My new area is......PETEN! It is WAY SWEET!!!

Hayden and Elder M.—His companion while in Las Victorias. Elder M. is from Las Vegas.

Hey!

So, I'm here in my new area. I don't have a whole lot of time after writing President and sending the pictures and I had to write Jan back too. But my new area is in......................Petén!!!!!  Ha ha ha! It is way sweet! I am more than absolutely positive though that I have become the "fixer upper" missionary! Ha ha ha! My area is called Dolores (I´ll let you ask Bryan what that means in Spanish) but no, it is SUPER pretty! I love it a ton! Yesterday we had our first sacrament meeting. Oh, my companion´s name is Elder H. He is from Arizona. He´s way cool— I like him a lot. But anyway, so we only ended up having like two days to work before Sunday but in those two days we got the church attendace to double!!! From 7 to 15!!!!!!!! Ha ha ha! That might not sound like a lot but that is the highest it has been in like six months!! Or more! So —I felt pretty good about that! And we found a really good possibility for a baptism. His name is E. He is 20 years old and the only thing is well, he has to get to church more. He has a hard time but other than that he wants it and is totally prepared! I think we're going to have a good change. We are mainly working with inactives though. Like that's what President Watts told Elder H. he wants us to do— cuz he was here last change too. But yeah it is way pretty here! It is pretty dang hot though and way humid. Dad, if you remember, it feels exactly like Kansas City when we went. Maybe a little hotter sometimes, but I have gotten reminded of that trip so much since I got here! It is nuts! That trip was so dang fun! Anyway, our district is like made up of a ton of new people. Like most of us are like way young in the mission and a lot of us are brand new to Petén. It´s pretty crazy. But we are like only a couple hours or so from Tikal and a bunch of other ruins and apparently we have the biggest hyroglyph in Guatemala right in our area! So one of these days we are going to go to that. And we hopefully are going to some other ruins for a zone activity and maybe if I´m still here next change we might go to Tikal! So we´ll have to see....But I´ll be sending you some sweet pictures here in the near future. And mom, I'm hoping your heart attack wasn't so... huge when you saw the bridge pictures! Ha ha! But just so you know, those pictures don´t even come close to giving the height of that bridge justice! Ha ha ha! It was the best! Alright, well I´m out of time so I better go. I hope all is well! I love you all a ton! Talk to you all next week!

Love,

Elder Welch

P.S. Hey! Here are some pictures.  They are from Fiscal.

 The first is of J. and his mom E. They were investigators that were way awesome! They are going to get baptized within this change— I hope! 

The next is of a family that we reactivated. Not the one that we baptized the daughter, but another one. 

Then the other two are pictures we took on this giant train bridge that we walked on like four times a day! 
Ha ha ha! It was pretty cool. 

Alright, so this one is just another of the bridge. Probably my favorite. Trademark brown shoes baby!!! Ha ha!

The second one is of B, D, J, J and J. They are the amazing family that Elder M. and I found and were teaching. They are so awesome! The mom B absolutely loves the Book of Mormon! This is the last night I was in Fiscal. In this picture she doesn´t look too happy, but like three minutes after we took the picture she just like burst into tears and like tried to give me a hug. I was like —"Whoah, whoah whoah!!! Ha ha ha! Can't do that! Sorry! But she almost had me crying too!  

Then the last one is the last picture I took before I hopped on the bus after change conference—cuz I think it will probably be the last time I see him in sixteen months! Crazy huh? 
Note from Carol Anne: This is Hayden's good friend from home AP Elder D.