Hey everyone. Thanks
for your prayers. I think God sent me
angels to pump me up this week thanks to all of you. We had a pretty good week.
So this week I kind of just got to a point where I was frustrated and we knocked every door haha. In this mission, we normally try and do
everything possible to find before we knock doors because it's just not that
effective, but we got to the point where nothing else works so we're on plan Z
haha.
Tuesday we had a district meeting, and I think Elder
Zubiria, my Argentine buddy in the other area noticed my stress because he said
"Elder, transfers are in a week and you still haven't done divisions with
us. Tomorrow?" so
Wednesday we had divisions with Elder Zubiria and his comp
Elder Mamani. Wow, it was just what i
needed. Just a nice break and we knocked a TON of doors.
It was fun, haha we played a game "Knock on the RICHEST house you
can find". So we went to the
richest neighborhood in my area and went crazy.
You'd be surprised, these people are richer than a lot of people in the
states. Radio door bells and everything
haha. But we actually found a few nice
people. It was a fun, relaxing day. Oh, I also hit 20 months in the mission. NO
Thursday was pretty alright.
We had 2 lessons, one with Nu and one with Pa.
I'm kind of worried about Nu, she seems like she's kind of losing her
marbles. She says she sees people before
she dies and stuff. What ever. Pa has been hard to find lately because he
works like crazy. Poor guy, he works
like 14 hours a day 6 days a week and makes 60,000 pesos every 15 days. That's only 20 bucks in 2 weeks. I feel pretty privileged in the states. It was kind of a painful lesson, we were
teaching him about the Sabbath, but my comp wasnt paying attention and he
started talking about Noah when i let him talk... when he finished i straight
up said "i have no idea where you were going with that." haha... oh no.
Friday Ramirez and i just knocked doors like crazy! Ding dong! Hello! My name is Elder Welch! And we would like to
share with you a book of Jesus Christ!
Saturday we had a mission activity in the branch called
"master chef". How it went was
people brought a dish and we chose 5 judges (investigators and recent converts)
that tried every dish and chose a winner.
After, we distributed the food and socialized. It went really well, and i made Bungalow
sweet crepes! Felt good to flip
again!
Sunday nothing really happened worth noting. We had a FHE with some members and knocked
doors.
Today is the last PDay of the transfer, and elder Zubiria
goes home next week, so we got together and had a cook out and ate steaks. It was a good time.
So yeah, there's my week!
Love you all!
Elder Welch
"A cool fruit called Carambolo"
"I made crepes for an activity! Felt good to flip again!"
Jake worked at a reception center before his
mission where he was a "Master Crepe Flipper" :)
"The activity.
We called it "master chef""
"Poor mans barbeque"
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Colombia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Colombia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez