Letter from Monday, November 24, 2008

Hello again from Texas. It's been another week already...
...crazy!

Congratulations to Dan and Laurie! Next time I email,
they'll be married! Woohoo!

I was disappointed to hear Monique's call didn't come this
last week, I was hoping I'd be able to find out today. But,
next week for sure!  Woohoo!

I'm excited to hear that Joe's had the chance to go biking.
I haven't heard too much from him lately...what's going on
Joe?

Also, thanks mom for the updates from the kid's blogs. I
appreciated hearing about what's new there.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! I'll miss being with you
all, but I'll get a few dinners here, so that makes up for
it! :)

That's super exciting that Bro. and Sis. Jesperson have
been called to preside over a Spanish-speaking mission.
I'm curious to see where they'll end up. Anything else new
in the home ward? Any mission calls or anything lately?

Well, things have been a little rough emotionally for me
this last week, there's been a lot of disappointment with
investigators, but I guess that's how this work goes. The
Lord definitely strengthens us, I've experienced that
without a doubt.

Well, now for the activities and such from this past week,
and the update on investigators.

Alejos and Esmerelda - Nothing new here, we haven't been
able to get ahold of them again yet. We're still working
on it.

Nora and Edgar - We met with her on Saturday, and it she
said she doesn't want to be baptized...however, she KNOWS
that this church is true, it's just a matter of resolving
doubts. Satan is definitely doing everything that he can
there...

Ivan - We set up an appointment to meet with him tonight.
I'll let you know on this next week.

Marta - Well, she came to a baptism on Saturday night, and
she felt the Spirit. We'll meet with her again Tuesday
night, and try to set up a more firm date as to when she'll
be prepared to be baptized.

Vanessa and Freddy - Well, nothing new this last week with
them. The appointments all fell through... Oh well, we'll
keep moving forward.

Lydia - Well, Lydia is making a lot of progress. We taught
her about the Plan of Salvation, and she really seemed to
understand. However, she didn't keep her commitment to
coming to church yesterday. She's getting closer though.

Ester and George - We taught these two a couple Saturdays
ago. George isn't too interested, but Ester and her kids
definitely are. We taught them on Saturday about the Plan
of Salvation. They seemed to understand it well. We asked
her how she felt about the message that we shared with her,
and she said something along the lines of, "I don't know
why, but I believe that this is true." It's definitely a
great experience to see the spirit touch people's lives.

Robert and Terry - Well, Terry was baptized when she was
8, but hasn't been active since. Robert is a truck driver.
His sister and brother-in-law are members, and have been
a great example to them. He says that his brother-in-law
drank alot more than him, and was a lot worse than he is,
and how he's changed his life around with the church.
However, he doesn't think that he can do it. We're going
to introduce him to a member in the ward here that had
the same story - truck driver, drank, etc. So, we'll see
how that goes.

Griselda - One day when we went to visit her, her kid was
sick, so we gave her a blessing. The next time we visited,
we were talking about how Christ established his church
upon the earth, and we showed her the picture of Christ
ordaining one of the apostles. She recognized that he
ordained his apostle by the laying on of hands, in the
same manner that we had given her daughter a blessing.

Well, I've decided I hate dogs here in Texas. Well, most.
They're everywhere. Mangy. Gross. Disgusting. Most look
like they shouldn't be alive. They seem to be on Satan's
side. Some won't let us even approach the door. The
worst is when we get up on the doorstep to knock a door,
and they come out from under the doorstep and start to
bark at us and try to bite us. Oh well. Yay for
frustrations with dogs! :)

Well, I love you all, and you're all in my prayers. Thank
you for all the prayers in my behalf.

The church is true.

Con amor, Elder Meservy