Well this week was a good one and I can´t really complain but the fact that not a whole bunch of people went to church made me a little. . . . . . frustrated. I tend to be a little gullible and I tend to believe everyone. That´s hurting me a little here. Here in mexico lying is a . . . . . Talent that everyone seems to have. When they say I´ll go by myself or I´ll be here tomorrow morning. They won´t go and they won´t be there. It´s a little hard at times but we work it out. So us as missionaries need to go for every single investigator and bring them to church . . . . That was something that I didn´t expect to do coming here but I have to do it. This upcoming week we have a baptism planned for angel. And he was a present from the Hermanas. So he has a work that is a little intense and he can´t leave at all in the morning and so he´ll be getting baptized in our ward where he can go. Also we have found 2 familias that are 6 persons each. I am really looking forward to see what they can learn and do this upcoming week. This last sunday they were. . . . busy and couldn´t go to church but I am making it a point and bringing them to church seeing them in white and a year later getting sealed as a family. It´s a goal of mine and also of my companion. So this week we had interchanges with the zone leaders and I got put with a riverton guy. . . . It was awesome. I love that guy! he´s so funny :D. also I got to play basketball. . . . . and I schooled everyone ;) and more than that I had a lot of fun :) It rained all week long. . . . and it rained HARD every single day this week! It was refreshing and some days a little humid.I saw the funniest bumper sticker of all time. But I´m still debating whether I should put it down or not due to you guys might die of laughing. . . . I´ll save it for later.
So this week I have been reading in the chapter of Romans in the bible. I thought since I haven´t read the new testament all the way through I might as well start. I am reading in chapter 8 and it has a lot of stuff having to do with "being carnally minded is death and to be spiritually minded is life" kind of stuff but at the very end of the chapter is my favorite part. It talks about how afflictions and tribulations can´t seperate us from God´s love. And then right after it says that nor life nor death, nor anything above or below the heaveans can seperate us from being loved by God. I really enjoyed reading this. I know that there is nothing that anyone can do that can seperate us from the love of God. I also know that he is always ready to recieve us with open arms all we need to do is go unto him. I have felt his love and I never want to leave it. There are too many blessings and too many things to share with other people than leave. I love you all so much and I wish you all a good one :D
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ELDER NISSON
Thursday, May 21, 2015
Email from May 12, 2015
So this week was. . . . . . A week. Mexico is really big on mother´s day and trying to get people to go to church was a little bit of a difficulty. And then you had that normal catholic mom that told us her son wasn´t there after we saw him go in his house but what´re going to do. We´ll see what we can do with that lady -_-. Next week should be a really successful one and we should find and get a lot more people in church this upcoming week. So this week we had rain every single day this week. Well it would be super hot all day in the morning and then all of a sudden rain clouds would roll in and pour! And that happened every single day of the week. . . . . I can´t complain at all. It felt nice to have some cold water and well. . . rain. I saw one of the funniest things I have ever seen in my entire life. . . . well ok it´s really hard to beat grandpa with a fish hat but it gets close. On the side of a van it said "London cleaning service" and right below it "Bloody good cleaning service" I have no idea why london is here cleaning up mexico but if they´re doing good stuff then I can´t say no.
This week was so much better but at the same time very difficult to handle. We had so many people that could have gone to church but didn´t go. But next week should be a good one with all the possible people we could bring. This week was a little hard and very strengthening. I was able to see things in my own person and also lots of things to improve on. Sometimes we have a huge list of things we need to improve on and it never seems to end. But that´s the thing that is the reason why we have this life. Is to slowly one by one check off every single thing on that list so that we can become perfect like our Father in heaven. I testify of this and some parts of the list are harder than others and others have sub problems and consiquences but without those consiquences we wouldn´t realize what we need to do.
I love you all and I hope the best week for you guys :D
-- ELDER NISSON
My sweet new Mexican tie.
This week was so much better but at the same time very difficult to handle. We had so many people that could have gone to church but didn´t go. But next week should be a good one with all the possible people we could bring. This week was a little hard and very strengthening. I was able to see things in my own person and also lots of things to improve on. Sometimes we have a huge list of things we need to improve on and it never seems to end. But that´s the thing that is the reason why we have this life. Is to slowly one by one check off every single thing on that list so that we can become perfect like our Father in heaven. I testify of this and some parts of the list are harder than others and others have sub problems and consiquences but without those consiquences we wouldn´t realize what we need to do.
My Zone
I love you all and I hope the best week for you guys :D
-- ELDER NISSON
Email from May 5, 2015
So this week I learned quite a bit! A little interesting but pretty good stuff. This week we had a meeting for all the district leaders and it was pretty dad gum awesome. I really enjoyed the learning and the fact that I learned how to make a swan out of an apple. I am enjoying mexico right now. . . . . Because it´s not that hot now it´s raining all the time. And. . . . I . . . . Love it. I was asked to give a blessing to one hermana in my district and she said that spanish or english would be good but asked for english. . . . I couldn´t do it. It was SO HARD. All I talk is Spanish and that´s it! Like what in the world. I have a warning that I probably won´t be able to speak english when I get back home but it´ll all come in time. . . . . I hope.
I can´t really remember what happened this week besides the fact that we worked hard and got everything done we needed done. But I have a pretty good spiritual thought this week. So I was reading in Hechos . . . . . Acts sorry. But in there it says a story about Paul. He was jailed and was being accused and beaten. He was then shown a dream that God needed his testimony in Rome. I was thinking that God was going to open all the doors and let him go free. But that is not what happened! There was a group of people that weren´t going to sleep or eat with him still alive. A person that was a friend of Paul let the judge know and the judge sent him to Rome. . . . . He was still in jail but he was in Rome! And it turns out that the new judge was interested in what Paul had to say. The ways of God will never be known by anyone except the prophet. All we can do is know that he has a plan and that this plan will be perfect for each and every one of us. We just have to be willing to submit to him and to answer his call to be a disciple of Christ. I know that even though I don´t know the path that God has set I just have to put my boots to the line and keep walking. I must ACT and DO in faith and know that God knows. I don´t need to know only that someone that is more perfect than me does. I testify of this. That God cares what we do and he won´t abandon us. Only we abandon him. And sometimes that feels really bad and if it didn´t we wouldn´t know that we abandoned him or we don´t need to do anything more. I love my savior. I love God and I love the plan and the love for everyone he has :D
HAVE a good week everyone
and to family I will be calling you on skype this sunday at well after 5 :D so be ready to see my beautiful face in live :D
-- ELDER NISSON
I can´t really remember what happened this week besides the fact that we worked hard and got everything done we needed done. But I have a pretty good spiritual thought this week. So I was reading in Hechos . . . . . Acts sorry. But in there it says a story about Paul. He was jailed and was being accused and beaten. He was then shown a dream that God needed his testimony in Rome. I was thinking that God was going to open all the doors and let him go free. But that is not what happened! There was a group of people that weren´t going to sleep or eat with him still alive. A person that was a friend of Paul let the judge know and the judge sent him to Rome. . . . . He was still in jail but he was in Rome! And it turns out that the new judge was interested in what Paul had to say. The ways of God will never be known by anyone except the prophet. All we can do is know that he has a plan and that this plan will be perfect for each and every one of us. We just have to be willing to submit to him and to answer his call to be a disciple of Christ. I know that even though I don´t know the path that God has set I just have to put my boots to the line and keep walking. I must ACT and DO in faith and know that God knows. I don´t need to know only that someone that is more perfect than me does. I testify of this. That God cares what we do and he won´t abandon us. Only we abandon him. And sometimes that feels really bad and if it didn´t we wouldn´t know that we abandoned him or we don´t need to do anything more. I love my savior. I love God and I love the plan and the love for everyone he has :D
HAVE a good week everyone
and to family I will be calling you on skype this sunday at well after 5 :D so be ready to see my beautiful face in live :D
-- ELDER NISSON
Email from April 28, 2015
So this will be a double week report from your friendly neighborhood missionary. So this week was pretty good I´m not going to lie! We had a fun time looking around for people in the burning sun! Wow it was hot this week for some weird reason. So this past week we were walking around all normal and then we walked by a soccer court (it´s made of cement so it has to be a court) and the kids there all asked me where I was from and they all thought it was SO COOL that I was from America. It was the funniest thing because there were so many little kids gathered around me and my companion. And now every time I pass by there I find one of those kids and they always say hi. What a great missionary opportunity. This week I had my first interviews as a district leader for baptisms in the district. Really interesting stuff I almost messed it up! haha but don´t worry I fixed it. So there is a missionary mom here in my area and my companion once asked her if she felt alone. And she said that she didn´t feel alone at all! That gave me a little comfort because you guys back home don´t have to feel alone. I thought that was nice of God to give me that experience. So there was something really really really interesting that happened this week. We were walking all normal and I look to the side and up the street a little and there was a total gangsta with a rifle chillin on his shoulder . . . . . . I didn´t feel like I was going to die or anything but I sure thought HOW COOL! so normal. So this week we had a lot of oranges to eat and one that I ate had a lot of seeds and I spat out one of the seeds off to the side and it made it into a bucket. Naturally I had to say buckets.
So this week we got a baptism and I was really happy to have that blessing from God. She turned 9 the day before her baptism so that means she was a convert baptism. I am not going to complain at all. And the thing that I really enjoyed this week was even thought someone has struggles does not meant he gives up and doesn´t want to bless someone. We talked to a person this week and he mentioned that he was going to be blessed because he was a bad guy. That is so not true. God wants to bless you but when we are disobedient he can´t give us a reward. That is why he loves it when we follow the commandments. It gives him the opportunity to bless us! I keep working every day to make myself worthy of his blessings and want every day to be happy. I will someday reach the point of happiness no matter what. But when I say that I know that God would just give me a trial and then i would develop the skill. Because he wants us to work for our gifts so that we don´t forget them easily. I know that God knows what we need and how we can get it and keep it. We just need to trust him and what he´s doing so that we can grow. The greatest challenges were given to the strongest soldiers.
I love you all and I hope for the best week ever! just keep swimming, keep moving forward, and BRING ME THE HORIZON......... I can relax now
-- ELDER NISSON
So this week we got a baptism and I was really happy to have that blessing from God. She turned 9 the day before her baptism so that means she was a convert baptism. I am not going to complain at all. And the thing that I really enjoyed this week was even thought someone has struggles does not meant he gives up and doesn´t want to bless someone. We talked to a person this week and he mentioned that he was going to be blessed because he was a bad guy. That is so not true. God wants to bless you but when we are disobedient he can´t give us a reward. That is why he loves it when we follow the commandments. It gives him the opportunity to bless us! I keep working every day to make myself worthy of his blessings and want every day to be happy. I will someday reach the point of happiness no matter what. But when I say that I know that God would just give me a trial and then i would develop the skill. Because he wants us to work for our gifts so that we don´t forget them easily. I know that God knows what we need and how we can get it and keep it. We just need to trust him and what he´s doing so that we can grow. The greatest challenges were given to the strongest soldiers.
Hermana's Baptism
I love you all and I hope for the best week ever! just keep swimming, keep moving forward, and BRING ME THE HORIZON......... I can relax now
-- ELDER NISSON
Email from April 21, 2015
So this week was a little frustrating and more in the fact that right now I am typing the fastest I have every typed in my entire life! all the computers here in the cyber don`t like myldsmail for some weird reason and I have something like 5 minutes to type to all of you so sorry for that but I will have a great report next week I promise!
Overall this week was good and bad. It feels good to be in a new area and working here in constituyentes. My companion and I don`t talk english at all. I don`t think I`ll get another american companion. I`m actually glad because whenever I start to speak in english it`s hard to revert back to spanish. District leader isn`t super stressful and I enjoy it a lot. I have another companion from (kwawila) I don`t know how to spell it so I`ll have it how it sounds. I`m back in my old zone and actually am really close to the area I served in. Nothing here looks the same but the amount of dogs in the street are about the same. I have seen packs of dogs and all of it is super normal.
I love you all and I am so sorry I haven`t had any time to write but I will give you guys some homework. In Alma 27 and 28 there are some really good information that I got and will share next week. Hasta luego!
-- ELDER NISSON
Overall this week was good and bad. It feels good to be in a new area and working here in constituyentes. My companion and I don`t talk english at all. I don`t think I`ll get another american companion. I`m actually glad because whenever I start to speak in english it`s hard to revert back to spanish. District leader isn`t super stressful and I enjoy it a lot. I have another companion from (kwawila) I don`t know how to spell it so I`ll have it how it sounds. I`m back in my old zone and actually am really close to the area I served in. Nothing here looks the same but the amount of dogs in the street are about the same. I have seen packs of dogs and all of it is super normal.
Waiting up for ZL phone call on Pday
-- ELDER NISSON
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!
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
Pictures of my Area
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
Email from April 7, 2015
This week was another tough one. I have a feeling that this is the hardest area in the whole mission. But who knows. This week I saw the coolest shirt ever. It had the word yagermaister on the front and the back. it reminded me a little bit of Jadon when we would play call of duty black ops 2 zombies. Good times those were. So here in mexico we had a great heat wave come in and I just wasn`t ready for it. the sun was so strong that when I would look at my planner I couldn`t see the words since the white reflected so much of the sun. way hard. but life goes on and everything. I am not going to lie this week was a really tough one. I am waiting for the good times but then I am reminded from stats class that that principle doesn`t really exist. But God`s all powerful so I`m not too worried.
This week I really enjoyed conference. I really liked the phrase "twas I but tis not I" there is a lot of wisdom in that sentence. First he acknowledged that he had done wrong and that what he did was not what he should have done. but the best part is that he said that tis not I. The part that I seem to struggle with. He knew that he was a new person and that he had changed for the better. That what he was changed his future and I garauntee that he will not do that same thing in the future. He changed his character accepted that he did do something bad and knew that the future was his. I really need to develop this great character and hopefully I can literally forget myself here and in the future and have the future to be mine. It won`t be easy but I know that the things worthwhile are never easily gained
Con mucho amor
-- ELDER NISSON
This week I really enjoyed conference. I really liked the phrase "twas I but tis not I" there is a lot of wisdom in that sentence. First he acknowledged that he had done wrong and that what he did was not what he should have done. but the best part is that he said that tis not I. The part that I seem to struggle with. He knew that he was a new person and that he had changed for the better. That what he was changed his future and I garauntee that he will not do that same thing in the future. He changed his character accepted that he did do something bad and knew that the future was his. I really need to develop this great character and hopefully I can literally forget myself here and in the future and have the future to be mine. It won`t be easy but I know that the things worthwhile are never easily gained
Con mucho amor
-- ELDER NISSON
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