Email from February 23, 2015

Baptism of Omar

Hey I´m sorry for being short in advance but the lights went out just as I was going to send out the weekly email. . . . I am a little frustrated but it´s all good. 

So I learned a couple things this week.

I learned that you can find Christ like attributes all over the book of Mormon but the thing I didn´t understand was that the Christ like attributes were shown but other people and not necessarily Christ himself. I am really happy I learned this because now I am seeing them all over the place.

I also learned in the new testament a little something in there. Christ is talking about the last day and I learned a great something about repentance. So in chapter 13 I think it was it says that when abominations start appearing like what Daniel says that you should flee for the mountains and you should not go back to get something from your house or turn around to grab your coat. I learned that with sin when we see it we need to flee as fast and as far away as possible as we can. And most of all we can´t return at all to it. This I learned and I hope that in this small email you have learned a little bit too. I hope the best for you guys and you will always be in my prayers. I LOVE YOU ALL XD 

Know the good and don´t forget to choose it too :)

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ELDER NISSON

6 MONTHS!

Who wants a deer leg?

Look I made you breakfast and it is HAPPY to see you!

 Made some caramel popcorn

Email from February 16, 2015

This week was an absolute struggle but in the end it was all good! We had a good time getting everything ready for investigators members and trying to get menos activos to church this week. And let me tell you guys. I had the worst Valentine´s day EVER!! haha but really all I thought was we have a baptism tomorrow we have a baptism tomorrow. and thank goodness we had a baptism yesterday! whoot! but I forgot the cable so I´ll be sure to get that to you guys next week. We had some people REALLY shut us down this week . . . . like really bad! haha we had a pretty good laugh from it because that´s all we can really do. I got sick . . . . . go figure. It got really cold this week and in the same week really hot. .. .  sounds like utah. but I won´t complain . . . . not at alllllllllllll. maybe a little bit . .  but only a little. so not to seem like I´m doing a lot of dangerous things but I accidently burned my hand.  . . . . but not bad at all but I was at an investigators house and that certain investigator was REALLY freaking out! haha he was like! You need to go to the doctor and you need this cream and medication and all this stuff. It was really interesting but it turns out some cold water and some voodoo cream took care of it in one day. oh and don´t forget some blessing from God that helped quite a bit. 

I have 2 things to give you guys this week but the first one is a little less than the first but I want to save the best for last. 

So this week in my studies I have found that God works in 3´s and I´ll explain why. My companion and I were reading a talk called divine companionship and in it, it said we have to be good companions to each other but at the same time to the spirit too. and at that moment I realized in a string of inspiration that God works in 3´s.

3 in the presidency

2 missionaries and the spirit

God, Jesus and the spirit

In Doctrina y convenios it says " in your heart and in your mind you will know the truth of all things." Heart mind and spirit

so that was a really good experience to me :)

The last experience I had and it´s a good one.

so I heard a story about a guy that did not believe at all in God not one bit he had given up all type of religion. But he was still asking for a sign from God that he was there. one night he came home a little drunk and fell asleep really fast. There was a person in front of him that said "what are you doing with your life?" 

" I don´t know what I´m doing"

he then looked up and saw that the person was dressed all in white.

"why don´t  you change?"

"it´s because I don´t believe I have nothing I can believe in me"

The man in white showed his hands and said

"You dont believe in me?"

and the man could see the holes in the mans hands.

I will never forget this story and I will always remember what Jesus has done for me and I will never forget that that will be a question for everyone. 

"You don´t believe in me?" 

wow. . .  that´s powerful stuff. 

I hope the best for you guys I love you all and remember that God doesn´t put a trial in front of us just because he wants to. God ALWAYS has a purpose.

GOSPEL´S TRUE

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ELDER NISSON

Email from February 9, 2015

Alright so this week was a really weird one and a really stressing one. We had a zone switch this last Wednesday and we all took turns in an area that wasn´t in our district so I thought that was pretty cool. I really enjoyed working in a whole different area and with the newbie that was there. In this particular area there was a lot of . . .. . . Interesting people and some in the best kind of way. We had 2 people at the same time contact us! other people contacting us! it was really weird and the fact that there was 2 of them made it even better. I hope that they did well in that other area. Then I got back to my area and apparently there was a couple miracles that happened. Then we worked with a guy named Omar that needs to get married. . . . . what is this issue that seems to go around! everyone needs to get married over here! but that´s fine it´s all good. We got permission to baptize him and we made a couple of changes in his living situation so that he could have the opportunity. And then we are teaching this one guy named louis who drinks a lot and other stuff. We gave him a really good lesson on the atonement and he just couldn´t wrap his mind around the fact that no matter what he did in the past he could still be cleaned of all sin. He has the desire to change but he doesn´t think it should be this fast.  . . . . but really he´s been prepared all his life for this. :) other than that it has been a regular week. I can´t complain at all and I am really enjoying what we´re doing right now. My companion was the funniest this week! whenever he got picked to say the prayer he would say "¿es porque soy negro?" which the translation is "because I´m black?" hahah I laughed so hard this week! Man that´s my companion for ya. he keeps saying stuff like that like he said one time that someone called him the n word and he said he didn´t even flinch and his companion was really surprised and asked him about it and said what´s the problem? I´m black! hahahaha I laughed so hard. 

This week I learned a huge thing in the new testament. It was about the woman who had weak blood (that´s the literal translation) and it said that she went to a lot doctors and they all gave her some type of treatment that didn´t help. It also says (in Spanish) tuvo muchisimo medico and the phrase we use "go to the doctor" also means "ir al medico" in Spanish and it dawned on me that she probably tried everything she probably was told by a lot doctors that she would never get better and that her condition was going to be permanent. But she had the faith and the initiative to only think that I need to touch the mantel of Jesus and I will be whole again. WHAT FAITH!! I think that´s a great example for us in these times that the world will tell you and get into your head that you will never be the same or you will never have the ability to do something but in reality "I can do all things through Christ" I think that I really need this mentality especially in the mission where God is ever present. It´s almost like the story of everyone getting bit by THE SNAKE and all they had to do was look at a brass snake and be healed. I feel like with that there might have been some effort needed well more than just turning a head but who knows. All I know is that the atonement is a lot simpler than people think and all they need to do is repent accept the love and at least try to do better and follow God´s will. 

I LOVE YOU ALL 

GOSPEL IS TRUE I PROMISE

NEVER TIRE OF GOOD WORKS MY FRIENDS

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ELDER NISSON

Email from February 2, 2015

So this week was pretty good I'm not going to lie! We lost another teacher this week and with him another investigator! We have a companionship in our district that haven't had the same investigator for more than a week and I feel really bad for them. Speaking of investigators our investigator is absolutely the hardest person ever to teach and on top of that in Spanish but that's not really that bad anymore. We had a missionary leave this week and it was hard on everybody even though he wasn't in our district. The next day we had a missionary have a panic attack and the ZL's (us) got to help him out and eventually gave him a blessing and just to make sure that everything was OK we sent him over to the ER and everything is good to go now. Besides that district B left for mexico on monday and we were handed the ZONE BALL to describe what the zone ball is is it's a foam ball with a yellow smiley face and has signatures of all the ZL's before us. We were also given the location of a secret room that supposedly has pillows that fill the room and I can't express how excited I am for the day that we go there!!! Speaking of ZL's I know you might have some questions as to what we do. We honestly don't do very much besides interview the DL's and we organize who prays and who passes the sacrament! And also since I'm a ZL I get to have a little bit of "diplomatic Immunity" for talks :) We got our flight plans today and I'm really excited to go! We have to wake up at 4:30 in the morning and our flight is at 8:30 and lasts till 2 something and that's to get to atlanta. After that I don't quite remember what we do but we have it all in paper so don't worry too much about me. Our new teacher is Hermana Steward and she is a great teacher. I can say that I have learned a lot of phrases that I'll be using on the daily. Para ejemplo there is a phrase "se le plancho!" which (as I'm told) means "you got ironed!" and that is the Mexican equivalent of "you got burned!" so I use it . . . . . . A lot. Another few phrases that the District I'm in uses is "Tengo dibs!" which is not something that we will probably won't be able to use in Mexico but it means "I have dibs" there is also hota ka which means JK and since there is a rule here in the MTC that we can't dance we will scream at each other "NO BAILANDO" if any of use start to dance. We have picked up a game that we play every once and a while called Gadianton Robbers which is a MTC version of Mafia. The people are the Lamanites, The saving angel is the 3rd nephite, The mafia is the gadianton robbers, and the detectives are chief judges. Just recently we've added a character named Teancum who is able to choose a person to kill if he himself is killed so you could say things get pretty intense! All in the appropriate time of course. I think my Spanish is pretty good for some broken Spanish but I know what it's going to be like when I get to Mexico! I won't understand a thing. 

all in all it has been a normal week here in the MTC! Always remember that the gospel is true! and that it is through the trial of our faith that makes our testimony grow. So don't be disheartened when things don't go immediately well for you. Always remember that it is through Heavenly father and Christ that we can be made clean and that we can not only become like him but while we are here we can have someone to understand us and to go to for support. I know this to be true wholeheartedly.

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ELDER NISSON

Email from January 26, 2015

So this week was a hard one. . . . a really hard one. I was the only one with knowledge of the area and that isn´t really the bad part. All our news either fell or changed the day I went out to work. It was really frustrating. So we started from scratch. We worked hard and found a couple possible news and it seemed harder than it should have. And the funny  thing was that we went on interchanges and Elder Demars came down to help us and the first 2 people we contacted turned out to be news. . .  I could not believe it! But all is well right now. I am actually speaking more english than I originally thought. Because I have met a lot of people that speak fluent english! There is a family here that wants to get to know you guys! They are the familia Olivo and if you can find Fernanda or Karen then you basically have the rest of the family. But they only speak spanish except Karen knows english. so be prepared to use a lot of google translate! :P Other than thay we really haven´t had REALLY exciting week this week. There is this lady here that really doesn´t like mormons or something like that because everytime we say buenas tardes she goes off! She doesn´t use one single regular word. All the words she says are some type of swear word. haha really it´s not like anything is going to happen to us . . . .  we might get hit with a broom but who knows.

This week was a really good one and I found a scripture to fight through the hard times this week it´s in Jacob 4:7 and it basically says that God gave man weakness so that they can see that they can do anything through Christ. I absolutely loved it. I would just remember that scripture every time it would get rough and I know that if I am continually trying my hardest to be the best then the Lord will give me an extra boost to achieve what I need to do here. 

With all the love I can possibly give :)

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ELDER NISSON

Email from January 19, 2015

So finally I can sit relax and write you guys! whooot I’m all for that! So this week was rather disappointing but I chalk it all up to be the albedrio of other people so I won’t worry too much but this means we got a lot of work for this week! So I got a new companion! His name is Elder Medina and he is from the Dominican Republic! So you could say he’s pretty cool! He played basketball and also a little bit of baseball so he’s really good in my book already! This last week we had every single person fall. EVERYONE! We had 2 coming in for first 2 coming in for second and 1 baptism and slowly one by one they all fell . . . . . I did not like it one bit. But life goes on and I guess it means we gotta work harder. We should have a lot ready to go and ready to get baptized and everything! So we just gotta find them. I’m excited to work with my new companion and we’re to work hard and get success. I’m not exactly sure what we are going to do! But I do know that we’ll get a lot of success if we just do what missionaries do. Elder Pyne got changed out and a lot of families here are going to miss him and I hope not TOO much and not talk to me! haha but more than anything I know that it’ll be alright. 

So this week was kinda really hard but I’m starting to get used to the fact that it’s probably going to be like this for a very long time so I’ll just have to get used to it. I know that this change will be a good one and I know that this change will prove if I am going to do OK or really good or FANTASTIC and I am for the fantastic. I was reading the quote from coach Carter the one where it says "it is not our darkness it is our light that scares us" and I thought why not? It’s perfectly possible and if we set our minds to something we’re going to have a great potential to do anything. I really appreciate your support and the constant love that I get from you guys and I hope that you are doing really well over there.

CON MUCHISIMO AMOR

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ELDER NISSON

Email from January 12, 2015

So I have to explain what went on last week a little bit. So last week we went to this place called Centro and we were practically doing everything that we could and we were running everywhere trying to get everything done. so don´t hate me too much! This week we had a lot of fun I sent a package, just barely, that has this stuff in it that I can´t have. 

Cologne (was a gift), Chess set (Aztec stuff), Aztec calendar, ancient knife, Taylor’s mug
 

  The Angel of Independence

And there is something really fun that I put in on one of the sides of the chess set that can only be handled by me and sterling. Don´t worry I have a video of me playing with it.

After eating the ‘Pan de los Tres Reyes’   There are little people hidden in the bread. 

So in Centro there are cathedrals and they recently uncovered a Aztecan temple and seeing that was pretty stinkin cool. In the history of Mexico when the conquistador´s came around they didn´t like the temples there at all so they buried them and built on top of them with cathedrals and stuff like that so they excavated underneath the cathedral de Mexico city and they have steps of the old temple and it even still has some skulls and stuff from the old sacrifices pretty stinkin cool if you ask me. in the way of life I found something to replace tuna in my diet. I found this proteined up mac and cheese that is too easy to make and I eat that pretty much every night. So my plan is to come back home and cook some of the things you would find here and hopefully I will be able to do it justice. We had lot of people come up to us this week and I really enjoy the fact I don´t have to contact that much more! haha but it really is all good. Today I got asked by someone if they could get a book of mormon for their nonmember friend in Centro today. I knew I should have packed the BOM back there. 

 A little more of Centro

 The cathedral

This week we had a lot of help from the members! I think God thought that he should give us some help or something. But we met a person who is a cousin to our mission leader and he has told us that he wants to get baptized. Then just yesterday we had a recent convert bring a friend of hers and we took them to a members house. and it turns out that she had a rough breakup the day before. I cannot begin to tell you how much crying there was going on in that room. There was three girls at the table about 20 years old each and then me and my companion. SO MUCH CRYING. I don´t even know if we needed to be there. We just said well we can help . . . . .. . with BAPTISM!! so she´s getting baptized. My testimony has really grown on how much we have an influence on each other. I hope that everyone that is reading this email knows that they are being watched. (not creepily) and that they are being followed too and sometimes by people that we wouldn´t know too well. I encourage that everyone be sure that they are consistently trying to be better trying to improve and to bring others with them because in reality if we don´t make an effort to help others then there won´t be a lot of people to talk to after this life. 

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ELDER NISSON

Email from January 5, 2015

Hey sorry for the lateness but I have to go in a little bit we had a crazy day but I’ll tell you all about later. But for this week we had a baptism. Pictures will come later. I promise I will respond to all your emails next week but you have to be patient. This week was really cold for some reason like more than usual. And I LOVED it. This week since we baptized we went to centro, which is a place in the middle of Mexico City that has all this sweet architecture and all these buildings and really just culture in general. I will send pictures! This week was a good one and one I won’t forget because to get the water ready for this baptism we had to look everywhere for the problem. It was not filling up. . . .  at all! My companion and I were freaking out! But through some witty Missionary knowledge we were able to fill up the font enough to baptize her. . . .  kneeling down. Yeah it was legit. 

I really loved all your emails. and I am SO sorry that I couldn’t get to respond with length and with time but I love you guys still and I know that through the hard times we find out what we are supposed to learn. Sometimes we have to look from Gods point of view and see what he is trying to teach us in this life. I am so grateful for this perfect Heavenly father to help me and to do what’s best even though it hurts at the time. I am also grateful for the selfless example of Christ and it will always be something I will work on and admire in other people especially in the example of Christ

LES AMO

Tengan bueno dias este semana

Email from December 29, 2014

 It was SOOOOOOO cold!!!!

This week has continued to be rough!! But it ended really happy! This week we still have a sickie aboard so we still estamos ayudando puerta grande 2 and it has really taken a toll on us! haha but it’s all good to be honest. It was a really good time in our zone activity this week because of Christmas and all that jazzy fun stuff. We began with some basketball and some breaking of the piñatas and it was sooooooo much fun! I was online but I was short! Every time! But it’s all good. We had a good time anyway. Then we watched FROZEN!! In Spanish . . .  . . .  with English subtitles. It didn’t feel the same hearing the songs in Spanish so I sang the songs in English to myself. . . . Thank you savanna for watching it so many times. ¡Y si hacemos un muñeco! So that was great and this week we are going to watch wreck it ralph. So excited! We had to do some extra work to get all the pisos completed for this week. But we ultimately completed them. I got really comfortable with the Spanish language because I am beginning to have a hard time talking in ingles. It was really good to SEE you guys this week! I was so happy I could at least have 20 minutes. Puerta grande had a lot of success this week and also us but we had it because God gave us a baptism. Literally that is what happened. We had every fecha drop for going to church and everything! grrr but at church we were introduced to a girl that already has 5 assistancias y nos dijo que tiene un testimonio y todo eso!! All she was missing was the baptism and confirmation! And that is why I root for Gods team.

This week was hard because there wasn’t very many people to visit and there wasn’t very many to contact either! but I was reading a little bit in Job because of this hard time and if anyone had a hard time it would be this guy and if anyone set the example of enduring trials it would be this guy and I found a GREAT scripture to help me out (roughly it goes like this) God knoweth my path and giveth the trial and I will come out like gold I really love this scripture so much it gives me the determination to do what Job says " to come out like gold" I really want to be same if not maybe really close to coming out of every trial like GOLD!! I also know that God gives us trials to shape us and to teach us a lesson. To help us understand something or achieve something that we have asked for. This week I have also arrived to know that trials are an opportunity to prove to ourselves and to other people what we are made of and I am determined to come out like gold

Les amo muchismo y espero que toda esta bien con ustedes y espero que los pruebas van a cambiarles por lo mejor y por su ayuda en sus vidas

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ELDER NISSON

Email from December 22, 2014

This week was one to remember and more about the struggle and hopefully the growth that my investigators will get. Here there are some weird traditions and I will now explain some of them. The pinatas here are made like stars and they sing and all that then break them. My companion was talking with me about it. It’s like birthday parties! How about we give little kids a sharp object and spin them around a couple times and try to get them to put it in the right spot! But this time it’s how about we give a bunch of adults beer and then give them a bat. So you could say it gets pretty crazy.

This week with our friendly Elder Reynoso out with the chickenpox we had to work 2 areas! I have never been so exhausted in my entire life. So we went on interchanges a lot to get both areas worked. When I was with my old companion from the MTC we worked really hard even though we had only a little experience. But my companion is the type of guy to share with everyone! And I mean everyone. He contacted a gay couple.  But it’s ok because he didn’t know at the time so I will only tease him for a little while. Maybe.

One of the members we visited showed us some videos about Christmas. One of them was the Christmas video sent out by the NBA. (It counts as Christmas so it’s all good) and he started to show us the teaser trailer for the new star wars and I got the 2 words "I don’t" and before you know it my companion has me in a headlock and we watched it. He was sooooooooooooo geeking out over it. It was ridiculous. Probably because he’ll be home by that time to enjoy it. Dang it.

We gave service this week too! Finally it feels good to actually do something like that. We helped a member paint her walls and me and my companion both looked white. Well more than usual anyway. 

This week was really, really, really hard on me and the other companions and I’m pretty sure that I have never felt more exhausted. With the Christmas week here tons of people were going on vacation or had the mindset that they were going. And there was an opportunity for the adversary. I haven’t felt more sadness or discouragement ever in my entire life!! I just tried to keep positive this entire time and at times I just wanted to disappear or something like it. But thank goodness I got a good companion and especially God as help for me. Because without them I don’t know what I would have done. I found scriptures about God strengthening the 14-year missionaries when things were looking bleak for them. I found strength in these scriptures especially "suffer with patience in your struggles and trials" (something along those lines) and boy did I learn. Then came in the quote that I will probably use for the rest of my life. WORK HARD PLAY HARD PRAY HARDER. I definitely prayed and fasted for this week and even though the rewards are not immediate, this is where faith comes in and I know that through God and through the atonement of Jesus Christ I can get through this monumental challenge. I am also very grateful for each and every one of you that help me in my times of trial. I love getting the emails and the spiritual support I get every week from you and I hope that one day I can return the favor.

STAY HAPPY CHURCH IS TRUE!!

CON AMOR

Email from December 15, 2014

So this was the first week in plateros, Tacubaya I found out that our area is small because we have a lot of apartments and there are a lot of people here! I have also found that there is a lot of people here that are content and don’t want to do anything. But thank goodness there are people that want to listen. We meet a few people and all of them are Christians so that’s good that they have that background but it’s hard because they talk so darn much.

Elder Pyne my new companion is a district leader and he has so many people that he knows in this area that will either A) give us free food or B) give us a discount. I am living it up here! But this isn’t all fun and games it turns out. I am the only one as of now that hasn’t gotten sick (knocks on wood)

Home Sweet Home.  Love the mirror.

If there ever was a place that would be grand zero for zombies it would be this one. I found out that it´s true that this place has crazy people. We have a guy ask for cards every time we see him and he is always smiling. ALWAYS!! It’s a little creepy at night ok!

I found that the gorditas here are absolutely to die for. I am so making them when I get back!

So this week we had the Virgins birthday. It got soooooo crazy over here. I hardly slept! ha-ha and there was a priest at every altar and people just gathered around and listening. So talking to people was difficult but good thing we were prepared for it because we already got our contacting done. The day after there was absolutely no one in the street. NO ONE. My companion said he felt like we were in I am legend.

And then another thing happened. So my companion and I were in a bakery giving a lesson and there was a family of 3 that came in. 2 girls and a mom. And one of the girls starting to flirt with us. Literally all she said was how great our eyes looked. I know my eyes are very cute but that hasn’t happened before. Needless to say my companion was distressed all the way home. I am sorry I didn’t get very many pictures this week but I promise that there will be more on the way.

I got a lot of rejection this week and not a lot of success but I still worked. This is a way Satan tries to dissuade us. Using tactics through discouragement and things like that. We have to remember that just because something that has happened to us we can’t be afraid to keep going and to keep trying. All our Father in Heaven wants is for us to keep improving. Every day we need to keep building and to keep growing. That is why this life is here is for us to become something that we can’t see but we know that we have potential for. There will be those days sometimes weeks and even sometimes months of pure distress and struggle. But as long as we are taking it all in for improvement we will have accomplished something that God has wanted for us.

CHURCH IS TRUE. We aren’t perfect but we are supposed to strive for it.

LOVE YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! XD

Email from December 8, 2014

HOLD

Email from December 1, 2014

This week was a special one! So we were working hard, as usual, and every one of our investigators it seems like [they] don’t want to change and accept the great message that we are giving. Needless to say it was a little depressing. So I fasted and prayed for a miracle from at least one of our investigators. And here is my testimony of fasting right here. So we go with the ZL´s to an investigator who I thought was pretty good. We show up to his house and the first thing that we talk about is the possibility of him being baptized this Sunday. Literally he said that he had something happen to him and after, he said I want to get baptized. So we baptized them. And another miracle, I am pretty sure that I can finally contribute a lot more in lessons now. Spanish! woot!

And today we got some new suits. And just to tell you guys how cheap things are here I got an Italian suit with 2 shirts and 2 ties for around 170 bucks. I am so happy about it! haha

I lost my plaque this week and have been using my magnet one for a long time. Just know that the bus driver was just that crazy.

For thanksgiving I made everyone chocolate pancakes from cake batter. I turned out awesome!! This week we had what they like to call "gringas" and they are so good! I put some really hot sauce on that thing and it was so good! haha even more so. The funny thing was that Elder McCubbins said "Let’s bust those white girls out!" so a gringo is a white guy and a gringa is a white girl. . . . It was pretty funny.

I am almost complete with my training! I am scared and excited than anything.

We also had the opportunity to visit the temple with our investigators! it was so much fun! The visitor’s center was really cool and I sent pictures for you guys :) The temple is pretty big and at night it is absolutely gorgeous! Going into town has its risks too. I saw so many posters for so many videogames and movies it was ridiculous. Now I know why I was sent in the boontooles. 

“Remember” is a really important word in the scriptures and always remember who created you, who knows you and who will always, without difference, love you. He know everything about you and what will make you happy. Trust that he has something so great for you that you dedicate yourself to him! CHURCH IS TRUE

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ELDER NISSON

Email from November 24, 2014

This week was eventful and pretty exciting. We finally got a fecha (date) for baptism and I have no doubt about more. Miracles have been happening a lot here. Like when we find someone who wants to get baptized and has all the assistances that he needs. As a contact too! So I’m pretty thankful for that too.

  2A (School) on the left 5A (School) on the right.  And yes we played him at Dixie camp.

So I was told that the hottest pepper here in Mexico is the Habanero, which I am not inclined to believe so quickly! There has to be something hotter here.

So prank update. If I haven’t told you guys already the Zone leaders of our area had made our room a dusty mess of foot powder from a surprise attack! But it gets better. We had a pair of missionaries visit our house and have to stay the night. The Zone leaders bought some Talco powder and I mean 2 bottles of the stuff and absolutely positively got everyone! When it was all over and we were settling down everyone had Talco on their face and everything in our room (and I mean everything) had a thin layer of it. I looked so cool after it was all done! haha. 

Team Talco

 The Aftermath

Also we were preparing a baptism of 6 for the other elders and it turned out the tank that the baptismal font empties into was really full. So we started to empty it but we couldn’t let the water leak out into the street or else they would complain that we were wasting water but we weren’t, we were saving souls here! So we tried putting the trash cans in front of the faucet and then taking it to the drain but that was inefficient. Then we needed to do something else so I had the genius idea of tying a mop to a bucket and taking it out from the tank! and we did that and it was awesome! Then we had another idea to use the dust picker upper thing I don’t know the name of it. . . . and it ended up in the bottom of the tank. I am going to start off by saying that it wasn’t my fault! It was Elder McCubbins! haha but it would have been me if not him. I think I’m getting bigger muscle wise. It´s either that or my head so take your pick. 

  Mexican Engineering

  Elder McCubbins getting into the tank.

So I learned this week that we really need to focus on what really brings miracles. And it’s obedience. The more you’re obedient the more miracles will happen. That if you are blessed it’s because you are obeying a law of some sort. That every good thing comes from God and we should be grateful these gifts! CHURCH IS TRUE I LOVE YOU ALL!! Remember who to be grateful to.

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ELDER NISSON