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!