Elder Nelson's Letter 11/29/09

So, Elder Modlik and I had a great week. Heaps of good happened, and bad, but mostly good. We met with our investigator Michael Armiger and committed him to be baptised on the 12th of December and he was really excited about it but he didnt come to church sooo yeah he needs to come next week to be baptised. He's got a pretty hectic job so hopefully it slows down a little so he can make it. Candice is doing good but the bad news is we just found out she smokes. I dont know how she hid it from us and we had talked about the Word of Wisdom before but we just found out so we are trying to help her to stop at the moment. We gave her this 7 day quitting program so if she sticks to it, it will work. Her baptism is set for the 12th too. Oh yeah, thanks for the christmas package!!! it was awesome!! I left most of them wrapped so I can open them on christmas but I hate to tell you...the salsa broke and got all over a lot of stuff. Most of it is fine but the mike and ikes were no good and the pictures were ruined :( I was just talking to my comp about that salsa just the other day too so thank you for trying to send it but I've learned now that they arent nice to packages so be careful with what you send. If you could do me a favor and just send pictures or something then that would be sweet because almost every picture you've sent to me has been messed up. I LOVE YOU THOUGH! Thanks for trying! Other than that E modlik and I gave talks yesterday on missionary work and that went really well. I love the feeling of the spirit talking through me. There just comes that moment when its just not me talking anymore. Its the best! I love it(said like Nacho Libre). lol and yeah I taught the young men's class because they brought 5 non member friends so I taught the restoration and we watched the restoration dvd. it was good. The youth in this ward amaze me. They are not afraid to invite their friends to church or anything. "Perfect love casteth out all fear." Another one of our investigators, Mike Thompson, is planning on getting baptised right before christmas but he's waiting for his wife to come home. She's a member but she's working in California right now! yayeah! she's african american actually and her name is Melodie and she is a performer so it'll be sweet when I can finally meet her but we are just praying our hearts out that she can make it here before christmas so he can get baptised. So we're working hard and making sure that we're worthy of miracles because miracles are definitely needed now. I love you and pray for you always.



Cheers, Elder Nelson