Alright so I don't have my journal so I'll try to remember
this week! This week has been pretty good!
So Tuesday morning at around 7 Lopez left. It was pretty sad to say bye to my first comp
in the field aka my padre as they say in the mission, but something the mission
has taught me is to buck up and not get hung up on goodbyes. Because the mission has a ton of those haha. So the whole day I was with the zone leader
Elder Rodriguez and we had some really cool lessons including committing 2
people to baptism! His area is a lot
more humble than mine. We taught people
with dirt floors that literally lived in lean to's with card board walls. It was crazy but cool to see their strength. The next day we went early to my apartment
and waited for the new comp of Rodriguez.
His name is Elder Inman from California
so I'm pretty happy to have another gringo to talk to haha. So pretty much a lot of this week has been
meeting new people and helping a lot of less actives. Turns out I teach really well with my 2
comps! Sometimes I want to kill Mejia
but when it comes to it I love the kid haha.
Thursday morning, Mejia came in and said to hurry and get ready because
we were going to Pasto ! haha to be honest I didn't even ask questions
why and just got ready and left. But I eventually found out we were going to a
clinic in Pasto
because he's been having bad back problems.
So we traveled to Pasto and it was pretty
cool to travel during the day because I could actually see how beautiful this
part of Colombia
is! The canyons are HUGE and there's
waterfalls and rivers everywhere! In Pasto he found out he
just has muscle problems and needs therapy.
After that we went to the huge mall and had some lunch, bought some Jet Bars and went back to Ipiales. So this
weekend we had a conference with 3 zones in Popayan aka the White City. We left Friday night at 9pm after we had a
cool family home evening about Christmas with a member and his Catholic fam. The bus ride was about 9 hours so we arrived
at 6 am. In the conference we sang a
song in English, watched 17 miracles, received the packages we got for
Christmas, heard some words from Pres. Pricoli and left. It was honestly pretty pointless but whatever
I figure it was just for Christmas. The
ride back that night was a LOT longer, 12 hours. The traffic was pretty bad and theres been
lots of fog lately. Yesterday Antonio
was ordained with the Aaronic priesthood!
It was way cool, and its so great to see him progress. We're planning on helping him prepare to pass
the sacrament this Sunday! He's pretty
nervous haha. All of yesterday, Bello and I went splits with a member while Mejia went
with the Mission leader. It was pretty cool! Bello
and I worked with the less actives in my area and we progressed a lot! Today for P day we just played soccer and
yeah. Nothing too exciting. But we're going to Las Lajas again next
week! So yeah. There's my week. Christmas is in 3 days which means I GET TO TALK
WITH THE FAM. I'm so excited :D So Feliz
Navidad to everyone!
Elder Welch
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I asked Jake to give me "a little spiritual something you've learned or
been thinking about to add to the blog." and after he responded with "yeah yeah! ummm to be
honest i cant think of one off the top of my head..." (hahah!) He finally came up with this. I was impressed!:
"k something spiritual I taught yesterday to less
actives. In 1 Nephi 17 how he's
commanded to build a ship. That's a SUPER
crazy thing for the Lord to require but the first thing Nephi says is
"where can I find materials to make the tools?" He doesn't even hesitate! Then in verse 13 it says,
"And I will also be your light in the wilderness; and I
will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my
commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be
led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are
led."
We can compare the wilderness to our lives and the promised
land to the presence of God. We are
never alone and if we're faithful and obedient like Nephi, the Lord will ALWAYS
provide a way for us. We just need to
trust in God. That is a ton of help in
my mission considering I'm 18 in another country speaking a new language.
My favorite scripture right now is probably
1 Nephi 4:6
"And I was led by
the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do."
Trust in God and all will be okay.
"never worry whether or not everything will be
alright. Everything already is."
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