Dead tired

Whats happenin? 

This week has been a good one, it has been a long and tiring one as well. Our investigators are doing well, we have some good ones that we are trying to get them baptized and such in November. We met this lady named Cynthia that is way to sweet! She loves being taught and she said she is going to feed us sometime! that is golden if you ask me! Our zone is doing great, November 1st, this saturday, we have 10 baptismal dates set! that is unbelieveable... our goal as a Zone for next month is 20 so that would mean that we would be halfway already on November 2nd. 

This sacrificing P-day has been rough, we never said it would be easy. We are just dead tired all the time it seems like, but we are making it. This week we have Mission Leadership Council, we are preparing for the Month of November. We have had so much intensity and anticipation for this month and it is finally here! So i hope that we can be helped with how we can help our Zone. 

The Crosbys are a family in Southhaven that Elder Jackson taught that drove down and took us to lunch, it was great. Good food.

Yesterday we had a great experience as we went over to Waysee's house. He told us as we got there that he recieved a Promotion at his job! We told him that we know that the blessing came from the Lord and that it came because he is changing his life! We hope that he recognizes it and knows that as he gives away all sin and s baptized that more blessings like that will come into his life. It was awesome to see that happen to someone so close. 

I hope all is going well at home, thanks for all you do, but more importantly for who you are. 

Love you and i hope yall have a great week! 

Elder Nielson

Be bold with Love

MOM! 

This week was a good one! No Elder Jackson and i are staying in Pine Bluff one more baby! It is gonna get wild up in here. 

We went on exchanges with the spanish elders in our zone, it is funny cause they never teach in english so they struggle when they come with us. So here is a good story while i was on exchanges. I was with the spanish Elder Geddes, he has been out for 5 weeks, just brand spankin! We went to our investigators house, her name is Ada Harris. So i was planning on going in there and trying to get her to commit to come to church. Somehow we got off on the subject of keeping the commandments, i asked her if she felt that she was pleasing God with her actions... good question to get them thinking. I then got it out of her that she was sleeping with her boyfriend. That is usually a typical case and i taught her about why that is wrong. Then she hit me with a surprise... she said that her "boyfriend" is married to another woman. I just sat there like oh crap here it goes. One thing that i learned on my mission is to be bold with love! Elder Geddes had know idea what to say so i just started to be bold and telling her that she was breaking a commandment of God and that God is not happy with her decisions. I said some other things that might have been straight a throw down! But it was the Spirit so thats ok! Haha but i committed her to stop. After the lesson, Elder Geddes said, Holy Crap how did you do that ? haha he was like you were pretty bold there and she didn't even get mad! I had no idea how i did it, i knew it was the spirit. Hopefully she really understood what it was teaching her. It was soo funny though, Greeny Problems!

Things  are going good and i am excited for the new transfer that is coming up! We are looking good for baptisms in November. We are praying and sacrificing a lot for these baptisms. We are even starting to cut our pday short and start working early so that we will have the help of the lord in hitting our goals. Sacrifice! Thanks for the package and yes it was the right shirt. I also got a package from Wendy Wilcox which was so awesome! 

HAve a great week and know that i love you! 

Nephi Day

Hey! Whats up! I am glad that everything went well with the whole moving
in! New house, hope it has that new house smell! Glad that the ward was
nice and everything! i am assuming that you are not in Hadley's ward?
My week was good! Elder Jackson and I had to instruct at Zone Meeting and
then we also watched Meet the Mormons which was a really good video! I was
impressed, better than I expected. It is crazy that the Kids are growing up
so fast! I hate it haha, They better still be my best buds when i get home.
Tell them I love them and miss them. I am glad that Ashton is doing well. Today is
Columbus day... which is dumb cause the library is closed so we are at a
members house and we don't have a lot of time. I was thinking why isn't
there a Nephi day? I am pretty sure that Nephi came here before Columbus
did! haha. It will happen soon i feel it.
I did get my package! Thanks so much. Everything is going great here. We
set a goal as a mission for 100 baptisms and confirmations in November, we
are praying hard for it cause it has never been done in this mission and we
gotta work our butts off for this one!
I love ya and i am glad that everything is going good! Cant wait to hear
from you next week!

Brayden said this was "tight" "top button swag" Haha

Love me some Jesus

Hey Mom, 

Yeah it was awesome that we had 2 baptisms this weekend! My Zone passed their goal of 12 baptisms, we got 16! It was great! As a mission we have a goal of 100 baptism for the month of November so we are all working on that and trying to prepare for it. That goal is unheard of, our highest as a mission is like 74. 

Conference was great! We had our investigator that is 73 years old come to it! Her name is Mrs. Royce, she is just an old country bumpkin living in AR KANSAS, she loves her some Jesus! She always tells us that Jesus talks to her, she just is a sweet old country girl. Her Husband has alzheimer's so she can never leave him for too long. But we are glad that she came, it was a blessing. I always love Elder Eyring's Talks as well as Elder Uchtdorf's talks, they are always good. 

This weekend was just a bunch of sitting at the church watching 10 hours of conference, my butt started to hurt from sitting so long, but that is the least of my troubles. But i have one more conference as a missionary cause there is still the one in April. This week we went to Hope Arkansas which is 2 hours away from Pine Bluff. It was a long drive. We almost took the Route through Camden Arkansas but it was longer of a drive. i was going to take a picture dangit! 

This week at our Zone meeting we are going to watch meet the mormons, we are all pretty excited for that because we don't ever get to watch movies period! haha. 

Well this last week was nothing to exciting just the same old same old. I am excited for yall to move and see how it all turns out. I pray that all goes well. The weather is cooling down here which is nice! I am so sick and tired of the dang humidity and the heat. I am looking forward to the cooler weather, my second and final summer has come to and end! WOOO! no more humidity. Well i hope that the family is doing good, tell everyone i say hi! Let me in on any updates of my friends or what is going on with people back home. 

Thanks for all you do. Love you. Love me some Jesus! 

Elder Brayden Nielson 

2 Baptisms in 1 weekend!

This week was a great week. Monday, us as leaders were instructed by Elder
and Sister Zwick. He is a member of the 70. Him and his wife are way good
teachers and they are very powerful. They then instructed Our zone and some
other ones on Tuesday. ThenTuesday night he had a Devotional for the Ward
leaders that missionaries go to. Lets just say it was a lot of meetings.
Wednesday we finally get back to our area and we start working. Thursday we
did the same. Friday we had to drive all the way to Arkadelphia (no this is
not Philadelphia, it is the Arkansas version of Philly. Arkansas is
something else) That is a Hour and 45 minute drive. We went there so Elder
Jackson and I could do some Baptismal interviews for some people getting
baptized. It is crazy that we have a calling to decide weather people are
able to be baptized or not. It was good though, all 4 of them passed.
Saturday we helped a member build a car port, that was a lot of work and it
took most of our Saturday. But then Saturday Night we had a baptism, YEAH
BUDDY! Her name is Natalie Kimball. Then we had celebratory Arby's as usual
afterwards. Sunday we had church, we had 4 people there and we had another
Baptism right after church! It was just a weekend of miracles in Pine Bluff
!
Elder Jackson's first name is Aaron. And we did go get a suit, we got it
from JCPenny. It is just a simple black suit. I really did not like thatsuit i had cause it was faded probably my first few months, idk what was up
with it. Maybe the material.The guy that called you was our main man Brother Herren! He is tight. He is
a 72 year old guy who drives us places and picks up our investigators. I
asked him to call you to make sure the money was in the account.
I did get my package Saturday, thanks so much. The shirts are great, i just
needed some new ones that actually fit.
Camden and Brynlee are so big, that is crazy.
Things are going good though, we are seeing lots of great things and having
lots of fun! It is crazy being a zone leader but i am getting used to it.
Hope all continues to go well. Ohh and dont think i forgot mom... HAPPY
BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK! Love ya and i hope you have a great one, i will be
thinking of you!
LOve Elder Nielson

Zone meeting

Brayden did not have a pday this week due to Zone Meetings and having Elder Zwick(?) of the seventy speak to them. So a nice member sent this picture to me. 

Brayden is doing great thanks for all your prayers in his behalf. 

Fail to plan, plan to fail

Pine Bluff is soo sweet! It is kinda like Frayser, just ghetto, but lots of
fun here. I think i like it more than Memphis already.My companions name is Elder Jackson. He is sweet! We have lots of fun
together. His Grandma is Gladis Night (if that is how you spell it?) if you
have ever heard about her. We are the Zone Leaders of the Little Rock Zone.
We are over about 44 missionaries. This Zone is pretty dang tight! We have
the Town of Camden in our Zone!
This week was pretty good. We had a baptism on Saturday, i taught this lady
when i went on exchanges down here awhile back. We had 6 people to church,
that is awesome in Pine Bluff! We are teaching a Family of 5, 4 of them are
Baptismal age. Then Mom and Dad are trying to give up smoking right now. So
if you could pray for the Porter Family that would be great! They are set
to be baptized this Saturday.
I am excited that it is almost official that we are moving and i am also
excited that i dont have to pack all the crap we have! haha. Dont worry
though, we as missionaries do our fair share of moving, we are the free
moving crew to all the members. Mormon Movers!
Well i hope that yall are doing well. Time is just flying by. I miss all of
you, i am missing the Kids growing up, it is going way to fast. I am loving
it out here though! It is hard as crap but i love it and love helping
people. I have realized that soon i am going to start to need a plan for
when i go home. If there is one thing i have learned that if you fail to
plan you plan to fail. Right now i have no idea so im SOL. haha.
Next week i probably will not be able to email till later on in the week.
We have a big leadership meeting where a Elder Zwick who is high up in the
church is coming and training us. It will be a long week.
Thanks for all the prayers and all the support. I love and appreciate all
of you.
Wish us luck this week. Love Jesus
Elder Nielson