Elder Jordan Troy Nelson: 21 Aug 2017

Hey there everyone. Well we have had another week here in the mission that was up and down but we had some really good things this week as well for example, we had a baptism this last Saturday so it was a good way to end the week.

But lets start with a crazy story. So as a district leader I help the other elders and sisters in my district right? Well on Tuesday night I got a phone call about to elders that ran into some trouble in there area. So this zone is really famous for crazy things happening here. So these two elders were on their way home when a guy stopped them in the street and started to threaten them. And he wasn’t that small of a guy either. They weren’t shaken up to bad which was a good thing as well nothing was stolen which is also good. I felt really bad for the one leader because he is new in the mission. But it’s good that both of them are good. The funny thing is that after I heard that I told my comp that we are going to do divisions and he was going to go and visit that area. He wasn’t to happy with me hahah. But everything after that has been really good so it couldn’t have been that bad.

With saying that we then had divisions and I had the new missionary with me. And the kid loves to just bible bash with everyone. But I see he was having problems with this one guy so I went over to give him a hand. And let me tell you the guy didn’t know anything. He told us that our church was made by a man and all that junk. then I asked who formed your church? The man wouldn’t answer me. Then I told him that our church had to be true because Jesus taught that we would be able to know what church was his because it would have his name. So I told him that his church was pretty much false and that he didn’t need to search for the truth because we had it. Sometimes its good to bible bash. But I will always remember what Elder Stephan said, Never bible bash an older lady or kids. But anyone else is free game haha

I be honest I’m really happy to see that the new missionary here in our district is doing well with everything. He is really learning fast which is really good as well he has a pretty good trainer so that helps him a lot too. The one thing I don’t like is when the kid says; yeah man you’ll be a zone leader one day soon. I was like no man don’t wish that evil on me haha

So my comp and I get along pretty good there are really no big problems. The only thing is that he doesn’t really think the rules are important. I know that I may be a little push when people don’t follow the rules but they are there to keep us safe. So he doesn’t like to keep them and he gets mad when I call him out on something. Even when the zone leaders say something to him he gets mad. The thing that I think it is, is that he is 25 years old and he has never had someone younger be a leader over him. And I think he gets mad about it. But we only have two more weeks with this comp so it will go by really fast. The changes are going to be really weird I think. Because we really don’t have any more leaders here in the mission. We lost a bunch when Elder Stephan ended his mission as well the group after. The group was full with district leaders and zone leaders. So I’m really interested to see who becomes a new leader.

So we have this member that is helping us a lot right now. He is helping us with visiting people, with giving us references. He is a really big help for us. The thing is he is from the USA. He was born here then moved to California. The good thing is he comes and visits every now and then. And when he does he come and helps the elders with visits. As well he invites us to eat all the time. Like one night he took us to McDonalds. And just kept buying us food. Super awesome guy. Funny story about him though. The other night he came here to play soccer with the ward. Well this was Saturday night and then on Sunday he wasn’t here at church. His wife was but he wasn’t. So we went up and asked what happened and she told us that he was super sore and couldn’t get up. haha its kind of funny to be honest because the guy isn’t young he is 63 and he plays soccer like as if he was a kid haha.

So the area that I’m in right now has two wards. The reason there is two wards in our area is because the one area doesn’t have elders in it. So we have to take care of it until we get more elders. The thing is we have a choice to work there or not. And to be 110% honest we may close the area again reason why is that we don’t have anything there and it’s really hard to work with the two. But we will see what will happen this week but I have a strong feeling that we should close it.

So we have had a good week it was up and down as normally but hey it’s the mission haha I’m really happy with my district though. Because everyone should be baptizing at least one on the second of September. We are going to have one as well, the other elders will have 2 on that day and the sisters will have 1 as well. So you can say I’m a pretty happy district leader. haha

Sorry that my emails are really short now. I always wrote when we ended the day back before I had to call everyone. And every pday before we write, I write something really fast to send out hahah but ill try and do better!

Thanks for all the love and support that you all send for me here in the mission. Thanks for everything you all do for me!

Talk to you next week!

Love

Elder Nelson