We are still just kids

Mom,
I am doing just peachy. No luck with Baptisms this week, but we are praying
for a miracle for this weekend. The Zone is at 17 which is really good. The
only thing that is new this week is that we found a lot of new
investigators which is great. We needed it for sure. We think that the Lord
was humbling us this month, but we are going to see great things happen
soon. Nothing to crazy happened this week, the only thing is that the other
elders backed into our car, that was dang funny! We are still just kids
screwing around haha
This week we have the Mission Leadership Council at Presidents house! It is
going to be sweet! And she is cooking us octopus so you know its gonna be
good! Then on Thanksgiving we have like 3 or more dinners that we are going
to, so no worrying about me not getting enough food ill be stuffed to the
brim! Then on Saturday Elder Jackson and i are going to the Temple in
Memphis. One of the Recent Converts in Frayser is getting her endowments,
so that is going to be great!
All my clothes are doing good, and my shoes as well! Im Straight!
That is about all the excitement right now. Some of my good mission friends
are leaving this upcoming week, im gonna miss them. The missionaries in the
mission is going to drop dramatically, 37 are leaving in December. So we
will see what happens.
Love you and thanks for the package and everything i loved it. Thanks for
the support and for stickin with me.
Have a great week and hope all goes well with the family!
Love Elder Nielson

COLD

Hey Mom,
This week was a good week for us, we found a lot of new investigators to
start teaching so that is really good. The Zone had 2 baptisms and 1
confirmation this week. It was a little down but we will kill it the next
few weeks. Elder Jackson and i have not personally baptized this month. The
People that were looking to get baptized kinda fell off the face of the
earth! Waysee is working a lot so we have not been able to see him but are
still trying to work with him and Lisa to be baptized the 29th. They need
your prayers.
This week was COLD! Just outta no where it got down to 28 degrees. No where
close to Idaho but with the Humidity in the air the wind that blows feels
like a cold knife just stabbing into you! I know that is Gory but it is
that cold! Good thing we have coats and sweatshirts. I am really missing
the snow though, i saw the pictures and i really wanted to go snowboarding!
AHH! The Doctor went good, they did the procedure and then said i was good,
i have a follow up next week.
So kind of a funny story this week, Elder Jackson and I and the other
Elders were driving to a dinner appointment down this narrow road in Pine
Bluff. We were going about 25 miles an hour, we had just made a right turn
and were speeding up. All of a sudden we see this black figure jump in
front of the car and SMACK! we hit it and it went under the car and out the
back, Elder Jackson slowed down and we all were like, we just hit a dog! we
thought it was under the car, when all of a sudden we see it running right
besides our car like it was trying to race us! It was dang funny. No dents,
no death, just a heck of a hard hit! Somethings on a mission are so much
more funny than in real life, some of the things that happen are so dang
funny here, and then i think that if i was home, this wouldn't be that
funny.
I got a letter from Brynlee this week, it made my day. She is dang good at
writing and spelling! Tell her that i loved it and that i love her and miss
her too. It is nice to get a letter every once in awhile. I hope all is
going well in the family, I love you all and wish you the best! I pray that
things will continue to get better. Sorry for all the craziness going on.
Love you and i will hear from you next week!
Elder Nielson

She almost gave up the ghost

Hey Mom,
Our week was good. Our district had 5 baptisms. Our Goal is looking very
good right now, we are at 13 and only have 7 more to go. The whole mission
is looking good and our goal is looking very reachable right now which is
great!
This whole week i was reminded that it was Dads birthday coming up because
we met 3 different Kevins! They were all nuts! So it definitely reminded me
of Dad haha. I am glad that Dad splurged and bought a hood! Wait till your
birthday when he buys wheels haha.
Our Week was a slow one, we had Zone meeting that we instructed at and then
i went to Hot Springs Arkansas on Exchanges. That place is pretty cool they
have an amusement park with roller coasters and things like that, i didn't
know that Arkansas was that updated with the world! I guess that they were based
Las Vegas after this town but who knows. It was a good exchange. We had a
pretty dang funny story that may be a little graphic but we are all adults
so i think we can handle it haha... So our investigator Mrs. Royse she is
73, she is crazy haha but funny. Somehow while talking to her and her
daughter we got on the subject of having kids and adoption. As we were
talking about that, Mrs. Royse turns to us and says, "Are yall virgins?"
this is a pretty normal question that we get but not from a 73 year old
lady! We told her yes and she almost gave up the ghost! She Said there was
no way that we were Virgins. She said if you are 20 years old and you have
not had sex, you must be gay! i could not believe the words my ears were
hearing! She literally called us Gay! it was so dang funny we died
laughing.
Elder Jackson and I are doing great, it is just tough serving with someone
who is going home in 5 weeks. I would never wish it upon anyone. But it is
all good and we will get through it.
I hope that yall have a great week! Thanks for all the support and love.
Love Elder Nielson

Missionary Wrap

Yo! 

I am doing great if you were wondering. This week was a really good week. Halloween was so sweet! We had like a party thing with games and stuff at the church. They did the Missionary Wrap, where they had all of us missionaries stand there and everybody races to wrap us up like mummies in toilet paper! it was turnt up as the kids say nowadays haha. Then we had this booth where the kids had a fishing pole and they would cast it over and then i would attach a candy to it and they would reel it back in, they loved it!  Then we had a bunch of candy left over so i just started throwing it over the curtain and yelling jumping bass!! all the kids went crazy and were diving and fighting over the candy. All in all we stole the show! it was crazy. All we did for our costumes was switch our nametags, so it wasn't to exciting, but i was Elder Hymas for the day! Saturday we played basketball with our Recent convert and his friends, it was fun. We rocked their world haha. It was nice to be able to have some fun and play some basketball. 

We found a lot of new investigators this week which is good and we have some investigators progressing towards baptism which is better. This month is a big month for us as a mission, we gotta work our butts off! Our Zone is looking good, we had 7 baptisms this weekend, and have lots of dates coming up soon. Everything is going gooood. 

So someone really commented on my blog and said they are boycotting american women? hmmm... what the crap?? haha 

that is DANG funny! haha. Just the other day a member took us to this mongolian grill (which was dang good by the way!) and then they said, hey we got this weight bench in the back of the truck, do you want it? and we said heck yeah! it is a sketchy looking bench but it works and we are trying to get jacked! but we soon realized that you cannot get jacked when the highest weight that you have is 15 pounds haha, so maybe we will just tone haha. 

Brynlee misses me so much huh? Well jokes on both of you, i am going straight to Ashton to give him a hug! haha 

Well i hope that all is going well for all of you back home. Is the house feeling like home now? How is Dad doing? 

OHHH! i was gonna tell dad that we are teaching a guy named Kevin! all i say is lets go see KEV! haha it is funny. He is a crazy black dude that quotes "scriptures" changes the words and says it is in Matthew when it really isn't haha! He is crazy, and he contradicts himself all the time, then he says, "ya know who said that? J-E-S-U-S , Jesus of Nazareth! He spells Jesus all the time instead of saying it haha. Good ole Kev! 

Anyway i hope that your week goes well! Thanks for all that you do. 

Love you and miss you. 

Elder Nielson