19 June 2017

So we had changes. It was really sad to see my friend leave for home. He was a really good comp. Yes there was times where we didn’t get along but I think that’s normal. After all he was a really good and funny guy. Something funny about the mission, when you come into the mission you are born to an area and your first comp is your dad. And once you receive a missionary that’s new fresh off the boat he is your kid. Kind of funny like that. But when you are ending they call it that you are dying. And the comp that you are with when you end the mission is your killer. So guess you could say that I killed a guy. 

My new comp is really cool though. This is his second area and I’m his third companion. I feel kinda bad for him because he didn’t even leave the zone. He just came over to the district here. The changes went really fast for us haha. 

So we decided to work with more members this change. We have started to visit more and more all the time to see what’s going on and how they are doing. Not gonna lie this is gonna be a hard second change without the help of the members. We are gonna be very patient with them all but we will hope for the best. 

So like I said last change it was really hard to get contacts. But let me tell you this new comp is really good at talking. He talks a lot, which is a good thing. So we have a recent convert that doesn’t have a really good husband. He doesn’t like the church but talks to the elders all the time. So we went to visit them the other day and her mom got mad at us. Because the elders are here to help people but she was mad that we weren’t helping the members husband. To be 100% honest I wanted to go nuts on the girl. I told her straight up, that people can choose if they want to accept us or not. We always offer and invite but if you don’t accept that’s okay. As a missionary you have to show love to everyone. That’s the hardest part. When you really want to tell someone how it is, but you remember that you are an elder and you have to show love. You can correct people but in the correct way and a nice way hahah.

So we finally have people to work with us. We have a ward mission leader that is kind of less active but we got him to come to church the past weeks.  He said that he would like to come work with us. We went to this one family that we always visit. They always are sitting in front of there house with a friend. So today we turned the lesson more towards her and made it more to help her. I feel like it went well. She wants to understand more and she always liked to talk to us in the past.  We found this one guy the other day as well. He is super awesome and he really likes what we teach. The one thing is when he reads, he reads really, really loud, But only some words. For example, if the word God came across the line he would say it really loud then go really quiet again. It was interesting to hear haha

So things are starting to look better in the area here in Publo with the members. They are finally working with us. We went with the family that washes our cloths. They gave us a call because their friend needed a blessing. It’s really weird down here because they always want the elders to bless the people when they have the same priesthood and are worthy. So anyways we went out to give this guy a blessing and he was in some rough shape. His whole leg was all stitched up and man did it look rough. He told us that he went to other church’s and they wouldn’t give him a blessing. They said they didn’t have time. So we had a great way to teach about the church a little bit. We have one recent convert who is the only one of her family. So we decided that we should teach them. The other night they had this chili on the table. So I asked if I could try it. They all said, Elder Nelson this is really hot are you sure?  I was like Heck yeah! But man I almost died!! It was sooo hot! They all got a good laugh out of it though hahah.

So our week wasn’t 100% better, but we have improved a lot. We are now finding new people and working more with members. This should be a good change with Elder Cruz.

Well as always thanks for all the love and support that you all have for me! Thanks for all the prayers as well. Talk to you all next week!

Elder Nelson

Dinner after getting firewood

The ants he ate the other day....gross.  However he said they were good.  Just need to put lime on them.

Out getting firewood for cooking tortillas