Email from April 14, 2015

There has been a lot of changes this week. some big some little some interesting and others aren`t so interesting. First of all there has been a little bit of a change here in weather. It`s not too interesting but it`s something. But it did affect me and my companion! One day we were fasting and the sun was beating down on us super hardcore. We had been faithfully fasting all day and the sun depleted all our backup water supply in our bodies and food too. We had no energy. When we finally could eat once I drank some water I began to sweat and soon realized that I had no water to sweat IT WAS SO HOT. Then we were fine (for the most part) for the rest of the day. When I was with my companion there were 2 girls with the ages of 12 and 14 that came up to us out of the blue and gave us a little note to the both of us. I read the note and it says "If you trip get up! have an excelent day" Probably a message from God. And also one of the funniest things happened to my companion. We were waiting for a member at her house and an old man passes us looks at my companion and says "oonga boonga". HAHAHAHA I laughed so hard!! The people here can`t help it I guess. We got a baptismal date for some people finally and we have seen the change in them. It was really nice to see. And for the final change ME! I got changed to a different area named Constituyentes. And surprisingly enough it`s an area that was in my old zone. I`m back baby! so that will be nice. Also I was asigned to be a district leader over the only sisters in the zone and apparently the changes before president changed out the sisters because it was a little too dangerous for them. So that`s nice. My new companion is a really good guy. I can already tell we`re going to be pals. His name is Elder Marquez and he is from more north of mexico and the same place as my mom in the mission!

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So this week I was really wondering how I could internalize the general conference and how I could be a better missionary and a better person in general! so I went and studied some of the notes I took and some scriptures. and more than anything the help Jesus gves us from despair. In the talk of Jeffery Holland he talks about the story about the climbing brothers and they get stuck and the older brother has to jup to reach the ledge. He then says a prayer and jumps with all his might. He starts slipping because all he feels is the sand under his hands. He then feels the hands of his brother and is saved. I think that we have all felt the feeling of despair in our lives when we feel that we are not ever going to be better or that we can`t ever be saved but really he can save us after all we can do.

I know this to be true!! and we can apply this in our everyday lives

LOVE YOU ALL CHURCH IS TRUE

-- ELDER NISSON