Elder Jordan Troy Nelson: 20 February 2017

So our p-day is really different inside the cap. Reason for that is that we don’t have to write in an internet cafe. As well the church here has A-C! So we played soccer today in the shirt I got from Kiana. We all had a good laugh at that and after we started to win haha. So It’s been rough being here in the mission and I found one scripture in D and C 128'22 And there’s one part where it says [go forward and not backwards. Courage, Brethren and on, on to the victory. This is neat for me because it’s got my saying in it as well, [keep moving forward this is something we all have to do to have victory. It’s been pretty crazy here in the mission. I had a thought today when we were out talking to people in the street. In my mind I always say, well I’ll try it but I remembered some great words from a Wise little green guy. He said to someone do or do not! There is no try. This made me think we just need to get out there and do the work and not try but do.

So we have some really slow days the past couple of days. And what I mean by that is our lessons have been falling through every time. We have one new guy we are teaching though. He read the whole lesson one and had a lot of questions for us. So we put a date for him to be baptized and he said sure. As well he wants to read the Book of Mormon. As well one family bought 2 pizzas for me and my comp. It was a good dinner let’s just say that as well we got to drink A/W root beer again!!

So we and a special visit from a member of the 12 on Thursday. Elder Rasband! But we had a member of the 70 there as well. We had our whole mission in this conference as well we had Mission Central with us as well. He was a great speaker and talked a lot of how we can talk to more investigators, Help them gain faith. Help them understand the church. But something he really said that the work isn’t done by superheroes but that the fullness of my gospel might be proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the ends of the world, and before kings and ruler. D/C 1Ñ23= This really hit me because I think that we have to be the best person or superman to do this work but when I read this I know that this work is for us who are simple reason for that is that we teach in a simple manner. This is for anyone to think that this work isn’t for them. To understand that even the weak can teach and teach by the spirit. He talked a lot about how we have a great spirit and that we need to teach with power. This was a big highlight for the day and my mission.

So we had divisions here. I went to the area of the District leaders. It was good we finally got domino’s pizza! It was a good way to end the night. As well when I came home here to Ecinmoica I was told by the DL to look at the photos on my camera. So i came home and seen that he took my hockey jersey and put it on! He took some funny photos. I told him I never thought I’d see an American wearing a Canadian jersey. We had a good laugh about that. He’s pretty chill. So we went to visit the bishop to see how

district leader he was doing and how his family were. We got there and we started talking about star wars because the bishop is a big star wars fan! And of course i am too!! So we talked about that for a good while as well we talked about other movies as well I’m surprised that I could talk to someone about movies in Spanish! Maybe I’m just getting better. Haha

So it’s been pretty crazy in my mission. And the reason i say that is that is because of my comps... 2-3 of my comps are not very good and always have problems with members. For example, my first comp was disobedient and left the house. My new comp has a problem with one of the members. We talked with this member on Sunday to figure out where he was feeling with everything. After I told him. [I’m sorry I didn’t say much. I just didn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. I told him I agree with him and as well I agree with my comp but it’s hard to say what is correct. It’s been really hard to work with this comp. He is so prideful and doesn’t listen to me. On Thursday it is our weekly planning and we plan for our investigators. He asked me what I thought we should do and after he completely changed it for a different lesson. He then said, I know what everyone needs and you know nothing. I had enough and went to work.