God bless America us

     Aye what's crackin yall. We've had some interesting days so far this transfer to say the least, BUT we are in a trio and its a good one so we have a good time all the time.

But yeah nothing super crazy has happened recently, our softball team is absolute trash we are 1-3 and yeah the boys are pretty down right now so were gonna need some wins before the playoffs or we're cooked.

But on the bright side we have found 5 new people to teach because of softball this week, which is insane and they are all so cool. Two of them came to church this last week and are looking like they could be baptized at some point.

Our homie Joel got stranded in the desert last week so he missed church and his interview with president, but he couldn't smoke so hes good with the Words of wisdom now. So id say it worked out pretty well.

The work is going great overall we have no problem finding and getting our friends to church. We just need to get them in the water now. But yeah im doing great we just crawled around some pitch black caves so that was cool. 

Work in the Bend YSA is weird we kind of just side quest all day and the Finding, Teaching, and Baptizing kind of just happens. Shoutout the spirit, we kinda just follow him and cool things happen. Which is what we talked about at zone conference so yeawwwh.

Anways I have no desire to write anymore so hopefully thats sufficient. I probably forgot to talk about a bunch of stuff.

Love Elder Nelson

P.s GOD BLESS AMERICA 🇺🇸 

 AND ALL THE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN IT

P.P.S HAPPY 4TH OF JULY 

P.P.P.S I LOVE MISSIONARY WORK

Hellcats and Softball for Ridge

    Yo what's poppin, so I joined a softball league because our new member Ridge is HIM, and he needed a dawg on the field so I joined, he bought me all the gear I will need and we have games twice a week for the next month. We are also baptizing his best friend next month, and hopefully getting the whole team to church. 

Also since the ward is loaded we are starting a go fund me for the ward to buy Ridge a hellcat 

Anyways we have been working hard, we had 22 YSA dudes at church today which is so cool. Our boy Joel was at church today I is favorite saying is " I've been a naughty boy, now its time for me to be a good man" so yeah hes on track to get baptized ye just has to be interviewed by prez.

Also we had the coolest MLC last week, Prez invited his non-member friend who lives in bend actually, his name is Rod Ray and the Parkers had us just teach him without us even realizing it. We probably taught him 60% of the principles and he actually got a lot out of it. He gave me his business card as well and we are stopping  by this week to chop it up with him.

We also went to catholic mass today which was chill. Lots of kneeling and rituals and stuff. There was some interesting art work and sculptures and stuff but overall it was cool to see. We weren't allowed to take their sacrament but the priest blessed us up instead so yeah that was tuff.

Anyways there is an unholy amount of sales bros in bend right now and they love to hoop, so we play every morning with them and we got up at 5:30 this morning to play sobyeah im having a good time for the Most part.

Lil Spiritual nug🫴

Recently I've been struggling with certain things that have nothing to do with missionary work, with like finding joy and what not. Beacuse being a missionary and doing missionary things has brought me more joy than anything I can think of. But when im not doing that its rough. 

But anyways, I was reading a classic but Dieter called A Higher Joy. Shotout E Jac for putting me on, but there's a quote in there that says- 

"My dear brothers and sisters, dear friends, as you search the word of God for a deeper understanding of God’s eternal plan, accept these invitations, and strive to walk in His Way, you will experience “the peace of God, which passeth all understanding,” even in the midst of sorrows. You will feel a greater measure of God’s unsurpassable love swelling within your heart. The dawn of celestial light will penetrate the shadows of your trials, and you will begin to taste the unspeakable glories and wonders of the unseen, perfect, heavenly sphere. You will feel your spirit lifting away from the gravity of this world". 

So ye im just grateful for the testimony I have and im grateful to know that if all else fails GODS GOT ME.

Anyways sorry for the longer email, Love PT

P.S Transfers is this week, and im definitely staying which is sickyante, but there are rumors we will be trio training👀. That would be lit

Its JUNNNNNEEEEE

 Shout out FlightReacts, all of the sudden I can dunk super easy I dont know what happened but its sick. 

Anyways Dale got baptized! That was dope hes such a funny guy he fully converted when he found out we can drink herbal tea. After he found that out he was all in so shoutout herbal tea.

For the month of June we have 4 friends that should for sure be getting baptized which is great, the sisters have 1. So that brings us 5 closer to our goal of 25 by the end of the summer🫣. Prezzy wants us to start a YSA branch by the end of the summer and now the stake is involved so we are all in on that. We currently have 20 that are active, kinda. Tall task but we have the faith to do it and were so pumped to try.

Anyways as of right now im either coming home in October or January, the Church decided to extend my mission without telling me so we will see what happens on that. 

We have a YSA activity every night and we do the most random things throughout the day to find people. So this is like a completely different mission then what I was on before, but im in bend and I keep visiting the members of the other ward i was in and they still love me(they want me to come back to their ward) they keep inviting us over to dinner and its sick we just get fed two meals a day. 

We are teaching this absolute legend named Joel, he has some legal issues so he cant get baptized for 8 months but hes such a dawg. He lives off the grid in the middle of nowhere and just pulls up to every activity and church, cool dude fr.

But yeah thats the run down for now

Love Elder Nelson