Dear Family, loved ones, Reinaldo, and Nick, EMAIL 8/11/12
I am having a great time here, and I have really enjoyed reading all of your letters. Unfortunately however, here in the CCM, they don{t allow us to print off our letters and read them later, so they cut into my writing time. For the time being, until I can print letters in the field, please Dear Elder me, or send me handwriten letters.
I only have about twenty more minutes to write.
Ha ha ha. So yeah. Things going on this week.
I got sick for the first time this week. (yay). It was a stomach thing. But I went and talked to Sister Nicolayson about it, and she told me to go lie down and drink some pepto bismal. So I did, took a four hour nap, and I felt fine afterwards! Seriously, it was really cool. Today I have a sore throat. I guess I saw that coming though. About half of my district is sick and it is spreading like wildfire here, so I tried to initiate a no shaking hands rule. Hopefully, that will slow down the rate that we get sick!
What else, what else? OH! I went into the Guatemalan City Temple on Thursday! That was a really cool experience. It is smaller than most temples in Utah, but its architecture is really unique. There were about 32 missionaries there, and the temple could barely accomadate us. (There were other youth groups there and stuff, but we were the largest group by far.). I am pretty sure that they usually expect about ten, to thirty people to be in the temple at a time. Ha ha ha.
While I was at the temple, I was talking to this youth group leader about the ruins up in Northern Guatemala (Peten area), and he said that many tour guides like to say that Tikal is the ancient Nephite city Ammonihah. Pretty interesting huh? I asked my Guatemalan teacher here about it, he confirmed the belief, and said that Zarahemla and Bountiful are believed to be in the southern part of Mexico about Guatemala, and that the Guatemala City area could very well be part of the wilderness that seperated the Nephites and the Lamanites. I guess this means I will be teaching in the Nephite land. North are Nephites, south are Lamanites.
Every day I have been trying to memorize scriptures in Spanish. One of my favorites recently is 1 John 4:7 through 9. (7 Beloved, let us alove one another: for blove is of God; and every one that loveth is cborn of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not aknoweth not God; for God is love.
9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might alive through him.) It is really applicable to my situation right now, and I am trying to learn from it as much as I can.
Ten minutes left....what else?
I talked to one of my teachers about seeing if there would be someone here that would be willing to help teach me Quechi while I am here in the CCM. He said that none of the teachers here speak Quechi (Kekchi), but that he would try to get me a Book of Mormon in the language. Hopefully, by our next Temple Day on Thursday, I can swing by the Distribution Center and pick one up. Then I can start practicing.
Thanks to Camilla Unrau and Britney Madsen who sent me letters. I got them this week, and responses should be there in about a week and a half.
Recently, I think I have been really struggling with patience. I just can{t seem to wait very long before I get annoyed and impatient. It is something that I was blessed with in my setting apart, but I don{t seem to have it quite yet. I guess I just need to practice, and I guess that means I will get a lot of chances to practice. Ha ha ha.
Our practice investigators aren{t progressing. Neither has read the Book of Mormon after three lessons. It is really difficult to progress when they flat out won{t even read the first page. Ha ha ha. I will get my first tracting experience this Monday. I will go with a Naitive companion, and we will preach the gospel.
Five minutes left. Ummmmmmmm...... I just want to let all of you know that I love you all and love getting your letters. They mean the world to me. Two minutes left, they are sticklers here at the CCM. Ummmmmmmm. Just remember that I love all of you, and that I will start sending pictures probably starting sometime in September. The weather here is perfect, and I just want to be outside all of the time.
One minute. I gotta go. Plllllllllllllleeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaasssssssssssseeeeeeeeeeeeee send REAL letters or Dear Elders, I get to much love over Emails, and I can{t read them all.
Love you all, write you guys next week,
Elder Welker
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