time is flying

Hey there!
Well this week was a really good week. We started off on p day by swinging on the rope swing in pinnacle mountain! It was dang fun. 
Then we went on exchanges with the Conway zone leaders. Elder smith and I actually were with Elder Crane all day. It was a fun exchange! We had a good time. Friday we had Elder Kopischke come to our mission! We started talking to call him secretly K-pish! Haha it was great to have him, he is a really good teacher. We had like 6 meetings with him including missionary meetings and stake conference meetings. We also started calling President Wakolo, walk-dog! Haha we were feeling the gangster nicknames this week with the leaders in the church. This weekend was a good weekend and one full of meetings. I was able to ordain the Melchizedek  priesthood on Keaton Reynolds which was a great experience. It was cool to be a part of, they are working on going to the temple. Time is sure flying, this week we are excited cause walk-dog is going to spend the whole day with us on Tuesday. Finding, teaching, all of that stuff! It is going to be great! Then we got time in our area and such to do some work. Well things are going well. Hope yall are doing good as ever. Have a great week! Love ya.
Elder Nielson

History in the making

Hey There,
Well this week was a great one! Monday we went to a trampoline park which was pretty sweet. Then we went to the mission office so that Elder Smith and Elder Johnston could get their I pads and get them all
set up. As they were setting them up President Wakolo comes up to me and hands me an I pad. I was like oh I don't get one I go home soon, he then says, i feel like I dad at Christmas where 2 kids get a present and are playing with them and the other kid is just watching
and it hurts me! Haha but he said it in his Fijian voice which makes it 10 times more funny. So I have an iPad for the remaining 3 weeks that I have left which is pretty cool! It has been fun to play around with this week and try and teach with them as well. Tuesday we went to
Conway and listened to their zone meeting and then helped in distributing the iPads. Then after that we headed to little rock to give them their iPads at their meetings too. Long day that day. Then Wednesday we went to Searcy to distribute iPads there. After that
meeting we traveled to Memphis to stay the night. Then last minute we decided to drive to Oxford so that I could say goodbye to some people there. It was about 5 hours from Searcy to Oxford and I drove the whole way! Long day of driving. But it was good to visit before I go home. Hadn't been there in a year and a half. Thursday we drove up to Memphis to go to the Memphis north zone meeting and do iPads as well as the Memphis zone. So this week we attended 5 meetings with President Wakolo, it was a long week and we were way tired! After we drove back to Little Rock we went on exchanges and I went back to Pine Bluff and worked with Elder Hymas. It was good to be back there and visit some of my recent converts. It has been a long and crazy week to say the least. But also a great time in the history of the mission with these iPads. I was talking to president and he told me that I am very blessed to be an assistant at this time during the iPads rolling into the mission. I told him that I am grateful for the opportunity. We took a picture the 4 leaders in the mission with the iPads! History in the making.
Well I hope that y'all have a great week! Good luck with all the stuff that is going on! Tell everyone that I love and miss them. Talk to y'all soon! Love you.
Elder Nielson

I am a little country

Hey Mom,
How are yall doin? This week i noticed that i am talking like a hick so i decided to open with a yall! I also caught myself saying ain't and all that other slang... i am a little country i guess! haha. This week was a good week. The Trio is going great! we are having a lot of fun actually! i like it a lot. Elder Zwick of the seventy came to our mission this last week, he came and was introducing the I-pads into our mission. The whole mission came together which hasnt been done since i have been here, so it was a special event! Elder Smith and I had to walk around and carry the microphones to all the people who want to comment. Elder Zwick talked to Elder Smith and I like we were his best friends! It was cool to talk to him personally. The missionaries are getting their ipads this week, i am not getting one cause i am to old they said! but ill get over it haha. It is really  crazy that it is June... time is flying by. It really hasnt hit me quite yet that i go home so soon, but i know it is coming.

Well i hope that all is well at home. Nothing much is changing here. Ive gotta work hard these last few weeks. We are gonna be really busy with ipad stuff and stake conference and also transfers I'm going to stay busy.
Love and miss you all and see yall soon!
Love Elder Nielson

Elder Zwick, Brother Hemmingway from salt lake, and President Wakolo

My posterity is growing i now have a grandson in the mission... Elder Mann

Arkansas sunset

Mexican tequito

Well hello, 

Yes the hell week of transfers is over (that is what we call it haha). It actually went pretty smooth. Transfers were kept on the real down low and nobody really had any idea where they were going. It was great to see their face from the stand we are sitting on and see their reaction to the places they are going. It is weird sending off the old missionaries, but cool to get the new ones in. This week we were in memphis after transfers, we were running some errands and getting things finalized. We get this call from some elders in Tennessee, they are fighting and are sick of eachother. So we said we were in Memphis and wanted to come by and talk to them about it. We get up there at like 930 pm and talk to them and sort everything out. So by this time it is like 1030 and we are all the way in Memphis. We were not planning on staying in Memphis that night, so we had nothing to sleep with. The Elders had to extra couches and no blankets at all. Elder smith took the love seat couch cause he is short haha. Elder Johnston took the other couch cause i know that he is not used to the no sleep yet. I decided i would take the floor. It was chilly that night and we had no blankets so i laid down on their rug and wrapped myself up in the rug like a  Mexican tequito! haha it was so uncomfortable, but i had to make it work. Needless to say it was a very long night. 

But we got everything done and we are excited for this transfer, lots of missionaries are happy with their area and are ready to work so we are excited. 

There were some threats that there was going to be a tornado, the skies kinda started turning but nothing ever happened which is good. Tornadoes are nothing to mess with! 

While in Memphis we went to the humongous Bass Pro shop that they built out of the old Memphis Grizzlies stadium! it was so tight! huge!  

Yesterday we went to the River Fest down by the Arkansas river downtown, that was pretty dang cool! there was some tumbler guys that were doing flips on the street! it was awesome. And it was a great place to people watch, all walks of life came together on those streets! haha. 

Well i hope all is going well at home and that yall are having a great holiday weekend! miss yall and i will talk to you soon! 

Love Elder Nielson 

Trio-Assistants

Hey mom, 

I just have a few minutes to email so i thought i would write you something real quick. This week has been good. Transfers are halfway over. We just barely sent home all the old missionaries, Elder Hadlock, Elder Udall all the guys ive been with my whole mission. It is super weird. 

I am glad that dad is preparing the dirtbikes and stuff i am super excited to ride them! 

So this is kinda crazy, we made a big transfer decision that Elder Johnston (i served with him a year ago here in Pinnacle Mountain) that he is now in a Trio with Elder Smith and I! so we are now trio Assistants! we are part of history, its never been done before. So that is great! 

Well i hope that you have a great week! 

Love you! talk to you soon 

Mother's Day/P-Day

Hey Mom, 

it was great to talk to yall as well on mothers day! I had a good time talking to yall and telling you funny stories. It is nice to see that  our personalities are still the same. It will be fun to go home again. I cant believe that yall like shot down my helicopter pilot idea. I think that would be an awesome job! but what do i know! 

I pretty much already told you all my stories over skype about the drunk lady hugging me and trying to kiss me and the other drunk guy falling in the bushes so all of my funny stories have already been shared! But i have some pictures of the week so i can share those! have a great week! i may not email next week cause we have transfers and it is going to be a busy time! Love yall! 

Elder Nielson 

                                                    Skyping with Brayden

Baptism in Pine Bluff

Elder Smith sleeping while Brayden drives

On Exchanges Elder Marquez

Transfer Board

Hey mom, 

I am doing great! We had a good week. It was really busy but also really successful. We had the family of 4 we found come to church on Sunday, which is great. We had mission leadership council where Elder Smith and President and I instructed to the Zone Leaders on some things. It turned out really good. We set goals for all the leadership to hit some goals that we set an almost all of us got it done! Transfer Board meetings are going good, they are very cool to be a part of. Yesterday we went over to Presidents house and moved some things around on the board. It is going to be a big and crazy transfer. It is cool to be a part of the decision making process. 

Yes i did get the package this week, it was a great surprise! we have eaten a lot of it already, we are always dang hungry! haha. Sounds like yall had a very busy week! No pictures of the new car or of prom? what the heck? 

Other than that is was a pretty normal week. Elder Smith and i have been looking at the apartment stuff and we are trying to decide. We like mountain loft but we just aren't sure. 

Well thanks for all you do, appreciate the package and everything in it. Hope that yall have a great week! And i will see you on Sunday! 

Thanks for everything. Love you.

Elder Nielson 

Smithers and i in our truck that we drive! Nissan Frontier with UNLIMITED miles haha

 

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