13 February 2017

My new area is all the way on the other side of the mission. So I went from one side to the next in my first 2 areas. It’s pretty alright. Its way bigger then Catocha was. We basically have 3 levels to work in. But let’s just say that as you go down the “levels” you see a lot of people have less and less money. We are in the second part and its pretty okay I guess. Not a lot of money but it’s okay. We went to visit the bishop tonight. And let’s just day he has money. Both he and his wife have iPhone 6s. As well they have 3 cars. Never seen things in Catocha like that. It’s weird with my Spanish. Today I almost under stood everything. I’m really happy to see how far my Spanish has come!! There has been a lot of improvement with everything. So all in all today was a good day. As well I got my package!

 

So we like I said we have 3 different parts of the area. Today we worked in Compton. It was pretty fun to work there actually. I got to see the church and is away bigger than the one in Catocha. As well it turns out that almost all the members live in this part of our area. We are working with one family. The mom is a member, the daughter was just converted and all the kids are members. But the one son isn’t. He goes to another church and doesn’t like the Mormon Church that much. So we are trying to work with him a bit to come to church and learn more. So I found the new member in this area. He is a returned missionary. He served in Mexico and he practicing English. He said to us that if we need any help with anything he is here for us. But the catch is that we need to be worthy to have his help. It’s been pretty good here in the new area, Econmica.

  

The thing I do not like that much about a mission is weekly planning... It takes forever and it’s so boring. Yes I know that we need to do it to be prepared for our investigators but it just takes forever. Something pretty crazy as well is that I have had 2 inspections in 1 week. I had one in Catocha and now I’m here with one haha pretty crazy. That’s the life of a mission though. 

 

We have worked up where everyone has money. We have to go through a gate where there is a guy holding a shot gun to get to this part. As well we need to show ID and tell him exactly where we are going to visit. So we went to visit one family that are really good to the missionary’s. They bought pizza for my comp before the change as well they had A&W root beer! Took me back home for a second. As I work more and more in the new area I notice that it is way bigger then my first area and I thought that was big. Lessons are either go good or really bad. And what i mean by that is that the people want to hear us and want to know more and other times they cancel on us or they ask for a different day or they have their kid lie and say that they are not home. It’s crazy. As well we talked with one really crazy guy. He would say “Amen!” after everything my comp and I would say. But I swear the drink he gave us was straight vinegar, salt, sugar, and some fruit juice. It was so bad... But let me tell you it was so nice to drink that root beer right after.

 

So we work down in Compton a lot in this area. We have a lot of investigators there as well as members. We talked to a lot of people in this area about coming to church and all that it seems to be pretty good just need to see if they will come or not. We have one investigator who wants to come to church but doesn’t feel anything where she is there. It’s hard to help someone with this because we can’t make someone feel that the church is true. So we hope she works to find that the things are true. As well we talked to one family that has really good questions about the church and everything we do. It was good I just think they will continue to attend their church I don’t know. As well we talked with our ward mission leader. He’s pretty good he wants to help us with lessons it’s just hard to find a time for that.

 

So the church here is really nice for where we are. The members are really nice as well. Things are different here then Catocha on Sundays. We get to eat at members houses. What I mean by that is that we have members that actually want to feed us. So we taught one new family that is super good. They have read 2 pamphlets and came to church. So we put a date for them to be baptized. They were all really excited to have that. So everyone has asked me what state I live in, in Canada... I laugh and tell them that we don’t live in states in Canada. Life isn’t to bad in the new area here in Ecinomica. Hope everyone is doing well in the cold weather in Canada.

 

Love you all.

Elder Nelson