Painting, Packages and Parasites!?!

Hey whats up? I am doing great ... What about you guys? I love you too Mom! I'm doing good! Oh yeah! Mom did you try to send the other pictures to E''s mom? I gave her the ones that you sent but I told her that you were gonna send her the others but she told me yesterday that she still hadn't recieved an email.

Here are some photos of me opening my "Easter" package! Ha ha ha! 

That music box thing is SO sick! and Mom, I think you are a fortune teller. My frisby broke last week when we went to the park. I didn't even go one week without one! Ha ha ha!

Reading a letter from his brother Taylor.

So, I guess I'll give a little report on this week.This was a really good week! Im writing a little about it but just about one family so I will give a quick review. We have two families that one of the spouses is getting baptized. Both of the other spouses of each family is already baptized. And one of the families is getting married that same day!!! It is super awesome! I love these families a ton! And we have another family that is in the same situation that the husband already said he is going to get baptized we just don't have a date with him yet because he and his wife are going to talk and pray about it and decide but we hope that it is going to be within this month also! So on Tuesday morning we went to E's house to do a service project for his mom. We painted for her. It took forever! But it was fun. And we have to go back one of these days to finish cuz there is still another part that we have to paint. But that lady is so awesome! She fed us lunch that was super good and she taught me how to make this gravy that is like good old American gravy with this soup mix that they have here! It was good! and then that night our Elders Quorum President came out with us to do some visits. He and his wife are like our best friends in the ward. It used to be them and E., but now E. is gone. I miss that kid!!! Ha ha! But anyway, we went and had a lesson with this family that we have been teaching for a while. The husband got baptized like a year ago when Elder Williams was here. His name is H. And his wife A. goes to an Evangelical Church and they have two kids, G. is seven and P. is six. But they are super awesome and when I first got here H. was inactive, but one day he just showed up to church and we got to know him and started visiting him and now he is active and bringing a friend to church that we are going to start teaching and we are teaching H. wife too!  But anyway, so we got there with B. (our E.Q. pres) and we taught A. B. is SUCH a good teacher! He amazes me! I have learned so much from him about teaching and how to work with people! But anyway, we taught her a ton of stuff and she really loved it and before that, she was interested to hear what we said, but she didn't really want to accept it or anything. So that lesson went super well, we put another appointment for Friday and we got there and H. hadn't come back from work yet so we couldnt go in and teach A. so we put another appointment for Saturday. And I must tell you that to get to this house is insane! It is seriously at the bank of the river at the bottom of the ravine! There arent any stairs to go down that way though, it is just a sheer incline of sort-of switch-backs but my compaion counted "as if he were walking up stairs" Ha ha ha! However reliable that is...and he counted that there would be 174  stairs! But I actually think there would be more. But anyway, so we went back down and their door was closed and all their windows and everything and it was raining like crazy and they didn't answer. We were SO bummed! So we went back up and visited some other people. Yesterday though, H. showed up to church with his friend. A. couldn't come because her sister went to her house to visit but we put an appointment to go visit her in the afternoon and when we went we had a SUPER good lesson! She ended up telling us SO much about what was keeping her from getting baptized and what her doubts were and everything! And it was so incredible! With the scriptures, she was able to answer all of her questions and doubts and she ended up feeling so relieved and happy! It was so cool! And she accepted to be baptized this month! I sure hope everything works out! But she is truely gaining a testimony. The only thing that is keeping her back now are her friends and stuff from her other church. They are going to reject her! But she has a ton of faith. I really think shes going to do it!

I did get sick though this week. I have no idea what happened but on Wednesday I woke up and my stomach hurt super bad and I was fighting super hard the whole day to keep going. That night I could literally barely walk because my knees were so weak and my head and stomach ached! But with help I made it. But we had some super good lessons! And I woke up quite a bit better the next day but I haven't been the same since. My stomach is still not too happy! But I'm doing just fine. I think I'm alright. If it goes another couple days I think it is a paracite. I'll just take "the bomb" Ha ha! Prescribed by the nurses of course... Ha ha! The pains were just on Wednesday and part of Thursday and if I am in a lesson for a super long time and forced to seal the "bomb shelter"! Ha ha ha ha! But I am doing really well.

Holy cow! Mom! Take it easy! Sounds like you are doing to much....your going to kill yourself! and yes I only got one package still not the other. I only got the one package the one with the Easter/4th of July basket Ha ha ha! and I got it on Friday. That means they picked it up from the post office on Thursday. I didn't check to see when it got there. But was that Nutella really only three dollars? 

K— gotta go! Love you! Bye!

Elder Welch