Our district has been "mapping" members of the branches.  This means that you locate the member's house on a Google Map and put a pin where it is.  That way all the members' houses can be found.  You must realize that houses do not have addresses and many of them are not located on roadways but are several minutes walk from a roadway along a dirt path.  The branch members who have not been mapped appear on the list as red words while the others are blue; so you know who has not been "mapped".  Our branch was 98% done and we only had a couple of people left to find.  One was named Venn Nephi and he was 12 years old.  Bremners knew him because he had been baptized in their branch in October of 2016 while he was living with his aunt who is an active member.  Subsequently his mother returned and took him and his two younger brothers, age 2 and 4 to San Ildefonso (about 25 km away).  Then the mother got a job in Saudi Arabia and left her three sons in San Ildefonso.  She left them at a boarding house in the care of two people who are in their twenties, are not related, and did not expect to have a ready-made family.
    So Nephi's records were transferred into our branch and it was our job to find him.  The only clue we had was a contact number for the lady who is his caretaker.  The numbers that the aunt had were not working and we felt that there were no options except this one number for the caretaker.  So we drove to San Ildefonso and picked up the missionaries to help us. Elder Tobias (who is Filipino) called the number and the lady agreed to meet us and take us to Nephi.  We made a visit there and while we were there Elder Rodgers called the aunt and Nephi talked to her.  We made arrangements to pick him up for church on Sunday.  He didn't have any shoes so we bought some the night before and then picked up Nephi for church.  He is a deacon so he passed the sacrament and then went to Sunday School and Priesthood meetings.  He got along well with the other deacons and gave the closing prayer in Priesthood meeting.
     The aunt is hoping to arrange for the three boys to fly to Visayas (another island) to live with their grandmother and grandfather.  The mother in Saudi agreed to send money to pay for their flights.  Hopefully this will happen before too many weeks have passed.
     We feel like finding him was a miracle.  Since we had so few clues it was unlikely that we would have found him without the intervention of the Lord.  It reminds us that He loves His children and directs his servants if they will "go and do"  like the original Nephi did, "not knowing beforehand" and He watches out for them, especially if they are young.  👍

Nephi and his brothers