My name is Elder Welch. I am a member of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. I am currently serving a full time mission, sharing the gospel with the people of Lima Peru West. Here you will read about my experiences in my letters home. Please feel free to write comments, but know I wont see them until I get home in February 2013.

Monday, October 22, 2012

Monday October 22, 2012

Hola Familia!!!

Well it wasnt a extraordinary week it was a normal week. i wish i had some great story to tell or miracle to share but i honestly cant remember one from this week. wednesday we had interviews with president Dorius. i asked him about my extensions and i think that for the first time in 3 months he gave me a direct answer. he explained that the missionary department are not extending missions right now so it was in vain to keep asking. . . . i dont want my mission to end just yet. but i guess i knew that was the deal even before i started. that is why Brother nielson always told us "make your mission longer" we all recieve the same 2 years but by our accions we make them longer or shorter. but i still have a lot of time left so now is not the time to stop just because i see the finish line.

it seems like every week my poor companion and i recieve new responsabilities. as of yesterday we were teaching: mission prep, temple prep, and semanary 3 times a week. i was group president of 2 soon to be three groups but now has been organized into a Branch and a group. our branch has 38 acctive members but none have the melchezidek priesthood yet so we are still the priesthood authority. and now to top it all off. yesterday we were both called as the elders quorem advisers of the Huaura Ward. i am having a hard time finding time to preach. it seems that every other hour we have to do something in one of our responsablities. but president was kind enough to hear our pleas and is planning on sending another companionship here. we will soon be 6 elders here in huaura but i am hoping that means i will be able to focus more on Sayan. 

No no matrimony yet. it was posponed for the 10th of november. it is the key stone in our group in Sayan too. if they are married and baptised we will be able to open another group!!!! i was thinking a little this week and i realized that the Wyoming cousins all have to travel a great distance to go to church and then i realized that the difference is that no one here owns their own car. i am so greatful to be part of a church of orden. that way when the people cant come to church the church comes to them.

this last week in Sayan we helped a different religion build their church. as we worked my companion talked with the Founder and i talked with the pastor. it was a interesting conversation to say the least. i had a hard time staying focused as he said Hallelua!!!! or Amen!!! to everything i said but in the end i left him with a book of mormon. and tried to imagine him preaching his sermons using scriptures from the book of mormon. it was awesome i also put the President uchtdorf test to the test and imagined him in white standing in the sayan river with my companion. it was a even better image.

well fam it is off to futbol and obviously some fruit. i honestly dont know what i am going to do when i get home without all this fresh fruit that you can literaly pick off trees while you are walking. i love you fam and dad the only thing i want you to communicate to the ward for me is . . . . . . I AM WORKING AS HARD AS I CAN

Elder Landon R. Welch

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