Hey all!
Wednesday- we had interviews with preisdent donaldson and he gave me the best advice. he is seriously such a great man. I was talking to him about how i want to improve my teaching and so he was like "i have an idea, im teaching about the Book of Mormon tomorrow for our zone conference and i want you to help me teach it." and i was like dude if i help you teach the lesson it will be terrible. and he was like, prepare to get up and help me teach tomorrow and i was like okay.
Thursday- wednesday night we took a train to Belfast to stay the night with the STLs (Sister Training Leaders) because we had All Ireland on thursday. so we woke up at 4 in the morning and drove to Dublin baby! it was a 3 hour bus ride haha but it was chill because we drove with a ton of other missionaries. it was nice to meet other missionaries. So what All Ireland is, is when all of the Ireland missionaries get together for one big conference and we get a lot of training and great talks. it was great! They taught that we really need to bring the Book of Mormon in while GQing and bring in the restoration.Then President Donaldson got up and started talking about the BOM and I didn't really think he would remember what he said the day before so i was just looking down writing notes in my notebook and then my companion bumps my arm and i look up and President is standing next to me and says, "if i’m correct we made a deal yesterday didn’t we?" and i was like crap. so i got to go up and help teach about the Book of Mormon in front of all the missionaries and it was just a straight up disaster hahaha but it was funny.
Friday- We had exchanges with the STLs in Belfast. it was so nice to be in a big city and talking to different people because her in Portadown we talk to a lot of the same people. haha But i learned so much from exchanges. I learned new ways on how to talk to people and really tried applying bringing in the book of mormon and bringing in the restoration. it was so great! The STLs are sister may and sister brodien. and sister brodien is from Tahiti so for exercise time in the morning she taught us this tahitian dance and its a lot of hip movement or whatever and we were all trying to do it and sis brodien was like "sis neilson youre actually pretty good at this". it was probably the best compliment i’ve ever received. haha We had lunch at a three story Mcdonalds! one direction was playing and that was a huge blessing. haha.
Saturday- Sis lough was super sick all day throwing up, but she was a trooper and still went out to find and teach people. she is such an example to me. she is such a hard worker. i love her so much. A girl came up to us on the street. her name is eliene and was like "you gave me a book of mormon last week and ive been reading it and i really like it, would there be a time we could meet up and talk about it?" and we were like yes! it was so great! We teach Sam our Chinese investigator english on Saturdays. its so funny because it's me, sis lough, elder rocha, and elder alfonso and were all trying to teach him english but none of us speak chinese and the elders first language is not even english but we try. hahah sam is getting baptized this saturday! so exciting!
Sunday- we went to church then we had dinner with rosa and carlos and they are just so funny. i love going to their house to teach and get dinner. and rosa agreed to be baptized so exciting!
i asked sis. Donaldson for her crepe recipe so i've been making crepes a lot this week for me and my companion! they’re so good!
on exchanges
when i peed while we were chapping
this is rosa
some ghetto bathroom becasue i literally have to pee all the time haha
