Best Saturday ever....

Hey mom,

Things are going good this week. It was so ridiculously hot this week! the dang sisters have our car so we have been walking alot! We get the car back next Sunday so we are looking forward to that. Saturday was 103 degrees plus humidity! It was so hot. We walked about 7 miles that day as well. So you liked Sis. Davis? They are a sweet couple! They take us to Buffalo Wild Wings, she is hilarious and he is an awkward guy! But he is way cool. I also got some papers that i am sending to you as well with me in there.

Well i am glad everything is going well in the family, i will keep grandpa in my prayers. Well this weekend is probably gonna be the best Saturday ever in missionary work all over the world! So this Saturdays plan goes like this... wake up, get ready, study, then about 10 we are heading to the church to fill up the font... you know why?? Cause we got a baptism! We have a baptism at 1! Krystal. We are the only area in Mississippi that has had a Baptism this whole YEAR. crazy huh. Then after that we will find for an hour, eat at our ward missionaries house, then head to the grove, then to the OLE MISS football game! Talk about a good day Baptism and football. So yeah 2 Baptisms in 2 months in the South, one of the hardest missions in the world according to Pres. Petersen. So yeah good stuff!

Spiritual Message:

So i was reading in "Our search for Happiness" i came across something i really liked. It said something along the lines of if you look at our Eternal life like its a rope that goes both ways off into the infinity, and you take a string and wrap it around once in the middle, the width of that string is our mortal life. Then he switches to Hope. Hope is an interesting thing that i studied for awhile the other night. He says, " we feel pain and anguish in the face of adversity but in Faith in our Heavenly Father and in his plan it can be a source of inner strength through which we can have peace, comfort, and the courage to cope. Hope grows out of faith and gives meaning and purpose to all that we do. It can give us comfort in the face of adversity, strength in times of trial, and peace when there is every reason for doubt and anguish." I also looked in Alma 7: 11-12, 24. Those are some good scriptures for the Plan of Salvation. Then there is the Endure to the End scripture, one of the best ones... 2 Nephi 31:20.

Anyways, i hope things are going well with everyone! Miss everyone! Any one out there that wants to send me a letter, my mail box is always open!!

Love all'ya'all! Love Jesus. ELDER NIELSON 

p.s. we took this beer from an investigator, actually Krystal so she wouldn't have the temptation, so we are the only missionaries to have beer in our apartment, and they were full. HAHA