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, December 24, 2012

Monday December 24, 2012

Hola familia!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS

unfortunately i am running short on time this week we finally had some baptisms and in one matter of speaking i am judge jury and executioner in our tiny little group in Sayan. so i was about all the papers and records from here to there i even got to talk for a second with the stake president from Ventanilla. man i miss him and his family. but i do have enough time to tell you that i will be calling home via skype at 6p.m. my time 4p.m. your time and we are going to be able to talk for 1 hour and 15 minutes i guess that it isnt too bad that i wont be able to give you details this week seeing that we will be able to talk face to face here shortly. 

i do want to tell you that we had a jump in attendance this week last week 11 and this week 16 we have started to look for a house to rent for our chapel because the small front room of Javier and lilianas house just doesnt cut it anymore. we had every child on the lap of someone and 3 people including myself standing 16 people in as room the size of our family room no air conditioning and no room for a fan makes for one hot sacrament meeting especially since the thermometer out side our house read 102 degrees. my companion was joking that it wouldnt be bread but toast in the sacrament prayer and i had to agree with him. 

yesterday we had a awesome activity too. the entire zone came from huacho, huaura, and vegueta and we had a small share in the town square here in Sayan. one of the investigators from huacho donated over 70 soccer balls and we gave them out to all the kids as they passed through the square. it was a huge mess of people and unfortunately we didnt have enough ball for all but i felt good to be able to help out a little. after everything had calmed down we (my companion and i) sat back and watched as all the kids played with their new christmas gift. some of them with their only christmas gift. i had some moms mad at me because we didnt give them one but hey first come kinda thing right. 

well fam i will SEE you soon but just know that i love you and that i am working as hard as i can.

Elder Landon R. Welch

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