It's been kind of an up and down type of week! Monday night, Elder Rodriguez, my zone leader
for my whole mish was transferred to Cali ,
so now the only people with me that have been with me since day 1 are Elder
Paskett and Hermana Limachi. Tuesday was
super slow. Now that all the kids are in
school again, NO one is ever home! So
whatever. During an appointment we had
with a member who i teach English sometimes, she told me the super market here
called Éxito probably has peanut butter, so after we went and looked and WOOAOH
there's peanut butter!! its super expensive but i don't care! so i bought it and woww is that a tasty
treat. Other than that we met with H and Mag and taught them the word of wisdom.
As usual, he had no problems with it.
2 more weeks and we can baptize him and his wife! woo!
Wednesday was awesome. we only
got 2 appointments, but they were both pretty solid. Our first one was with a lady named Eva, a
less active we found. She's been
inactive so long she's basically a new investigator haha but it was way good, and we got her a Book of
Mormon again! So hopefully we can build
her up again. The other lesson we had
was with Ros and her neighbor whom we met named Janet, and her 2 boys Jesid
and Fernando. It was a great lesson, and
we set baptismal dates for all 4 of them!!!
Ros said she's received her answer and wants to baptize!!! 7th of March, day after my birthday!! WOOO!
we better baptize them, its all i want for my birthday haha. Thursday we searched ALLL day long for
appointments, and nothing. Also the
family of a girl we contacted told us to not come back so that was a
bummer. But whatevs, their
salvation. That night we talked with our
1st counselor in the branch. Solorio had
the feeling to visit him to help gain confidence with us. It was a way good thing, and we all felt
super excited to work after! Friday, was
pretty good! We met with a less active
recent convert named Jon, and i found out he doesn't have a testimony of
the BoM and doesn't know what the Spirit feels like! So the missionaries who baptized him in
September weren't doing their job very well.
A lot of our work here is fixing what missionaries did in the past. A lot of Elders only care about baptisms here
and not about how good of members they'll be in the long run. Its a bit frustrating, but i know Me and my
comp aren't like that, and we're here to build up the Church! That night we met with Ros again, and she
was having really bad pains in her stomach and was worried. So we taught her about Priesthood Blessings
and administered to her. It was a cool
experience. She has SO much faith. That night, we taught the daughter Johanna in
the house of familia Leon
for the first time. At first she was
showing a TON of doubt, but she was pretty intrigued by the end. Thank you holy Spirit haha. Saturday was another LONG day where we
searched and searched and found nothing.
We have plan A's, plan B's, and a list of less actives to search out for
every hour of the day. So though we
couldn't find anything, we knew we worked hard.
So what evs, you win some you lose some haha. Sunday was way good! So in the morning on the way to church we
went to pick up Al, an investigator we have.
(he didn't come with us...) on the way there a drunk guy yelled at me
"AY MONO LUCHAREMOS" which means "HEY MONKEY LET'S FIGHT." I just said "nah man" and he walked away hahaha. Strange times in Colombia . At church H and Mag came which is
awesome! they love it, and are making tons of friends in the church! I gave a talk on Missionary Work and the
Atonement. It went really well and
Solorio told me i was pretty fluent haha.
After church we had lunch with Ros, and then taught her the Sabbath
day. She was really receptive and of
course is willing to close her restaurant now on Sunday. She has sooo much faith. More good news is that she's feeling
better! Yay Priesthood! That night we met with Karen and Diego to
visit. I sure do love them! And of course, they had a billion references
for us! Such great members! Today, we went to Las Lajas AAAgain. I sure love it but I've already seen it 3
times now haha. Nothing really
interesting happened. SO yeah there's my
week! Ive been enjoying the Mac and
Cheese I've had sent to me from home.
That's cool. Hope you all have a
great week! Remember, God loves you,
answers your prayers, and stuff like that!
haha love you all
Elder Welch
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(This is in response to my
telling him "Happy Valentine's Day" and that it was the first
Valentine's where I didn't get him something)
Jake: fun fact: I got
your package valentines day haha so mac and cheese and jerky made me feel super
loved hahahah. I'm sooo happy with the
mac and cheese honestly. I wish we had
that in stores here haha but GOOD news is I found small expensive peanut
butters at the éxito here! But its so worth it, even if it is 8000 pesos for a
tiny jar!
Mom: So how much is
8000 pesos? I used an online converter that says it's about 3.35 US
Jake: its about that right now but that's super expensive for
Colombia
haha especially because its tiny. And
our money assignment is 170,000 pesos for 2 weeks. (That's about $71.00US for 2 weeks)
(I also sent him a really short video clip of his cat and of
his dad and I saying, "Hi". From his response, I'd say he's appreciating how blessed we are.)
Jake: Haha I couldn't hear anything but I sure loved
it. MOM WE'RE SO RICH WE HAVE SO MUCH
STUFF
With his companion, Elder Solorio
With Elder Solorio and Angelica
(She is the little girl of some members. The elders
do their emailing at her family's home.)
Getting in some extra prayers at Las Lajas
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