Helloooo everybodyyyy!! I hope you all are staying warm because winter is not stopping!!
Anyway, this week has been FULL of miracles!! On Tuesday we had a lot of lessons with less active members and it was really good.
On Wednesday we met with this lady that said he daughter wants to get baptized so we are going to work with them and watch general conference with them this weekend.
We had a lesson with our friend named Terry and we invited him to follow the word of wisdom like last week. I might have already mentioned that part BUT we had another lesson with him and he told us he completely quit drinking coffee and his blood sugar levels are in the "excellent" category now.
On Saturday we got a referral from the Lake Orion elders of a woman named Peggy. This one is crazy because she accidentally butt-dialed their number!! Turns out she lives in Oxford so they gave her to us and we are going to hopefully start teaching her!!
The same day we stopped by this lady that Sister Jorgensen and I had stopped by and when we went over she let us right in. We had to clear up the fact that she thought we worshipped Joseph Smith but once we did that, she asked if she could get the number of the church so she could call and tell them that she and her son want to join and be baptized!!! We basically told her we were the people for her and we gave her a Book of Mormon and she told us that we can come back this upcoming Thursday to give her time to read the whole thing. Needless to say, me and Sister Andrews were shocked.
Now for the title of this email. Y'all remember the Chisletts? Well, Brandi is the mom that just got baptized with her 8-year-old son. They have been having a CRAZY month!! So they got baptized and then they literally won the lottery. $500,000!!! I still can't believe it! Then they got slammed with Covid for the last 2 weeks and then Brandi, Keegon, and Kaelynne just got in a car accident! Brandi has a pretty bad concussion and Kaelynne who is 3 fractured her collar bone. Keegon is fine but they are all pretty shaken up so pls pray for them!!
Yesterday was Stake Conference and it was so good! It was pretty much all about missionary work and the area 70 that was there had all of the missionaries stand up.
This week I've been thinking a lot about how GOD IS SO GOOD!! He is always so good!! He wants each and every one of us to be so happy and wants us to grow! He just loves us so much and we can't even comprehend it! Anyway, I love you all and God loves you!! I hope you have an awesome week and General Conference weekend! Stay safe!!
Trust in the Lord
Love,
Sister Welch ♡
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Hellooo everybodyyyy!!! I'm soooo ready for spring and summer so pls start praying for it for me at least hehe!!
Anyway, the week started out with us going to zone conference in Southfield and it was so good!! I always love going to zone conference but this one for some reason was just so good!!
The next day started the chaos. It started out as a normal day Sister Andrews was in the shower and I had thrown in some laundry because we have our own washing machine. While it was going, I thought I should go check on it. Well, I open the door and the washer completely flooded. I yell through the shower door to Sister Andrews and so she comes out and we had to call the maintenance guy. The first guy showed up and told us our washer was no good and we needed a new one. A few hours later another guy showed up and said it was actually our water heater. So we ended up having to go to the Rochester sisters area because we had no hot water and we were told to.
A few days later, our kitchen sink faucet broke, and the drain in our bathtub stopped working so it has just been one thing after another. I'm sure the maintenance guy is sick of us. We better give him a Book of Mormon because he's here so much lol.
So I told you about Justin last week and how cool that was. We had an appointment set with him on Wednesday and we confirmed with him and everything. We pulled up to the library and I went to text him saying we were there and homeboy blocked me on Facebook. It was just my luck this week but that's OK haha.
Besides zone conference, the highlight of my week was definitely the fireside we had on Thursday with Brad Wilcox. I learned so much!! We talked about writing and how writing can help us receive revelation and can just help us understand more. That really inspired me and I've made a goal to journal every night because I have SUCKED at it!!
Anyway, I love you all like usual!! I hope you have an amazing week!!
Trust in the Lord
Love,
Sister Welch♡
Hellooooo everybodyyyy!! I hope you had the best week!! I don't even know what I did this week soooo this might be a really boring email.
On Monday we had an activity with the Rochester sisters so we went to the mall and ate some really good food. It was a hibachi grill and if you know me, you know I LOVE those places.
On Wednesday we went to district council in Flint and then right after we switched for an exchange. I went to Flint with Sister Fisher and it was so fun!! We had dinner with one of their recent converts named Alma and she is so cute!! She has the coolest conversion story!! After dinner, we went to a Book of Mormon study class and I got to meet so many people!! They are all so nice and I just love the people in Flint.
We switched back on Thursday and nothing too special happened. It was pretty average.
On Friday, we did some service and then we did a lot of planning for our zone conference discussion. Zone conference is tomorrow so wish luck!!
A cool miracle from this week is I was doing some Facebook work and I added this guy named Justin. I randomly messaged him and we got talking and I ended up asking him if he could ask God one question, what it would be. He told me he would ask if his grandma was ok because she passed away unexpectedly. I got kind of excited because we know the answer!! So I shared a verse from the Book of Mormon with him and he asked if I would recommend reading the Book of Mormon so obviously I said YES!! So we sent him the link to it AND he wants a physical copy so we are dropping one off tomorrow! Facebook work works!! Even if it takes forever.
Now for the headline. I had added another lady a long time ago and she was interested in our message and thinks it could help her a lot. She had explained how she had been possessed before and the demon was coming back. Anyway, I texted her to invite her to church and I got a really creepy text back from her from the "spirit." That's all I really want to say about it because man it freaked me out.
On a brighter, happier note, the motto for this transfer has been "God is good" and man is that so true!! He is in the details and knows us better than we know ourselves!! Turn to Him in every circumstance!!!
Anyway, I hope you all have an amazing week, and start praying that it gets warmer soon!! I love you all!!
Trust in the Lord
Love,
Sister Welch ♡
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Helloooo everybodyyyy!! I hope everyone had an awesome week! I don't know if you noticed but I never know how to open up these letters so let's get into it!!
On Tuesday we had MLC and it was so fun!! I love MLC! I get to see all my friends that I usually never see so it's really nice. That night when we got back from Southfield, I was SOOO tired but it was good.
On Wednesday we had district council in Rochester and it was super good!! After district council, a lady asked if we could shovel her driveway. We thought that was kind of weird considering it hadn't snowed in a while but we went over and she had us shovel literal ice off of her sidewalks. I was going ham and I ended up getting a pinched nerve in the bottom of my back. I feel like an 80-year-old.
On Thursday we had a really good lesson with our friend named Chris! He's so cool and really interested in learning more about the gospel. We taught him how to pray and it was super cool!!
On Friday we had a little miracle. We had a lesson planned with one of our friends named Cindy. I kept looking in the area book to double check what time it was at and me and Sister Andrews both kept thinking that it was at 4. Cindy lives about 20ish minutes away so we left and started driving. Everyone told us there was going to be a massive winter storm and to be careful but I didn't really know when that was going to start. Anyway, as we were pulling up to Cindy's house, Sister Andrews checked the area book and it said our lesson with her was at 5. We had already driven all the way there so I said "well the lesson is at 4 now." We had the lesson and it went really well! She had a lot of really good questions so the lesson went a bit long. We were in there for like an hour and a half!! Right as we were leaving it started snowing and we realized that if we would have come to the lesson at 5, it would have been really dangerous or something worse could've happened. It's the small things like that that really help me remember that God is aware of us.
It snowed the rest of the night and when we woke up on Saturday there was 9 inches of snow!! That's the most we've gotten since I've been here. And everybody from Michigan keeps saying they haven't seen this much in years!! With the heavy snow, we shoveled people's driveways for 3 hours!! Needless to say, my back hurts SOOOO bad and I'm so sore!! Luckily there is a chiropractor in the ward that helps the missionaries for free so we are definitely gonna use that while we can!!
Oh and some other honorable mention things that have happened is my sister Whitney gave birth to her 3rd kid and ONLY GIRL!! I've been keeping that secret since November and it's like a weight is off my chest!! I was the only one in my family to know except for my brother-in-law!! Also on the 4th my other sister Sabrina turned 26 so I got to call her which was fun AND on the same day, I hit my 8-month mark!! Literally, how have I already been out this long???? How am I almost halfway done??? I don't understand it! I absolutely love being a missionary and I don't regret it one bit!!
Anyway, I hope you all have an amazing week and I love and miss all of you!!
Trust in the Lord
Love,
Sister Welch ♡
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