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Ryan Mecham	Jul 21
to Ali, Amanda, ashley.mecham, Austin, Dallan, Isaac, Jake, Kess, me

I would like to start off with a big HAHA to my big sis for no longer being able to serve the Lord as a full time missionary. Also I would like to congradulate her and thank her for the awesome example she has been for me.

Well this week has been amazing and I have so many things I want to write all of you. BUT... I don´t have time.

However I will tell you this one story:

It is a Monday. Last Monday actually. We had just finished emailing the family and what not, and were determined to find somebody to teach while we waited for a family home evening to start in half an hour. We started to walk down a long dusty street. A street we had never been down. Feeling determined to teach and contact we walk... nobody talks with us. We continue to walk down the street, with newfound resolve to find somebody. Well, let me just tell you something: the Lord works in mysterious ways. As we jaunted along at a somewhat determined pace, a lady sweeping her porch flags us down. Odd. I think to myself ´hope she doesn´t want to kill me and eat me´. Not really, I didn´t think that. But that really does never happen so I was a little bit intruiged. We get to know Catalina. Well, after assuring that we are ´The Mormons´ she tells us she wants to know how to congregate herself with us. Upon her insistence we place an appointment to pass by her house the following morning.

This is where it gets good.

We pass by her house and teach the restauration of the Gospel. She accepts what we teach with open arms. We focus a lot on the invitation to pray. She accepts.

We pass by the next day because we were in the area and wanted to see how she was. We find out she can´t see well enough to read the pamphlets but, nevertheless, has gotten her grandaughter to read her the part that talks about how we should pray. She writes it down in bigger letters so she can review it later. We teach her how to pray.

We pass by a few days later. We leave her a book of mormon and a booklet for lesson 3, the Gospel of Jesus Christ. She tells us she prayed. She knows our church is true. She accepts to get baptized in August.

We pass by the following Saturday and teach about faith and repentance. She tells us she will do everything humanly possible to go to church but has to care for her dad (96 years old). She gets mad at her sisters for not doing their share in caring for her father, because it is keeping her from going to church.

She does not go to church. We pass by her house. She just about makes us cry as she tells us how she knows the church is true because she has felt answers to her prayers and has been able to sleep better at night since we started passing by. She tells us she wants to endure to the end with all her heart, we make a plan for her to look for reading glasses.

Well, I know that if we keep ourselves worthy and working hard, the Lord prepares people for us to teach and help. (and they look for us!)

Love ya!

Keep on saying your prayers!

Elder Mecham