This week has just flown by, it was a really good one too. So something I'm going to tell the family but not put in my regular letter. So Elder Nelson showed me a missionary tradition this last week that I did more for a memory than for the actual things it did. I drank magnesium Citrate....its a laxative. It wasn't that bad and they do it because missionaries eat so much nasty stuff that they want to clean out every once and a while. I thought it was cool until I started peeing out my butt...never doing it again but it was fun while it lasted!
This week has
been amazing! It started off slow and kind of was weird with labor day being
last Monday but it didn't faze the work. Last week I talked about how in zone
conference presidents vision for the mission is to get more involved with
family history work. I want to share how that has changed our missionary work.
I OYM'd(opened my mouth) some guy on the street and taught him about family
history, he ended up not living in our area but the cool thing about this was
this was the single moment where my mission changed, I don't know why, probably
because i followed the counsel of my leaders but that very moment is when I
started to love my mission, love sharing the gospel, and love where I am. Not
everyone comes into the field with that and I needed to find that passion for
what I am doing and the Lord blessed me with it. FOLLOW OUR LEADERS! On
Thursday/Friday I had another tradeoff with Elder Lane and all we did was
service...for 4 hours! It was fun but i was so tired after that. We saw a HUGE caterpillar and banana spider which Ill send a picture of, it was cool! The 70
year old bishop we did service for put up 200lbs for bench press though...I was
sore amazed! Now to the good stuff! On Saturday we set up a full day trade off
with TJ our investigator. He studied with us and went to all of our lessons.
Before Saturday we didn't think he was ready or even wanted to be baptized on
the 14th but afterward he told us he was ready for it so pray TJ will be strong
through this week! He bore awesome testimony of the restoration in one of our
lessons too. The cool thing is it wont only be my first baptism but he has
asked me to baptize him. I'm humbled and honor to do so. His member friend might
be coming up from south Florida and if he does he will baptize him but that is still questionable. It doesn't matter though! TJ IS GETTING BAPTIZED! We
also went and saw brother curry yesterday, he's one of our less actives and he
told us a story that he felt that if the elders came over that day that that
would be a sign from heaven that it is his sign to quit smoking, sure enough
when we came over he slapped the last pack he had in our hands and we chucked
them! He also gave his first talk in church yesterday and he was so nervous but
the spirit was so strong! It doesn't matter the words we say its the spirit that
we bring into the room. Last week we went over to the Porters who are an active
family but one of their daughters are married to a nonmember and he was never
interested, in fact when elder nelson talked to him last week he said
"this gospel will bless you life if you just let it" Cody(the
nonmember) told him not to preach to him and we left it at that. Resume to this
week and Sister Porter invited us to dinner and to teach Cody the first
discussion, we were so surprised! He is so ready though. When we taught him and
I was quoting the first vision I was about in tears because of the spirit in
that room! He committed to baptism on October 5th(dads bday)! The message I
want to share this week goes along with what I've seen this week with my own two
eyes. Gods hand is in the lives of ALL of us. He guides us and sets us up for
the future. Follow the promptings of the spirit. This is my testimony. Love and
miss y'all
Elder Welch
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