This week has been really productive! So Monday night we set a date to baptize the
father of our less active, Viviana! It's
for the 31st of this month but it honestly won't happen because he works every
Sunday. It sucks because they're family
is really poor so he can't really afford to try and change jobs. So keep him in your prayers! Tuesday was incredibly slow which is
strange. Tuesdays aren't usually
slow. We had 2 appointments, one with
Gyovani and his fam, and the other with some members. Something huge with the family of Gyovani is they're
actually reading the Book of Mormon finally!
But they didn't come to church.
Again. It's so frustrating, they
have almost half a year with missionaries, and can't come to church? Sadly if they don't progress we're advised to
take a break from teaching them for a while because sometimes they just aren't
ready. So I'm praying they'll be willing
to make some changes here soon. With the
members we just chatted and I played guitar for them! It was fun, it's always cool to show my
talents and make people happy! Wednesday
was really interesting. So at lunch we
were talking to Karen, and she said at 5 in the morning she was up to shower
then she went back to bed. And she had a
dream where a little girl told her to wake up because there was gas in the
house. So she woke up really fast and
heard something, and in the kitchen, the gas stove was turned all the way
on. And everyone in the house was
sleeping. So she was pretty shooken
up. Either someone was in the house, or
who knows. Spirits or what. So interesting! Later that day we went to a barrio further
away in our area that we've never contacted and we met lots of cool people.,
including a reference giving to us by the sister missionaries! The sister of our reference was feeling lots
of pain so she asked us to give her a blessing!
Interesting for a first contact where they don't even have any lessons! Lots of faith! Later that day we were talking with some
other less actives, and they said the aunt was sleeping and felt something
pressing on her chest and she couldn't move.
What's worse is she's the 3rd person in that room that's had that experience. Crazy to hear 2 of these types of things in
one day! But none asked us to bless
their house. Interesting. Thursday Elder Solorio had to do baptismal
interviews with the investigators of Mejia and Bello because he's the district leader so I
went on divisions with Mejia. We just
changed pensionists and she's awesome!
Soooo yummy! It was hard to find
appointments but we contacted and got some really awesome references. But since it was so slow, we decided to go
check out the city Pupiales about 15 min away that's in my area. It's a really cool quiet place, but it was a
bit hard to contact so we just returned after about an hour. Friday was awesome. In the morning I went with Solorio and the
sister missionaries to interview one of the sister's converts. She passed haha and after that we went to a
home of an older woman named El.
They are so so poor. Their home
is all dirt floors, and falling apart.
El is very very sick right now so we gave her a blessing. It was really sad when the sisters would say
"you should go to the hospital" and she would say "no hay plata
no hay plata" which means "there's no money." She couldn't even pay for the taxi to the
hospital which is only 2 dollars. So we
helped her pay the taxi and she went to the hospital. After El, we went to visit Nel, one of
our contacts from Thursday. Holy cow is
she prepared by the Lord. We literally
talked for 2 hours. About life, the restoration,
jokes, stories. etc. She's SO
golden. Exactly what I need honestly. SO awesome!
Saturday since we had so many Baptisms for Mejia and Bello , Solorio and I only got to have one
appointment. She's another new
investigator that we contacted and she's pretty awesome too! She said she's always wanted to know which
church is true so this is cool that she can search and find out whether we are
the true church or not! I think our
invitation is so unique to others. Read
ponder and pray about the Book of Mormon. We don't try to convince, we only
invite. Awesome. The plan was to have 3 baptisms. But 2 didn't show up and Bryan the younger
boy being baptized was an hour late. But
he was baptized none the less! Always
cool to attend baptisms. Yesterday was
alright. The attendance is a lot better
in our branch but once again: 0 attending were our investigators. It's pretty frustrating honestly, when we
work so hard and they cant give up 3 hours of their Sunday for God. I'm just praying to know what im doing wrong
so I can help them. Yesterday night we
met with some of our less actives, one of which who has a boyfriend who's an
investigator. I love them haha and
Daniel the boyfriend always has such interesting questions. Last night being about whether or not the
Divinci Code is true, and whether or not Judas Iscariot received
forgiveness. Interesting topics,
right? Today we just went to the border
of Ecuador . You don't need anything to pass so yeah, I
was in Ecuador
today hahah. After we bought watermelon and here we are. So yeah, great week! We're working hard to find new people and it's
great! Love you all!
Elder Welch
The whole Cali Mission-October 2014
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