30 January 2017

Hey everyone,

Life is good here in Catocha! Things have slowed down with our investigators this last week. We are still trying to work with them to make them understand more.

So we will start this off with a good story. My comp and I where walking to go meet up with a contact when a guy yelled, Elders! Come Here! So we walked over to say hi and talk with him. He asked where we were from and how long we have had in the mission. After all of this he told us that he loves the missionary’s because we are nice to him and always talk with him. So after about 5 mins of talking he said, do you elders like pizza. Of course I said yes. So he took us up to his restaurant and gave us a free pizza to try. He told us it’s the best pizza in Catocha and it wasn’t too bad.

So something I have learned on my mission in the little time I have is that I need to have patience with everyone! My comp, other elders, and members. Be thankful that we live where the bishop or branch president want to help everyone. It’s been hard to work with some members of the church here and the branch presidents.   But we need to love everyone! Hope all is well and people are loving life.

 

Love

Elder Nelson

January 23, 2017

Hello everyone in Canada! Hope all is well and you are all doing good. So we had a crazy week this past week. Lets start with basketball in Catocha. We decided to take a break and shoot hoops one day.  Then we played a game with some of the people there so it wasn’t really a break because we contacted them all. They ask me every time we see them when can we play again haha.  So we went to watch one of the members play basketball for their team one night and as always during half time people go shoot around.  I went up and shot around for a bit and then after a kid came up to me with a paper and asked for me to be on there team hahah I had to tell him no but I wanted to so bad haha.

So in other news I had my first baptism last Saturday! I was able to do the baptism. But that wasn’t the plan haha. We were going to have the grandpa do it because he is a member. But he needed an interview beforehand, and you can all guess what happened if I was the one who performed the baptism.  So my companion told me, hey you have to go get changed. At first I thought he was joking around but then he looked at one missionary that is from Idaho and said tell him in English. The missionary looked at me and was like it’s not a joke. So that was really fun. It was super awesome to have a baptism in my first area.

So lets talk about food for a second hahaha.  We went to a member’s house yesterday and we had lunch. The mom said that she was going to cook this meat for us but I didn’t hear it totally so we went to the house and can you guess what it was.... Dog! That’s right it was dog meat! The correct name for it was little dog. And they didn’t just give me one piece, they gave me 3 pieces!! It was a crazy week here in Catocha haha.

Hope you are all doing well in the cold it was +35 yesterday hahaha loving everything and life is good.

Love you all 

Elder Nelson

Jordan's first baptism in Catocha, Guatemala 

Getting ready to perform his first baptism in Catocha

January 16, 2017

Jordan's letter this week...no pictures tho :( Maybe next week

So we didn’t have our baptism this past week... We couldn’t have the interview. But we had the interview last week and now we have a baptism this weekend! Super happy about that. 

So about our week. Nothing really new has happened in Catocha. We have been trying to find new people to teach but it’s hard. I’m the kind of person that’s like, Okay let’s get this done let’s get teaching people lets go here, or lets go there. I don’t like to be doing nothing. But my comp is very lazy when it comes to work. We came home from church yesterday and he was like I’m too sick to go work so he went and laid down but I told him after 1 hour okay lets go to work. I feel like I’m really more of the senior comp at this point. He makes me laugh because yesterday after we taught 2 lessons he had to go sit down because his foot was hurting him and said he can’t play sports today. But as soon as we woke up he’s like okay let’s go we need to get ready for sports. So maybe he just likes sports more than work HAHA. Some good news as well is that we had 6 investigators at church. We got the most in the whole zone and then the guys in our district had 5 at church so we were the best district for investigators at church. 

Well we only have 2 more weeks in this change and I might get a new comp or I might be put in a new area who knows. Hope all is well in Canada! 

Love you all
Elder Nelson