Japan 7 months 1 week-40

anus. 

I never got an MTC picture so I did one in Japan.

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea sdpogihasdoglaas

I will forever ruin the sisters pictures! 

Please zoom up to the faces on this lovely picture. I was violated. 

I took my asian fotossss. 

We went to a lighthouse for our district activity. 

These things are everywhere and I love them. 

my favorite family. 

We set up a christmas tree with the Ikeda family! 

The view from the mountain we climbed at night. 

we are so arsty. 

JUST FOR YOU ALENA!!!!!! IT HAS GERMAN ON IT! 

I love Japanese Graffiti. 

Happy boy

Special

I got a little racist. 

We went to a burger place right by the mountain that plays christmas music all year long and has giant santas everywhere. It was amazing. 

The chrismas burger place. 'lucky pierrot' 

We all got the futocho burgers. They are so huge. They only make 25 a day and there were 6 of us that ordered them. When they bring them to us they have a bell that the ring and tell everyone that we are eating something extremely unhealthy. Then they pray for us. 

It hurt. 

 Sweet! I finished pictures! I hope you enjoyed them. Thank you very much.

I can't believe how fast time is going. We are almost to 2014?! What?!?! I guess I am trunky because I am so excited for the new year. Mostly because New Years in Japan is out of control (So I have heard) 'I am just so freakin' excited!' #kristinwiig They have this one festival thing here where they have these giant hammers and they smash rice until it turns into Mochi and we eat it for days. I am especially excited for that. Okay well here is the extremely anti-climactic news. I DIDN'T TRANSFER!!! YAY! Nothing changed at all. I am still in Tomakomai with the same companion. It was soooo funny. Our whole district tried to guess where everyone was going, but we were all so off. 

So for the next six weeks I will be in Tomakomai with Elder Galeria having a party until the 6 weeks ends and I kill my companion (kill him because he is going home). Well here is what has happened since the last email:

This week was full of dramatic events that overlapped each other and made it just feel like one long day. First, Sunday last week I was asked to sing a Solo in Sacrament meeting because they all thought I was going to transfer. I was also asked to wear a specific tie that a member bought me. She spent 200$ on my companion and I. Each of us got 2, 50$ ties... It was ridiculous. Well I chose to sing 'Abide with me Tis' Eve'n Tide'. My companion said that they only sing that songs at funerals so it would be so great to sing it right before I leave Tomakomai (WHICH I DID NOT!! YES!!!) So I was super nervous because it was my first solo ever and I suck at singing. I also did it in Japanese so I had to really focus on the words because most of the time I can just mumble vowel sounds if I can't read the words fast enough. Well I thought I did okay while I was singing. I refused to look at people because I was scared and couldn't look away from the words. I looked up right at the very end and messed up the words and almost laughed. I went and sat down and looked at everyone. Everyone in the room was crying. I was so confused. It took awhile for the next speaker to come up because he was crying. Woops.. Hahaha well it just got even more dramatic after that. Tons of members we way sad because they thought I was going to get transferred and texted us throughout the week asking us if we knew yet. Well yesterday at church when all of the members saw that neither of us changed they were so happy. It was so funny to see the members faces when they saw me. 

The biggest and most exciting thing that happened this week was with one of our new investigators, Fukuya san. We have been struggling so hard to get a baptismal date. My district had no baptismal dates for 3 transfers in a row. Elder Galeria and I worked so hard with a lot of our investigators this last transfer to make a baptismal date, but it didn't work. Well two days ago we met with Fukuya san and talked to her about baptism. We told her how much it would benefit her life and how many blessing she would receive. We asked her to be baptized and she said no. WHAT?! We felt the spirit so strong and thought she was going to say yes. All of the sudden she starts asking us a ton of random questions about our families and about America. We kept trying to refocus back onto baptism, but she was so distracted. 'So baptism is this great promise' 'How many siblings do you have?' '3 siblings, but baptism is great.' 'Do you like instant ramen?' 'I like baptism.' That was basically our conversation. Finally we got in control of the conversation and asked her one more time if she would be baptized when she knows that this is the true church. Somehow it all changed and she said yes. I was so shocked. It was amazing. That was our huge miracle for this week. Well I am WAY out of email time but I love you all so much. 

Be excellent to each other!

-Elder Jake Snow Mecham Choro. 

Japan 7 months-39 weeks

SAIYAKU!! I forgot my camera cord so send all of these amazing pictures I took, and there are A LOT. Saiyaku: a very strong word meaning, "the absolute worst" Opposite of saiyaku is Saiko. 

This week was saiko. First we had a Zone Training meeting in Hakodate. At that ZTM we had music practice, workshops and interviews with the Mission President. The workshops were really good and I learned a lot, but I got really distracted and couldn't focus. My companion was first to have interviews with the mission president and when he came out he said, "yeah have fun transferring!" My mind was freaking out. Then we had music practice and half way through that Sister Evans (the mission presidents wife) turns to me and says, "Okay Mecham Choro your turn. I am going to leave and you will guide the practice from here on out and then I will come back and we will see how it is." WHAAAA.... So there was even more pressure from that. Then right after music practice President Evans calls me in for my interview. "How are you doing Mecham Choro?" "Great! I love Tomakomai. The members are amazing, we are finding a lot of amazing people and the work is really moving here." "How do you feel about going Senior companion this next transfer?" That was when I knew I am going to be transferring. Well I am not 100% sure yet, I will know tomorrow when we get our transfer calls, but I am almost positive I am transferring back into the Sapporo area and going senior companion. I feel like I just barely got to Japan. I can still barely understand Japanese. During our last lesson with one of our investigators I thought she was talking about menopause, when in reality she was talking about getting discounts at stores when you pass age 50. I felt a ton of pressure and very very inadequate.  I had a lot of thoughts running through my head and I kept getting really discouraged this week. We wanted to visit our investigators, but almost all of them were not home or were busy. I kept thinking things like, "this is my fault we aren't meeting with them. If only I could speak better. If only they understood. My work isn't good enough. It's not working" These thought were attacking my brain and bugging the crap out of me. Satan is the worst. BUT I didn't let him when. We saw two major miracles this week. 

1. We went back and visited Iwai Shimai. She is the sister that is blind and really misses coming to church. We went and talked to her about members in the branch and she was talking about how much she misses them. She naturally began to share her conversion story. She said that when she got baptized she was very very unsure. She had a lot of doubts and wondered why Joseph Smith could see God, but not her. She wanted stronger faith. Well she definitely strengthened her faith. When I hear conversion stories I usually hear about how they overcame their challenges and just knew it was right. Well Iwai shimai said that her biggest test of faith was being baptized. Right after she was baptized (right after she proved her faith) she said she heard God's voice. She told us how God told her the answer to her prayers and she never doubted since. When we left she said, "it is weird how you always come right when my husband leaves or isn't here. If you came while he was here, I wouldn't be able to meet with you because he doesn't really like the missionaries. But please keep coming." 

2. We visited the Saito couple yesterday to ask about a less active member who they wanted us to visit. When we got there they said that they were very sick and now was not a good time, but they let us in and somehow we were there for an hour. Sister Saito began to share her conversion story and how she was baptized in the ocean. She told us how when she got married to Brother Saito he knew that she was a member, but he said he would never get baptized. Sister Saito tried for 28 years to get him baptized. He would take her to church, but would never come. Then one day he just woke up and knew he needed to get baptized. He was baptized three days later. A few months after he was baptized he said they needed to go on a mission. The prepared and exactly a year after he was baptized they went on a mission. A few months after they got back from their mission he had a heart attack. After his heart attack he told people while he knew he needed to get baptized and why he knew he needed to serve a mission. He said that in his dreams he would speak to angels and they told him what was going to happen and what he needed to do. 

Both of these Less active members want to come to church SO bad, but their sicknesses won't let them leave the house. Their faith is so strong to the point that they have head God and spoken to angels. Their stories were what I needed to hear this week. With the pressures of going Senior Companion and feeling inadequate, I somehow forgot about faith. Their stories reminded me that through faith miracles are possible, but you have to test your faith first. 

I am excited to see what happens tomorrow when I get my transfer call. I love you all and I am definitely going to have pictures next week! Be excellent to each other! 

-Mecham Choro. 

"First and forever more fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe." -Elder Holland. 

Japan 6 months 3 weeks-38

Thanksgiving Dinner.

It hurt. 

THANK YOU FOR THE FOOD! 

This was thanksgiving. It Snowed.

Happy Thanksgiving #2
This week we actually celebrated the right Thanksgiving. Actually we celebrated it about 5 times this week. First on Monday we went out to eat at an all you can eat yaki niku (fried meat? Cook it yourself BBQ place). Then Tuesday we had the biggest bowl of Curry Ramen I have ever seen. Then on Wednesday we made American Burritos with the amazing american food my mother sent me. (we soaked our burritos in ranch and salsa. It was heaven) Home can be a heaven on earth with it is filled with ranch and salsa. Then Thursday we ate a small lunch with mashed potatoes and something else I can't remember, so we could be hungry for Baby Face!! For Thanksgiving dinner we went out to Baby Face and got the biggest Omelette Rice (Spell check...) on the planet. It was amazing. Then Friday we had more burritos. Saturday we went out to eat again and Sunday we had stuffing!!!! It was incredible. And that was just our food! This week was amazing though!

We had a lot of appointments scheduled with our new investigators who we went to go meet. We saw almost every single on of them, except they all told us they were busy. So almost every single one of our appointments fell through. The only one that didn't fall through was last nights. We made a new investigator last night! Her name (yes all of our investigators are female. BUT we did find 2 awesome new guys this week and hopefully we meet with them again!) is Fukuya san. She is full of energy and has no shame. "Wanna see my daughter? She is kinda fat like me, but she is nice like me huh?!" She is really open to listening to us and so we gave her a Book of Mormon and prayed with her. She said she will read and is excited to try praying. Oh also this week we met this lady who used to go to church as a kid up in Sapporo. She said she loves the church, but just doesn't know right now and is studying everything. We gave her a Book of Mormon too. " I am addicted to reading. If I am not reading something I will start to read the phone book." So she said she will definitely read the Book of Mormon. Maybe she will be done before we see her next? 

My favorite part of this week was Saturday. We wanted to visit a less active member named Yamamoto Kyodai. We have visited with him before and he is WAY nice. We went over and knocked on his door and a lady came to the door. We asked if Yamamoto san was home and she said "NO! He is a professional gambler and he is making money right now." Oh... okay, cool. "Well do you know when he will be back?" "NO!." Oh... okay. "Are you his mother?" "EXCUSE ME?!?!! I AM NOT HIS MOTHER! How old do you think I am? How dare you!" I was terrified at this point. I though she was going to attack us. Well then out of nowhere she says, "It is cold. Come in. You look hopeless." She invited us in and turns out Yamamoto Kyodai lives with 3 other people. Basically it is a bunch of college friends that got old, never got married, and decided to live together. They are all about 60\70 years old. I don't know their names so there was, guy with white hair. Lady that was short and sat on the ground, and lady that yelled at us. They were all drunk and were incredibly funny. The lady that yelled at us invited us in and the guy with white hair made us sit on their couch. I was kinda freaking out. This is not normal. Well we introduced ourselves and then it just exploded. "They are Mormon!!! Stop making them coffee you idiot! They don't drink that!" The guy with white hair and the lady sitting on the ground just made fun of and yelled at the lady that yelled at us the whole time. It was so funny. They were all SO nice to us though. "Here, have some vegetable juice." "VEGETABLE JUICE!?! That is disgusting! Nobody likes that! Did you even ask them what they wanted?!" "Your right. I will get them beer." "NO THEY DON'T DRINK BEER!!" It was one of the funnest days on my mission. They just went off yelling at each other and loving us. We were there for about 45 minutes talking with them, then when we said we had to go they got so mad and tried to make us stay then eventually filled our backpacks with candy and made us promise we would come back. 

I am now out of time because we are leaving to go climb a mountain today. I love you all. Be excellent to each other! 

-Mecham Choro.   

Japan 6 months 2 weeks-37

So want to hear a funny story? I thought that Thanksgiving was always on the Thursday of the third week in November, so I already celebrated Thanksgiving! I was so sure that Thanksgiving was last week so we celebrated it on Thursday November 21st. I got an amazing Thanksgiving package from my terrific mother with lots of American Thanksgiving foods that we made for dinner. We had a feast!  It was a lot of fun, but I remember thinking that it doesn't feel like Thanksgiving. Not because I wasn't with my family or in America, but because it felt early. Well it was. A week early. That is okay though! I get two Thanksgivings now! 

Thanksgiving Week Updates-

This week we found a ton of new people. My first transfer in Tomakomai we only found one person who actually had interest. Just this week we found 5 new people with interest and we are teaching them! Tomakomai is an interesting place because I think only single mothers with children are allowed to live here. All of our current investigators are women, and the new ones we found are women as well. Well here is how we found them.

Sato san is a funny old lady with a blind lazy eye. We found her pretty late at night when we pinged her house. We talked about God and she said we could come back. We came back and taught her prayer and she said she is going to try it on her own! She is a really funny old lady from Kraft? Craft? It is an island in Hokkaido that used to be apart of Japan, but now Russia owns it.

Okabe san. She is a younger mom. I didn't find her. We were on splits with the Zone leaders this week and she was found at that time. They pinged her door and she just talked to them through the voice box thing. She didn't even come to the door. She said she was way busy and can't talk. They asked if we could come back and she said yes. Well we came back and turns out she does have interest she really was just busy. Most of the time when people tell us they are busy it is just a lie for ' I have no interest ' but she was serious and we gave her a Book of Mormon. 

Komata san. She is already an investigator, but this week her daughter turned 8 so she became a new investigator. Her daughter is amazing. We teach the mom (Komata san) but her daughter has the most interest. We gave them a Book of Mormon as well and the next time we visited them Komata san said that her daughter has been reading it every day and taking it everywhere she goes with her and telling all of her friends about it. I am excited for them. 

Doi san. She is a really skinny quiet mom. We taught her prayer. Throughout the entire lesson I think she said a total of 5 words. It was really funny. I would laugh and she would just stare at me. She is listening, but I am not exactly sure if she has interest yet. We will see. 

Shimizu San. She is actually an English Class student. So this week after Eikaiwai (english class) we were eating food when Shimizu san came up to me and said, 'Mecham Choro! You have a zit on your face! Look at you! You are so young!' I told her sorry that I am still a child and get zits sometimes. She then said 'You can't even drink yet! But you have been drinking before right?' 'Nope. Never' 'It's okay you can tell me. Just a little beer? I won't tell anyone.' Then out of nowhere a new student just jumped in the conversation and said 'NO! THE MORMONS REALLY DON'T DRINK' He hates it because he is a bartender. Well this lead into a discussion about our beliefs and why we do the things we do and turns out Shimizu san has interest. So I would encourage all of you to show off your zits, because you never know when they will help you share the gospel.  But really though you never know when you will have the opportunity to stand up for what you believe. I got an email from my fantastic friend in Germany #Schwartzenberg (The spell check for that is Schwarzenegger) She told me a story about how just by wearing her missionary name tag she was able to share this amazing message with another person. It's so true. You never know when or where it will happen, but there are always people who will want to hear. Just be ready for it! 

This week we were really busy meeting with new people and making appointments with them for this next week. I am SO excited to report about this next week. The real Thanksgiving week. It is going to be a lot of fun. I love you all so much. Be excellent to each other! 

Japan 6 months 1 week-36

We fed ducks at this pond and then the crows came and tried to eat us. 

They followed us... 

It was cold so we got ice cream. 

Selfie. 

A slide I went down this week.
So this week we had splits with the Muroran Elders. They are in an area that is about 45 minutes away by a fast train. In their area they had 4 inches of snow fall in one day, while here we have no snow and it is just cold and windy. I went on split with Elder Lee. The funny part of that day was when we went to go visit Nakao san. Nakao san hasn't been able to make any friends since moving to Tomakomai last year. She tells us almost every time that she really wants to make friends but doesn't know how. We tell her that if she comes to church she will make TONS of friends, but she never came. So we brought a member with us. Kotani Shimai is the one that takes us everywhere and buys us everything. She loves the missionaries almost too much. Well we went to go teach Nakao san with Kotani Shimai. The first thing Kotani Shimai does when she sees Nakao san is say, "we are friends now. I love you." Well.. It was definitely a bold way of becoming friends. Somehow I think it worked and right before we left Kotani Shimai ran up and hugged Nakao san before we left. Hugging is not normal for Japanese people. I even got a little freaked out. It was an attack not a hug. BUT the awesome part was it was exactly what Nakao san needed. 

The day before this we went out to lunch with Kotani Shimai, her friend and Tamori Shimai. Tamori shimai is a less active member and did not want the missionaries visiting her. Kotani Shimai somehow worked her magic and scheduled a lunch with all of us. We went out to eat literally a 20 second walk away from Tamori Shimai's apartment. The food was taking forever to cook so we had a lot of time to talk. Kotani Shimai just sat there and Kotani Shimai's friend did a lot of talking. She would ask us the weirdest questions and say the weirdest things. Tamori Shimai was the reason we were there and she kinda just zoned out for a bit and sat there. We eventually we able to get us all talking about something we all liked, food. Tamori Shimai was talking a lot and it was really good. Then out of nowhere Kotani Shimai says, "Oh yeah! When we used to work together making underwear!".... It was quiet for about 20 seconds then Kotani Shimai's friend said, "Yeah... Isn't that a little weird to say..." It totally made the day for Tamori Shimai. She thought it was so funny. Kotani Shimai's crazy attitude saved us once again. 

There were a lot of little 'crazy' things that happened this week that turned out to be exactly what we needed. But I learned something really awesome yesterday that helped me understand why we had these 'crazy things' #challenges happen so much. We were talking about missionary work at church and a return missionary in the ward said, " If you want your mission to be easy, don't work hard. If you work hard it shows you want to improve, you want to be more like Christ. When you work hard you get trials and you work through those trials. That is when you feel the most joy." This is so true. Lately missionary work has been a little rough for me. I felt like I wasn't fully there or what I was trying to say wasn't coming out right. I blamed it on my Japanese and kinda slacked off for a little bit. Then I kicked right back in and changed my mind. It was really hard to work through it and to get over myself. It didn't make everything easier or funner, but it made it worth it. Then I was happy. 

I love you all so much. I hope you have a great week. Be excellent to each other! 

-Mecham Choro. 

Japan 6 months-35 weeks

We went to the Ainu Village. It is the first people who lived in Hokkaido 

Baby face----This time they gave us a big spoon. 

We fed bears last monday for P-day

Too Good

This is what happened while we tried to walk to church in the morning. 

This week was full of a lot of miracles. We started the week with a lot of less active members that we wanted to visit. I have tried to visit them before when I was here with Tokuzawa Choro, but they were never home. Well this was the week we met all of them! My favorite was Iwai Shimai. She is a blind old lady with crazy hair. She really looks like a witch. When we visited her she was sooo excited that we came. She hasn't had a visit from the missionaries in over 5 years. She had this funny attitude about it though. She just kept asking why we haven't came over earlier. It was really funny. When we were about to leave we read the Book of Mormon to her because she can't see. It was amazing to see it calm her down as we read it. The whole time we were talking to her she was moving around and scratching her eyes, but when we read the Book of Mormon with her she calmed down, sat still, and listened. She then said thank you and said we have to come back soon. I am excited to visit her again.  

So the craziest stuff happened this weekend. On Saturday we had 2 member lessons. One with Masuko san and one with Chiba san. Before all of our lessons that day we had a goal to make baptismal dates with all of them. Well we did our best and invited them all, but they dropped the muri bomb on us. (they said it was muri which means impossible) But the amazing part was in Masuko sans lesson she said that her husband is working on Sunday so she can come to Church! Next was Chiba san. At Chiba sans lesson we planned to teach The Plan of Salvation. It started with The Atonement, moved to eternal families, then the spirit and then prayer. It was one of the craziest ways I have ever made an investigator pray. We didn't want to pressure her, but we really wanted her to pray. The member team ups said what if one of us prays first and then you try? That is a tool that we use often, but this time one of the other members said, YEAH! All of us will pray one at a time and then you pray last. There were 5 of us in the room. It started with my companion Elder Galeria, then me, then Chiba San's daughter, then Kotani Shimai, then Chiba san. After all of us said our prayers and it got to Chiba san it was quiet. We probably sat is silence for 2 minutes doing nothing. Then out of nowhere Kotani Shimai says 'Chiba san, go' Then she prayed. It was a one sentence prayer and I didn't even understand what she said, but she prayed! It was a huge miracle. 

Next we went to go visit a referral who ended up not being home. We decided that because we were close we should go visit Mizumasa san. When haven't met with her in a long time because she has been so busy lately so we had the intentions to just say hi and schedule an appointment with her. Well it turned into a long lesson about baptism and she said that she wants to get baptized but it is just really hard to quit alcohol and coffee. But she said that she is going to be coming to church on Sunday. 

Sunday was the craziest Sunday so far. It started with Typhoon number 3. We decided to walk to church because our bikes would blow away. We thought that nobody was going to show up to church because of how bad the weather was. When we got to church we saw Chiba san there. We then saw Ikeda Shimai who told us that Masuko san was on her way to church when she got in a car wreck. hahahaha of course. We felt so bad. She was totally fine, and when we texted her (cause we are not allowed to call her or her husband will murder us) she said that she is just embarrassed and will try to come to church the next time she can. Halfway through church Mizumasa san showed up! She was able to make it to sacrament meeting. It was so awesome to have all of them there. After church we had one of the scariest lessons ever. It was forced by a member, Tanaka Kyodai. He basically dragged Mizumasa san and us into the primary room and sat us all down and the first thing he said was, How is alcohol? Are you drinking? It was so awkward. We tried to hard to stop him from interrogating her, but he would just keep going. He stopped after 15 minutes and looked at us and said did you have anything you wanted to say? We said sorry for this crazy lesson. Mizumasa san was so nice about it and said that she knows how it was all out of good intentions. She said that she is going to come to church as much as she can this month. 

It was a crazy week full of a lot of miracles. My companion is working me so hard. I am getting so tired, but it is helping me out so much! I love you all! Be excellent to each other! 

-Mecham Choro 

Japan 5 months 4 weeks-34

Ladies and Gentlemen, Brothers and Sisters, Young and Old, Fat and Fatter, we had Transfers! I am still in Tomakomai, BUT I have a new companion. First sad news because it makes the crazy news sound so much better. This is my first American companion :( He is from Thousand Oaks, California. (Yes where the rich people live) Now the crazy news. The transfer before this transfer he was in the mission home because he was assistant to the president. Yeah... that means that I am horrible missionary so they felt like they needed to send me an incredibly strict companion. He has made many people cry. HAHAHA! I am too excited. His name is Elder Galeria. His first area was Tomakomai and his last area is going to be Tomakomai because he is going home very soon #expirationdate That is the exciting news of the week. I am also very low on time again because we are going to a crazy fish festival in 20 minutes. I also forgot the cord to upload pictures so if you only wanted to see pictures and not read an email please forgive me. 

This week was a lot of fun. I got to go back to Sapporo for Stake Conference on Saturday. When I first got to Japan it was Stake Conference. This means that I have been in Japan for exactly 6 months. Too crazy. Okay Two stories

ONE: Wednesday was my last day with Tokuzawa Choro and his last day in Tomakomai before he transferred on Thursday. We wanted to visit as many people as possible, but a lot of the people we wanted to visit were not home. We went to 3 members on the east side of the city and they weren't home so we went back to the mall to pick up something that Tokuzawa Choro needed before he left. When we were there we were talking about how we really wanted to say goodbye to Masuko San before Tokuzawa Choro transferred but that it is not going to happen because her husband won't let us visit her and she had work that day too. Right then we were about to leave when we saw Masuko San at the mall! It was awesome. She was so excited to see us. It was a little thing, but these little things mean a lot and have helped Masuko san and us so much. 

TWO: Yesterday we visited the Saito Couple. They are amazing. The husband was baptized in 2008 and 2 moths later they went to the temple. 6 moths after that they went on a mission. As soon as they finished their mission the husband got really sick and now is in a wheelchair, and can't make it to church anymore. They told us about how they want to do SO much but they can't because their bodies won't let them. I felt just like them. There was SO much I wanted to say to them and SO much I wanted to be able to do, but I just can't do it yet. We began talking and they said that we just need to do our best with what we have right now. Of course we have goals to help us progress, but we have to do our best with what we can do before we try to do something we can't. That was a great reminder. Right after we went and housed. I tried the things I new and I found myself learning new things and Japanese was flying everywhere. I ended up talking to this one lady for 25 minutes about service and I have no idea where the words I said came from. I learned to not be scared, but just try. Plus is it way funny when we mess up. My companion is doing a GREAT job at laughing when I mess up. I could choose to be upset or laugh too. Laughing is just a lot easier and so much more fun. This transfer is going to be amazing. We have already seen a lot of miracles and I know more are going to come! Sorry I am low on time again and I forgot pictures, but next week will have great pictures. Be excellent to each other. 

LOVE YOU. 

Mecham.