Not bragging but....

Yellow!
This week has been oh sooo HOT! Literally 107 degrees or higher. It hassucked! Good thing we are on full car haha! People have just been
hibernating in their houses and will not answer the door or it will let the
cold air out! haha.
We had Zone Conference this week, Elder Tolbert and I had to instruct for
20 minutes of it. We did pretty good! President Told the Assistants that
ours was the Best instruction in the mission... not bragging or anything
haha. No, just everyone talked the whole time and us we tried to involve
people and ask them questions to get them learning. I am getting better at
talking to those big crowds. It went good though. Just super busy all the
time, leadership is hard.
We should have a couple of baptisms this Saturday, it is going to be sweet!
The Memphis 1st ward is great! Lots of cool people, i have never been to a
ward like this before. It is crazy. We have an Elvis Presley impersonator
that goes to our ward! He was at church on sunday with his hair and is
sideburns and just rocking the oldies clothes! Only in Memphis can you find
this kind of stuff. There has been so much crime lately here, just cops
everywhere cracking down on anything they see.
There is a recent convert family that we go see, their name is the Shorts.
They are legit. She is a single mother with 9 kids, all the kids just love
us, they fight with us and just attack us the whole time. Lots of fun at
the Shorts home.
I just love it here in Memphis, i hope that i do not leave. Well i hope
that all is going well for you back at home! I can't believe that we are
moving, i thought this day would never come! It is here though. Those
pictures you sent were way small and i could not see them very well so
youll have to get better pictures. Thanks for all you do! Love yall
Elder Nielson

The Short Family Brayden loves these kids

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Pictures

Elder Bluth and his mom went back to Arkansas to visit after he returned home. Sis Bluth took these pictures

Zone Conference

We are protected

Hey Mom,
No way... the house is sold?? That is awesome! You should really look for a
house somewhere in the country. That is my
preference by i am not there so it is different haha. Dang that is
exciting! i am glad we are moving! it will be an adventure.
Our week went really well. Tennessee is awesome! Frayser is a really ghetto
black area, i have met some of the coolest people ever here. It is just a
completely different lifestyle here. Kids basically live on their own, it
is normal to be pregnant at 15. Everybody smokes weed, crappy cars and
$2,000 rims haha... i love Memphis! This week if you look at the Memphis
news, there hasd been a ton of shootings. We have heard gun shots like
every other day... but don't worry mom:) We are protected. All the
gangsters know the missionaries and we are like best friends with all of
them. They always tell us that if we have problems to talk with them and
they will take care of it. We got our crew behind us!! This week i went on
2 exchanges... one with Elder Rushton in Lakeland Tennessee (really rich
area, poopoo) and then Midtown which is downtown Memphis which is a mix of
rich and slums. So i have seen it all this week. There is lots of stuff
that Zone leaders have to do, we are always doing something it feels like.
The other night, an area didn't text that they were in and safe, so we had
to drive 20 miles at 11:30 at night to go to their apartment and check if
they were ok. Turns out they just went to sleep and didn't text us. We have
been super tired this whole week haha.
My companion and i are getting along great and having a good time! We just
are crazy and do fun things. Our ward got a new bishop, he is awesome. He
is black and it makes church feel like a baptist church when he gets up and
talks. I love it! Thank you jesus! Amen!
We have a couple baptisms coming up soon that we are excited for... We are
praying they stay solid.
Well i hope that everything works out with the house! I am super excited
and i hope we get something in the country! Keep me updated. Thanks for all
you do, i love all of yall! im fixin to get up on outa here! I love
memphis!
Love Elder Nielson

Picture from Memphis

Received this great picture of Elder Nielson tonight from a great member that took them to dinner! 

I love getting these little surprises! 

(What is a Brayden eating? Waffles and chicken? Haha) 

This is important people!

Hey mom, 

This week has been good. We have actually been in Frayser like a total of 2 days. We have had meetings and exchanges and we have had to go and do baptismal interviews so we have been on the move! This Sunday at church was crazy! Never a Dull moment in the Memphis 1st Ward. It is just like a Baptist church, black people hooting and hollering and saying AMEN! It is great! The speaker yesterday was preaching false doctrine and he slapped the Microphone and started yelling and said, "This is important people!" It was embarrassing. Just a bunch of good stuff that is going on. They put a paper in the mailbox that said i have a package i just havent gotten a chance to get it yet. The members here are poo poo haha. They don't feed us much so it is costing lots of money for food haha. But it is fun here. Elder Tolbert and i are doing good and having fun, he goes home at the end of the year so he is getting kinda trunky and that is lame. I love it here and i am having lots of fun. Just super busy having to put in numbers on p day and stuff so it limits my emailing time even more! ahh. But thanks for all the support, i love yall and i hope yall have a great week! 

Love Elder Nielson 

Famous hand shake

Hey Mom,
Mom... I love Frayser!! yeah i would advise you to not look at pictures of
Frayser haha! They are not too pretty. This is the Ghetto-est area in our
mission. It is sweet! Just a lot of Black people just livin life. I can't
tell ya how many drug deals i have seen, how many 15 year olds that are
pregnant... i love it here! haha. Sacrement this week was awesome! It was
Fast and Testimony Sunday so all the black people were getting up and
testifying like it is a baptist church, it was the best. Good times in
Memphis 1st ward.
So as a Zone Leader, my companion and I are over 21 companionships, so like
42 or so missionaries. Lots of work. We have to instruct a lot at meetings,
go to mission council with president and go on lots of exchanges with the
district leaders.
My Companion, Elder Trevor Tolbert, is sweet! We get along real good! We
have fun, maybe too much at times haha. We are going to try different
things in this Zone so we are excited. He has been out 19 months. It is
going good!
Transfers was crazy, just lots of driving and packing things up, long drive
to memphis, that was about it.
Memphis is sooo much different than anywhere i have ever been. Just soo
Ghetto and it is awesome, we have met just the nicest people ever. We go up
to the black guys and do the famous hand shake and we are in! I love
Memphis.
So i am pretty much just livin the dream, getting fat, probably wont get
married because of it when i get home haha.
I miss you all and i hope that yall have a great week and i will continue
to keep yall in my prayers.
Even more busy as a dang Zone Leader... ahhh.
Love Elder Nielson