This week went really good for us. We ended up baptizing our investigator a week early because we found out that her baptism was planned the same day as general conference. It was a good baptism. She´s pretty funny because when I was baptizing her , afterwards she was like that’s it?  I was like yep. Can I stay here? No. Then she waved good bye to the ward and thanked them for coming to the baptism. 

We found a really cool family. His name is Rubin. We passed by him and we decided to talk to him. He just separated himself from his wife. Right now he is living with his two sons. We also met his nephew. We found him on Thursday and Sunday he went to church with us. Turns out that he is friend of a recent convert. It was pretty cool. Today we’re going to meet with him in some two hours or so. We’re hoping to put a baptism date with him and his kids.

We have another familia (Family Martin) that has gone to church two times. Here you have to go three times to be baptized. He was a reference from a recent convert and is amigo of Rubin. He’s cool. We want to baptize the whole family. The wife is a bit unsure but I think that we can change that.

I found an investigator that I met a year and a half ago. It was funny because I’d always wanted to go back. When I went she opened the door and started laughing. She told us that these two weeks she wanted to go to church again and that she was thinking of getting baptized and then we showed up. It was pretty cool.

Anyways that was our week. Have a great week.

Élder Nelson

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Misión Ciudad Juárez México

So I had a kind of bummerish week. So Sunday we got the changes and my companion left for Casa Grandes. So, Tuesday I went to leave him in the offices and my companion is elder Díaz from Honduras. Ok moving on to the bummerish part is after the changes I went to the food appointment and I’m pretty sure that there I got food poisoned. Maybe the ward didn’t want me to stay around but either way I was down for the count Tuesday until Saturday. This week was independence week and boy was I spewing all kind of colors. They must of seen me really Mexican because I had red white and green coming all out of me. Gross. 

Saturday was the party in the ward. We went but it was pretty lame. We started with the grito that the bishop gave but a lousy less active called me to bother us and I was like ah man I wanted to hear the grito. Then they did the national anthem. But us four missionaries were all lost, Two Texanos, one Hondureño and the worst one Dominicano. After stumbling through the song they started a skit by the primary, it was Pinocchio. I thought maybe somehow Pinocchio was going to make his way into the story of Mexico but after it finished I was like are you kidding me this has nothing to do with today. It should of been about Morales or Hidalgo or Zaragoza. but Pinocchio has nothing to do with Mexico in fact it’s from Italy but they did a good job either way. Afterwards they asked the Dominicano elder to say the prayer on the food. He was like but I’m not even Mexican. Then he gave the mic to an old blind guy that they brought and he started singing Mexico Mexico it was pretty funny.

Victor got confirmed finally. I almost grabbed the microphone afterwards to start singing the hymn that goes VICTORY VICTORY. I actually got to do the confirmation which was really fun because I’d never done it before. 

So well have fun picking up brush. Here’s some fotos that I took with my companions. 

Élder Nelson

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Misión Ciudad Juárez México

Well that’s kind of cool that you guys are passing through the hurricane right now. Someone told me that there was going to be a hurricane in Florida I was like ah that’s okay my family lives super inland I think. I didn’t think that you all would have so much rain. Here it’s still dry and hot.

So our transfer ended yesterday. I’m entering my last cycle or last 6 weeks. It’s a little weird especially because this week my friends are going home. So my companion got transferred he’s going to Casas Grandes so he’ll have fun. My new companion is Elder Dias one from Honduras I think.  That makes 6 nationalidades for companions in my mission. USA, MX, COL, BOL, GUA, HDZ.

We had 5 people in sacrament meeting. That was pretty cool. They also had the primary program. It was cool. In the ward there are only like 12 kids. So they almost all got to get up two times. 

Well anyways I hope to see Heidi’s letter next week. It’s crazy that we’re in 3 different continents. I hope that y’all have a great Independence Day this week. Oh wait that’s just for Mexicans. Well y’all can celebrate it too.

Élder Nelson

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Misión Ciudad Juárez México