Hey
All!!
Everything over here has been going pretty good! Romney is getting
better and better and we are having better weeks here. We have had an alright
week with the work here in Romney.
A lot of stuff has happened to us while being together in Romney..
We have had a tree fall on our trailer.. Cockroaches and spiders all over the
place in the trailer, and now our smart phones don't have service clear out
here in Romney!! We have to go to the church to get Wi-Fi when we want to do
something!! So pretty much everything that could go wrong has been going wrong..
Haha so this last week Elder Brown and I have been pretty discouraged about it.
We haven't taught one lesson this whole last week and we have been knocking
doors like crazy trying to teach someone. We are trying everything to get
someone to hear our message and nothing was happening. So we were pretty upset
about it all. We have been praying every day for a new investigator! Well after
much work and patience.. The Lord finally showed us that this area is not dead.
So this past week we walk into a person’s house named Diana. And we get talking
and one of the first things she says to us is "Hey, I have been looking
online for a Book of Mormon and I was wondering if you could give me one? I
have been looking for one."... Our jaws about hit the floor. We couldn't
believe it!! Haha a couple days later we are walking around the hills and
mountains of Romney on the dirt roads, and on the end of the road we see a HUGE
mansion! So we go and we knock on the door and a tall, older man answers the
door and we begin our door approach "Hey we are the missionaries.."
and he cuts us off right there and immediately says "Come in."
I was thinking "oh crap, oh crap" because no one lets us in that
easily. I thought he was going to bash us!! Haha but it turns out he is the
nicest guy ever!! He says he would love to hear our message. He said he had ran
into missionaries from our church in Germany and was interested in them!! We
are going back to teach him and his wife!! We then were online proselyting on
Facebook last week and we found 4 potential investigators that all said they
would be interested in learning through messenger about the restored Gospel!!
The Lord has blessed us with a fresh pool of investigators this week!! This
area is not dead!! #MiraclesInRomney!!! Haha
This last week I have killed more cockroaches then I have
fingers.. We come home at night, flip on the lights, and you just see a bunch
of them scatter to all areas of the trailer.. Haha I didn't need to be
sent foreign on my mission to experience these kinds of things.. I've got a West
Virginia Trailer haha! I never thought this would be a problem on my mission!
Not a lot of details to send you all this week.. We have
been walking and knocking all day every day!! With how small Romney is, we may
run out of doors to knock!! Haha
We were teaching a restoration Lesson this week and we are
in a house with this lady who has at least 20 cats.. We are in middle of the
lesson and then all of the sudden, one of the cats digs its claws in to the
back of my ankle.. Of course right in the middle of the spiritual part, I kick
my leg up in the air and give out a little scream of pain.. Haha my leg flew up
and smacked her table and almost knocked it over!! Haha that's the first time
on my mission I have wanted to murder a cat too.. Haha
I got on Facebook this last week on Saturday.. And the
first thing that pops up on the news feed is BABY WELLING coming in SEPTEMBER
2018!! Haha Elder Brown and I were blown away. I remember you telling me the
news.. But it wasn't a reality until Saturday! Haha I thought it was sooooo
crazy!! I'm excited for them though!!
We were in Sunday school yesterday at church and the Stake
leaders were all here from Winchester. Well the Stake President was up in the
front of the class speaking about temples and how important they are.. The
stake President said "let's just imagine that the Saviors executive
secretary calls you up and says.. Hey! Dave come to the temple. The Savior wants
to meet with you." he said this jokingly.. His point in saying this was
the Savior wants us to come to the temple.. I kid you not a man who sits in the
back every week, stands up and yells! "Blaspheme!! That's
Blaspheme!!" no joke!! I just couldn't believe it.. This man who yelled
that, always comes and argues with everyone.. He is one of those nuts that shows
up to church thinking his priesthood is better than the rest.. Haha I just
couldn't believe he yelled that at the Stake President. Haha it was wildddddd.
It embarrassed the Stake President and then they stepped out and had a chit
chat.. Haha the funny thing is this guy doesn't even know what the word
blaspheme meant or was! Haha
Tonight at our stake General priesthood session I was
standing in the Foyer and a man came up to me and said "Elder where are ya
from?" I said that I was from Evanston Wyoming and he said "No way!!
Do you know the Lester's??" and I said yes I do!! Which ones!? And he says
Nate Lester! And I say yes I know him and I graduated with his son Sam Lester!
This guy is Sam Lester's Uncle! Haha it's a small world! It's been a weird
day.. 3 different people have talked to me today about people they know from
Evanston.. Another one knew all of the Grolls! My stake president over here is
President Groll and he is related to all of them! It is a small world! Haha
Well not much else has happened this week. The Book of
Mormon March Madness Challenge is going great! I am right on track and ready to
finish it all up again. Thanks for the
emails! I love and miss ya! Have a great week!!
Love,
Elder Welling!
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