Helloooo everybodyy!! This week has felt like forever but at the same time like it has flown by!!
For p-day, last week Sister Jorgensen and I went to the mall in Lake Orion, and let me tell you that thing is HUGE! Literally, probably the biggest mall I have ever been to. It kind of felt weird to be in a mall like that because little Tiffin has nothing like that lol. While we were there I was able to buy a better winter coat because it is getting soooo cold. I don't think I could ever live in a humid state.
On Tuesday I went to my first MLC (mission leadership council). I didn't really know what to expect because I had never been to one before but they are very interesting. The mission president and his wife just bring up a bunch of ideas and we all just council with them and try to decide what we should do. It was pretty entertaining when people would disagree though
For district council on Wednesday, it was held in Blue Water which is literally so close to the border of Canada. Right across the street from where the church is, is a giant river and on the other side of it is Canada. It was weird. Sometimes I forget I'm just living in Michigan that close to Canada.
The miracle of the week happened on Thursday. We were trying to visit a few people who had been taught in the past and we stopped by this one house but no one was home. After that, we still had some time to kill so we decided to look to see if any other formers were in the area. There was one that was a 7-minute walk away. For some reason, we decided to walk even though it was freezing and it was dark. We also had to walk through 2 sketchy allies to get there. Anyway, we stopped at the address we had and it was a duplex. We knocked on the door and as we were waiting, the next-door neighbor came out to take out his trash. We started talking to him and asked if Bobby (the former) still lived in the house we knocked on. He looked at us and said he was Bobby. As he kept talking to us, he told us he was just diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and that he's going through a really hard time. He said he never tells anyone about his cancer but for some reason he trusted us. We started talking about the Book of Mormon and how much comfort and peace it has brought into our lives and he told us he can't read so he asked us to download the app on his phone. Once we did that we shared a scripture and prayed with him and he was just a bawling mess. I felt the spirit so strongly and I knew God led us to him that day because Bobby needed us. After the experience, we were thinking about it and we realized if we hadn't walked we wouldn't have caught Bobby at the exact moment he was taking his trash out. It was just such a cool experience of being led by the spirit when it's just a second thought "hey we should walk." Always follow the first thought. As my mission president likes to say, "it's a spiritual prompting until proven otherwise."
As I've gotten a little discouraged this week, it's been helpful to remember the experience with Bobby because it reminds me that God is in the details and the heavens are still open!! I miss and love all of you so much! If anybody wants to get me a Christmas gift I would not be opposed to some gift cards hehe
Trust in the Lord
Love,
Sister Welch
pics
(I actually don't know if these are ever in order so hopefully, you can figure it out every week)
- that's literally Canada
- us w Canada
- walking back from Bobby's
- service
- eating dinner in the car
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