How was conference for you guys. I
was super happy that we got to watch it here. It was probably; no, it was the
highlight of my week.
So the beginning of the week was
really cool. We went to an investigator’s house to have a lesson with him. We
knocked the door and we heard like a bunch of scrambling and stuff like ¨what
do I do? ¨ and the wife telling him ¨well open the door¨. I was really confused
but the door opened and he told us that he was about to leave. Normally we are
like ‘OK when can we come back?’ but this guy lives on the side of the mountain
a good 3 mile hike up Mt. Everest to get to his neighborhood. So I gathered my
Generals in my war room and made a plan. So it was kind of hot and my mouth was
parched so I was like ¨can I get a glass of water? ¨ and he was like yeah come
in. Pulled a quick one over him. We taught a short lesson and then hiked back
down the mountain. To be honest I didn´t think it would work but it did which
was cool.
I finally got my packages which was
really cool. Tell Grampa and Grandma, thanks for their letter. When I opened it
up and we saw the 5 dollar bill my companion was like:
Is that a $5?
Yeah.
Can I see that?
Yeah.
So we stared at it for a good
5 minutes just admiring the good old Lincoln.
I have to tell you guys about the
ward here. It cracks me up the characters we have. So when I showed up they
told me the bishop didn´t have ward counsel but I didn´t think he was inactive.
He’s super funny because we will be sitting in church 15 after the hour waiting
to start and the bishop will show up. We´ve had a lot of big brass in our ward recently
(I´m not sure why) but one time the stake president talked to us about doing an
activity. Afterwards the bishop called us over in a huddle like we were going
to talk about the activity but he was just like “es todo, I´m done” and walked
away.
There is another lady in the ward
who cracks me up too, she is a super nice grandma but whenever we go over to
eat with them, I feel like I´m eating with the queen of England. She calls us
Eldercitos, little elders and always uses phrases like como no, how could I say
no. The best part is when I first showed up she told Elder Guerra(war),
bienvenidos al barrio, but he´s been here for 6 months.
I liked conference a lot. It was
really funny when Holland spoke because he dropped a lot of American jokes.
Even the poster of the T-rex and kids, nobody got. Me and my companion were
really having a good time yet the ward was a little confused. It´s funny because
when we sing they don´t translate the songs so if you didn´t bring a hymn book
you´re on your own. So we were singing in English which was a little weird
because I don´t think anyone else was singing.
I think I have to wrap up. I hope
that you guys have a fun week. Are you back in school last week or this week?
Elder Nelson
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