November 26, 2012

Yup looks like im being transfured to....... LUBBOCK!!!! DUN DUN DUN! but seriously im super excited.... I leave tomorrow for 10 hours in a bus! how fun is that!!!

 

Hope everyones thanksgiving was amazing! Mine was pretty good cant complain at all! We we to Brother Dennisons house. He didn't want to be alone on thanksgiving so he invited the whole branch over to his house! His family was there too and it was just a great time! Because we cant be out doing missionary work , which BTW I was kinda bummed about, we got to play cards and games with the elders so that was way fun. We played scum for about i dont know 3 hours and I was only scum one round so yeah I dominated that game but what else would I do?

 

I have told y'all about Hope and how willing she is to change everything for the gospel cause she is that amazing! well she was buying a house to move out in December but the house didn't pass inspection which stinks! So they are looking for more houses today! We went over to her house to teach her this week and she has 3 little kittens that are the cuttest things in the world! I'll send pictures. anyway I was playing with them and having a great time... to bad I forgot I was allergic... so when we started heading home I was like oh shoot sister neilson... I need some benadryl STAT! its was like 6 at night so I took some and boy was I tired the rest of the night. Theres a good chance I dont even remember what happened really.... so that was a nice adventure for us.

 

Another cool thing that happened was a few weeks ago we knocked into a guy named Jeremy and since he has kids we passed him to the elders. After the elders met with him he Told them that that day he had hit the lowest point in his life and was looking for a way to get back up when we knocked on his door. It was pretty amazing cause we had planned to knock somewhere else that night but when we pulled up both of us felt a weird feeling and decided to go knock somewhere else and thats when we met Jeremy so that was awesome!

 

Since we found out I was leaving we decided it only seemed right to build a fort and sleep in it last night. So obviously we did plus we went to a investigators house and the TV was on some show needless to say the spirit was no longer with us so after we built the fort we put in a nice good church movie to get the spirit back. It will always amaze me how different and weird it feels when you cant feel the spirit as well as you could before. its crazy!

Anyway im super sad to leave San Angelo but also super excited to be in Lubbock! I get to be by the temple! It should be fun! plus I hear my new companion is super nice cool and loves to work hard so I think that should be good for me! not to mention she has terrets so.... there will never be a boring day.

 

Here are some pictures!

1. one of the many birds of prey that attacked us

2. the cuttest kitty ever!

3 another picture of me and the kitty

4. us being typical sis. missionaries

5. Us and Betty ( our san ang grandma)

6. our fort!

November 19, 2012

I would like to personally thank everyone for sending me a email about hostess going out of business... heaven knows this girl likes her twinkies!!! But luckily Little Debbie will never leave me hangin! I swear those things are a blessin from above! 

 I said last week wasn't the best but that just met something great was coming... well heavenly father sure did bless us this week!

Lets take a journey back in time till Tuesday. We went up to Abilene for Zone Conference. First awesomeness road trip! but then the day just got better when we got to hear from our mission president and the zone leaders! Pres. Augustin talked to us a lot about how we are called to be the teachers not the members. The members should be the finders. Obviously we will stil knock and try to find people but our main priority is to teach them! I never really understood how important it is cause the members cant teach them the lessons before they get baptized the missionaries have to do it. We have been called to do that and its awesome! Also during Zone Conference me and my companion were called to do a practice teaching thing infront of everyone. Luckily the spirit is awesome and helped me out a lot! its crazy how even when you are "just pretending" the spirit can be there and be that strong! After everyone said how they could feel the spirit too so it was awesome!

Next we got not one but 2 bap dates this week that are super legit! first is Eric. We found him at another investigators house and he said he wanted to learn more. So we met him at a park (funny story about that later) after getting to talk to him the spirit told us to teach him the Plan Of Salvation. It was really sad because he said he had never experienced true happiness and that he wanted to change and feel that. We obviously told him that happiness comes thru the gospel. He decided to get baptized Dec. 8th! I feel so bad for him because he has super bad anxiety around big groups of people and I know a little how that feels so I hope I can help him in some way. He came to church sunday and liked it but was outside for a lot of it because he was so nervous.

Next bap date! John! HOLY COW, HOLY COW!!! our lesson with john was awesome! He showed up to church sunday with a friend and said he wanted to learn more. So we gave him a Book Of Mormon and he got a Gospel principles book from someone. by the time we met with him on saturday he had read the whole gospel principles book all of 1 nephi and skipped around and read a lot of Alma too! He said he highlighted a few questions in the principles book and we taught him a quick Plan of Salvation to answer those. The spirit was already strong. He said right now the only problem was a modern day prophet. So we went into the restoration. The spirit just kept growing and growing! then when Sis. Neilson said the first vision it took everything in me not to cry! after the John said with the biggest smile on his face. Thats awesome! all my questions are answered! It really was amazing! The rest of the lesson was fantastic and he accepted a bap date for dec. 8th as well!

So the thing that stinks is transfurs are this week... so I may not even be here to see these two get baptized! and we have Hope that put an offer on a house this week so she could get baptized dec. 18th! I'm okay if I leave cause I know that where heavenly father needs me to be. but I sure will miss San Angelo if I do leave.

On the bright side I had a great story!

So we got to the park we were meeting Eric at like 15 minutes early. So we were sitting there enjoying the sun. Keep in mind I dont know what happened to me on my mission but I now have a huge fear of birds... like real bad... So we're sitting there and I see the 3 geese.. and they are looking pretty scetchy and im all umm sis. neilson they are planning an attack. Of course she was like birds dont attack people and im all shoot have you ever seen the movie Birds! thats the scarriest movie on this planet! Anyway so these geese start walking straight to us like sneaky little devils... they started out a good 50ft. away... within 2 minutes they were like 10 ft. away and im all these things are definatly gonna attack! then all the sudden they start flappin those creepy wings and honkin at us. So I grab my stuff and I run! then I realize my companion is just sitting there laughing! I know this is no joking matter! so I said sis neilson you get over here! they are in attack mode! So finally we hid behind this little table thing.. at this point im crying cause im thinking oh my gosh im gonna die cause a stupid geese things im trying to hurt him. So I remembered aron ralston had his video camera while he was between a rock and a hard place so I got mine out to film my attack. (sorry i forgot the chord or I'd send the video) anyway luckily Eric showed up so we got a table as far away from the geese and had an awesome lesson!

So yeah this week was pretty fantastic! and I didn't die from a geese attack. I love ya'll so much! thanks for your support and have a wonderful thanksgiving!!!

November 12, 2012

So this week has been full of ups and downs! but mainly on wednesday. So we woke up in the morning found out Obama won... but we went about out day. While we were writing letters to our President Chelsea texted us. she's the girl that droped us. so we were way excited! turns out she was just texting us cause she missed her girlfriend... yup girlfriend... so that was a nice shock! Then we went and had a lesson with Hope! she is so cute and adorable! when we told her she had to move out of her boyfriends in order to get baptized she got so sad and was like, well I guess I could move back to kansas for a few months till we get married... oh my heavens my heart broke! She was so willing but we really didnt want her to move! She said she would try to find a place here.; It was for sure a bitter sweet moment. 

Then we went home for lunch and she text us and told us her and he boyfriend were planning on buying a house when they got married anyway and they decided they would do it now and have her fix it up while she lived there! It was amazing! again me and my companion looking like little kids meeting santa jumping up and down on our beds we were so freaking excited! 

So we continued our day we were in a great mood ready to knock and find people to teach! so we started knocking... about the 2nd door in this young fella answered... he came our swinging... saying there was no way there was a God cause in bible times they thought the earth was flat and God wouldn't do that to people. then He started saying how we didnt really care about teaching people we were just doing our "duty" let me tell ya what the spirit held me back and let my companion talk cause I was about it go crazy on this kid! so the kid kept that up for I dont know a little over an hour... so went from best day ever to worst day ever real quick! 

So yeah that was all on wednesday... talk about crazy emotional roller coaster... 

The rest of the week was good.. on saturday Modesta and Angelica got baptized! they are a family my companion worked with before I got here but we changed wards once I got here so I never taught them but I got to know them a little bit. They had gone thru a lot to get to baptism! also on Saturday we went to visit Karm. 

Karm is just my favorite, she's married to Danny and has a 2 yr old named Makin. They are the coolest family every. She is also a Colton Dixion fan like myself so we get a long great! She also found me on twitter! so another day another follower. She is so fun and the elders started teaching her. She is probably the person I've met with the most questions. but they are good questions and they can all be answered by the book of mormon so luckily she started reading it this week which was a huge step for her. 

Oh my goodness! I almost forgot so yesterday we found out that our branch is bring mentioned to the first presidency this month because of their temple trips and search and rescue program! its awesome they have more people going to the temple each month now then they had going to church 3 years ago! crazy! San Angelo is a great place and Im so happy to be here! We are working with more people but I dont want to bore you with that. Welp have a great week! Love you all thanks for the support! 

P.S. im so jealous y'all got snow! go play in it for me! 

November 6, 2012

This week was a good one for sure! Heard the Jazz won a game also heard they lost one... but thats okay im sure my boy Hayward was rockin the court as usual! Also there was a bigfoot sighting! Justin was probably all over that! Heaven knows I would be!

So a few excited things happened this week! First Hope is making huge steps towards baptism! When she told us she was taking those steps me and my companion started jumping up and down in excitment! we seem to do that a lot... We are so proud of Hope! she reminds me a lot of whitney! This weekend she went to Austin and the first place she went was whole foods! she is so adorable and said she was bringing us back bread from there. We love her so much! then she sent us the greatest text in history! "you gusy are awesome for being awesome and bringing me back to God" So yeah when we got that text we started jumping up and down again with crying! sounds cheesy but heck I love cheesy! that moment was the best part of my mission so far!

Also so last week I told y'all how chelsea (the girl with the dream) ditched us. But here in the TLM we do not get ditched that easy... and luckily for me I have the stalking skills of a pro! so thats what we did! We knew she worked the morning shift at the local mcdonalds. So after morning studies we went to scope it out! turns out she wasn't there cause her moms in town... but we got mcdonalds breakfast so wasn't a total loss!

Another crazy story for y'all! So as we were knocking we started talking to this guy. He started talking about how God called him as an apostle and that he could dicern gifts and stuff. SO ya know we're nice and we listened to him but boy was he a little strange.. He told my companion that she had the gift that all she had to do was sing and it would bring people to tears and closer to Christ... now i've heard her sing... and she isn't bad at all! but I dont think I would cry if she sang.. she's not susan boyal.... anyway then he started praying in tonges and stuff! it was weird for sure.

Anyway last but not least! I finished the Book Of Mormon!!! and it was awesome! its crazy! before a read it just to read it not gonna lie.. but now that im reading it to learn! holy cow best self help book ever! I love it so much! I dont have time to write howmuch I love it but I do and its true! P.S. HAPPY HALOWEEN! last week.... Love you all! and whoever is reading this is awesome!