This
week has been a pretty standard one. Everyday is still just filled with
learning, studying, teaching, and a little bit of playing.
This
week for teaching both of our "Investigators" have agreed to be
baptized which is great and our lessons are going smoothly. The only new
thing for teaching was Saturday
when we had TRC. TRC is where our teachers invite friends, family
members, co-workers, or anyone they know, who could be members or
non-members and we have to teach them a lesson. It was an awesome
experience because we got to teach two non-members (only companionship
who was trusted with both the non members ;) ) which was intimidating at
first, but ended up being great. The first was a young woman, probably
about 17 or 18 who was named Laura. We taught her about prayer and
receiving answers and revelation from God. She was taught by 2 other companionship's and afterwords said she wanted to be baptized!! It was
super exciting.
After
Laura we taught Alma, a young married woman with a 9 month old baby
girl. Before hand our instructor gave my companion a 5 to 10 minute
lecture/information talk stating how important it was to teach with the
spirit and use it's guidance because this lesson was a make or break for
Alma. It was
so nerve wracking after receiving that talk and I felt so inadequate.
But I gave the most heartfelt to plea to God for the spirit and the gift
of tongues. The lesson went so well! I believe it was the best lesson
we have taught... well allowed the spirit to teach. She had lots of
doubts and questions. We taught her that we have a loving God in heaven
and that he wants to talk to us and help us. We taught that to talk to
us he gave us prophets (There happened to be a picture of the prophet in
the room we were using... Divine intervention) to receive revelation
for us. We taught her what revelation was and that we can also receive
revelation on our own through prayer and reading the scriptures. She
agreed to read more of the Book of Mormon and to pray to to if it is
true! It was so amazing and makes me so excited to actually get out and
teach :) After Sunday our teacher (who is friends with Alma) Said that
she went to church with him and she loved it,
especially relief society. I hope she gets baptized because it would
bless her life so much, and knowing that we helped her receive those
blessing would bring me such great joy!
This
week soccer has been pretty good. I continually have scrapes on my
elbow and arms but nothing too bad. Although this week we have been
playing with some Peruvians and they are super good. One day Elder Yuit
(A Peruvian) and I went to head a ball at the same time. We both nicked
the ball but drilled each other in the head. That was Saturday afternoon
and I still have a goose egg above my left eye, right above the
eyebrow, but I've always been a fan of bruises and war wounds ;)
On
Tuesday we had a devotional by M. Russel Ballard which was broadcast
from the Provo MTC. It was super cool because it was just a bunch of
advice like a grandfather would give his grandson. He talked about
waking up and making every day the best
day it can be. So basically living each day with "No Regrets".
Tomorrow
we have a special devotional so I Believe it is a General Authority
that is coming! So I am super excited! Although our Zone (4 districts
with about 12 in each districts) was picked to be the choir for the
devotional (Heaven help me!) and if any of you have heard me sing before
well ...Heaven help the Audience!
This
morning I got a haircut! It was kind of nervewracking because they are
known for giving bad haircuts here (They are free... but still) But I
don't think it turned out bad at all, it is super short so now I am
rocking the mini faux hawk.
The weirdest thing I guess was there was a mosquito in our room (each
night before bed we go on a mosquito hunt because during the night they
buzz really loudly around your head and it is hard to sleep) and my
companion hit it out of the air (our favorite way to kill mosquitoes is
by backhanding them out of they air and they fall to the floor and die
from the impact, because that way we don't get blood on our hands) and
it landed on the floor, he stomped on it with flat shoes, and it started
flying again, so he stomped on it again, and it started flying. He
stomped on
it 5 times before it died, so we called it the devil mosquito. We are
still worried that it will come back to life to get us.
Besides that all is going well
Thank you all for your prayers and support!
Love you all,
Elder Nielson
PS: I am leaving the MTC the 7th of October.
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