Here is Elder Nielson's letter from 1/3/2017. Sorry so late.
Here are pictures from my first zone conference, and a cool
picture my companion took of the moon.
hola, estoy bien. the holidays were great, other than the
fact that most of our investigators are or were in Juarez for the holidays. we
still had a bunch of lessons with investigators, less actives and members
alike.
one of the few investigator families that didnt go to
Juarez, we went to go give them blessings because they were all sick or around
someone who was sick. we gave almost a dozen blessings, our arms were tired
from holding them up for so long. afterwards, we had a lesson with all of them.
there were 15 peolpe there not including us missionaries, and only five of them
were members. it was a good lessons, we got the kids involved with the ten
commandments, it was fun.
we found out mexicans, when they saw "happy new
year" they instead say "happy year", in spanish it is
"feliz ano", but i dont know why. on new years eve, my companions, a
couple other elders and i, popped open a bottle of bubbly (dont worry mom, the
non-alcoholic kind) and said some toasts for the new year.
our mission did this activity called, "A Day With the
Lord" it started saturday because we had to be home by 6 pm because of the
drunk and crazy people. we were given 9 separate letters, the first one told us
to clean our apartment, and really how dirty can it be?😷 the
next couple had some talks that we read and they had some soul searching
questions we were to answer as well. the next one we opened was yesterday, and
we all were told to get a brand new copy of the Book of Mormon, so we started
at 6:30 am and started reading, marking references to Jesus Christ and the
Atonement (separate colors) and we read until about 11:30 pm, me and elder
Faber didn't finish all the way, but elder jones stayed up until 2 am to finish.
after that we had one more talk to read and some more soul searching questions.
it was all great, i felt the spirit a lot while reading BofM and the talks. and
the questions made me realize more some things i need to work on, as a person
and as a missionary.
i had a great time this holiday, we had fun teaching and
some challenges with everyone being in Juarez.
until next time on "The Elder Luke Nielson
Chronicles"
Elder Nielson
here is a picture of the border, the wall. It isn't building very
quickly,
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