stuff happened this week.
on Thursday, we got a call from the assistants to the
president, and they told us that Elder Stone is being transferred. and its the
middle of a transfer. so we went to one last appointment, then stopped by one
part members house, took a couple pictures for him, then went home so he could
pack. i stayed in Ysleta, the same area i've been in since i was born, but now
we are a tripanionship in Ysleta and San Elizario again. this is my second
tripanionship in these two areas, but this time its with two different elders.
now i make jokes that my father(Elder Jones, my trainer) and my mother(Elder
Stone, my companion directly after my trainer) both left me and now im
stuck with my drunk uncle(Elder Cota) and his son (Elder Ziebarth, or trainee of
Elder Cota). this gets confusing. anyway, i dont know why or where Elder Stone
was sent to, but hopefully i will get an e-mail from him.
Our one investigator on date fell off date this week. she
wants to get baptized, but there are some things that need to get settled
first, and so help me she WILL get baptized while i am here! anyway she will be
in Juarez for the next two weeks, so that doesn't help.
i got another sunburn this week, it is pretty much gone by
now. i forgot where i put my sunscreen, so when elder Ziebarth and I went
walking to our appointments, i got burned. i bought some today, and aloe vera,
so hopefully, i will become as dark as some of the Mexicans who live here.
yesterday it got up to 90 degrees, and the next couple of
days here should get up to 90 as well. this is crazy, its only march and its
already 90 degrees out. if its this hot now, how hot will it be when its
actually summer? is it too late to be transferred? just kidding, its great down
here in El Paso.
we got some new investigators, this last week. one guy
thinks Trump is trying to become King of America. that day i got burned, we
talked to pretty much everyone we saw, because we walked to all of our
appointments. most everyone we met said they would like to hear a message and
that we could come by later, except for this lady standing outside her church
at a garage sale, she wasn't interested.
that reminds me of my favorite quote i heard last week. we
were with a member and we were talking and then the member started talking
about a friend of theirs that he was talking to about the gospel. his friend
said, "No i don't want to be a Mormon." so the member said to
him,"Not yet." so, when people say, "No" to our message,
what they really mean is, "Not yet". and as Elder Pearson said during
the zone confernce last December, everyone is somewhere between remebering and
remembering, so its just a matter of time before they remember and are
baptized.
Love you all, have a great week,
Elder Nielson
My two companions
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