It has been a good week. Transfers happened and I actually really haven’t even been homesick since Elder Nelson came on Wednesday which is nice, I’m too focused on directing the work in the ward and trying to be obedient. I like it. So when Elders have a string on their ties or pants or shirts we burn them off because it takes the string clean off, I was burning a sting off my pants and kind of burnt a hole in my pants ha-ha, so they’re getting patched up! I didn’t see they were 100% polyester. It’s all good though. I heard Bishop called y’all and had a nice chat, hope that was nice. I love Bishop Smith.
This week was
so long, day by day, but looking back it flew by! For all that haven’t heard our
most promising investigator; Eileen, has been on a trip in New Orleans and was
with family. She must have heard a bunch of anti-doctrine and got talked out of
it by her family. I say that because when she came back she was
not interested in the gospel anymore, so no baptism this last week
unfortunately! Transfers happened on Wednesday and Elder Nelson came on in to
Fox Run! He is a great
missionary and is so funny.
He is absolutely
massive, he played football, rugby, and wrestled in high school. He's been out
14 months and his personality has reminded me a lot of Brendan Smith. I love
him. It’ll be a great and fun transfer! I’m excited for it. I love this
southern food and it has definitely gotten to me, yes it is possible for me to gain
weight unfortunately, I am now 150lbs, I have a baby fat role. It’s ok though,
I’m going to watch it this week and rebuke it. I’ll be emailing next week at
145lbs. Crazy story for this week happened last night! We were at this younger
couple’s house for dinner and he is in his residency for becoming a doctor. We
were just eating and talking and all of a sudden he gets up casually and goes to
the sink and it looked like he was going to puke, then runs over to his wife
and starts hitting her shoulder. She is 8 months pregnant and she turns and starts
giving him the Heimlich maneuver! She was literally picking him up every time
too, I’ve never seen a little pregnant lady with so much strength. The funny
part was her dad was there and it didn’t faze him at all, he just said he was fine
and kept eating while he was choking. He was fine after that though. Today I
hit my two month mark! Crazy how fast time has flown, 22 months left, but
who is counting?!
On Wednesday I got a text from my bishop and he told me that he had just gotten
off the phone with my dad. I was pretty surprised and then he asked me to sing
in sacrament meeting, so I got to sing One Voice yesterday and from the
response I got I feel its touched a lot of people so that was nice. Although
Eileen fell through we didn’t get 1 BCD this week (baptismal/confirmation
dates) Elder Foster and I had been teaching Marcus since I got here and he had
always been the hardest to teach because he won’t pray and ask for things cause
he doesn’t want to question God and last time he asked Him for something it
went completely wrong. Yesterday we taught him the gospel of Jesus Christ and I
have never been so guided by the spirit in a lesson before than I did in this
one. He committed to baptism on 9/14 and to ask if this church is true! He also felt like
baptism was cheating because he screwed up and didn’t feel like he should be
clean if he has messed up. I explained to him how it would be cheating Christ
if we didn’t use what he died for. I explained that it would be like if he gave
his son a new motorcycle and his son put it in the garage forever because he
doesn’t want to break it, it would be useless. I compared
it to that and it helped him realize the purpose of baptism and why we need to
use it. It was awesome and it was all because of the Spirit. I’ll be praying for
him that he has the courage to ask and continue to baptism.
This week I
wanted to share how teaching with the Spirit and being worthy of the
Spirit is essential.
I have experienced teaching with and without the Spirit and can testify that
it is the
Spirit that teaches. All I do as
a missionary is give
information and cry repentance. The Holy Ghost is what teaches and testifies what is true. It makes
missionary work a lot easier when we don’t have to worry about being the real
teacher we just need to be worthy of the Spirit. How do we do that? Obedience!
The things the scriptures and the prophets tell us to do aren’t suggestions,
they’re COMMANDments. We have been told to do them and will be judged according
to our obedience to them. I’ve said it once and I will say it again because
I’ve seen it in my mission work and in my life. Obedience brings blessings,
exact obedience brings miracles. Strive to be obedient and I promise Heavenly
Father will pour out His blessings upon you. I know the Book of Mormon is true! In the words of
Jeffrey R. Holland, "No evil man could write such a book and no good man
would write such a book unless commanded to do so by God". I love y’all and am grateful
for all of the
support coming from home. All is well!
Elder Welch
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