, who will do a great job, so it´s ok. One of those investigators is Maria Victoria, who decided she wanted to be baptized again… haha I´m not sure, but I guess I just wasn´t sent here to be baptizing a bunch of people! Almost EVERY time we get close SOMETHING happens. That´s the way life is, and we´re going to keep moving ahead.

We have a baptismal date with another guy named Jairo, i´m pretty sure you´ve already heard about him. He´s a great guy, and he´s really good at the guitar. He came to church yesterday with a complete suit, tie, and even a white shirt. What made me even more happy is that he came walking down the street when we were going to get him with his Book of Mormon in hand ready to go. Little tender mercies like these are so important here in the mission, as well as in life. I´m really thankful for him and his example.

Speaking of tender mercies, we have a new program in the mission, where the plan is to DUPLICATE the baptisms in this coming year. This is a huge goal, and actually has put a lot of pressure on the missionaries to reach the numbers each week. We are supposed to find 3 new families each week, or 10 investigators. Last night before our 2nd to last appointment, we had a whopping 1 new investigator… haha It was a little tough to go through the week not finding ANYONE! The thing is, our Heavenly Father is always there, and sometimes he will try us to see if we´re just going to keep going, or if we´re going to give up. THEN, if we do the things how he wants, or at least for the most part, he will reward us. We went in to our 2nd to last appointment last night, and the family was totally changing everything around in their house. So, we helped them a little bit, then went and sat down to teach them… They called in the rest of the family, and can I just tell you… The kids just kept COMING and COMING, and COMING, and COMING! We got up to 6 new investigators, when a completely different family that is living in the same house showed up! Last night the Lord blessed us with 9 extremely positive new investigators. They are the Family Rivas and Barrios, and we are SO excited to see their progress!

We´re having a huge activity here in the ward to get new investigators this Friday. All the ward members are inviting their friends to come to an open house in the church. Everyone always sees the mormon churches and talk about how nice they are, and we´re giving them the chance to come in and see one. We´ve printed invitations and have just walked the streets inviting everyone(that´s how we found The Rivas´ and Barrios´). All of the ward members are preparing a room that will teach a part of the plan of salvation, and the investigators are going to be able to come see and learn. We´re really excited, and I know it´s going to be great.

Well, It´s time for me to sign off! I love you all so much, and I never even realized how much my love for you would grow on my mission. It´s growing! Hang in there, and just know I love you all soo much! Christopher and Tanner, you´re so cool!

Love you much, see you wayyy too soon!

Elder Micah Melville

P.S. I was assigned to give a talk in Zone Conference, and Elder Clark is going to be there, he´s in a quorum of the 70, and gave a talk in conference not too long ago. OH GEEZE! Pray hard!

HEYY

Hey family!

Thanks a million for the emails! They were great!

So I don´t have much time, I received so many awesome emails, but i´ll try to do my best to give you all the update.

Today in our district meeting, the Zone Leaders, as well as the Assistents to the President came to the meeting. I´m not too sure why, but the assistents wanted to be with us, and wanted to do divisions with us today. All day today we´ll be doing divisions with them, so it´s been pretty crazy getting all of that planned. We were supposed to get the keys from the stake president today for the meeting, and we had it all planned, but he went running to work, and forgot to leave the keys! haha of ALL times to start district meeting late, it was today. We had to make the zone leaders wait a little bit, but everything turned out great. It´s just been a crazy morning and I feel like my head is spinning! haha

So we´ve had a great week. We put another baptismal date with a guy named Jairo. He´s 21 and a really good guy. He lives with his family in a house that looks like fort knox. This was the house that we contacted and they said they didn´t want anything... But I told them they needed to listen to us before denying us the opportunity. Well, it worked! He has a date to be baptized the 31 of October, and we´re doing our best to make it happen!

We´ve been working SO hard, and trying our best to find new investigators. That´s been our big problem. We realized that having to hide from investigators so that they will open the door and let us into their house to teach them probably isn´t the way the Lord prepared it, but we´ve got to figure out the ones who are chosen and who aren´t. I just hope and pray that we can do better with that.

We´re planning a big open house in the church on the 30th, and i´m really just hoping and praying that it will work! I´m hoping the lord will bless us so that we can find these chosen people.

Tell Jesse Lanham thanks for the email, I think he´s so cool and miss him like crazy. Elder WALDO! haha how cool is that. He´s such a great guy. LOVE YOU MUCH! SEE YA!

Elder Micah Melville

It's Going Too Fast!

Hey Family!

Thank you so much for emailing, like always! I really appreciate it. There are latinos here in the mission who don´t get emails from their families every week! Can you believe that? Internet isn´t very accessible here in the homes of the people, so you have to go pay money at an internet café. I´m pretty sure that´s just kind of hard for some of the families of the missionaries… So I just want to tell you THANKS! I really appreciate the emails and support I receive every week! It´s awesome, and I´m always so happy to hear all of the little details of what is going on at home!

Sorry I haven´t been too detail-oriented in these past few emails. I just feel like being in Patzicia messed up my email writing! I got used to not having many investigators to tell about, so now even though we are teaching a bunch of people, I just forget to talk about them! I´ll try to dedicate this email to the details! I hope you didn´t worry too much about my last email, we follow the spirit and do what we feel is the safest thing to do, and if we don´t feel good about it we just don´t do it! Oh, and the showers are the same in just about all the houses here except for Boca… I already was spoiled and now it´s time to just enjoy the showers how they are! Ha We´re safe don´t worry!

OK.. Your questions! Christmas package? Seriously, i´ve been thinking about that, and I know exactly what I want you to do. I feel like I don´t need anything! There is a girl from our ward here in Monte María that is coming to the Provo MTC at the end of October, and then after that will be going to the mission on Temple Square. How cool is that? Her name is Yisel Pérez (it´s like Giselle), and she is AWESOME! She has one of the strongest testimonies I´ve heard down here in Guatemala, and has helped us SO much with the work down here. I want you to not worry about sending me a package, and just spoil her to death in the MTC! She´s not going to be getting any packages from home, and so that would be AWESOME if you could do that! I´m just loving life here in the city, shopping at GNC and País(It´s the Wal Mart down here in Guatemala. It´s not the same, but just about!), eating beans, rice, pasta, eggs, tortillas, and just loving every minute of it! I don´t need protein, I can buy it here. The only thing I can´t get here is ama ama! haha. We´re eating at some little food restaurant by the house because the members that live close can´t cook for us. It´s cheap... but it works! (They have REALLY good broccoli. Just ask Jesse… haha!)

Our church is the Stake Center, it´s a big beautiful building, one of the newest in Guatemala as far as I understand. We live right down the hill from the building, and we have a lot of the missionary meetings there, so we´re always running back and forth getting the building ready to have interviews, meetings, and conferences. We got to watch all of the sessions of conference, and I´m still just loving every second of it! I just hope and pray you can get on the internet and print out some talks and study them! They´re so good, but they´ll be boring if you don´t spiritually prepare yourself first… 3 Nephi 17.

We had 2 new missionaries come into the district this change, one who has a change less than me and is an AWESOME missionary, and another new missionary. We have an awesome district and had a great district meeting this morning with inspired questions!

Mom, we found out Felix is incredibly catholic, and we just can´t see the potential in him changing… He would just kind of want to contend a little bit, not too much but enough to the point that we decided it was better to keep looking for those who are prepared in the area.

RICKY! I can´t believe you had a one hand slam dunk in a game! Haha I was telling an Elder just this past week how cool you are and how much I used to LOVE coming to your games and watching you play. Don´t let people try to take your feet out from under you or anything though, you can´t get hurt! Seriously though, that´s sooo cool! The dream you had sounds kind of interesting… I realized in Dad´s email today that WAY too soon we´ll be able to see each other again… but not soon enough! Haha I miss you like crazy.

TANNER! Hey buddy, why are we too cool for Elder Melville now!? Are you too busy chatting with all your girlfriends!? Haha I hope you´re loving life in JR HIGH and choosing the right. STAY STRONG and DON´T be doing anything you shouldn´t be. IT´s not worth it! I love you soooo much and miss you like crazy.

Hey, I´m just wondering if you can get on iTunes or something and download –A Paupers Himnal- by Kalai, as well as a song called –I´m just wondering- It´s an EFY song or something. Just buy it because I have it on CD here. Thanks!

Well Family, We´re here in Monte María working hard. I can hardly believe it´s almost been a year… In some ways it feels like a LOT longer, and then in other ways it feels like it´s been WAY too fast. I just hope I can learn everything that my Heavenly Father wants me to, and be who he wants me to be. We have a bunch of investigators who are learning a lot, and some are starting to progress! We improved a lot in our new investigators found last week, but the investigators we have just have a TON of obstacles in front of them before they can be baptized. We found one who had disappeared, named Byron Salguerro, yesterday in church! He just showed up! He was one of those who was going to be baptized but had some big obstacles and just left. We have an appointment with him tonight and i´m so excited. We´re teaching Maria Victoria still, and she has some problems with the Sabbath day, so she couldn´t be baptized. We´re teaching a family of 4 named Hugo, Maribel, Bryon, and Hugito. They´re the coolest family and have received answers to their prayers, but aren´t married and the Dad is working and studying so he can´t come to church. It´s been hard, but SO fun being able to help these people come to know Christ. I know that if we put Christ first in EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING else will just fall into place, but if it seems like it isn´t falling into place, it eventually will.

I have to go, but I love you all so much! Thanks for everything, and just know i´m thinking about you and missing you a lot.

Elder Micah Melville

P.S. We saw a bunch of swat guys waiting in FULL armor on the way to Internet today. There were some protests because people don´t have water… SO CRAZY!

RICKY TEACH THAT LESSON LIKE YOU MEAN IT! STUDY AND REALLY LEARN IT! YOU¨RE A STUD! SHANKS DOOD!

Hola Hola!

Hey family,

HEY! Thank you so much for the emails! I really appreciate your support as always, and I can´t even begin to describe how awesome it is having people who are writing me every week, but not only that, praying and showing their support in so many ways. I really appreciate you all so much, and I just want to tell you that I LOVE YOU!

Last night we were in an appointment with a member of the bishopric, and I found myself telling them the story of my Dad, the popcorn man! haha they were laughing, and thought it was funny to hear about ¨el hombre de poporopo.¨ Also, yesterday morning I was telling my companion the story in english. Remember how we´d always get the red wagon out, fill it with popcorn, and if there was room for us we´d get in or just walk around the neighborhood giving everyone their ¨Sunday Night Popcorn?¨ haha That has left a huge mark on my life, and I´m so thankful for Dad´s awesome example. I think that helped us as a family a lot more than it did anybody else. THEN we could talk about ¨Melville Mingle.¨ Good times.

Christopher, I cannot believe that Thurl Bailey walked into your government class! hahaha I would pay BIG MONEY to see the look on your face! That is the coolest thing ever. It´s too bad you can´t go, do you have to give the shoes back? haha

Tanner, I´m glad to hear you are still practicing your ping pong skills, practice up! Just wait until I get back home and we´ll have to play.

So, having a new companion with me has really helped me realize a lot! I feel like i´m starting to get used to life in Guatemala, and the crazy things we see EVERY day just don´t fase me too much anymore! The other day we were in an appointment with an LA Gang Banger. He is covered with tats, and speaks English really well. We asked him why he had come down to Guatemala, and we got a whole lot more information than we were bargaining for... He told us that he had come down because someone killed his cousin down here in our colony, and he came back to take care of him(the guy who killed his cousin).haha I just thought, ¨Wow, that´s kind of intense!¨ We just kept teaching and left, and I didn´t think too much more about it. A little bit later my companion was saying, ¨That is so crazy!¨ I didn´t even think twice, he was even telling us stories about how he was in prison, and the stuff they have to go through in there in the prisons. haha Just thought that was kind of funny.

Also, my companion helped me realize something else that isn´t quite normal. There aren´t water heaters here in Guatemala like the ones in Utah, they are little things on the showerhead that connect to the electricity in the wall and heat the water right over your head. Every now and then when you touch where the water comes out it gives you a little buzz! haha My companion touched it and told me about it. He´s helping me realize a lot. Please don´t let this worry you, I really just feel like i´m starting to become a Guatemalan!

I felt so blessed to be able to hear the conference. One of my most favorite talks was from Richard G. Scott, on saturday morning. He spoke a lot about revelation, and how we can receive personal revelation. I learned so much and just could FEEL it. That´s what I love. We can receive personal revelation in our lives, but we just have to pay the price!

We are teaching someone named Maria Victoria. She is a lady who lives in the ¨projects¨ i guess you could say. Her son just went to sneak into the states illegally, and has been really worried for him. She´s progressing a lot and doing really well in the gospel, but the challenges just keep trying to knock her off her feet. It´s amazing seeing how much satan doesn´t want these people to know about the truth, and even more participate in the saving ordinances. She has a baptismal date for the 10th of October.

It´s about time for me to go, but I just want to say thanks for everything. I love you all so much, and miss you a ton.

See ya soon!

Elder Micah Melville

P.S. We didn´t have changes, we´re still here working hard in Monte María. =)

Hey Family!

Hey Family!

Thanks a ton for the emails, how awesome is everything right now? I’m really glad to hear that even though things aren’t perfect, you’re hanging in there and you’re making the best of it! Dad, i’m really sorry to hear about your work. Don’t let people make you mad... haha I thought I was somebody who didn’t get mad, but when people totally disrespect you and what you believe in, I’ve found i’m Ricky’s brother and I have a little bit of my Mom in me! haha.

The other day we were contacting, and we knocked the door of a house that looks like fort knox. It has every little security feature imaginable, and just to open the door you have to go through a series of locks and all kinds of things like that. That’s how scared the people here are, and that’s how bad the delinquency is... It’s really sad. It’s been a little bit hard for missionary work because the people just can’t trust anyone. Anyways... We were contacting and the people said, “Who?” and we said “LOS ELDERES!” and they said “NO GRACIAS!” Well, we had been hearing that a LOT and I was kind of getting sick of it. I yelled back, “You don’t even know why we’re here and what we’re doing! How can you just say no?” (Or something along those lines). I was expecting them to just ignore us or something, when someone came to the door! Turns out we’re teaching a guy named Jairo who lives there and he came to church yesterday! Who knew?

Today we had our last district meeting of the change, and It was pretty sad, because there is an Elder named Elder Velasquez who will be going home to Honduras next week from our district. It was his last meeting, but we really enjoyed it a lot. We gave testimonies in English, did some other business, and we watched a video about John Rowe Moyle. He is the one who carved the “Holiness to the Lord” in the Salt Lake Temple. He lived in Alpine, Utah, but because of his calling he would walk repeatedly from Alpine to Salt Lake City... He’d WALK! THEN, his leg had to be amputated. Well, He made himself a wood leg, and then kept doing it! All of this he did because of his calling. I’ve really been trying to apply the principle of sacrifice in my mission and put others first, my calling, and the Lord. I’m not too great at this but I’ve learned a lot. It hit me that he would WALK, when we don’t even have it in us to drive up to SLC to hear the prophets voice in person during conference... wow.

I couldn’t believe some of the stuff you told me in that email! I don’t want to talk about it too much but that’s just crazy! Christopher at homecoming, Dad seeing all of the muslim people, Uncle Nathan seeing the branch president in Turkey? Everything else too. Wow. I love you all so much and i’m so thankful that you’re sharing these things with me!

So I realized something the other day, and it really just kind of hit me. I feel like it’s probably something I should have learned before, and I know you all probably know about this, but I feel like I have been looking and looking for “the secret” to applying the atonement in my life. I have obviously almost always known that you need to repent, and use the steps of the gospel including faith in christ, repentance, baptism, receive the holy ghost, and endure to the end, and that’s what you need to do to return to our Heavenly Father. I was looking and looking for another way. I was studying the atonement when all of a sudden it hit me... THAT is the way to use the atonement. THAT is the big “secret.” There isn’t another way to do it, like praying for certain things, or anything “different” like that. The big secret is to follow those 5 steps, being sure that you’re doing them with faith, and that is how you use the atonement! Ha It’s so basic, but it really hit me hard.

Also, this week, I found out the gospel is a VERB. Kind of like those channel 1 commercials that say “Verb, it’s what you do!” That’s how the gospel is! It’s all about what we’re doing! Not necessarily about what we know, but it’s all about what we’re DOING! THAT is why we leave commitments with the investigators. Not so that they can hear a pretty message, but so that they can CHANGE and DO the things they need to do. Don’t you just love the gospel!? I love it.

I just want to tell you all thank you so much. I really appreciate the support that you give to me every day, and I think about you a lot. Thanks for your prayers. Like I used to say at the beginning of the mission... I can feel them. That’s why I love the gospel as well. The way it feels. When you DO it, APPLY it, you can FEEL it.

The area is improving, and I am really excited to see the differences. We’re working with a Maria Victoria right now. She has a baptismal date for the 10th of October. We put the date with her and right after, her whole life just started to cave in and she’s having a lot of problems... You can see the adversary is working hard too.

I love you all so much, Just so you know it’s going to be a little bit longer because this Monday is changes... Also, there isn’t pouch anymore, don’t send any letters to the pouch address in SLC, just send them straight to the office here in Guatemala.

Love you much, see ya soon!

Elder Micah Melville

One year ago today I gave me farewell talk... WEIRD. Way too fast.

My companion is the tall blonde!







HEYY here are some pictures... ANTIGUAAA... Notice i'm there with Elder Patterson....

Hey Family!

Hola Familia,

Hey! How´s everything going? Great I hope. Thanks for the emails, Like always, I can´t get enough! I love hearing about your lives and everything that´s going on! It´s good to hear that you´re doing great!

Ok, I´ve just got to get this off my chest once and for all... I went and bought some kimchi! I was so excited, and it tastes pretty good! The cockroaches just LOVE that smell for some reason... I wonder why. haha jk.

Dad, it sounds like you had a really successful show, i´m really glad that everything went well. I love that even in the hard times if we put Christ first, everything else just works! I feel like I haven´t done that enough lately, and i´m trying to figure out how to come closer to him, and really come to know him. Thanks for the email! I can´t believe BYU got torn up by FSU! Do they just get too prideful?

Christopher, thanks a ton for the email. I´m really excited you got to see Jesse speak! Isn´t he awesome? I loved my patriarchal blessing, it taught me a lot and still does. If you feel like you should get it, GET IT! Pay the price before though, and be SURE you´re full of the spirit. Prepare for it in advance, read your scriptures with sincerity, fast, and do all that, it will make it such an awesome experience. Keep being an awesome kid, just know I love you so much!

Tanner, hey buddy! It sounds like you´re doing so well in school! 3.8! I can´t believe it! Tell Mr. Panee you´ve got to get your grade up and make it a 4.0! haha I remember the good old days with Mr. Panee. Does he still count the wasted time and make you pay it back? I remember sitting by Curtis Mitton and we looked at eachother and couldn´t stop laughing when we were supposed to be quiet! Oops! haha Keep being good, I love you so much.

Mom, I´ve been thinking about you a lot lately, and all of the sacrifice you´ve made in your life for others... I just wanted to say thanks. You´re such an incredible example of putting others first, and just LOVING them, and not worrying about yourself. I´m trying SOO hard to follow your incredible example of CHARITY. It´s not easy, and the more I try the more I realize how awesome you are. Thank you so much.

It´s been a definite challenge for me, trying to be on top of EVERYTHING this past change. There have been so many things that have really tried and tested me, and I just hope and pray to my Heavenly Father that i´ve done what he would have me do. We´ve been working hard, and even though our numbers don´t look too hot, I know that really that isn´t what matters the most.

Like i´ve always said, the Lord will try us before giving us a blessing. I had 2 awesome tender mercies of the lord this weekend, and It just helped me to remember he´s here for me! He´s helping me and guiding me.

I was doing a baptismal interview, and the little boy I was interviewing said, ´I WANT YOU TO BAPTIZE ME!¨ haha I told him, ¨you don´t even know me! areyou sure?¨ He said yes! and I told him to talk to his family and then let me know. SUre enough on Saturday I baptized him! This was just a little tender mercy of the lord. Even though I didn´t do too muchto prepare him, I just felt happy.

On sunday we had 7 investigators in church! Can you believe that? It reminds me of the Boca days, where we were SO blessed. The blessings are always there if´you´re doing what you can, it doesn´t matter where you are.

I love you all so much and miss you like crazy!! Have an awesome week,i´ll see ya soon!

Elder Melville