Christmas

 Merry Christmas everyone!

Its been a good couple of weeks filled with sunny days, floods and a crazy neighbor.

We went on a hike last week called God's thumb. Over on the coast. And it was very beautiful but a little dangerous since in was pretty steep and super muddy, I was able to make it the whole way without slipping, my companion cannot say the same though. He slipped and fell probably about 20 times and we needed a rope to get him up the mountain. 

Anyways we've been teaching a lady named Serena who we found a couple weeks ago. And shes been able to come to church everyweek so far. Shes so awesome and so willing to learn, shes been reading the BoM and has really enjoyed it. 

We had dinner with Napolean dynamites parents a couple nights ago and that was really fun i kept making jokes about the movie( they think its the best movie ever made still!) But they are awesome and they actually gave us a referral, and we went over to the lady and she and all her kids are wanting to come to church and join the church. So hype.

Sadly I did not get an F-250 Shelby Super Baja for Christmas this year but its such a great time of year to spread the gospel and invite people to church. We've seen so many miracles lately and im really excited to see what happens next transfer!

Hope yall have some good Holidays! 

Elder Nelson

Texas Tea

    What up everyone! This week went by super fast! We've been slow cookin out here, I think that's a good thing. The work here in west salem is a little slow at times, and a lot of people tell us not to come back until January. So that's a little annoying. And all of our members are gone. But were having a good time.

Anyways we had our mission Tour with Peter M. Johnson, and it was good we learned a lot. The spirit was strong and hes a funny guy so we had fun....but it was also 8 hours long. So we left our apartment at 7:30 and got back at 6. Then had dinner and did our studies. So the only non member we talked to yesterday was our waitress. So I dont know if yesterday was productive or not, cuz we learned and stuff but idk 😐.

Hola we had a ward fiesta thingy and they had me raising and lowering the piñata 🪅 and I was cooking too much apparently cuz all the old ladies got mad at me when the little kids couldnt hit it. Im just too nice with it🤷‍♂️

But ye that was pretty much our week, we ready to run it up this week 😤 I wanted to Be A G so I went and got a BAG🗣

lil spiritual nug🫴

After reading about The son's of mosiah this past week, I relate my situation to theirs. Oregon might not be quite as bad as the lamanites( it might be worse lowkey) but I just love how much joy they found in teaching the lamanites in alma 26. And I definitely have felt that and Peter John said some heat about how when we get home, the only thing that changes is we take our tag off, that's it, our purpose doesnt change. 

Preesh 🙏🏾 

Luh E Nelly

Crazy neighbor

   Aye maaaaaaan I had some good fortune cookies from panda this week. 

Anyways we had a fire week this time around, we've been really turning this area around its been so amazing to see the progress over here in the hills🗣

  We found a dawg named Ivan on Saturday and the next day when we had our lesson wit him, we felt prompted to set a date for baptism with that boy so we got him set up for the 21st of December. And hes actually such a cool dude and willing to keep commitments.

We been talkin to a guy named Christian as well recently and he brought baptism in our last lesson so we set a date for him as well so that's exciting. He has had a rough life recently and said that he feels like there's something missing in his life, so we promptly told him that hes missing the spirit. But not for long🖖

We were weekly planning the other day when suddenly we received a call from a random number...and it was a dude named Mark, and Mark has been to our church once before and said it was the time of his life frfr. So we set him up with the ysa sisters cause he seemed really interested in that when we brought it up. But hes actually so cool he pulled up to the ysa activities the last two nights. But ye just thought that was coo.

Aye but speakin of the title today, we got this neighbor, and bruh this dude is actually a creep, one night as I was lying down i heard a tap on the window to my left....and I looked over confused, and there he was, a 60 year old man staring at me. And he lives literally right across the hall from us which is 5 feet away. And id say like every other day when we walk out of our door he opens his door and yells at us and calls us profanitys and other naughty things. But ye he weird fr.

Anyways I feel so blessed to be serving a Mish rn its changed my life, and somtimes it seems like it goes by too fast but I also feel like I been a missionary for my whole life. So I try to have fun while im out here and just grind from da rap.

Anyways if yall have a hard time reading this im sorry I just have have a lil duey on rn(durag) so brings me back to my rose park days fr.

Luh yall🧡🥷