Letter from 8-26-13

Hey Everybody!

The picture I attached is a little embarrassing, mostly because of the situation and not the content. I was at Zone Conference and the mission president's wife was about to take a picture of my friend Sister Aeshbacher, so I ran up and photo bombed it. Well, it turns out that Sister Wilkey only took 4 pictures at zone conference, so she put that picture with only three others on the mission blog... which EVERY missionary in the WHOLE mission gets onto EVERY week. So I am the photo bomb sister missionary. Awesome. 

This week my companions and I had the opportunity to watch the Joseph Smith Movie (not the official title?) and man, I forgot how good it is. I feel the spirit whenever I read or learn about Joseph Smith, but watching that movie is just so powerful. I know he is a prophet just by the way I feel when I hear his story. I admire him more than anyone. He sacrificed so much and was such am amazing missionary, despite all of the opposition and hatred that he faced. In the movie they tar and feather him, and Emma stays up all night to help him clean it off and the next day, he is still out preaching the gospel to the people in the town despite all of his scabs and the pain he was probably in. RELENTLESS. I can't even fathom the amount of faith and courage he had to do all the things he did for the gospel.

Our ward is starting a 40 Day Fast for missionary work/opportunities this coming Sunday. I am soo excited, it's going to produce amazing miracles and opportunities for the members. What it is is each day for 40 days in a row, a family or a person (maybe multiple) sign up to fast that day for missionary opportunities, and the stories from everyones' experiences just get passed around and everyone gets excited about sharing the gospel. At the end, we will have a dinner thing where people can invite their friends that they've been sharing the gospel with. I've heard that 40 Day Fasts produce crazy miracles for the work, so I'm excited for the members to catch on fire with it.

This week I gave a Book of Mormon to a man installing sprinklers. It was a super hot, humid day and my companions and I had been walking a lot and I asked him if I could run through them haha. He said yes and turned it on and it was lovely. Then we just started talking to him and he asked us what the difference was between what we believed and Catholicism. He was really nice and receptive.

Weird thing of my week: One of my companions clogged the toilet (okay maybe it wasn't either of them...) so we had to make an emergency run to get a plunger. We decided there was no better way to break in a brand new plunger than by eating ice cream out of it. There's a first time for everything I guess. Nothing has ever tasted so good coming from a plunger.

On that note, have a wonderful week and the gospel is certainly true.

Love, Sister Welling