April 16, 2012

Dear family and friends,

        Things are going pretty good this week. We found out this week that Tamara and her 2 kids that we were teaching about a month ago no longer want to meet with us. During the time that we couldn't contact them, I guess that they had gone to another church and liked it better over there. We did get to visit Dave  this week and he seems to be feeling better from being sick for a couple weeks. He made it to church yesterday with his wife, so that's great. We also taught Rochelle once this week and she seemed to be doing pretty good also, although she didn't come to church yesterday. Her member friend Coral said to us that Rochelle might be going through a lot in her life and that having us over might not be the top on her priority list, also. So we have a couple investigators being weeded out, but we did find a couple that seem really good.

        The missionaries in Kingman had a member give them a referral which eventually came to us and her name is Lonnie. She's actually met with missionaries before about 8 months ago and she recently said that she wants to be baptized by the member that gave us the referral! She lives in Fort Mohave, but goes to work on the weekends in Kingman and so she said that she's been going to church over there. We haven't started teaching her yet, but she seems really good. We also met up with a former investigator named Jackie . She's about 16 years old and she had also met with missionaries and had gone to church and Mutual activities with some friends before and she said that we could start teaching her again.

        So this week I felt pretty sick on Wednesday because the flu had hit me pretty unexpectedly that morning. But I think that now I feel better enough. We also had rain this week pretty hard on Friday. It was raining from about 4pm-9pm almost constantly and as it kept raining it would get harder and harder. We actually had to come in at around 8:00 because the roads were literally starting to flood and there was nowhere for the water to go. But today it's back to sunny and you can almost hardly tell that it rained a few days ago.

        Yesterday, we also went to visit a Spanish member in Laughlin (she's in the other ward) because her son had unexpectedly died in a car accident this past weekend. It was totally different from the other experiences that I've had on my mission. She was crying the whole time and she blamed herself because she told him not to go out, but he stole her car keys and went out anyway. She said that she felt like dying because she just wanted to hug and kiss her son again. We tried reassuring her about the Plan of Salvation and the role of Jesus Christ and his Atonement and we even gave her a priethood blessing, but she was still taking it really hard.

        So next week is already transfers again. I'm excited to see if I'll be staying here for my last transfer or if I'll go to one last place before I finish my mission, so I'll definitely let you know what happens next week. So that's how things are going in our area right now, a couple more people to see. We just have to keep being obedient and working hard and the blessings will come. That's about it for this week. I'll let you guys know if I need anything.

I love you!

Elder Meiners