May 21, 2012

Dear family and friends,

          This week has been pretty good. We had Nick Josh both out to church again this week. We've been over to see Nick a couple times this week, but he just doesn't seem to be progressing too much. He doesn't keep his commitments or do anything we've asked him to do, and so we've decided to let it wait a little until he feels ready to meet back up with us. We still haven't met up with Josh yet, but we should be having a lesson with him sometime this week. We didn't see Maria Mendez like we had planned because she cancelled our appointment we had.

           Our truck is currently at about 54,000 miles on its odometer, so we're getting it ready to give back to Salt Lake soon. We recently got a mechanical inspection on it, fixed the AC (it was broken for about 3 weeks), and now it's at the body shop, so it looks like we might be doing some biking for a couple of days.

           That song that we performed for you guys on Mother's Day is a song that everybody wants us to sing now. We've sung it probably about 10 times already including once at a baptism on Saturday, once at Young Women's class on Sunday for another ward (by request, of course) and another time on Tuesday for the Relief Society of that same ward. We can also do "the Haka" (a traditional war dance from New Zealand) and the sister missionaries from another zone asked us to do it for their ward barbecue.

            We also went to a "Why I Believe" Fireside yesterday and we got to hear 3 recent converts share their testimonies of why they joined the Church. I think that was my first time ever going to a Why I Believe and it was really good; Pres. Neider, Sis. Neider, and Pres. Foote (one of his counselors) were also there.

            There was a young man in one of our wards named Jeffrey , and he's leaving for his mission to San Jose, CA a week from Wednesday. His family invited us to come over for their farewell party and it reminded me of how you guys had invited the missionaries over to my farewell party when I was leaving for my mission. His mom was asking us all sorts of questions about the luggage, the sort of music he can bring, what clothes he should wear, all the usual stuff that moms worry about.

             That was awesome about the missionary experience that you had with that bus driver during the Spring Trip, maybe something will come out of it. Who knows? And I'm sure that Andrea will do great on her Madrigals auditions. Remember to smile!

             Our area isn't doing as well as it could right now. We're a little low on people to teach, but I'm sure that as we work hard and are obedient, the Lord will put those people in our path. Well, I think that's about it. I'll let you guys know if I need anything.


I love you!


Elder Meiners