RIP Poncho Villa

 Well we had an interesting week. 

We went over to Chris's house on Friday and usually his house smells pretty bad, but that day it was so bad I could taste it. We sat down, said a prayer, and chris goes "yeah, poncho died three days ago" pats the bundle of blankets right next to him. "Im hoping he'll rise the third day like Jesus". So yeah Poncho was dead on his couch for at least 3 days, probably longer because Chris has no idea. So I made Chris bundle poncho up and I carried him out to the front yard and buried him. 

Also last week we got a call from some guy wanting us to give a lady a blessing and we asked where to go and he said shes at the hospice center. So we pulled up and she was completely unresponsive, she was breathing but had no idea we were there as far as we know. Gave her a blessing and dipped.

But other than all that we had a great week! We found a ton of new people to teach and a lot of them are super cool! We went to a trailer park and found a bunch of Mexicans that speak perfect English so that was lit. 

We also found this kid that's 15 and hes really cool, hes getting baptized either next week or the week after, so keep Aiden in your prayers!

And wow i almost completely forgot! BYU beat Utah haha, I wish I could say im surprised😂🥱

Hope yall have a great week! Jesus love you!

Elder Nelson

Elder Mitchell

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 Hey Yall lowkey a boring week but its been a good start to the transfer. My new comp is cool I really like him and he really likes bend. He thinks its the prettiest place ever, hes from Vegas so hes a sinner too.

When I found out I was staying in this area again I was a caught off guard cause I wasn't expecting to stay. But for whatever reason god needs me here and I got a rush of motivation, so we've been doing some good work. We've just been trying to find new people to teach.

We had dinner with a family that were teaching, they got us wings and pizza it was great. And they had a baseball game on the TV. But Jackson is 14 and he wants to get baptized, but his dad has a lot of questions about our church that we have to help him answer first.

We also found out that if your serving in bend you dont get to go to the temple. Even though that's the whole reason prez changed p -day. So that was a bummer.

We've been having a lot of lessons with Nathan & Destiny, they are doing great Nathan was participating in elders qurom which is impressive because elders qurom is a little sketchy. Hopefully we can get Nathan the preisthood this next week.

Elder Nelson

Transfers

 Wow it was a crazy week! I thought for sure I would get transferred! But here we are again, im staying in bend and District leading a mega district and getting another trainee. As much as I love training...it takes a lot of patience, which is a good attribute to have to its a good thing that im getting a lot of it, but 3 straight traniees is a lot haha.

Anyways we had a great week general conference was amazing, its way better as a missionary because I actually pay attention but I thought this conference was great, we had a lot of diversity in there so that's always good. The last minute of hollands talk was the first time that I can remember feeling the spirit strongly during a conference session.

On Saturday we helped a member cut down trees and carry logs to his trailer. It was fun, its alwasy good to get out in the woods and get a little dirty. We tried listening to conference while we did it but that didn't work out so we just watched it that night.

On sunday Nathan and Destiny got Baptized! Its been a blessing to watch them grow and change, iver never seen so many people cry at a baptisim before, they've both out in so much effort to get here its been awesome. I had to baptize Destiny 4 times beacuse her jumpsuit was too big for her, but Nathan keeps saying its because she needed a couple extra washes haha.

I dont why the lord wants me in this area still but clearly I have more work to do here so im excited for this next transfer I think it will be a good one! 

I Had to say bye to My trainers on Monday, I didn't think I would actually make new friends out here but these two guys are my boys for life🖖

Here's my new address I had to switch back to the apartment I was in 3 months ago

Love Elder Nelson🩵