Hey there everyone!
So this week was really crazy to be honest. We woke up super early
all the time and we had so many meetings this week. But it was a pretty good
week.
So on Tuesday we went to the temple with our investigator Adolfo.
The story about this guy is that his family is members but he isn’t. So we have
been working really hard trying to get him baptized. So we took him to the
temple and we have sister missionary’s there giving tours for the
investigators. So during the tour the sisters talked about eternal families.
And they asked him what did he need to do to have an eternal family. And the
first thing he said was to get baptized. Now I don’t know if he was saying that
because he knows the importance of baptism or if he just said that because it
was a good answer haha. But we have a lot of work with this guy now.
So we had our multi zone conference this last week. So like I said
we had to wake up early. But it was a
really good conference. Funny story as well, when we got there we gave our zone
breakfast. And when we were eating President and Sister Shumway walked in and
said hi to us. Now here in the zone we have a sister from Panama who is
training a new missionary from the states. So she’s knows a little bit of English
and all that. But when Sister Shumway walked in I said to here, did you know Sister
Campos speaks English. Just to bug her right. But Sister Shumway turned around
and said. She might speak English but at least she doesn’t speak Canadian. I didn’t
know how to respond to that. But it’s all good haha.
But in the conference we talked about when President Nelson addressed
the church. And how he talked about how we are going to every nation to prepare
the way for the second coming. And it was interesting to see know that I’m a
part of the work to prepare the way in a different nation and language. We are
here preparing Gods children to return to him. And at the every end of the talk
he said that he would devote himself to this work with every remaining breath
of his life. And we use that line…. have made a saying here in the mission.
That we will give it our all until our last breathe. Which in my mind is we
have to keep working no matter what.
Now that I have been here for over a year. I start to see the
importance of the work that we do. It is something amazing really. We have to
help those find there way back. Find the way to repentance, Find the way to happiness,
and find the way to understand what’s right. But as well we help our Heavenly Father
bring his kids home. We are the tools in the hands of the Lord. Which is something
very special.
So we had another missionary leadership meeting this week and we
talked about the goals for the next month. We added up all the goals for baptisms
for the next month and we had a really good number I thought. We talked a lot
about it and there were a lot of people that said we should lower the goal. And
I thought to myself if we want to be better why are we lowering a goal that we
put. And someone stood up and said that
we should lower the goal because there was only 4 weeks in February. And this kind of bugged me. So president asked
everyone who wanted to lower the goal to put his or her hand up. And out of all
the missionaries there, I was the only one who didn’t put my hand up. So president
asked me to stand up and explain why. So this is what I said, I don’t think we
should lower the goal just because we have less time to work. It doesn’t mean we lower our opportunity to
do great things. Just because we have less time to work doesn’t mean we sit
back, It means we work as hard as we can to complete the goal. We shouldn’t be
focused on how much time have to work. But focus on how hard we need to work.
And then I sat down. And I think I left a lot of people with their mouth open
haha I said a lot more but that’s about the main things in what I said. And
president was happy that I said that. He told me he was grateful for the
comment. So right after that some elders came up to me and said, Elder Nelson
thank you for your courage. They said we need more leaders like you. It was kind
of nice to hear that. Because I didn’t think what I said would have a big impacted
on some one but I guess it did.
So we were able to take another investigator to the temple again.
And it was really good the only thing is that there was a bunch of people
there. Like packed full of people. The funny thing was is that when we were
there we ran into the bishop from Jutiapa. So I went over and said hi to him.
The funny thing is he still remembers me. After all this time. But anyways the
temple went really well with our investigator. We had a great time there with
them all. We hope that they can take those experiences and apply it to there lives.
So a funny story. Or crazy story haha. We came home one night and
walked into the house put our bags on the floor and started the calls. So I
went to change and as I walk out my comp comes up to me and says. Hey are you
scared of scorpion? I looked at him and
asked why? And he told me that there was
one in the other room. So we look over and here is this big scorpion on the
floor. So we sat there for about 5 minutes thinking what we were going to do
with this thing. So we call the elder from Brazil who is in our zone and ask
him. The first thing he tells us is to burn it. There was no pause or anything,
he just said burn it. We sat there for a second thinking that it was a good
idea. But then we remembered we didn’t have anything to make a fire. So we
got a big bowl and put it over top of the scorpion. And then we but 5 books of Mormon’s
on top. So at this point the thing isn’t dead it’s just trapped. So we sprayed
protox around the bowl and on one spot on the floor and slid the bowl over top
of the protox. It finally did die which is really good haha lets just hope that
there isn’t another one.
So that was our week here in our area. Everything has been going
good here in the zone as well so can’t complain about that! Thanks for all the
love and support! Talk to you all next week!
Love
Elder Nelson
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