Ain't no party like a Holy Ghost party cause a Holy Ghost party don't stop!!

Hey yallsins it's your boy Elder Nelson! This week has been great!!  I am now in Concord!

New Address:
484 Camrose Circle 
Concord, NC
28025

Would love any house warming gifts!

Thanks again for all the emails and other great things! I have been blessed because of you all!!!!!!

Giving a shout out to those that represent the Nelson click be you!

I feel like I could be a rapper!

Okay let me get started! I am now with Elder Hatch! He is from California south part! He is around my age and we laugh all day... it's out of control! I'm loving this transfer so much! So some good story's I will now tell!

We met this lady and we started to talk about doctrine and she wanted to talk about speaking in tongues so we wanted to hear this in action and so we dug and dug and finally we heard her pray in tongues.  It sounded like baba Bella villa ba ve la nevha po Je Ni.  It was so different so as we listened in me and my companion kept our peace and tried to understand where it came from and she explained that she didn't understand what she said but she controls when it comes out and when it stops! Anyways, thought you would like to understand speaking
in tongues from a Penecostal church!

Also, there is a church here where the man that started it claims he is the Holy Ghost reincarnated and his name is sweet daddy Madison!  Totally true story!


Our district here is kinda small.  We have 3 companionships in it!  We have 3 sisters in our ward as well as us. They are the sister training leaders so that's fun.
 
We have this new saying "pop the lid" and we're talking about the lid of our faith and how we need to not limit ourselves and work hard-corely!

Miracles were happening here in Concord!   We were biking and saw this lady she told us we would have to come have dinner one day and we were like yeah sure and then she went inside and we had no idea who she was
so we knocked on the door and talked with her and she is a member and wants us to teach her daughter in law! So great full!!!

I love this work!  I know God has called us to the work! I am so fearful for this chance I feel like I'm truly being changed by Christ! I love His Atonement! I know we can feel the cleansing power of repentance as we act! I love each one of you and hope you won't be shy and reach out to me and share your love! I love letters!

Thanks again!  Love you so much! I love you!

Love love love love each one of you! I know God loves each of us more then we love our smartphones or iPads!

I'm not sure what to do with my hands!

This has been a fun week! It doesn't feel like PDay so that's nice!  💫I'm getting transferred! So on to the next area where I will be a tool in Gods hands!

Thanks for all the letters and uplifting emails! I love support so if your bore don't get idle write me! Hahahah

We had some miracles this week.  One of them was with a lady named Temisha.  She was walking her garbage out and we ran up on her and started talking to her.  She thought we were gonna mug her but we assured her
that we were only missionary's sent from our Father that is in Heaven!  She liked talking with us and we were able to share some about the Restoration! Her son came up and had some fun talking.  We are gonna be seeing
them tonight and were just super excited!

My companion has been feeling under the weather but is getting back on his feet and were gonna rock it this week!!

It has been sad saying good bye to this area but I know it will be fine if I put my trust in the Lord!

Well wish I had more story's but i don't sorry!

Love you all hope all is well and remember God loves you and wants you to talk to him (pray) so don't wait!

This is Todd.  He's a less active member of the church and we have
had a lot of fun with him of late.

It's Us!

Omg! I love sending my weekly email on Tuesday!! So yesterday was Labor Day so we had to go out on the streets doing what a playa do (aka missionary work)!

Thanks for all the emails and uplifting comments this week! Next week will be transfers so don't send any letters or packages until I have a conformation on weather I'm staying or not!!

This week has been very uplifting!  We had a zone meeting on Thursday and it was pretty great! I was able to give a training on wearing beautiful pairs of glasses cause sometimes we forget to be nice to our companions and don't share uplifting things! So I gave a training about how we need to put on our beautiful pairs of glasses in the
morning!

I believe in Christ!

This week has been super miracle filled!

The other night we played a game of doctor who Risk and I had no idea how to play but I crushed my companion he got so mad! It was great hahaha

The mission will soon be putting the black boxes in the mission cars :(.  They are to watch everything we do like speeding, getting tickets, checking our miles and more! It's gonna be a rough time from here on out!!!

There's a less active mom and daughter in our ward and they had us over for dinner so I thought it would be good to get someone to come with us to hook them up.  So a single man from out west was willing to come so we told him to bring his bike and look good cause it's about to go down! So he shows up with sprinkle cider and is pulling all the moves.  It was totes awkward but I think we made it work! They will be getting married before we know it! We're excited!  

And I'm so grateful for eternal family's. 

The other day we met this guy named Deon! He was great and we have been trying to use the Bible more in our work so as we talked about prophets we brought up Mark 12:1-12 and he loved it! We're excited to use the Bible more in our work!!

Brother Eric Allen! He's like my fav! He spoke this Sunday and told a story of how their was a missionary in his mission that was baptized when he was 8 then his father died.  He lived deep in like Africa or something and when he turned 18 he had a knock on the door.  The bishop had noticed that a young man was turning 18 soon and he needed to prepare for a mission.  The kid hadn't been to church since he was 8 and knew little to nothing about it! He talked with the bishop and the bishop told him that God expects him to serve and that he needs to prepare himself so he started to go to church!  Finally, he went out on his mission and the mission president talked with the person who would be training him and told him he would have to help this kid learn how to read and write and how to do mission work.  The trainer had no clue how he was gonna do it but the Lord helped him and that kid was
able to read.  He was able to write, read and teach and was one great missionary!
It's because God qualifies those who are called!

My testimony is simple... I Love God!  He is truly awesome and if we put him first we will accomplish our goals!

Here's some photos of the work and things!

Thanks for All you do! Love you! Elder (your boy) Nelson!

We are Christians!!!!!

Hey! Yall are my A Team!

So I want to share my love with y'all! I am grateful for all you do for me.  Thanks again!  Please continue to send me emails and letters and love!

This week has been very spiritual! We had a Zone Conference and when we were about to eat lunch our president had the lady's that came to prepare the lunch stand in the middle of us missionary's and we sang "We'll bring the world his truth" and it was such a powerful experience!  We all could barely finish the song! I love sharing the gospel!  It's truly the most powerful work here on earth!!!

We had a lesson with a less active and she talked about all the things that she has struggles with and all these little things that don't really matter in my mind and the whole time her and the two ladies we brought were crying and sharing stories! It finally came to the point where I was able to throw down and get real! So I figured I was gonna say something along the lines of all this doesn't matter if the Book of Mormon is true cause God has his Prophet on earth and he is President Monson and he leads us to righteousness, but instead I started to talk
about eternal family's and the importance of that and I cried the whole time.  It was so weak sauce of me, but I guess the spirit wanted me to share something else!! Anyways, I love eternal families and I cannot wait to be with mine again someday. I know it's true God does love us and he cares for us and wants us to be with him one day! So keep trying!!!!!!!!!!!!

This week I was thinking about the success I have had since I have been in Colfax (5 months) and I know I have shared some good stuff and a lot of good has come of it! But to be honest with myself, not a lot has happened and it's really disappointing to look at that!! But here's where the good stuff comes into place.  So I talked it over with my Zone Leaders and I now understand that I don't mind knocking on thousands of doors a day and having people tell me I'm wrong.  I don't mind all that but it's not the best thing I could be doing so now instead of knocking I will be calling and instead of working hard physically, I will work hard mentally with the phone with Facebook with emails.  I'm just so excited to work and see progression!!!

Also, my new Zone Leader was one of my old ones and he rocks! 

I love you all so much and am grateful for all you do!! Thanks again for the amount of love and kindness you all bring into my life!  We all need to look for ways to improve, the gospel of Jesus Christ will help!

Love you all please write back and share love❤️

I cannot give up because I am the only one who can cause me to fail to receive exaltation 8/17/2015

Welcome to the life of Elder Nelson!!

Thanks again for tuning in this week for my weekly letter of inspiration!  I have received so many letters this week and am enjoying them.  Please continue to send even more so I can enjoy my funny and loving family and friends!!

🔹it's always the hardest to start a letter that usually takes me about 45 to an hour! #jk hope I'm lighting up the crowd for This weeks letter! Please write back so I can know you're reading and enjoying.  Also if you have any questions I would love to respond to the entire body instead of each of you cause we can learn more about what's going on and I can feel more productive in my emails! But if you want to ask personal questions I would love those to!!

🔸this week while looking for a member we had no idea who so we decided to pray. it was about closing time😔 but then we both had an idea about a member and gave him a call and after he agreed to come we remembered
that he was a teacher and the person we were gonna see was a teacher as well!! Miracles happen!!!

🔷 while on exchange with elder Wagstaff in Lake Field we went to this investigators house and they were very frustrated at the moment and didn't want to chat because they had lost a lens to their daughters glasses.  We shared a quick message and asked if we could pray and look for it! My personal feeling at this moment was excited.  I thought we would find it in seconds... my faith was very high!! So after about 5 minutes and after learning that they have turned the house upside down my faith had gone out the window and back to Utah! And
begin to think how long will we look cause we will never find it!!  Then when all hope was lost the member we were with looks down and the lens is right next to him! He picks it up and I was slapped by a spiritual hand! Hahah but really it was a miracle! Also they made it to church this Sunday and brought 2 friends!!! I love God!

I finished the Book of Mormon this week! And loved ever bit of  it and can't wait to read it again! I know the Book of Mormon is true and because I have found this out I know that I'm loved and that no matter how many times I mess up God is always helping me to be better and setting up a plan for me to use the atonement to return to him!

😇this kid named Gregory saw us biking around and came up to us and wanted to know how he could ride around on bikes and share about God!  We are excited to show him how! Will let you know anything else next week!!!! God loves us!

😘I was talking about my family this week with a member and I love you all so very much and am grateful for the support I had and have to be on a mission!!!! Smooches!!

While biking this sketchy van came up to us and come to find out it's a super less active and we took the ride and I got a picture!

Also, brother Dawson asked me to cut his hair I was excited to do it!! I love you all so much and am grateful for all you do!! Please pray for those in need!!

Also don't think your so bad that God doesn't want to hear from you!  As a representative of Jesus Christ and our Father he loves to hear from you! And help you!

God bless our country and those who need God!!!!

Have you been changed by your mission or by Christ? 8/10/2015

Omg I have the best support system! Thank you all so much for the encouragement and love! It keeps the engine running! #theengineisme.

Really good week. found out one of my old zone leaders is my new zone leader so I'm excited!! Love that guy!!

We saw some miracles this week!!  We had one of those really sad days that makes you want to quit, and
so I was laying in the grass and elder Galbraith was sitting there!  And then this lady walks up and says "are you'll from the Lds church" and we said yes we are.  She was very excited and told us about how she was gonna order a Book of Mormon and so you can guess how that meeting went and so we're excited to see her again!!!!!!!!!

Lisa is a lady we have been working with since I got here and she just hasn't wanted to progress! So we had a drop lesson telling her that she needs to step it up and it was so sad totally broke my heart! I have some how made it so I love people in a short time. That's probably the reason RMs get married so quick!!#haha!  But then she showed up to church the next week!! Haha crazy we will see what happens!!!

We met this Asian man last night that yelled at us and we hardly understood a word he said.  It was pretty funny! He told us to go back to our preacher and learn more before we came back to his house!!  Hahah God bless Merica!!

In one of the videos I sent of us hitting golf balls into the pond.  That guy (like have talked about a bit brother Dawson?) he was on the other side and we didn't really know until we hit one and he yelled like he got hit... it was pretty funny!! Hahahah!

Anyways, thanks for all you all do! Love you all!!