We had a great week.We´re teaching a lot
of awesome people here. First of all, Hna A and her kids are still
progressing super fast! They would be getting baptised this Saturday,
but there´s a road block like always.. Hna A has to get divorced and
then married before she can get baptised. But we´re not losing hope, she
said that she´s willing to do it, but it could be a long process. We´re
still hoping that her and her kids can get baptised this month! We´re
also teaching her neighbor, a referal she gave us, and her sons friend.
We had 5 investigadores in church yesterday! C isn´t quite as
excited as beforehand, but he still has his baptism date for the end of
this month. The problem is that there really aren´t other kids his age
in church. He´s 14 and all we have are 2 young men, both less active and
not very social. We need to do some serious prayer to find out what we
can do to excite him.
I won´t lie, i´m a little scared that there going to
take me out of this area. We still have a long time to go until
changes, but there are 8 missionaries from the Utah that are waiting for
there visas that could arrive any time. I´m praying that i stay here
for the rest of this change! It´s an awesome branch and i really think
that at the end of this month we´re going to have several baptisms.
This week i had a little reminder of my first couple
months here in Mexico. I completely lost my voice and couldn´t preach! A
missionary without his voice is like a car without a driver..
Worthless!! I was a little frustrated, it´s incredibly hard call people
to repentance if you can´t talk! The past year and a half i basically
have been talking ALL day EVERY day. Whether i´m talking with my
companion or people we meet in the street, we´re always talking. I lost
my voice Friday, and it was our turn to give talks on Sunday. On Friday i
went to a clinic to see what they could do for me. It ended up being a
great idea. They gave me shots! Only here in the clinics they don´t
actually inject you, they just give you the medication and the seringe
and send you off. My companion doesn´t know how to give a shot so we
went with a sister who kindly helped me out. I took one shot every day
and by Sunday i was ready to speak with a voice of a trumpet! And i
needed it, the microphones were broken in the chapel and i had to give
my talk like in the olden days.
Something i´ve loved about Elder Lopez is his
dedication to the scriptures. Every morning, before the regular study
time, and every night after planning, he´s reading the scriptures. I´ve
been trying to follow his example and it´s been awesome! I finished
Jesus the Christ and am close to finishing Doctrine and Covenents again.
I´m studying more than i ever have in the mission, i need to take
advantage of every second i have! I know that i´ll never have another
opportunity to study the scriptures like this again in my life.
This week we´re planning on having a lot of success and giving it all. I hope you all have a great week!! Love Elder Mecham
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