Monday, August 23rd

Hello once again. This has been a really stressful week for me. I'm working as hard as I possibly can. We've seen a lot of miracles this week. I guess I'll talk about just a couple of them. The first one is about the kid that got baptized last week. We didn't have any contact with him throughout all of last week, and he had moved down to Zapata, but we had been praying and fasting for him to come to church so that he could get confirmed. Well, yesterday he showed up 15 minutes before church, and he told us how he's going to be coming up every weekend to Laredo so that he can keep coming to church. God does hear and answer our prayers.

Another miracle we saw was yesterday night. We were out tracting, and we knocked this door. Well, a man answered the door holding his newborn baby in his arms. Well, he told us that they'd love to talk with us, but that the wife was asleep, and that we should come back in an hour.
We came back an hour later, and we knocked the door. This time the wife answered. She told us her husband just went to the store and asked if we wanted to come in. We told her we couldn't come in without a man, and we set an appointment for tonight. Then she started telling us about how she wants to get her baby blessed. We automatically assumed that she meant to get her baptized. Then she was asking if it was the first Sunday of the month that they do baby blessings. At this point we thought there must be something else going on. We asked if she was a member. She told us she wasn't, but her grandma (who lives in our area) is. Her grandma is active, and loves to feed the missionaries. We're really excited to work with them.

The theme for our companionship has been all about miracles for the last while. We love Moroni 7. "Has the day of miracles ceased?" No. They haven't! How grateful I am to know that God still works miracles.

I love you all so very much. I hope that things continue going well at home.

Love,
Elder John H. Meservy