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