This week has been full of surprises!
Tuesday was a good day but it was SUPER hot! Jamundí always hits 95ish degrees in the day
and the humidity on top of that is rough.
But it was a good day. We talked
for a while with our mission leader on what to do concerning our trio. We started making lots of plans to go in
divisions with members so we could work both my area and the other Elder's
area. Also that night i walked in front
of a motorcycle and almost got hit! I
was just fast enough to dodge it! Phew! Also, that night at 11pm the APs called and
said "Elder Welch! We have a
companion for you! His name is Elder
Yujra (pronounced joo hra) !" So
that was a surprise!
Wednesday morning we left early to go to the terminal by 7am
to get Yujra. He's 20 years old, from La Paz Bolivia ,
he is super kind, and used to be Elder Bello's companion! That night Colombia
beat Brazil
in a match for the America Cup that's going on right now and everyone went
NUTS. Everyone with a motorcyle got in a
huge group and honked their horns all dang night! They waved flags and partied forever! That night we got a text saying we had to go
to the chapel in Cali
for a multi zone conference.
So Thursday that's
what we did! It was strongly focused in
family history and temples! The mission
has a new tri-weekly class for people to go and work on their family
history. It'll be cool, and hopefully
will help us get some new investigators!
I was secretly hoping the whole time President Pricoli would be like
"SURPRISE! WE'RE GOING ON A MISSION
TEMPLE TRIP IN
OCTOBER!" or at least "WE HAVE DOMINOS!" but nahhh.
We also got these ugly B.E.E. Missionaries jersies and yelled a lot, it
was cool!
Friday was a harder day.
We walked all over my area and found no body home! Between lots of things, Im feeling super
stressed and anxious right now. But you
know, what ever haha. Mission
life.
Saturday was pretty good!
the new zone leaders Elder Donoso and Elder Cortes came to revise our
house, then came with Yujra and I to find a few people in my area! By the end of the day we had 5 new
investigators! It was a super good
day! It felt good to have a productive
day, lifted the spirits.
Sunday was fathers day!
Happy fathers day Dad! And
Grandpa! it was also a very very strange
day for me. During sacrament meeting,
one of the investigators of Bello and Dalton came, but she
didnt want to come in. SHE WANTED TO
TALK TO ME. And just me! She said she had some specific
questions. For me! I was so confused. They told her we'd call her because i was
sitting with investigators and she left.
I still have no clue why she wanted me, and what her questions were but
we're gonna call her again tonight.
Weird! After church a member
invited us to lunch and we watched a church fireside he had and then went to
ward counsel. It was an extended counsel
to make the ward emergency plan and it took 3 HOURS! i didn't know why we were suppose to be
there, but we threw in our 2 cents here and there. The refreshment was a potato and sausage for
everyone which i didnt understand but it's cool.
Today Elder Dalton and I went to Downtown Cali today and bought
some nice 10,000 peso ties (like 4 dollars and surprisingly good quality) and
then some 20,000 peso Colombia
jersies (like 8 dollars). The jersies
are obviously fakes but theyre nicer fakes if that makes sense. Colombia stuff. But man, it has been an interesting
week! I just hope we can get the area
back on it's feet! Love you all, and
have a great week!
Elder Welch
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