In the Subject line she wrote: The beginning of the week we go into it excited and running and then you trip and fall but its okay you dust yourself off a little and then you trip and fall some more and then you're just over it and its still only tuesday haha that is missionary work
Her letter:
missions totally suck but they are the best but they can really be hard but literally be the best thing ever. Oh boy, this week was rough not gonna lie. Sorry i couldn't email last week! but last week our investigator Barry committed to a baptismal date! we are so excited for him. He has a bit of a smoking problem but says he would be willing to quit because he knows this church is true. He has read almost all of the Book of Mormon which is crazy! We were kind of nervous at first because me and companion were like what if he is only getting baptized to be our friend and to make us happy? So we went into one of the lessons and i just was like why do you feel like getting baptized is what you should do? and he bore his testimony on the book of mormon and the spirit was so strong we just knew he was getting baptized for the right reasons, it was so amazing.
In one of our lessons we were teaching him about the commandments and we talked about Thou shall not steal, and he stopped us and was like "well i stole something one time.." and we were like "what did you steal?" he said "when i was younger i was down by the river with my friend and there was a van near us and inside the van there were 24 creme eggs and i thought to myself i want those creme eggs” so he stole them. it was so funny hahahah. it reminded me of the SNL skit with Chris Farley the one where he lives "in a van down by the river!"
But this week we visited our Romanian friend Valentina. we love her so much. she is going through a lot of hard things in her life right now that we are trying to help her through. she expressed to us that she really wants to get baptized. and we were so happy. Then we asked her if she knew the book of mormon was true and she said "i don't even have to read this book to know it's true. You two sisters were angels sent from God to me so anything you guys tell me i know is true." she is so amazing. we read the book of mormon with her and she reads it in Romanian to us, the spirit is always so strong. There are a lot of things we have to work through with her but we are so excited for her.
i gave a talk in church on Sunday. Then Tuesday came a long and i just woke up in a terrible mood and was just so miserable and was so over everything. i had been praying a lot to do what i can do to get out of this funk and i was expecting this big answer from God. but then i was reading this general conference talk and it was talking about the Book Of Mormon and how we can't take it for granted and i realized that that was exactly what i was doing. This book is literally the word of God and i am so lucky to have it my life to guide and direct me. I am grateful for all the trials and troubles that i am having even though they totally suck sometimes. we have to trip and fall a couple a times or a lot of times and we can either choose to stay down and give up or get up with the help of the Lord and be stronger and better because of it. read Mosiah 24:14,15 it talks about how our burdens and trials wont be lifted all of sudden and permanetly go away but that the lord with strengthen us so our burdens will be a little easier.
It is cool serving here because we meet people from all over the world and so we get all types of different foods. i set some Word of Wisdom goals, i am addicted to chocolate and i have been trying to cut down and i am happy to say i have been doing it for the last three weeks. Miracles do happen when you serve a mission hahah
i dyed my companions hair again. she went from blonde to black, it looks pretty rad.
We taught a true Irish man the other day and he said he wanted to be baptized and we were like yes thats great! and then he said but i wont change my catholic religion and i was like then why do you even want to be baptized bro? and he couldnt answer that. it was so weird. but he wants to continue to meet so that is exciting!
My companion really wanted to go running for exercise time and i keep telling her no but finally i was like i okay we can go and i’ll just tell you i am never doing that again. it was pretty dang rough hahahah
Sis Neilson
In one of our lessons we were teaching him about the commandments and we talked about Thou shall not steal, and he stopped us and was like "well i stole something one time.." and we were like "what did you steal?" he said "when i was younger i was down by the river with my friend and there was a van near us and inside the van there were 24 creme eggs and i thought to myself i want those creme eggs” so he stole them. it was so funny hahahah. it reminded me of the SNL skit with Chris Farley the one where he lives "in a van down by the river!"
But this week we visited our Romanian friend Valentina. we love her so much. she is going through a lot of hard things in her life right now that we are trying to help her through. she expressed to us that she really wants to get baptized. and we were so happy. Then we asked her if she knew the book of mormon was true and she said "i don't even have to read this book to know it's true. You two sisters were angels sent from God to me so anything you guys tell me i know is true." she is so amazing. we read the book of mormon with her and she reads it in Romanian to us, the spirit is always so strong. There are a lot of things we have to work through with her but we are so excited for her.
i gave a talk in church on Sunday. Then Tuesday came a long and i just woke up in a terrible mood and was just so miserable and was so over everything. i had been praying a lot to do what i can do to get out of this funk and i was expecting this big answer from God. but then i was reading this general conference talk and it was talking about the Book Of Mormon and how we can't take it for granted and i realized that that was exactly what i was doing. This book is literally the word of God and i am so lucky to have it my life to guide and direct me. I am grateful for all the trials and troubles that i am having even though they totally suck sometimes. we have to trip and fall a couple a times or a lot of times and we can either choose to stay down and give up or get up with the help of the Lord and be stronger and better because of it. read Mosiah 24:14,15 it talks about how our burdens and trials wont be lifted all of sudden and permanetly go away but that the lord with strengthen us so our burdens will be a little easier.
It is cool serving here because we meet people from all over the world and so we get all types of different foods. i set some Word of Wisdom goals, i am addicted to chocolate and i have been trying to cut down and i am happy to say i have been doing it for the last three weeks. Miracles do happen when you serve a mission hahah
i dyed my companions hair again. she went from blonde to black, it looks pretty rad.
We taught a true Irish man the other day and he said he wanted to be baptized and we were like yes thats great! and then he said but i wont change my catholic religion and i was like then why do you even want to be baptized bro? and he couldnt answer that. it was so weird. but he wants to continue to meet so that is exciting!
My companion really wanted to go running for exercise time and i keep telling her no but finally i was like i okay we can go and i’ll just tell you i am never doing that again. it was pretty dang rough hahahah
Sis Neilson
