Sister Welker responded to some individual e-mails this week, so she said that she didn't have enough time for the normal weekly e-mail. She did promise to send us 2 next week! Many of you have asked or have heard that there was a 7.8-magnitude earthquake in New Zealand over the weekend. It was centered near Christchurch, which is towards the top of the south island. Sister Welker's mission covers the central area of the north island, and she is in the north part of her mission.
Here are a couple of excerpts from individual e-mails:
Man, I keep sleeping through earthquakes. I'm safe. There's no damage. Life is good.
Yes, she (Sister Johnson) only has three weeks left, and yes, it is transfer week. There is a small chance they will transfer her, but you never know. She will probably stay and we will get another missionary, so it will be a trio again. Then when Sister Johnson leaves, the other missionary will be my new companion.
Oh and fun fact! You'd think that by being in New Zealand nobody would talk about the American elections. FALSE!! When I get asked where are you from, and I tell them Utah or the States, they ask "So what do you think about the elections?" The annoying part is that I'm not allowed to talk about politics as a missionary, so I have to "avoid" the topic which is sometimes impossible. But, no I hear about the elections ALL THE TIME!! Sadly.
I have also been blessed to have access to the emails that her companion, Sister Johnson, sends. Her sweet mom found me on Facebook, and so I can cheat a little when I don't get all the information I want! Here are some details from Sister Johnson's post this week:
But that night (Monday), we had a really good Family Home Evening with the Phillips. Sister Welker is pretty much the queen of object lessons so that's really fun. We have one with a peanut butter jar, rice, and a ping pong ball about getting through trials with the Lord's help; one about prayer/following the spirit with two cans and a string; and one about sin/temptation with a box with a hole and a tennis ball. They are the best, because they really help people and they remember them. That night we had a DELICIOUS dinner with the Arthurs in the Mount Ward. We are so spoiled here!
But after that (singing for the elderly in Tauranga), we went to visit Dyles and we met our golden family!!! Dyles is a 17 year old boy who is the nephew of one of our members. Bishop Crawford told us to go visit that member (Kereama is her name) and he happened to be there. We asked if we could visit him at his house, and he said yes. So that's how we ended up there. But it was juct amazing! It's a three generation family and the grandma and one of the moms are less active members. But Dyles's mom, Katrina, and Dyles, his sister (Rhyme, 10), and their cousins Lieshane (pronounced Leh-shawn, 12) and Shayniah (9) all sad and listed to the lesson, and loved it! We gave each of them a copy of the Book of Mormon and invited them to read 3 Nephi 11. We came back the next day, and they had all sad around reading it the night before. They have read three chapters by now and yesterday, at church they wanted us to write down heaps of chapters for them to read all together! The coolest thing is that it's their whole family doing it together. So they are all (five of them) set for baptism on the 3rd of December! We are just so, so excited and happy for them. It's amazing. The joy of missionary work is so real and so great.
I just have so much fun with my companion. I just want her to have the best mission in the world! (Except I think mine is already the best.)
Hope you enjoyed the hodgepodge version I put together for you this week!
Mom of Sister Welker
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