Great Week!!

This week has been great!!  On Wednesday we were able to see Meet The Mormons!! It was pretty funny and cute at the same time!!

Here is my story for the week!  We drove our bikes to Lenoir and thought we would try to find all day!! So the first thing after we lock up our bikes is some guy tells us to come give him our number! We asked him if he knows elders and he said he was about to go on a mission so anyways we thought he was a member!! So we set up an appointment with him on Saturday.  At about 2 we go over and he says right when we sit down I'm ready! We asked him for what? He said to be baptized!!! We said we thought you were already a member and anyways it turned out that some elders gave him lessons like 2 years ago and he bailed on his baptism!  He decided he would set up his own church so he become a pasture for his church!! But he realized it wasn't the right church so he gave up on that job and saw us and remembered he wanted to get baptized.  Anyways, he was baptized yesterday and it was great!!!!

Elder Morrow is leaving... sad days, but stoked for the new comp!

It's starting to get cold, but I'm loving the cold weather cause we have to ride our bikes with church cloths on!!

This last district meeting I signed up for a musical number and stood up and everyone was like what's going on then I pulled out my harmonica and played like one note and sat back down it was pretty hilarious everyone was laughing because of the pure awkwardness!!

Thanks again for all the love.  Here is my address. I would prefer stuffto be sent here: 
725 Shoreman Lane, Apt 13
NC, Lenoir 28630.

Love you all Elder Nelson

God's Good Buddy!!

This week has been great I'm sure you are all are aware of my cancer!  Jk but for reals this week has been a good one hope all of you had the chance to watch General Conference! I know I did and I had a blast!! I
stayed awake during the whole thing probably the first time in my entire life!! That's exciting!!

Last Monday turned into a sad day one of our converts had her kids taken away and she can't talk to her husband and she is now in a shelter home.  It's been rough for her this week but she has so much faith she even came to all of the General Conference! She knows she has to trust in God that's the only way she'll get her kids back!

We have been finding and meeting a lot of people luckily there are a few nice people that we talk to that light up our day!  It's hard to find all day and not talk to a single person you talked to but hope they have more understanding of our religion!

Transfers are this next week and I think my companion will be getting transferred so keep me in you're prayers that I will be able to take over this area like a boss #aboutit.

I have been reading the Book of Mormon ever morning and it helps answers questions through out the day!! I love the BOM and hope all of you will have time to ready it!!

We went to Brother Shipps house he is one of the funniest old man in the branch.  He got the new iPhone 6 and was showing us all the cool things about it and I took some selfies with him!

We moved a member and I was able to shoot a cute little time lapse video... I'll send it!!

Anyways, I love you all and say thanks for the wonderful letters and prayers you send my way!!

The weeks turn into years!!

This week has been very exciting! We have been trying to grow our teaching pool, but it's very hard lately! We have been knocking a lot and meeting some great people!

Yesterday we knocked on a girls house she was very excited to get her faith back and she shared with us that just earlier that day that she has been wanting to get back to church! With tears in her eyes she said, "I never answer the door my mom always does!!!!" Anyways she seems really nice and we're excited to meet with her.  We're gonna read the BOM with her on Tuesday!

Okay so as we were walking a street the other day a man stops by us and asks us what faith are we and I reply with much excitement Mormons! He laughed and look at me and asked me if I was wearing magic underwear. That guy thought he was hilarious!!  I should've said rude things but my mouth is so clean now I don't even know any bad
words!!😏

This week we had a zone meeting cause our mission isn't doing so well here's the numbers!  Last year this mission had 100 less missionary's and they were able to baptize almost 600 for the year!! Here is our numbers our goal was 809 and were at 370ish!  So anyways were not gonna get 800 so our new goal is 601ish cause we need to beat last years numbers!! Anyways, the meeting was really great we talked about goal setting and plans so we are gonna be master planers this week!

After zone meeting I took over my area for the day with Elder Bishop!!  He is great and has 14 siblings!! Holy Macaroni!!  Anyways, we had a blast he told me all his crazy story's out in the mission... that kid has had a good one! We were able to teach the BOM study group class on Thursday night that was very interesting! We had fun through!

It's starting to get bit chilly here so mom sent me some of the biggest coats I have ever seen so I look pretty hilarious! Kinda like a midget.!!

I'm getting pretty stoked for General Conference!!  We have been trying to get people to come but you know it's missionary work so it's hard cause nobody likes you!!  But we're having a hot dog grill off before the priesthood session!! !

Some sad stuff happened this week.  Brother Guthrie passed away. :(  We have been trying to get him back to church really sad for his daughter who has been helping him out lately.  On a brighter note, he's probably able
to make it to church now!! ;)

Anyways, I've been loving all the letters lately! Thanks a lot!!

I love you all!!!!

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I can't ride my bike with no handle bars, no handle bars!

This week!!!! It's been a fun one.  Last Pday we were able to go up to brother Lewis's house and fish all day.  That was great and peaceful.  I felt like I was back on my game catching all the fish!! I loved it though I got some great pics!!!!!!


We had a lesson with a recent convert and we talked about indexing and how she has been doing it and it has helped her to feel the spirit in the hard times.  She's great!!

We have been dropping a lot of our investigators because they aren't keeping commitments, so we did a lot of finding and we were able to knock into a lady who said she and her husband were just about to start looking into churches to attend. We have been so blessed to have so many people be prepared to receive the gospel. It's amazing!

So Brother Lewis had us over to help him put up a fence.  It was Great. I learned a lot and had a blast! We're probably going to go fishing there again today!! No joke,  it's a blast!!

So the weekly accident comes on Friday.  We were riding over to an area to go finding and I was texting a member with two hands.  As I was texting, my bike decided to turn sharp left and I fell like a dumb person and ruined another pair of my new pants. I am so blessed to be able to not have to worry about dying cause I know of the wonderful plan of salvation. FYI this is not me saying I'm gonna go die I'm just letting my peeps know what's up.

So those of you that are thinking or are going to send me a package, I'll have to give you the address later cause I don't have it right now so I'll shoot one to you as soon as I do because we might be getting stuff stolen from ours.

Anyways thanks again for the prayers and all the love!! 

Remember God knows you are smart and will choose the right—Jacob 6:12

Going to the Seaside!

Going to the seaside.

This week has been alright.

On Tuesday we were knocking on doors and this nice young girl answers
aka Kenya she was great and catholic so we had some things in common.
We decided we would share the Book of Mormon and she loved the idea of
more scripture we asked her if she has heard much about Mormons? She
had no clue who we are! So we give her a BOM and she asked us if we
could come over to her church and share with them all that there is
more scripture and we kinda laughed a bit and said we would love to!
And then she said I can't wait to share this with all my catholic
friends.

We were able to get a baptism date for sister Greene. She's been
coming to church but doesn't really know much about what we believe so
we get the chance to teach her were excited!! She has a great spirit!

Wednesday we went out to brother Lewis's place. He's got like 16 acres
and a beautiful house on it which he remodeled.  We drove around on
his golf cart and replaced fences! It was nice to get out and I was
able to conquer a couple fears of horses they are actually pretty
nice! Who knew?!

So we have a meeting every Wednesday night with our ward mission leader
and two older lady's.  Our ward mission leader is great and during the
whole meeting we are quoting movies and the ladies don't realize it!
Best part of the week.

This Sunday was great! I was able to confirm a lady we baptized last
week a member of the church and to have her receive the Holy Ghost. It
was very calming and exciting at the same time. I wanted to hold her in
the air like a baby blessing but haven't had any protein lately. 

Anyways, I love you all thanks for everything!

 "People don't care how much we know until they know how much we care"

Hey!!

What a week so many great things this week!! First off we had a great Pday! Was able to go to the mall and get some pants!!!

We have been doing this name thing with members it's called TBAM (to be a Mormon) but we have had great success and a lot of spiritual moments this week hopefully they will pay off.  We pray for about 75 names a night right now and we're hoping for a lot of baptisms in the future!!

Okay so on Thursday we got to ride our bikes in pouring rain!!! It was great not really!! But it was nice then we visited is lady with like a hundred dogs and we walk in I'm looking freaking good with my new pants that I got that week! 

And then as I walk in I hear in the back room "Oh no, Sammie's in" I'm like okay that's a mean dog I'm guessing.  So I try to get out the front door but my comp shuts the door and stays out side so I back up into a corner and see this dog and it's a huge German Shepard!! So I scream like a girl and then he starts coming at me and I started kicking his face and then.... He gets a nice bite into my left leg and rips my new pants so I kicked as hard as I could and got him to lay down and shut
up!! Anyways, I'm good,nothing too bad!!

Anyways we had another baptism this week for Sister Webster.  She's great!! Comp got to baptize her and I'll be doing the confirmation next week!! She's great, very excited to see where she goes!!

I guess all the sister missionary's in our district are doing impressions of me. Kind of exciting, but funny as well!

Anyways, it's been great.  We're excited for the up coming weeks. I'm still in the same place with the same comp!! Love y'all!!!