Well all of y'all know of the news coming up, me calling home, 6 months, and district leader. Its an exciting part of the year for missionary families. In YM yesterday they were talking about their quorum unity and a question got brought up that asked when they felt that their families have felt unified. The first thing that popped into my head was not what i was expecting but it was when I was leaving and getting dropped off at the MTC. I would say even though our family is spread across the country we are unified in the things that we are doing, just a cool interesting thought.
These weeks
just seem like they have gotten faster and faster, especially the past three!
On Monday we didn't do much except played basketball for like four hours
straight, I was so exhausted by the end of it! We had district meeting on Tuesday and had our tradeoff with the district leader and his companion. Elder Clayton
stayed in Mobile with the district leader, Elder Buhler. I went over to
Lucedale, Mississippi to go with Elder Ogilvie! I have now been to 3 of the 4
states in the mission, Only Georgia is left. We didn't do anything too exciting, went and saw some less actives, knocked some doors,
and that's about it. I loved talking to him though, he is a super good and cool missionary, he is from St. George and only has 5 months to go! For
dinner over in Lucedale we went to a members house. She was pretty old and
losing her hair and Elder Ogilvie warned me of it. i was actually pretty scared
to eat there but as I ate I didn't find one hair in my food so i came out
good....or I never saw them.
Wednesday and Thursday Elder clayton and I had to bike a little bit because we munched a ton
of our miles with tradeoffs and we have to go to Pensacola next week for our
half mission conference. Biking is not my favorite
thing but I gotta do what I gotta do! We were biking and needed a break
so we stopped at a members house to talk with them for a little bit and I found
out the best news I've heard in a long time...WE HAVE A PAPA MURPHYS in Mobile! I knew that this was the promised land in the mission. Friday we have set up
basketball every week and a lot of less actives and nonmembers come and it has
been an awesome way to share the gospel in a non threatening way. The sisters
got their investigator to come and after that night he had a BCD, we also gave
a Book of Mormon to a non member so it was a total success!
As far as
investigators go we have seen a lot of success in the past few weeks! Patrick
has been having a problem with Joseph Smith and his family as we have talked
about in recent emails. he came to church this Sunday and just handed me a piece
of paper with writing on it and said to read about it in my studies so i was
freaking out the whole time at church! Once we got home I opened the piece of
paper to see questions he had about what he read, i was so relieved and am so
proud of him, he works so hard! He then texted us at the devotional and
said all of his questions had been answered in church plus
his testimony of the prophet joseph. I love inspiration. Then his next text to
us was he was trying to get his mom to come to his baptism which told us
he is still working on his mom and that he is set for his baptism on the 28th! I love how the
Lord helps us out in the work...he makes it so much easier! We also taught
Rick Wells(sis wells husband) the restoration
of the gospel. It was one of the hardest lessons I've ever had to teach
and is the lesson that I have felt most inspired in and
led by the spirit in, i gave promised blessings that I never have before..im
praying the Lord is on my side in the one! He is having a hard time grasping organized religion but
he will come eventually if he starts to read and pray.
This
week has been such a blessing to me and I really have seen how i have grown. i
have been called as a district leader over 3 ward/12 missionaries in Mobile and
pray that the inspiration i felt in Rick's lesson will be with me in my
district meetings and when giving counsel to my district. This week I want to
talk about obedience and repentance. If we look at the gospel of Jesus Christ we
know that those two things are key but they mean nothing without diligence in
those things. The gospel of Jesus Christ is an on going
cycle just like repentance is. If we are obedient
without being diligently obedient are we doing anything for ourselves and are
we even really being obedient? That's why Christlike attributes are so
important! They have there reasons behind it rather than just being like Christ. have an awesome week and know I love y'all! all is well.
Elder Welch
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