Dengue Dengue Dengue

Ryan Mecham	Apr 14 (2 days ago)
to Ali, Amanda, ashley.mecham, Austin, Dallan, Isaac, Jake, Kess, me

HA, I´m totally kidding! My companion got better from dengue and we could leave the house as of Tuesday. I felt so excited to go out and teach that may have almost dragged Elder Maya out the door.

This week we have seen so many miracles. Especially with finding new investigators. For example: this week we were walking to the house of a less active member. We had been trying to get in contact with her for the past week or so, to no avail. We didn´t know why but the other day we felt that we really needed to pass by her house. So we did. She wasn´t home. We left. After teaching another lesson we decided to take a detour and pass by her house one more time. Still not home. Confused and discouraged we begin to walk away from the house. At that moment we hear ´´¡MORMÓNES!´´. We don`t look back (we generally ignore that, being that it happens all the time). But this time was different. We turned to discover a man and his neighbor waving us over to them. They weren´t holding beer bottles so we figured: Why not?  One of them, Wascar, tells us that he has seen us passing by that house a lot and wonders if we only visit certain people... because he would like to talk with us. We answer some basic questions about the church and try to set a return appointment. His schedule for work, he tells us, is ´´whenever the phone rings´´ bueno... that usually means that they don´t want us to return. We get a time and day. We pass by his house at said time and day. He is not home. We decide to pass by while we are in the neighborhood for the next couple days. 4 days pass by. We haven`t found him. Saturday night we decide to give it one last try. His mom (who knows us by name at this point), knows why we are there and searches for Wascar. We teach a very interested investigador The Plan of Salvation. He tells us that he knows our church is the true church. We will see where this goes.

That is only one of the examples of the awesome new investigators that we received from the Lord this week. While Elder Maya was sick, and I was sitting there all day worried about our area... The Lord was preparing his sheep to be found, and teaching me to have the patience to find them.

I know that everything that happens, happens for a purpose. Sometimes those purposes are to help us; or to help us help others. Sometimes we can see the fruits of our labors, sometimes we are simply planting seeds for a later harvest. I know that as we continue to work in the Lord`s vineyard He will always be there guiding our efforts; for this is not [our] work, but that of him who sent [us].

Love you all,

Elder Mecham