This week was super SUPER frustrating. But I'M NOT DISCOURAGED!
Tuesday i gave my first zone meeting with Elder Roman in Pasto ! It is way interesting with 18 other
missionaries to teach when before there were 8 haha. But it went really well. We're talking a lot about verification and
focusing on the teachings from the world mission broadcast we had a few weeks
ago. Later that day, Elder Roman started
having some really bad knee pains (he damaged them playing soccer awhile back)
so we took it easy. That night we met
the N. familie's inactive son. He's
super rad, he's kind of a rocker haha he has long hair and listens to
rock. We kinda talked about class rock
music to get his trust and we're gonna start working to help him come back to
the church. The family is really sad
about it (him being inactive).
Wednesday was one of those days where we walked and walked
and walked and walked like pioneer children haha. We helped bless a member's
house in the morning, and talked a bit.
He served his mission in Boise
Idaho
Thursday We met a kind of crazy less active sister in the
morning that is nearly atheist from some bad experiences. Then in the afternoon we met an active family
that lives kinda far and set up a FHE (for tonight!)
Friday we had a really good weekly planning where i set a
goal to contact more. Since that day,
ive been going crazy talking to everyone!
haha it feels really good.
Something that was a bummer is that ALL of our appointments fell
through.
Saturday was ANOTHER day where we walked with nearly no
appointments. We're getting really frustrated
because we're trying EVERYTHING to try and find and work and lift up this ward,
but something always happens to cancel the appointments. We feel like we're doing something
wrong. But we're being SUPER DUPER
obedient, we're contacting, we're searching the member list for less actives,
and walking A LOT. I just hope something
works so we can finally get some investigators.
Sunday was kind of crazy.
We got some bad news. If the
Mariluz Ward doesn't get 150 attending the next 2 weeks (Sunday we had 75)
theyre gonna close the ward. We could
even lose the chapel. The area is really
cracking down and theyve already closed a branch in Cali ,
and have sold several chapels in Bogota . It's really sad that it's come to this, but
it needs to happen. The members need to
step up or we'll lose blessings! So now
everyone is going crazy to bring less actives to church this week. Super scary!
Something good is that we got assigned a ward mission
leader! My first one in 5 months, since
Valle Grande! He's a returned missionary
as of a year so he knows what's up.
We're happy about that. So it's
NOW OR NEVER FOR MARILUZ!
In other news, the church came out with a new video for
Easter!
check it out at https://www.mormon.org/easter
and share with the hashtag #hallelujah
Today we walked around downtown Pasto , and then hung out with Elder Zubiria
and Elder Chaiña drinking mate and playing guitar! It was a good time.
Love you all! Have a
rad week! HALLELUJAH!
ELDER WELCH
(He actually sent descriptions with the pictures this week,
which was nice. I'll put them under each picture.)
The Galeras volcano from our apartment window
The clouds in Pasto
(we're pretty high up)
Romàn and I chilling out
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