Company from Oxford

So I was at home on Thursday afternoon and seen a pickup pull up in my driveway. I had never seen this pickup before. A couple came to the door and knocked, answering I was a little unsure of what they would want. The said there names were Steve Davis and his wife Tina Davis. Mrs. Davis had an accent, I honestly was thinking what are they selling haha. They were from Oxford, MS and are in Brayden's ward. They were here visiting there daughter who just had a baby. They said Brayden had sent them to bring a letter to us and they bought us a treat from Mississippi. They are the sweetest couple and told me they loved Brayden and he was doing amazing. I had goose bumps. What a nice thing for them to do, I am sure they didnt realize how much it meant to me :) It sounds like Brayden loves it so much there, he might not come back..

Brayden's mom

I am pretty much Famous

Hey mom! 

Yeah I had a better week! Yeah I spoke in sacrament my first Sunday here! I forgot to tell you. We are eating way to good! I hope I am not gaining weight we work out every morning at the gym! Yeah we gave a blessing to a lady in the hospital last week it was pretty powerful. Yeah I wrote Hadley and I am going to write shade today! I sure hope they went skydiving!! 

Well that trip sounds fun! Lagoon and swimming I am sure they loved it! 

Things went well this week we found 10 new investigators. But we did a lot of finding and we are hoping some of them turn good! We had to set back some baptism dates for people cause they didn't come to church or they fell back into temptations, but I know they will be baptized soon! So we are hoping and praying and fasting that things will work out. 

This week we were interviewed by the Oxford Eagle (the newspaper) they took our picture and asked questions and put us on the second page, so i am pretty much famous! I will send you a copy of the newspaper soon! i just got to get ahold of it. This week there will be something arriving at your door for your part b-day mom. So I hope your home. I am not going to change over my mission, i want to keep my same personality, yet be able to be serious when the time comes dad!! haha i wont change. 

Story of the week: So our ward mission leader, Bro. Roseman, asked if we could go to an Ole Miss game. We were like that would be sweet! but we didn't know. So we call up president, we ask him if we can go to the game? He said ya know what, i have never been to one and i would love to go! He asked if he could take us? We were like of course you can! He then told us, call me back with the details. So we got the details, Sept. 7 at 6:00. We called him back and he said, dang sorry guys i cant make it to that one... but then he said, you guys go ahead! We went cray cray! He is letting us go to an Ole Miss game! We went and bought our tickets, we got front row, 40 yard line seats to the first home game that Ole Miss plays! They are playing South East Missouri State but still it is going to be sweet! Missionaries going to a football game! yeeehaaa! who can say they did that on their mission! And then the next day we got interviewed by the paper! Crazy week we are pretty much famous! 

So yeah we are pretty excited to go to the game this upcoming week! This week we set up the apartment for the sisters, and guess what! of course they get a flippin nice apartment! Ours is such a dump! But we were nice and put all their beds together and things so we were nice about it. 

Spiritual: If you look in Moses, idk what chapter but it talks about Adam and Eve. It says that Adam and Eve lived 130 years before they had kids... Then for 800 years they had kids, and then died at age 930. Wow that is old. I thought, "How many Kids did they have??" so i did some math, took out some variables and i came to the reasonable number. If they had a kid every nine months to the T... Adam and Eve would have had around 983 kids! That is a lot of kids! I bet that made you guys cry it was so spiritual! 

Thanks for the shoes and everything mom i love them!! Thanks for everything! i love you guys and miss you all! i miss everyone, all my friends and everything! Hi to all'ya'all that look at my blog! thanks for the support. Love everyone, love jesus! 

- Elder Nielson 

 

 

 

Bible Bashing

Hey mom, 

Well things have been hard this week to. We were teaching this lady named Timber. We use the Bus system in Oxford so we were riding that and she came up to us and asked us to teach her. So we arranged to meet her at a coffee shop that is on the Oxford Square. We met her there, as soon as we sat down she had all these questions cause she knew her bible really well. She was asking all these questions like you aren't supposed to add to the bible and all of these bible bashing questions. And I was sitting there just stumped. I realized hard core this week that I do not know my bible very well at all. It made me feel worthless cause I didn't even know how to answer it. I know why, but I cant find the scriptures to back me up. So just thinking I should have paid attention all those years in classes. But I hope as I keep studying that things will become better. 

I am glad things are going well there. Brynlee's hair is gone? dang I bet it looks good! picture? hey thanks so much for the khakis and the tie! I love them! the tie is so sweet and everyone is jealous! which is good! yesterday we ate a habanero pepper! it was so flippin hott!! we almost died! but then my companion rubbed his eyes and it got in his eyes! haha sucker! 

Anyways i love and miss you all! Thanks so much mom you are the best! I am so thankful for all you do! thanks for getting me everything I ask for! love you! love the babies! miss ya dad and ashton! love jesus. 

                  -Elder Nielson xoxoxox 

                               Way to go Brayden, teaching everyone!

 

                                               Ole Miss stadium

                                                      Yuck.....

The 22 Mile Bike ride for a steak

HELLO!

Well that was a journey through that letter! haha. I am glad you guys got to go camping and have a fun time! i miss the babies like crazy! How do they like the jerseys? i loved those jerseys so i had to buy them so they could remember me! Yeah all that lady said is correct in arkansas... but mississippi, is worse. haha. No but the college town that i am living in is so awesome! like i want to live here it is so nice and so green! i have never in my life seen so much trees and vines growing on the trees in my life! It is insane! so many trees! so many black people! and so hot! and so humid ! it stinks really bad, i want it to get cold! but yeah. I want you to look up this scripture... JOHN 14:27 it is a really good one. 

Story of the week: This week was one of the hardest weeks ever, we had nothing going on. Lots of our appointments dropped, and we had to do a lot of finding. We did exchanges and that screws everything up. I was in charge of the Oxford area with a companion from another area. it was a big job. So this week is hard. In a couple weeks, we get sister missionaries which is gonna stink. They will be in our area and we will have to share the car, meals, members and everything with them. I just hope they arent weirdos too haha. But anyways the one good thing of this week was on friday... One of our investigators made a bet with us. Their names are the Griffens,they are a wicked sweet family! He said if we will bike to his house from the church he will make us an amazing steak dinner. Well the trick is... it is a 22 mile bike ride to his house in the middle of no where!! so we took on the challenge and headed out that day. We needed to get there at 5. one hour and fifteen minutes in we have ridin 12 miles, it is 430. IT was the hardest bike ride ever. i was so tired, it was so hott that day and so humid! sweat was everywhere sweat shouldnt be! it blew. But he said get in the car, since you rode 12 miles i will still feed ya! and we were so excited! it was one of the most delicious meals ive had since ive been here, i still dont know if it was worth it. But anyways, id like to send a challenge to ya'all that are reading this here story. Ezra taft Benson said that the sin that we would all be guilty of as mormons or of any religion would be the sin of ingratitude. I heard this and i was like crap! this is so true. We take a lot of things for granted and dont say thanks. So this week, take one of your prayers, and say nothing but thanks in this prayer. Nothing! make it a meaningful prayer, think hard on what your thankful for. You will realize that you are so blessed in your life. And then say thanks to the man upstairs! Be good everyone, love Jesus, and stay classy San Diego! Also here is an awesome scripture to look up, JOHN 14:27

 

Thanks mom for all you do! Thanks for the packages, and i know i will like the pants you got me. LOVE ALL YA'ALL!!!

Peace be unto you. Love Jesus. Love ELDER NIELSON

First Baptism/Bad week

Mom,

Hey things are going good here, yeah i have been out a month now. It has been a freaking long month that is for sure. The baptism went well, it was a good turnout! now if we could just get his mom to church. Chris decided he wanted one of the priests to baptize him so it was cool! My companion is good, we get along great!  But it is good. It is still so freaking hot down here. Our scheduels are always all over the place, besides studying for 2 hours in the morning and things like that. So down here in oxford it is just me and my companion in the whole area. And it is the 3rd biggest area in the whole mission, so we have a lot to do. But on the 28th we are getting sisters down here in oxford so we will see what happens. Sisters are usually way annoying, especially the ones in our district. So now they are stealing our food and our car, we have to take a bus every other week now to. Then pdays we do whatever we wanty until 6 so we go mtn. biking and other stuff. So that is fun. 

 

Story of the week: This is a pretty sad story it hit both of us pretty hard this week. So we have an investigator, her name is Roxanne, She is around 35 or 40. Elder clason found her a little before i got here. So we have been teaching her and we taught her everything she needed. Then last sunday we get a text that says hey guys idk if i want to do this mormon thing so thanks for all you do. So when we heard that we immediately went over to her house and talked to her about it. She got pressured by her friends to go drinking and smoking again after she committed to the word of wisdom. So she felt guilty for that and another thing she felt bad about was question 4 in the baptismal questions which deals with serious crimes, abortion, or homosexual relationships. We dont know which but we felt abortion which is to bad. But we had president petersen come and totally cleared her up. then yesterday she didnt come to church so we stopped by her house and her husband wouldnt let us talk to her and told us that she didnt want anything to do with the mormon church. so he pretty much dropped us. Which is to bad cause she knew it was true, pres. petersen knew she knew it was true, and so did we. But there is a scripture that says it is better to not have known me at all than to know the truth, then to deny me. So we hope she comes around. sorry it is a sad story of the week.

So yeah that is how we ended our week, hope it gets better. I love the new scriptures so thanks for those! and sweet the khackis should be good, i also have those ones that i wore to school too maybe? anyway, thanks for everything. I will talk to you in a little while!! have a good week. LOVE YOU. LOve the babies too

 

                                                                    Chris's Baptism
                                                  

 

                                                   Real nice..... Brayden :)