22 Jan 2018

Hey there everyone!

So this week we got to have our leadership meeting with all the ZLs from the mission. And just before I get into that I just want to say something about my group from the MTC. We have all been zone leaders here in the mission. There is 7 of us and we are all leaders now kind of cool, Eh! But anyways this meeting was very interesting to be honest. We really see how the mission works with everyone. I think I made a big statement though. We were talking about missionaries working in two areas. We know my last area was some like that. We had the two areas to work in and it was hard. So president has a bunch of areas like that and for example one of them is Catocha my first area. It’s being shared with Jutiapa which is 45 mins away. So think about it the elders have to travel 45 minutes just to work. So I stood up and said I thought it was a rough idea. As well you have to think that we are assigned to our areas for a reason. Well not just one but many reasons. We are going to learn from our comps, from our zone, from the ward, and from the investigators in there area. So I told president what I thought and he came up to me after and said thanks for saying what I said.  He appreciated it.

So we have an investigator here named Adolfo. And this guy is really weird to be honest. Like not like weird in the head or anything it’s just that he likes the church and goes to church all the time. The only thing is he is not baptized yet! And this is where another weird part comes in. Everyone in his family is a member. Which is crazy right. So we are going to try and focus on the family a little more with them. So we are planning to take them to the temple and have them feel that spirit and have them understand the importance of the family here in the church. 

So this week we had to go and do some service with the mission. We got together as 4 zones to put together some care packages for school kits. This are for kids that don’t have anything for school here in Guatemala. So it was really cool to do something like that as a mission. It was funny though because in our leadership meeting President Shumway was talking about this project and said that he was going to call a few zones to come and help. And when he said that he looked right at us. So I knew we were going to go and help haha. 

So Sunday night we had a thing called Noche de hermanamiento.  I don’t know how to say that in English= Its like a family home evening they just changed the name around. But the thing was we got invited to two different ones. In two different parts of the area. So we called up our ward mission leader and another member to help to do divisions. So the real big reason that we had this divisions was to help us attend these two activity’s for our investigators. But guess what no one went to them. It was kind of rough at the start but afterword’s my comp and I said it was a good idea that we didn’t have any investigators. Its not because it was bad it just wasn’t that great to be honest. For example in with me all they talked about was family history, not the most exciting topic for and investigator. And for my comp he said that the lady was just preaching at everyone to repent.. So it was okay that no one showed up haha 

So here in the mission we have the temple. And now we have sister missionaries they’re giving tours to our investigators.  I don’t know if I told you about that but if I did I’m sorry.  But we have been planning to take some people to have them see what the temple is and as well we hope the spirit will touch their hearts and help them. So this Tuesday we are going to take this one investigator with his family to the temple and pray that the spirit will touch his heart and help me make that next step. We will see what will happen I guess. 

But things have been pretty good here. We are going to have a crazy week coming up here. Because we have to go to a multi zone conference, we are going to the temple and we are going to go to another leadership meeting. So we will see what will happens hahah but thanks always for all the love and support that you all give me! It’s always awesome! Love you guys!

Elder Nelson

Jordan with Elder Remy and Elder Ashcroft....they were in the MTC with him....