This week was great!
The 2 highlights had to be a family we found this week and the zone
conference we had Friday.
Tuesday was pretty average, we just practiced our Christmas
song for the zone conference and taught some families that we had
contacted.
Wednesday we spent most the day contacting families in the
street and we got a TON lined up for Thursday!
Thursday we taught 3 new familes and got 9 new
investigators! As a result we had 2
great miracles. First we went to the
house of a lady we contacted but her mom answered the door instead. Turns out she listened to the missionaries 2
years ago and lost contact with them when the missionaries left and she changed
houses. We asked her why she thinks God
lead us to her house again and she said "maybe to finish what i didnt do
in the first place." Amazing how
God guides our path! The other miracle
was that we went to the address of a lady we contacted and I guess she gave us
the wrong address! But the gentleman who
answered the door was very polite so we told him how we wanted to share a
message about Christmas sometime and he was like "alright, come on
in". Haha we were like
"OKAY!". Again, oh how amazing
is it how the Lord places people in our path.
It is a family of 4, both pàrents married, 2 sons ages 13 and 21 and
theyre like 1/2 Catholic because they don't really know any other way to
worship God. For us that's like striking
Gold hahah.
Friday was the zone conference! Every year President does a "fun"
zone conference, and he likes to do it around Christmas. We watched a movie, had a Book of Mormon Trivia
and did skits/Christmas Carols. it was a
great time! The zones present were Palmira , Tulua and
Zarzal. I got to see Lots of my mission
buddies including Elders Muñoz, Solorio, Ludwig, Paskett and Inman! It was a great time! Tulua and Zarzal has a super Rivalry right
now because the zone leader right now, Elder Rojas (my ZL from Ipiales and the
old assistant) was Elder Gomez's comp so it was super tense! But we beat them in the BoM trivia! WOOHOO!
For our skit-carol-thing we sang With Wondering Awe, then changed into
the classic Colombia
"Cumbia" outfits and played a Christmas Version of "La
Bamba" by Los Lobos. It turned out
great! I played guitar, Gomez bongos,
Elder Giles the cowbell, Elder Palma the Giro, Sister Panduro on the piano and
Sister Magaña on the maracas. We had fun
but a district from Palmira
won (i'm guessing because it was just too tense between us and Tulua
haha). But we had a great time.
Saturday we had a good zone meeting and talked about asking
questions which actually helped me a lot (i was the one teaching haha) its what
i needed to better myself. Lately ive
just felt blank in the lessons and having talked much but asking questions is
getting me back to my old self! This
transfer has been strange haha but im good now.
That night we taught the Arias family (the golden family we found
Thursday) the restoration and it went really well! The spirit was super strong.
Sunday we had 7 investigators come to church. Nabor and Mery
with his family and The Arias family!
Wow we were happy that new family came it just proves theyre ready.
Nabor and Mery couldnt get baptized because he worked, but im not worried
because they're 100% converted. The rest
of the day was slow because Elder Gomez got super sick.
So today we just cleaned and organized the house because all
the houses we were gonna rent wont rent to us for a billion different problems,
so looks like we're passing Christmas 4 in a house. Bummer. But everything happens for a
reason!
Have an Excellent Christmas this
week and remember
#ASaviorIsBorn
Elder Welch
District Zarzal in traditional Cumbia outfits :)
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