So—this has been a pretty good week!

Hey edybody!

So, this has been a pretty good week. And the zone is doing super well lately. We are working super hard. Me and Elder V. had an amazing experience this Sunday! It was super awesome! So we have this investigator. His name is M. He is an older guy that came up and talked to us in the street so we set up an appointment to go visit him and we have been visiting him since then and that was like three weeks ago or something. He is super awesome and is reading the Book of Mormon and everything and he accepted a baptismal date and everything. He does have a son-in-law though that is crazy! He is this crazy Evangelical guy. We talked to him and he just like went off on all this crazy stuff. And after that we didn't talk to M. for like a week because we would show up and the son-in-law would be there and say that M. wasn't there even though we were pretty sure he was. But then just a few days ago, like Thursday or something, We went and M. answered the door and let us in. And the crazy guy was there and we could tell that he was not happy that we were there but M. was super happy and was like wow it's been so long since we've talked and he had read part of the chapter we left him and the pamphlet and everything and we asked him how he was doing with his baptismal date and he said fine and everything. So then, yesterday we decided to go early to take him to church cuz he hadn't been able to go up till then. But when we got there he said that he was so sorry but his daughter (wife of the crazy guy) had told him that she was going to pass by and take him to visit his wife's grave so he couldn't go. He then asked if we could just come in real fast and pray with him before we left because we were on our way to the church. So we went in and said a prayer with him and it was super awesome and he said, next week, if anyone calls, I'm telling them that I have another commitment. I'm going to church next week. So we went and passed by another family to invite them to church real fast and then we got there. And we were sitting there in church and all of a sudden M. shows up! He told us that like fifteen minutes after we walked out of the door he got a call from his daughter saying that their car wouldn't start so they couldn't go pick him up. He said he knew that it was an answer to our prayer and that he was supposed to go to church! It was so awesome! Then there was another guy that showed up to church that I had never seen before and my companion went to talk to him and realized that he was a guy that had gotten off the bus at a bus stop and saw my companion holding a Book of Mormon and said, "Hey, how much do those cost?" My comp. answered, "Nothing, we give them away." So the guy then asked my comp. for a Book of Mormon and he gave it to him. I guess my comp thought nothing of it. But after talking to this guy about for it for a minute, the guy went on to tell that he had asked about the Book of Mormon that day because one day in a Mega Paca (which is like a big chain of thrift stores her in Guatemala)  he found a video from the our church that said at the end to learn more read the Book of Mormon or something. So that is why he asked for it that day in the bus stop. Also that day at the bus stop, my companion asked him if they could have his address so they could go visit him but he didn't want to give it to them. He said, "After I have read the book, I will go to your church and find out more."  And, just like he said, after he read the book, he showed up to church with a ton of questions and everything and he loved it. He is also an older guy but he is kinda like an old hippie dude. But he is super smart and has studied the church a ton since finding that video and now wants to learn more. It was soooo cool. We can only visit him on Sundays though but we gave him a pamphlet about the restoration and he said by next Sunday he would have it read and be ready with questions for us and asked if we could meet in the church an hour early to be able to have a lesson before church started. It was super cool! And we have a ton of other awesome investigators too!!! I hope that everything works out!

But anyway, sorry for being so boring, ha ha. Today was pretty cool though. Elder V. got permission from President Watts for us to go to the CCM to see his sister that is leaving on her mission to Panama today. So we woke up early and were gonna leave but then they called us and told us we had to get our dat report to send to Salt Lake ready for the whole zone, so we had to do that and everything so we didn't leave as soon as we should have, and we didn't want to take a taxi because they charge an arm and a leg! For real! So we decided to go in bus. I was pretty sure that from traveling around so much in the office I could get us there but I wasn't sure cuz I never went in bus, just in the truck or in the taxi so I didn't know the bus routes and I was pretty nervous we wouldn't make it! Ha ha— just kidding. But we made it just fine and I got to meet his sister and he got to talk to her and say bye to her and everything. It was super funny cuz we were there in the CCM and there was my companion talking to a sister missionary kinda off alone and like three instructors went up and started like
yelling at them and stuff. It was super funny! And he just said she's my sister. and they were all like oh my gosh I am so sorry! Ha ha ha! It was super funny. And he got permission from president to give her a hug so when they were saying goodbye he gave her a hug and a group of elders walked by and you should have seen their faces!!! Ha ha ha! It was so hilarious! And we might even be doing it again soon cuz his brother leaves on his mission soon to Nicaragua so he's not going to be able to see him for like four years if he doesn't see him in the CCM.

I love you everybody!!

Love,
Elder Welch

P.S. I am thinking about letting you paint the room. But you have to convince me. How are you going to paint it? If I approve, I just might allow it.