01 May 2017

So we let me tell you something right away. I hate the rain as much as i hate the snow. On monday we were walking down the road in water that came past our ankles. And it comes do super hard here in guatemala. As well in may its when it rains the most here. So bring it on! As for everything else nothing else big happened during pday. We play soccor or basketball everyday. we write to our family. Then come home and visit some members. hopefully more fun things will happen this week.

So we have this one kid that is getting ready for a mission. So as missionarys we kinda help him to see how we work and help me see how its done. Because im the best teacher in the world. haha so anyways im pretty sure he hates us somedays haha. Everytime we work close to his house we always ask him to come with us to visit people. He is always like, Man i dont want to go visit people. I wanna sleep haha. But after we have a couple of visits he gets into the mode of it. We found this one guy that was really weird. not weird like crazy but just how it happened. We were contacting one street and we came to the end of the street and the guy said come in before i go say anything. He talked to us and said that his daughter has just got back from her mission and all that. Turns out that shes a member in a differnt ward but no one else in the family are members. Turns out as well he worked in canada for some time. We asked him if he has ever gone to church and if he would like to. He said yes as well he accepted the fecha for a baptism. So there a lesson to learn from this. This house was the last one in the street. We had enough contacts for the day. We could have left but we gave it tell the end. if we didnt do that then he probably wouldnt know were the church is. So when you think that you have done enough and think your done. Remember to give it that extra 10% to do more then you need to do. 

So our area is really awesome now with members and working with them. For example, we work in to sectors. One area is close to our house. And the other is down low where its really big. So when we work down low we have the one kid that works with us that i talked about before here. And now we have another kid that is getting ready for a mission. He told us the other day, Elders when ever you need me just call me. im really happy with how we can work with the members and have them be our friends as well. So we got 3 new investigators with the one kid that works with us down low. This lady cleans his house for the family so we asked one day if it was okay if we shared a message. We shared it with her kids as well. They all seemed to like it and we put a fecha with them. Our area is really really good to work with members. The members are really awesome here to be honest. We have one family that we reactivated and they are really awesome. Its a family of four, and one day they asked hey elders since when are you guys not aloud to watch movies_ And we told them that its been a rule forever. They then told us some missionarys here about 4 years ago or when ever the hunger games came out. they watched the second hunger games together in the house. We told them that we would love to watch a movie with them. But we cant. And it sucks, they always have the new star wars movie sitting on the table. This is some bad temptation for me ill be honest. As well they always bug my comp about the movies he likes as well haha but they are a really good family.

So I have to be honest I hate when  things fall through. We were working up here by the house and let me tell you people were really busy or they are really good liars. For example we went up to one house and it was about 5 o{clock in the afternoon. We went up and knocked the door. A man answered and said hey we are just eating lunch, can you come back in an hour so we did and they werent home. it sucks when that happens. But then you just look past that and look to who really wants to listen to you. We have this one investigator thats just awesome. She reads everything that we give her. She wants to come to church all the time. as well she wants her kids to be baptized as well. The only thing is that her husband doesnt want to get married. And if they dont get married then she cant get baptized. But we will keep working with them to help with. We always have to show love to those we teach. We cant just act like a lifeless robot that knows all the points to the lessons. Dont get me wrong its good to know what you teach. But you need to love them and know what they need to learn as well. 

So on the other day in church people were asking when the changes are. Now before i go on i just want to say something about this mission. Its pretty much exactly like hockey. For example. When you coming into the mission and recive your comp, Its pretty much like the nhl draft. You dont know when your name is gonna get called or who you are gonna work with. then when the changes come its like the trade deadline. Where you wait to recive a call to see if you are gonna go to a different city. So thats how i was feeling sunday night. But anyways all the members said, Hey elder are you gone_ Is your comp gone_ When will you find out__ It was really bad too because the APs sent a message out to all the missionarys saying that they cant talk about the changes. So i didnt say anything to the members about the changes. But anyways about the day in sunday. So we need 6 lessons with a member to get our goal of 20 for a week. So we did what we knew was best. Have divitions with members. So i went with a member and his kid and we went to teach some of our new investigators. As well it was awesome because he has a car so we didnt have to walk that much. So i was pretty happy. And it was funny because the member that my comp went with didnt have a car. The other good thing is that we were able to get 6 lessons as well. It was really good for a sunday. After we went to the family flores house again. It was good because it was the birthday of brother flores. it was a little weird because i thought that we would sing in spanish. But they said happy birthday in english. Pretty crazy. But the cake was really good. 

Now im writing this on the alphasmart at 9Ñ55pm. And we are sitting here waiting for the call about the changes. And let me tell you i hate waiting for along time! hahah 

So its  gonna be a sad pday... Thats right im moving to a new area. And guess what, its back outside the cap.. In one of the hottest zones as well! Dont get me wrong im happy im going back out of the cap because its way better to teach people. As well they got the most baptisms last month so thats also a good thing. The thing is my comp is from the states. his name is elder stephen from idaho. He was my first zone leader back in catocha. I think president just wants me to go work with everyone from my first zone. this is now 2 comps that i have knew before we were comps.

So thanks for everything that you guys do for me. Thanks for all the love and support! be good!


Love Elder Nelson

A family Jordan was teaching....Family Chinch