This week has been mostly preparing for transfers.
Tuesday I had my last district meeting in Valle grande! It was bittersweet, ill definitely miss a lot
of the Elders from my district. That day we went and visited Rob again! We read 2 Nephi 31 and talked baptism. He said He'll baptize one day and really
wants to make it to church! He's a stud.
Wednesday we had a pretty busy day. That night we visited the Mina family, and Jo
had a lot of questions about whether or not Jesus had brothers, about the
Brother of Jared, and about her family history haha. But it all tied into family and genealogy so
we taught her how to start her tree on familysearch.org so she can go do that
in the stake center! I'm excited! We want to prepare them to bring names to the
temple when the ward goes in January!
(if they can make it). Also,
Dayana wrote me the cutest note thanking me for teaching her and how she is SO excited
to be a missionary. I love
children. Our last lesson that night was
super important. We visited G and (her
son) and watched a video on temples. afterwards, they expressed a great desire
to go as a family to the temple and do the temple work for their
ancestors. G said she talked with her
husband and he agreed to attend a day with her (he's a non-member) and her son
is itching to go. I'm so happy to see so
much progress in that family. It was a
day where I felt like I've done wonderful things in my area though i don't get
to see the immediate results. In their
own time, they'll be back.
Thursday we watched that temple video with Rob. He loved it, and was sharing his thoughts
with some other guys in the barbershop.
Then we had to go really far in the MIO to find an ATM that was working
because the money arrived and i was BROKE!
haha. What a pain. That night we talked about temples with Nai
and she had some doubts about "vicarious proxy" or being able to baptize for someone
else. So we tried helping her out.
Friday we had interviews with President! It went well, and though we had to wait a
while, it went fairly quickly. I nailed
reciting D&C 84:33-44 memorized and Pres. Pricoli revised our area book. He
said it was pretty good just kind of chewed me out a bit with love on a form i
didnt know existed for less actives and recent converts haha. It's okay, i'm still learning.
Saturday was a pretty good day too! The Mina family finally got their tamales
ready to sell for their wedding. Us missionaries bought 20 between the 4 of us
so right there they got 120,000 pesos hahah!
That's the majority of what they need for their papers! SO THEY CAN BAPTIZE SOON! The rest of the day I went and said bye to people
because I was almost positive I was getting transfered. Now they dont give us time to say bye so we
just have to do it beforehand to be safe.
It sucks!
Sunday we got TRANSFERS!
I'm in the zone Zarzal (pronounced sar saul) and my area is a little
village called Andalucia! My new comp is
Elder Muñoz from Otavalo Ecuador . The culture in his pueblo allows the
missionaries from there to have really long hair. it's super rad haha.
He's a really good missionary and I'll most likely be his last comp for
the next 3 months.
Today I left at 8:00am and took a car for about 2 hours to
Tulua. Then another 15 ride to
Andalucia. It's a pleasant little town
and It's super quiet which I'm loving.
I'm still district leader, and my district is just me and Elder Muñoz
with 2 sister missionaries. I'm content
as of now! Nice to be out of the
dangerous city.
love you all! Next
week I'll sent photos of me and my comp.
But his parents are considered Pioneers in Ecuador and are in the July Ensign
so if you wanna read about them, look it up there under the article
"Pioneers: An Anchor For Today".
Rad!
Love you all and have an excellent week!
Elder Welch
The Catholic Church in his new neighborhood
Moving in!
New bedroom
No comments:
Post a Comment