Hola Familia!
Hey! Thanks for the awesome emails, I opened the Pictures of the golf cart and just couldn´t stop laughing! I STILL can´t believe that. I´m glad you enjoyed Lagoon, and are getting all ready to start school again! That summer passed by so fast!
Well, can I just tell you how hard we´ve been working? The baptism didn´t end up working out. Silvia had an interview with Elder Lanham. She was worthy and all, but because of some problems she needs to talk to President Baldwin. She hasn´t had time to get an appointment to talk to him, but hopefully by the end of the month we´ll have everything worked out.
So our goal this week was to help as many of our investigators as possible get to church. This is always our goal obviously, but we put a lot more emphasis on that. We had worked hard and gotten 10 promises that the investigators were going to come to church. We were really excited, and on Sunday morning we got up and started running around the area waking everyone up and making sure they were ready to go to church. We were ALL over our area, and we were exhausted! We had done just about everything possible to help these people get to church, and we ran to get on the bus to go. Right there on the bus was a guy who can´t walk very well. He uses a walker and to walk about 20 steps it takes him probably 5-10 minutes. We had helped him to his house and helped him around a little bit during the week, and we invited him to church.
We had totally forgotten about the invitation we gave him(It was ward conference and we walked around with invitations), and remembered right as we got on the bus. He had walked all the way to the bus stop, gotten on the bus (That in and of itself is a process), and was on his way to church! We helped him off the bus, and realized we weren´t going to be able to make it to church on time if we let him walk on his own… SO my companion picked him up and carried him up a hill, at the top gave him to me and I carried him to the church!
I can´t deny the fact that I felt something really special yesterday morning as I was praying to my Heavenly Father for the strength I needed to carry this guy in my arms to church. The Lord gave me the strength I needed to do it, and it was just an overall awesome experience. After 2 meetings he told us he needed to leave, because he needed to visit some people who were sick! It was an awesome experience, and we have an appointment to go teach him later today.
So Elder Cunningham and I have been working incredibly hard. Last night we both got into the house EXHAUSTED! We have just been working hard, but loving life and having fun as we´ve been doing it, and the hilarious experiences just keep coming and coming!
The other day we got on the bus and one of my companion´s drunk friends was sitting in the back. In front of all the people on the bus the drunk guy jumped up, started yelling, and ran to my companion. With his arms wrapped around my companion he started yelling MI AMIGO! And making a HUGE scene in front of everyone on the bus. I just had to turn around and look the other way to control my laughter as my companion stood there BRIGHT red. My companion was a little bugged after that but I cannot stop laughing!
We had to go to an internet café to do a project we´re working on for the ward the other day, and there is a lady who is absolutely CRAZY who runs it. I know it sounds mean, but i´m serious, she´s a little bit off the wall. She walks around saying ¨BENDICION!¨ (Blessing) over and over as her way of greeting people, and as we were in the internet place she was talking about how she was dreaming of a field of white flowers which was so incredible because it means they are godly… Anyways, we were trying to get into this internet place, when as she was greeting us and telling us to go in, she grabbed my companion´s head and gave him a big kiss on the cheek! It´s the custom here when people greet eachother, but nobody does it to the Elders who knows better. As she was coming for me I stuck my hand out and grabbed her hand trying to avoid it… but she said ¨NO! BESO!¨ and grabbed my head and kissed me on the cheek. My companion and I have been constantly weirded out but laughing about this.
I was doing the dishes the other day, just thinking about something I had studied in Doctrine and Covenants 76. There is a verse that talks about overcoming by faith… I was thinking about how we´re here to overcome the natural man, and become better by our personal control. I was thinking about people who are really good at overcoming the natural man, when it hit me HARD! My dad is probably the best example of this I´ve ever seen. Everything I learn makes me love, admire, and appreciate my Dad just that much more. I´ve NEVER heard him talk about how he had tons and tons of baptisms on his mission. I´ve never heard if he was a district leader, zone leader, or even senior companion. Why? Because he knows that this stuff doesn´t even matter. He is humble, and doesn´t buy things just to show the neighbors. He doesn´t care what people think about him, and he just gives everything he has, to his family. Dad, I just want to tell you thanks, I love you so much and I am so thankful for your example to me. Like i´ve already said, everything I learn just shows me how incredible your example really is, and how AWESOME you are. Thanks for everything. Mom, I don´t even want to get started with you or my little bros or I might just lose it and make a scene here in front of everyone in the internet café… haha
I love you all so much!
Elder Micah Melville
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