The Strike is Over..A Great Week!!

Elder Welling trying to feed the sweet horse. He said they are smaller in Colombia

Monday
March 11, 2013

Hello family and Friends. 

Por Fin the strike was lifted....FInally we
can go to Cali...which I am going to do tomorrow! SO, this week was
solid! Didn't get to do too much work, and I will explain why. But,
overall great! 

So, didn't get to do to much work, because two days we
were running and doing errands for a couple that is going to get
married then baptized. SO awesome! But, they said they'd be in the park
....(20 de Julio) at 2 and didn't get there til like 4...both days...
Finally, we finished doing the errands today and everything went 
really well. 

I am over my sicknesses thanks to all of the prayers and special fasting
that you all did back home!! Thank you so much!!! 

Yeah, things are going good here. We had an investigator named Andres who
couldn't get baptized, because his mom never gave him permission. But we
went to the house on Thursday, talked to his Mom and his family for
about an hour. And we got the permission so he could get baptized. It was
awesome. SO cool, let alone a huge miracle! SO that was awesome! 

He had has interview on Friday then got baptized on Saturday.....Pics to be
coming..hah But, overall things are great! 

I am excited to go to Cali and see all of the missionarys there. 

Should be great. SO, I don't really know what else to write. We should have 

a great month. 

I AM EXCITED FOR MY NEW COMP, TOO, Elder Rivadeneria...He plays the
violin super well!! 

Hope everything is great back home and that
everybody is doing well. Thanks again for all your prayers and fasting!!! 

A special baptism day

Love you all......                       

-- 
Elder Tyler Welling

Special Fasting and Prayers for Elder Welling's Mission

                  Special Fasting and Praying for Elder Welling's Mission

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

From Sister Prince's Blog:

The Power of Prayer...

As seen in my last posts, the coffee and trucker strikes 

have been headline news in Colombia.

We are blessed to have the gospel...we believe that the Lord hears the prayers of those praying for their missionaries.  No pictures in this post...but I wanted to share the following emails that have warmed our hearts and increased our faith.

Received on Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Dear Hermana Prince...

I belong to a wonderful Missionary Mom site for our Colombia missionaries (including all our Cali Missionaries). We have been communicating today about your situation with all the strikes going on.

I wanted to let you know that we are all praying together for you all to be safe, protected and well, for peace and for the strikes to end.
We are all holding a Fast tomorrow together for you all. We are also putting yours and Pres. Prince's names and your mission on the temple prayer rolls. 

This night we learned that they lifted the truckers stike and opened the road to Buenaventura.

Received on Thursday, March 7, 2013
Dear Hermana Prince, 

I just wanted you to know that we (all parents of your missionaries, our familes and friends) Fasted and Prayed together for you all yesterday. We also put your names (the temples let us put Colombia Cali Mission and you and Pres. Prince) on temple prayer rolls around the world, including some in South America. We had and still have faith together that Heavenly Father will bless you all with safety, well being and a peaceful strike settlement soon - we will keep praying and having faith!

We love you all! 

This night we learned that the coffee strikers and government came to an agreement and will move the blockades on the roads....The strike is over.  


Colombia news reports:
"Never in the history of coffee has there been an agreement like this," said the Minister of Agriculture Juan Camilo Restrepo.

I like to believe that they have NO IDEA how powerful missionary moms and prayer can be.
"...they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them....We do not doubt our mothers knew it."  Alma 56:47-48

A side note:

We did evacuate 20 missionaries from Popayán over the course of Thursday and Friday.  They were flown into Cali via Bogotá...a fun adventure for them.  We now have them working hard in Cali and waiting a few days until we move everyone back.  Buses are started to move from our Southern cities.

It looks like transfers will happen on Wednesday...only 2 weeks late!!  

Elder Welling Super Sick, Colombia Strikes

Monday

March 4, 2013  

SOOOOOO,this week was superduperlame. I will tell you why. So, first off I don't 
have my new companion yet, because the roads are closed here in Colombia
and it is super lame. They have been closed for a week, and some towns are really
struggling. Secondly, I was sick about every day this week. First with my stomach
again. After that I think I got a type of strep throat, lost my voice,and then I got

an infection in my eye. It was basically swollen shut. So that was awful! 
It is still pretty red. Now my new name is Elder Partche.....lol, because I have had

to wear an eye patch. I look like a pirate..lol. But other than that I am doing well. 

Some elders in our zone had 6 baptisms yesterday, so that was awesome! Everything 
is basically going really good. I was working in two zones this week, which was a
bit hard. But overall it was fun. 

I have been getting shots in my arm the last 3 days for the swelling.... 

Whether the shots are working or not I do not know..lol.  

But I am doing good. Sorry this letter kinda not exciting,but
there really isn't too much more to say...lol 

I am reading the Book of Mormon and writing a summary of every chapter...I am also 
going to set a goal to finish the Bible in Spanish before the end of my mission....

We'll see if I can endure to the end..haha. But overall things are good. 
Love my mission. I know it's true! 
That's all. 

Blazer, Lazer and Tazer.

-- 
Elder Tyler Welling

Solid, But Slower Week in Ipiales

Monday
February 25, 2013

Hey Family and Friends,
How are you all doing? I am doing great, because the Zone Ipiales turned out to be the best Zone in the Mish!!! muhahaha.
But here everything is good. I had another baptism this past week with my comp, Elder Calle. so we are doing good. But also, last night we received our changes/transfers. I am staying here in Ipiales and Elder Calle is heading back to Cali. My new companion will be Elder Rivadeneira. He is cool, I know him. He came to Colombia with me/arrived when I did, and he plays the violin super good. So, should be awesome. He is from Ecuador.
So, not much happened this week, because we had to do a ton of errands and interviews for baptism and many things. But it was a great week overall. Today we had to do a lot of errands for an investigator to get married on the 8th. Hopefully she can get married by then and baptized on the 9th. We will see. haha. The marriages are always tricky here.
I don't see why they can't update their files and transfer to computers here. Is it really that hard?...everything is by paper.....lol But all good.
Umm, idk what to say much, sorry this letter is bad. haha. Just know I love you all and miss you all...


Here is the picture of our baptism. 

--
Elder Tyler Welling

Another Great Week in Ipiales-Zone Mtg and Baptism Day

Elder Welling's Baptism Day in Ipiales

                                

Elder Welling (front left) with Pres. & Sis. Prince and His Ipiales/Pasto Zones

Elder Welling During Ipiales/Pasto Zone Conference (front mid/right)

Monday
February 18, 2013
 
Here I am Elder Welling.  So this week was great. I will start with Friday, because those days were awesome. We got the Zone 3 ready to go to Pasto at 5 in the morning in the terminal and headed to Pasto for the Zone conference. It was awesome.
First President Prince gave an awesome message on Moses and leading the people of Israel away from the Pharaoh. Was awessome. Explained how it is the doctrine of Christ which Elder Belnap explained to me too. But it was awesome!!!!!                                      
First how they are in a fight against Pharaoh for hundreds of years. They repent and finally get to follow Moses. They follow him and everything with faith.and repented along the way...then they got to the Mar rojo. and Moses, like we know, parted the mar and went below the water.....in this case they got baptized!!!! And while they were under the water they were guided by a beam of fire...or light, I don't remember, and a cloud. They received the holy ghost...and then they went on and finally got to the Mount Sinai, right? BOOM!! Enduring to the end..And basically went to the temple, because in Mount Sinai as if they were in the presencia de Dios...crap, I can't type in English...haha.

But then they finished their work, and finally got to the tierra prometida.....Israel!! Amazing, right?!! What we teach as missionaries is the same thing that the Children of Israel went through.....First Faith in Christ, then after Repentance, and then Baptism. Like when they went through the water, and after receive the Holy Ghost...who is the Guide. and later Enduring to the End, going through the Temple and being the best we can be in this Life.

It was amazing. and then on Saturday we had 6 baptisms as a Zone here in Ipiales. My companion and I had baptized two young people (here in this picture with us). So the two of us baptized 4 great people this month. We are doing everything possible to do our best to bring them the message of Christ, just like Moses did. But things are really great.
I Loved the story of Moses and everything. Was awesome! I know the Church is true. The Book of Mormon is true, and I hope that everybody that might read this email will read the Book of Mormon, and really study it to see if it is true, like the Bible is, they go together.
It is either True,or False. And I know it is True, for and because of the things it teaches and how I feel when I read it and teach it.
I Love you all and miss you!!!

 Elder Tyler Welling

Good Long Week in Cali for ZL Meetings and Ipiales

Elder Welling Travels to Cali for Zone Leader Training with Fellow ZL's

Elder Welling With Fellow Zone Leaders

Elder Welling (center back) and Zone Leader Group with President and Sister Prince in Cali

Elder Welling Happy Eating Sister Prince's Delicious Meal

Monday
February 11, 2013

Hey Family and Friends, 
 
So, interesting and most busy week of my mission so far...well not really. But this week was great. I will go by it day bye day.
SO on Tuesday we had the normal district mtg and stuff and worked on some stuff that was different but cool. Went and had the interviews for the two baptisms we had on Saturday. :) They both got baptized...pics to come.
SO then, on Tuesday night at about 7 we headed to Pasto to go to Cali the next morning. The Zls there are Elder Lamareoux and Elder Avalos. So that was sweet staying at their house. They didn't have power in the house, but it was still cool. Elder Lamareoux is cool and we talked for a long time about everything. Then we woke up and got on the bus at 8 to go to Cali....pause.....right now Shewolf by Shakira is playing in a internet cafe...anyways.. Got on the 10 hour buss and talked again forever with Elder Lamareouz, cool guy. Had lunch on the way, then finally we got to Cali.     
                                                                            
We immediately ran to Mcdonalds from the bus place.....and ate Mickyds......sooo DELICIOUS: SO that was awesome. Then we went to the Torrgerson's (Sr. missionary couple from Idaho) to sleep. That was awesome, because they gave us tacos and brownies. I Love them so much, like a grandma and grandpa in the mish. haha Then woke up in the morning and went to the ZL conference. Was great, talked about a lot of things and looked at dates and stuff. Was really cool. I liked it a lot, and hopefully I gave good input. haha But overall was great. Then-- ohhhh the food that Hermana Prince cooked was delicious, too. SOOO GOOD.
Then we once again we got back on the bus to go back to Pasto. The Police stopped us, and I got checked..that was cool......Then finally got home.
Then on Saturday, skipped Friday, we had our two baptisms of a kid named Nickolas and the girl named Alexandra, that was awesome. They were way cool and the reunion was really special. We are going to have 3 more baptisms this weekend I think, too . So we are doing good here in Ipiales.
And yes, I felt the earthquake....sooo coool!!! Haha...And that's all.
Love you all and miss you. ttyl

--
Elder Tyler Welling

Food Poisoning Again...But It's All Good!!

Elder Welling Loves Cooking in Ipiales

                                         

Elder Welling's Colombian Cooking

Monday

February 4, 2013

Hey Family and Friends,

What a crappy Week. Starting with the fact that the 49ers lost....No, but this week was difficult. Actually, it was really good up to Friday. We were teaching a ton of lessons and helping a lot of people. Things were going great.

We had a lesson Friday night with la familia Garreta. They are doing great. a family of a mom and dad, and 3 kids. They are coming along great, but sadly gave me some dulce de calabaza type thingy. And....I got sick.....really sick!! I was out of commission on Sat and almost Sunday. I was throwing up and everything. It was not a good time.

But at the same time it was great, because on Saturday some of the elders in my zone had baptisms. The famaily Garreta went to the baptisms--so that was really cool.

I've been getting along better with my companion, and things have been going good He was having a hard time being a little passive aggressive, but he's doing better this week. We need to find a lot of people this next week which will be difficult, because the zone is going to have a noche blanco where we will hopefully see about 16 baptisms. 6 hopefully will be from our zone. Hopefully we can help these people come closer to Christ.
                                                                   
But overall. Things are good. Today we had Mexcian food, and it was delicious! I loved it and ate 6 tacos....I think my stomach is better now.

Overall this week was good. The next week will be extremely busy. Tomorrow we Zone leaders are going to Pasto for the night, then the next day we are going to go to Cali. Then Thursday we will have the Zone Leader conference at the mission home. Then I'll come back to my city, Ipiales on Friday.....

AHHHH A lot to do with NO time. haha.. But that's it for me.

Love you all family and friends. Hope all things go well this week for you, and maybe now my Jazz can win. Que les vaya bein.

--
Elder Tyler Welling