Elder Jordan Troy Nelson: 03 July 17

So I’ll be honest I didn´t write much at all this week. I’m writing this Sunday night before I go to bed so I’m sorry I didn´t write much...we were really busy.

So our area is starting to look up. We are starting to get a lot more help from members and we are able to teach a lot more. We have a ward mission leader that helped us almost everyday this last week. Before he was a little bit less active but now he comes every week to church. He is a pretty good friend of ours now haha.

We keep finding people to teach which is really good. The only thing is people are really scared of committing to things. We have these three investigators that love to talk to us they always have great questions for us. And love talking. But they have a hard time coming to church. We can only hope that they will come. We pass by for them, we have members call and pass by as well but nothing happens. I’m not saying that they never come I’m just saying its weird to see them show up sometimes.

So our week wasn’t very good for our stats but we did a lot of service to help some members. For example we had divisions with the ZLs and when we ended them we came back to Pueblo to help a family move. And moving in the heat sucks. So after we did that for 2 hours we went to the area of the ZLs and helped another family move. After was all said and done we got back to our area to work in Pueblo at 7:00. It was pretty much another pday hahah we were so tired when we ended the day.

So I love every missionary and every person here but what I cant stand is missionaries that are prideful. We have zone leaders and both are from Mexico but they are pretty much two different people. One is super awesome and super funny. And the other is really prideful. I’ve seen that a lot in the mission, Missionaries just want a title and then they can boss people around.

So anyways this zone leader called us the other day when we went to meet the new mission president. And when he called us we were in a restaurant eating breakfast. Well he lost it on us. He said you guys cant eat you don’t have time and its not p-day so finish really fast and come and to our house. So let me tell you something we had to be in the church to meet the new president at 9:30 we sat down to eat at 7. And the church is 10 minutes away on the bus. So I didn’t think it would have been a problem to eat. So we finished and went to the house and they weren’t there. I was ticked. So we met up with other missionaries and went to the church. When the zls showed up the cool and funny zl said hey did you go for breakfast_ and I said yeah, He answered back, What the heck man you didn’t invite me_ So the cool zone leader was down to eat and the other zone leader wasn’t haha

So yes we have a new president for our mission. President Shumway. He is a pretty nice guy. Not going to lie I’m really tired of Canadian jokes here in the mission. First thing he said was a joke about Canada. I’m not saying I hate those that make jokes I’m just saying that it gets to me sometimes. But he is a really nice guy. He seems like he is ready to work with us and help us with what ever we need. When he was talking he said I don’t want to receive and call from anyone asking a questions. If its not something Christ would do why would we do it. You only call about a question about baptisms. I was like okay that fine. Then he really cut our heads off. He said, I have no room for dis obedience. If you don’t want to follow the rules or be obedient ill send you home right away! I was like wow this meeting went from loving us to cutting all of our heads off in about 3 seconds. But he is a really nice guy and he is really happy to be here with us.

So just like another branch or ward in the world they have a ward council. And I may or may not have called the branch president out. We were talking about a temple trip for the new members. And he said oh well not too many people have recommends to enter. And he said the point for a temple trip is for the youth and recent converts to go and do baptisms for the dead. Then I said how many converts have recommend to go and he told me non. So I responded and said if you want your recent converts to got to the temple you need to do some work and have interviews with them. I didn’t mean to go across mean but it came out like that.

The week has been up down left right and center. A lot of stress with the members, but what can you do right. We can only hope for the best and then see what will happen. We got told the other day that President Caffaro had a list of areas that he was going to close and our area is on that list. We will see what happens here with President Shumway in the coming weeks! Thanks for all the love and support this week like always! Talk to you all next week!!

Love you all!

Elder Nelson