Querido familia
í´m still here in Costa Rica and i´m still with
Elder Knowles. Actually our whole district stayed the same and there
were only a few changes in the zone. I´m glad to be staying here. It´s
an smaller area than what i´m used to, but we teach a ton here. We also
have some investigadors that are really starting to progress. The branch
here is awesome. We recieved a ton of support this week. We had 12
lessons with the members which is the most i´ve ever had in one week. We
regularly don´t have more than 7, one every day, but we have been
getting the members pumped to teach with us and give us references. We
mainly work with the recent converts. There´s about 5 here that have
gotten baptised in the last couple years that are are super excited and
always willing to help us. Sometimes in the lessons the even talk a
little TOO much because of their love for the gospel and sharing it with
others. It reminds me of how i felt when i had just left the MTC,
wanting to talk with EVERYONE and thinking that EVERYONE was going to
accept the gospel and be baptised because "who wouldn´t want to get
baptised in the only perfect church?". We sometimes have to tell the
Recent converts to let us do a little more teaching and invite them to
simply share their testimony. I´m just greatful that they are willing to
help us. It makes up for the lack of support we have from the leaders
and "members since birth" that have lost their desire to share the
gospel. Don´t ever become one of them!
Yesterday we had the District conference. It was in
la cruz de lota. A little city about the same size as Costa Rica that´s
about 2 hours from here. We had one bus for the 2 branches that left
from the church at 7 in the morning. Following the 2 hour conference we
ate lunch, and then the leaders had a special 2 hour training meeting.
We brought C, an investigador, and she had a great time. She sat
through all 4 hours and said she enjoyed it. We didn´t get back to Costa
Rica until almos 5 so she was able to spend almos the whole day with
members, making friends, and being nourished by the good word of god.
She was definately spiritually uplifted.
Hno A got super sick and went to the hospital,
i still say he has cancer. Hno B is still progressing but didn´t go
to the conference. We´re going to be working a lot with him so that he
goes to church this week. If not, we´ll have to consider leaving him for
when he´s more prepared.
I attached pictures of the house and of me making salsa in a rock. I love serving the Lord and I love the gospel. Elder Mecham
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