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, February 04, 2013

Monday February 4, 2013

Hola Familia!!!

Well one week more one week less. i had a nice chat with my companion this week where i basically said that i had nothing left to try but then the prompting came to say that it didnt really matter if WE got along but that i would love him like the brother he is no matter how angry he makes me. . . . . that hit him where i have been aiming all this time but finally it hit the target he started to cry and asked me to forgive him he told me that he has been this way since the start of his mission and that no one had ever said that they loved him for it. this all happened thursday morning right before we had to get on a bus and go to lima for my tour. thursday night when i got back with the other elders who will be flying home today. Elder Guerrero informed me that we had emergency transfers that i would be going to sayan with a different companion and that Elder Narvaez would be going to a different area. . . . . my prayers were answered and i am glad that we at least finished on good terms.

i am no with Elder Villanueva he is from chile and even though he isnt a Elder Villalba he is pretty cool from what i can tell we came back to the area saturday afternoon and went straight to work. he has alot to learn in the week and a half that i have left. but a good start to our companionship we had 18 people in the meeting this week. we also organized the Relif society and Javier Rojas is our first Ward (group) missionary leader. and i feel much better that i did about leaving this area. but dont think i am going trunky not even close.

friday i had my last interview with president dorius and even though it wasnt exactly a goodbye i felt sad to say it was the last one. he really is a great man and he had defiantly taught me what it is to be clay in the hands of the lord. i dont know if you have noticed but i am forever different than when i came to peru and i credit the majority of that to my dear sweet friend Jon Scott Dorius, and obviously not forgetting  Hermana Dorius too because as i am sure Brent and Debbie can testify the wife is just as important as the president. 

but i have a small complaint dad!!!!!! why are you doing your Klondike this week and not in two weeks?!?! i am sure there will be more snow then than there is now. even though i know the freezing temperatures are going to knock me flat seeing that i will be leaving 100+ temperatures (and then some with Humidity) i want to sleep in a snowcave too!! but i guess i will just have to get my self ready for the next year but i hope you are saving a seat for me at scout camp. i still need to swim that mile with you, but while looking please choose a lake that isnt too cold :) i was also thinking about training for a mini triathalon you and mom should be my training buddies how does that sound? one thing that i keep shooting myself in the foot about is all the bike rides i missed just spend time together is a priceless gift that i hope to change. but now with you riding 50+ miles i am sure you would leave me in the dust with a sore butt :) i love you all and always remember that I am working as hard as i can

Elder Landon R. Welch

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