Missionary Work 101

Hello family! I love you all so much!  I'm so grateful for all the letters and packages they are so funny and sweet! Thanks so much!

Next week we will have pday on Tuesday!

Here's my week:

We had a lot of success!

We found this lady named Theodora aka Princess.  She loved taking to us!  She had talked to missionaries before and had referred us to a friend of her's named Kathy.  She lives up the street and after talking with Theodora, we went out to Cathy's house, knocked on the door and told her about how Theodora had referred her. She assured us that she had no idea who Theodora was, but she did, however, know a lady that was completely crazy down the street that fit all the descriptions of Theodora.  Elder Blanket and I laughed inside of our minds and enjoyed the moment and continued to teach!!

I love the gospel!

So, this Sunday we were able to get Theodora to come to church.  She let us know to pick her up around 12:15pm.  We showed up at her house at that time and she was not ready at all.  She told us that you take 20 to 30 minutes to get ready. I firmly stood my ground when I told her that 20 minutes would be perfectly fine.  We waited outside until about 12:35 and she showed up. We went to church she loved it!  She was making sure everybody knew her name is Princess which was hilarious!  In Gospel Principles, Lisa, another investigator that we had at church had asked for a water bottle.  While sitting in class, some lady came in the back door and had a water bottle ready to give to Lisa, but Princess thought it was hers and took it.  We had a laugh and we left and went and got my water bottle.  Sacrament was amazing! Church was good and the spirit was there!  Hopefully they'll continue to progress #Weaboutit

I love the gospel! I love the people! I love the world! I love Jesus! I love God! I love my parents! I love my friends! I love my family!

Thanks for all you do!!!

Missionary Message from #Elda

Omg I love writing these letters each week!!

So, I am grateful for all the love I feel from each and every one of you.  Thanks so much!!  It helps me.

Thanks for those who sent me packages and letters this week especially CDs.

This week was different! We had some good lessons and also some that don't exist.......

Here's some story's that are not spiritual: 

We had an appointment with this lady... let's call her victim A.  She said to come back at 7pm the next day.  We got a member and showed up at her house she was not there so we talked to her "boyfriend" and he said she was gone for a little and told us she would give us a call.   We then walked away and got into the car and when we were driving off she pulled in right behind us.  We got pumped again, turned around and got back out of the car. We started to walk up to her car, but she got back into her car and took off like she had to get somewhere so we decided we would stop by a man's house that we had met a little while back.  We talked for a little bit and returned back to Victim A's house.  Her car was there so we got pumped again... ready to do the Lords work! We knocked and "boyfriend" answers and says a bunch of stuff that neither myself or my companion could understand.  All we knew was that she had shut us down one more time (the third time) that day and really took it out of my gig for this week!

Spiritual: 
We met this lady, Lisa.  She is super nice and has been homeless for a little bit, but she just moved into her son's home.  We saw her taking out her trash and we walked over and got talking with her.  She started to cry and we got a return appointment! We showed up to her house and got talking.  She said, "tell me one reason why I should read the Book Of Mormon?" and as you can imagine we thought we would be all over it, but it took a second to
figure out what answer the Lord wanted us to convey to her.  I honestly don't feel like we answered what He, the Lord wanted us to.  Here's my point - sometimes I believe my knowledge is not sufficient for some that
I teach, but I know that I don't have to answer all the questions as long as she will pray and receive the answer from God!

I am so grateful for all those who are mothers and the examples they are! One of the greatest ones is my mother! I can't wait for the day we can watch Perry Mason at home with my head laying on her shoulder (#fav)!
I am also so grateful for those of you who are mother fugues in my life thanks so much!

My thoughts and prays go out to Hulk and the Avengers!

Well, thanks for writing me!  I appreciate it so much! I love you all and am eternally grateful for family's and the purpose for them!

Love elder Nelson #dan
1. to all the mothers! Happy Mother's Day! 
2. some elders in the zone!
3. some less active family
4. hotness
5. me trying to get on Americas got talent! 
6. one of my recent converts from a old area!

Missionary Message

This week has been norm but here's the sitch!  I'm grateful for all the letters and packages...keep 'um coming👍!

So we got to have a lot of fun! I got to go on an exchange with Elder Hettinger.  He's from Chicago and is the best!  He was a Spanish elder but got cut from the team and is trying his hand in the English world.  He's not doing to bad!!!

After that exchange, I went immediately over to the zone leaders and exchanged with them I got to exchange with Elder Zambarno.  He's nice and is from Cali.  We had a lot of fun, but their area is straight ghetto... I mean, I met a guy named Mr Cowboy!

We also had Stake Conference and it was a blast!  This lady came with us. Her name is Charleen.  She liked it, but it was long to sit in the same meeting!!!!

Sorry this letter is short! I love you all and am grateful for you all!

I know that the lord works through Obedient servants and as I become more worthy, He will lead me to those elect!!!!

#1 
#2 
#3 
#4 Elder Hettinger!
#5 Elder Zambarno
#6 Playing foosball with the zone leaders!

Missionary Message

#hello! Tis my people!

So this last week has been a blast!  We have had a lot of fun times\gangsta/good!  
This one lady, her name is Linda, she is a member of the church, but won't go back so we're just here to serve her.👍On Wednesday, we went over to her house and did some fun things and I got to cut some bushes with a big electric cutting thing🔪 It was a blast!

Then we put our norm cloths on and went out with brother Allen! We went knocking a little but he told us of some great tips on how to help people feel comfortable, like my favorite one was "you knock on a door and step back behind a crack or off the porch and then when they answer we ask them if we can cross the line or if we can come up on the porch?"  It's so ridiculous it's hilarious!!  They totally fall for it and feel right at home!  We have done it a couple times and now I'm trying to perfect it!  FYI this method is
called "disarming"... so amazing!

There's this lady in our ward she is 94 years of age and is so nice!  She fell and got pretty banged up so we got to visit and I'm so grateful for old people they have so much love for the world!!  It's unbelievable!

We have an investigator named Charleen.  She's great!  She really loved the Plan of Salvation and how the Church is.  She said she believes the Book of Mormon is true and it's really exciting!  We are looking forward
to see her again!

The Reid's are great!  She just got called to be the mission meal lady and is so great at it!!  We got to go eat at her house and had a ton of ribs! Yummmm!

Well, my conversion is going great!!! Jesus loves us! I know it!

Here's my testimony... God lives! The Atonement is the healing power that can fix all things! God will lead us to what we need to do when we are obedient to the laws and ordinances!

I love my family and know it's eternal! In the name of Jesus Christ amen!

Thanks again for writing me! I'm so grateful for the packages and letters!  Please continue to write me and send me packages!
I love you all!!!

#1 member Linda 
#2 cheerwine I actually quit caffeine as of right now! 
#3 as a missionary we do not care about signs or anything that says "don't knock on our doors!"

Missionary

This week has been fantastic!

I'm so grateful for the letters and all the packages!  Don't hesitate to send me CDs with music... something must of happened when I asked y'all on the Christmas call cause I haven't gotten any.  It's probably the mail service! ;)


I got to go on exchanges with Elda Knibb.  He's from Washington and he converted only a couple years ago.  Both of his parents are not members.  He's a great guy! He is going home in a couple months which is pretty sad, but it's all good!

We had interviews with the President.  This was the last one so its pretty sad.  He's gonna be gone in no time! He's been great and I know he is a great servant of God!

We have little miracles each day, but it's hard to write them so I'm just gonna tell a couple of funny stories.  So we were teaching this girl and at the end of the lesson we asked if she would pray and she said "yes, I would love to start us off" and then who ever wants to can finish us?? So I kinda laughed and said I'll just pray! Not sure what kind of prayer it would have been but kind of wishing I didn't say it now!

We were trying to find a less active and we walked up and he had his headphones on and was looking the other way so we kinda waited until he turned around.  It was 5 minutes almost and I yelled a couple times saying hello Brother Brown!!? And after a few I was busting up cause it was just so funny!

So, I'm working on cutting out words that are yucky... here are some "crap," "nuts," "dude," "like."  It's really hard to do so its gonna take the rest of my life!

Well, we are trying to work through members right now and it's really hard, but we will endure! Here's a photo that made me think of home.  I love you all so much thanks for all you do!  I love you again! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Laser Tag on Preparation Day...

Elder Nelson

This week has been really fun! It was bike week! #notmyfavweek

This week I have been reading over a lot of the conference talks and am loving them all!  Man do I love President Monson!

We got to work at the store house.  That was a blast!  These are some great people there!

In my area right now we have a lot of finding to do and so were on our toes looking hard.  I have been studying in Mosiah! I love that book.  There are so many great story's and I'm about to read over Abinadi and his death but he's my favorite because he doesn't care what others think... only what God thinks!

There was a lovely lady we met.  Her name was Kiri and she has about 10 cats, 4 dogs and lives in a beautiful home.  We started to talk with her and she was telling us about how God is all of us and that we're all Jesus and we wanted to understand where she was coming from but we just couldn't.  Especially due to the fact that she has had several near death experiences... she made sure that we knew that multiple times.  In the end we were able to teach about the Plan of Salvation and testify of Jesus Christ, our Savior!! #goodtimes

There's a member that lives in our apartment complex and he's been great lately!  He's a PI for (those who don't know what that means it's private investigator) so it's always hilarious talking with him and sometimes when we're leaving the apartment, if we see him, we will text him and say "we got a Visual."  If we see him, it's the best! He's the best!

We had zone meeting on Friday and it was a blast!  After, we had one of the Assistant's come to our area and that was so nerve wrecking, but he gave us a good report and he went his merry way.  His name is Elder Butler from Missoula, Montana. I tried so hard to find a relationship, but got no where.  I'll continue to work hard!

We got to help Sister Martin with some gardening that was fun!

Elder Blackett and I are doing our best!

I am so grateful for all the letters and packages... I love candy! Thanks for that!  I also love many other things like letters with pictures of my family/friends/Obama!!

Thanks again!  I love you all!😘