Happy Thanksgiving!!

Hi Sis. Nelson - My name is Jennifer Hardy. We had your son over today for Thanksgiving dinner. I wanted to share some pictures and a hello from North Carolina. He was just transferred to our area, we are excited to have him here in Summerfield.  I hope your Thanksgiving is wonderful! I sent Elder Nelson home with a lot of leftovers - we so enjoyed having him in our home today! 

Jennifer Hardy

Here's my weekly letter to all my loved ones!

Here's my weekly letter to all my loved ones!

Well I would like to start off with saying I have loved the area I have served in and have learned a lot here! Now I am moving to another area ... I am getting transferred! Yay!  I'm excited for the first move in the mission field! I am jacked up to move on! This area has been great but
it's time for me to learn some more somewhere else!  Anyways I will be leaving tomorrow!


So this week has been pretty good! It's been pretty slow but I have been able to really connect with the members.  Hopefully, after I leave this area, the missionary's will be able to really use the members!  It's kinda sad but I'm happy with it!

They had me share my testimony yesterday and I noticed how much it has
grown! I was kinda blown away by my self #nottoboast but really it was
good and all the old lady's were so sad.  Guess I'm a moms kid!  They're all
fighting over dinner appointments! #ladysman! Jk
But really they're great!

Well we helped sister brown with her walls to make them a brighter white and sprayed bleach all over and ruined my shoes😡 but it's alright... I don't mind.
Fyi I got that Bahamas hat at a garage sale last Saturday morning.  We
were trying to find some people...

My weekly post

Well, I took like 10 - 15 minutes trying to start this gig and it's probably the most stressful thing I do out here in the mission field but I'm ready now.

So this week started off very slow.  On Monday we didn't have any plans and
as a result we cleaned the house like we are supposed to! Next comes
the crazy Tuesday's... president calls and wants to talk with us😨 Don't
worry...he just wanted to interview us so that was neat we were able to
have some good one on one with him!

Well on Wednesday we met this guy named Cody! He seemed so into our
church it was a little suspicious but don't worry I was on the case. 

Then on Thursday we went back to visit him when we got there we noticed a certain man with him that looked like a baptist preacher😱. That's right - we were set up!  They wanted to bash us with there bibles but me and Elder Smith were able to take control and calm them down!

Good news we were able to set a baptism date with Max and he is a 5
out of 5 so it's gonna happen!!!! Yay! We're very excited for him!

Umm this sweet winter storm kinda came through and it got really chilly the last couple days but it was exciting cause I got to show my winter blood and be like "I'm warm I lived in Utah!" Hahaha 

#howwedo
#hinthint

Okay so we had a dinner appointment at sister Chues this week.  She has
7 children under the age of 10😁 holy smokes are they nuts!  She is so
nice and so are her children but they were freaking nuts! I kinda
thought they were monkeys because they would surround me and then they
would run off with like my name tag or my iPad! And just play with it
and laugh and then bring it back then they would do it again and
attack me.  Anyways, sister Chue is only 29 years of age and is doing really good for having 7 kids destroy her house everyday!

Anyways sorry for the short letter but hope all is well! Love Elder Nelson
Thanks again for all the love I receive from you all!

#turndownforlife

My message

This last week has been great I'm really excited! Here is my life in a short letter😁

So this Monday we hiked up to the beautiful mountain called table rock! 

Because of this hike I was not available to message all of you.  I truly am sorry. I know for most of you my letter home is the high light of your week! 

So I'm gonna tell you all about my district.  First of all my comp is great and a lot like me! Home schooled, has issues with horses and cat hair! Just kidding.  I'm gonna start my letter off with a joke to help lighten the day! 

So on Wednesday we had some extra time so we decided to knock on a couple doors and turns out most of them were southern baptists people😱 I had no clue! Anyways, we said we didn't like this area so we drove for awhile and I decided to stop and knock on a couple doors! We skipped a couple houses and went strait up to this house and turns out she was looking for a sign😇 and not to boast but that was us!😌 Anyways, we have been teaching her and having a lot of success! Yay! We enjoy people that want to hear from us! 

On other exciting news, a member we have been teaching, well his son wants to be baptized🙏 

We're very excited because he is a really good guy!

We had stake conference and all the missionary's in the hickery zone went to sing in it and had a blast! They talked about how as a member we need to do more to help with the missionaries! 

And if anyone in Arizona area meets an Elder Maltba make sure you tell him where I am because his lovely parents are very supportive of us missionary's! 

So my companion is singing in this big event called the Messiah! I will not be so I'm gonna be enjoying the beautiful practices on Sunday's for about 2 hours.  They really are something else and they will be performing in a lot of different baptist churches around here and I will be using that time to share our message to all those not of our faith!

Anyways, thanks for writing me and keeping me in you're prayers! 🙏 

Peace from your boy Elder D. Nelson 👼 

#missionarywork

#wecantstopandwewontstop 

#Haveablessedday 

Hello!

Sorry mom that I couldn't write you all!  Had a late one!  Let everyone know I'm
alive and love them!!!

ATONEMENT

Hello all.

This letter will be short because of the little story's I have!

Well Ronnie is one of the sisters' converts and he has a pretty neat

story.  He was baptized and confirmed a member yesterday! The sisters

met a guy at Micky Ds and he wanted them to stop by but gave them the

wrong address! So the sister went to this area and thought, "You know

what? We're here for a reason.  Because of their great faith, they asked

the member they were with; which house should they should knock on; number 14.

They went and knocked on this door and Ronnie answered and said, "I

was just praying for a sign on what I should do right now with my

religion." Pretty sweet stories, gets me pumped for mission work!

Our pool of investigators has dried up and we cannot found the house to

refill this bad boy but we never give up!

So that being said I don't have many stories to share!

We went and saw a les active member, Ken.  I have never met this guy but

he kind of runs this apartment place.  He told us a neat story about

how one night he got a knock on the door from a man in his complex

about his wife locking him out and he was covered with wax! So Ken

tells him he doesn't have a key and tells him to get.  So a couple

months later he sees out the window that same man, bleeding and

staggering across the parking lot! Cops are called and turns out he is

dead and his wife stabbed him like a ton of times and then locked him

out and barricaded her self in!

I just want to share with you all that I know though the atonement

this lady can be relieved of her sins and be forgiven! I love the

atonement 

And I love all of you keep in touch.  Love, Elder Nelson

Sent from my IPad

Service

I love service! As a missionary we have so many opportunities to do service, And I have never felt the love of Christ in my life so much as when I'm in service of my fellow brothers and sisters! 

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2011-10-017-opportunities-to-do-good?category=mormon-messages%2Fmormon-messages-2011&lang=eng