Week 32 Intercambio with the Assistants

Hey Everybody! This past week has probably been the most exciting week here in Lezica so far. So last Friday I went on an intercambio with Elder Richmond and my comp went with Elder Palomino who are the assistents to the president. We worked in our area so we had to fill our schedules for Friday for the both of us to work in our small area. So my comp and Palomino went out and most of their charlas fell so they went out and actually found 4 new investigators for our area! Turns out that they (a father, wife, and 2 kids) live right next to the church here in Lezica (which is suprising that they have never talked with the missionaries before but they were actually a reference from some members in our area)

I went with Richmond and we had a few charlas. We had a charla with Ciencimino and he just had surgery on his face because he had a tumor). The operation went through well but part of his face looks like it was just cut off (cause it was but they stitched it back in place) but hes fine and he came to church on Sunday!!! Hes really been progressing pretty well. Hes been asking a lot more questions about the Book of Mormon and as weve answered his questions hes coming to believe that God exists.

So we learned a lot from our intercambio and we are excited to see the difference it makes on our area as we both apply the things we learned from the assistents to our area. One of the things that the assistents want us to do better is just talking with everybody in our area as we are out in the streets.

Lets see... Today we had our first zone activity in months! We havent had one in so long because we werent allowed to for a time but president told us last week that we can do zone activities again as long as we do them in the church. So we and zone went to the stake center and cooked pancakes, waffles and breakfast burritos and then played basketball, ping pong, frisbee and cards after so it was fun being able to do activities with the zone again.

Well I hope you all have a good week. I think the #1 thing that I learned from this past week was that if you want to find people to teach then you just need to talk with everybody about the gospel and eventually you will find someone to teach. Also E Richmond told me that as we go out to work we need to listen to the promptings of the spirit to tell us which doors we should knock in our area.

So yeah hope you all have a good one!

-Elder Welker