So this week has felt like a big learning/changing/bettering
kinda week. So Ill just start from
Monday haha. Well we didnt do much Monday,
but Tuesday Elder Rojas came to Jamundi!
Since he's now a traveling missionary, he was joining me and Ortiz for
the day! It was way cool! He honestly kinda called us out because we've
honestly not being doing so well lately.
Both of us being rather new, we havent really known what to do. But Rojas taught us a new way of planning
with plans A B and C EVERY HOUR without fail!
Its so much more affective! We
also learned how to contact better, how to ask references from members and how
to do everything faster, simpler and more powerful. It was way cool! ALSO HE BROUGHT GOOD NEWS FROM IPIALES! H. passed his interview and is being baptized
this month! I'm SO SO SO happy!
Wednesday felt good to put into practice what Rojas
taught. We asked for lots of references
and set up an FHE with Abner and he's inviting 8 people for us to take their
references! We're doing that tonight :D
we're pretty excited about that. I also
found out Abner's been stalking my whole family on facebook (he speaks fluent
English) it's pretty funny how much he already knows about me...for all i know
he's reading this now! Haha!
Thursday I went to Santander
with Bautista. It was kind of a rough
day to find people home. None of the
people we planned to visit were home besides one less active, but we're gonna
start working with him every Thursday when we head over there. There's a bridge on the road to Santander we always go
over, and that area must be pretty hot with guerilla because it's super
fortified! And i heard machine gun fire
when we past! But something crazy is the
guerilla shot and killed 5 soldiers about an hour from Jamundi the other
day! It's been getting kinda sketchy
here lately, I've been seeing lots of Helicopters, hearing gun shots and i saw
the SWAT team yesterday! (eating
slushies called Cholados here hahaha).
But I've heard the military is trying to take over the President of
Colombia so i hope that doesnt turn to crap haha.
Friday we had interviews with the president! We talked about the new initiative we have in
the mission called BEE missionaries, which stands for Buscar Enseñar Edificar
which means search, teach, edify. The
point is to make us work more efficient and part of it, is if an investigator
doesnt keep the first commitment, or doesnt attend church (for no good reason)
we need to drop them. So the assistants
had us go through our investigators and we ended with 0. which sucks.
but i can see its going to make things more efficient with our
time. We are on the Lord's time after
all. But with President, all went
well! I like to ask him hard doctrinal questions
haha. This time around I asked where the
black race started (an investigator asked me that) and how Adam baptized
himself. He told me some pretty good
answers that blew my mind. But It was a
good time.
Saturday i got to talk with CHRIS RUIZ! We left at 10:00am to be at the office by 12 and wow was that a chore to make it
there. Our bus knocked the dang mirror
off a taxi, and i guess in Colombia
if you get in any type of accident, you just stop right where you are and dont
move. So between the bus and the taxi,
the whole road was blocked and backed up forever and the police had to come and
check it out and everything. It was a
joke, and set us back an hour! But we
finally got there! It was so nice to see
Chris! a piece of home for a bit :')
haha. He brought the package FULL OF
CHOCOLATE, SALMON, A SHIRT AND JESUS THE CHRIST (the book) I was so happy! But yeah we chatted a bit. Not too long due to time but it was cool
:) But yeah that was a nice
highlight.
Sunday was a great day as well! So i attempted to make crepes for the first
time in the mission for lunch and it didnt really work out. The pans we have are awful and we have an electric
stove so it kept sticking and didnt cook right.
oh well! That night as
missionaries, we set an appointment with the Bishop in an effort to gain confidence
with him and to show we wanna help. And
it was way good! Once he saw we were
trying to help, he asked suggestions, we made plans and now we're gonna make a
new ward mission plan, call ward missionaries, and we're gonna pump up the ward
for missionary work by talking in Sacrament on Sunday! We're so excited! Today we went to the funny taxi drive member
named Alirio's house for lunch for Bautista's birthday and ate cake. it was nice.
but yeah, there's my week! We're
super excited, and hopefully we can start getting real busy here soon! BEE MISSIONARIES! Love you all!
Elder Welch
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