A little Q&A with Elder Welch
Q: Is the picture of you with the short little missionary
you and Elder Lopez?
A: Yup! dont let his
height fool you, he's 22 hahaha! Latino
probs. I'm pretty much a giant
here. people are baffled when they find
out I'm 18. "QUE JOVEN" (how
young!)
Q: Where do you go to do your emailing?
A: last week was at a members home but right now I'm
emailing at an internet cafe.
Q: Are the 4 of you in your apartment the only missionaries
in Ipiales?
A: No, there's 12 missionaries in Ipiales. There's me and lopez, mejia and herrerra,
penafiel and rodriguez, monteiro and paskett, and 2 sisters that i cant
remember their names and 2 other elders!
Alright so this week was pretty average and great all at the
same time! So i don't have my journal
with me so I won't be as thorough with each day (sorry mum) but it was
awesome! so we've been making progress
with our investigators and less actives.
our biggest ones are Antonio, Tatiana, and Gyovanni and his family. Because they all have baptism dates for the
11th of December! that makes 6 for us
and if the baptisms work out for the other elders in our branch, we'll have 11
baptisms that day! Antonio had his
baptism interview friday but sadly enough he didnt pass because his smoking
addiction is proving difficult. but he's
the nicest man. he's 60 years old and
lives in a shack the size of a trailer but a lot more humble. Saturday all day we helped do service by
replacing the cardboard under his tarp roof with sheet metal, and replacing his
tarp insulation with a thicker rubber coated fabric. He was so grateful, it was awesome to see the
happiness in his eyes. Nothing much has
happened, it's just been raining a lot here. here's some fun cultural
differences here! So everything at the
store is in bags. milk, ketchup, yogurt
etc. it's honestly obnoxious so i find the boxed milk, but still, i have to buy
lactose free. dont worry its
surprisingly cheap here! another thing
is it's completely normal for women to breast feed their babies in public here
so it's surprising when a woman in the middle of sacrament meeting or family
home evening just whips it out in front of everyone. I've gotten pretty good at quickly
adverting my eyes haha. Also men just
pee where ever they dang well please here.
No matter who's around. I laugh
at how many things are legal here. Oh
the joys of another country... so Friday I got to go teach english at an
institute! A member named Franklin is a teacher
there and he asked me to come help his students practice! they range from 14 to about 30 years
old. It was funny how many times i got
asked in broken english what my favorite movie was but it was way fun. But were the snakes slithering! I got asked by around 6 girls to take a photo
with them! but hey, that was also 6 references
hahahaha! It was way fun. Last night we were at Karen and Diegos house
with Tatiana, and they had friends over that were'nt members! it was a couple and their son. They had a billion questions but mostly about
our missions. when they found out our
ages, what we're doing and everything like that, that thought we were
crazy! But they also listened to our
message on temples and i could tell the mom felt the spirit! so we got 3 new investigators! Wooop!
Anyways I'm out of time. and no
photos today. doesn't matter because we
didn't get to go to las lajas. hopefully
next week!
love you all!
Hasta luego!
Elder Welch
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In his letter to Tayler he said that Ipiales is one of the safest places in his mission so that's good news :)
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