WEEK 9

Hi!

So Monday night last week we went chapping (when we knock on peoples doors they always shut it on us and never let us in). so we were knocking door to door and this one girl answers the door and we gave our little missionary speech and she says, "well do you want to come in?" and me and my companion were shocked. so we went inside and we didn't have anything prepared because nobody ever lets us in! so we just went with the flow of the spirit and she said she wanted us to come back and said that she had been praying to God to show her a sign that He hasn't forgotten about her and she said that we were the answer to her prayers and that God sent His answer to her, literally on her door step. It was so amazing! So we are still teaching her and she loves it! she is from Romania and is 21 years old. we love her.

Me and my companion had our first big fight this week, it was over something very stupid but we were both hungry, lost and tired and were both very stubborn so neither of us would apologize. then my companion bought me a cookie and made it all better. It's amazing what sweets can do for you.

We visited some awesome cathedrals in Armough this week. they were beautiful. Then we went to a planetarium which was pretty crappy. it was only one room haha. We had exchanges in Belfast with the STLT’s. it was great and i learned a bunch of new ways on how to find people.

We taught Karilos this week. we went into the lesson pretty sure it was gonna be our last with him but he told that he prayed and had felt something and that he was thinking about reading the book of mormon again (mind you this was the guy that tried to give us back the book of mormon last time because he said it was literally like torture reading it). We were pumped!

The ward i am in is awesome hahaha Brother Mac got up to conduct and said that the youth had youth conference this weekend and we would like to have them come up and describe their experience. so he invited one of the young men to come up. the kid was straight up and called out to him, "I am not going up" and then Bro. Mac was like we can wait all day for you. and the kid was like no i'm not going. and so they had a showdown in the middle of sacrament. haha it was so funny.

we had this dish last night called fishwada and it is straight up all the parts of a pig cut up and thrown into a stew. i literally got the tongue and my comp got the ear with all the hair on it. the food is such a struggle here. please pray for me in that aspect. and idk if my stomach is handling it well. i keep getting sharp pains in my side and my farts don't sound the same hahahaha

one of the greatest things about serving here is i come home every night and smell like cigarettes. haha all my dresses reek! everybody smokes here. i'll be talking to people and they just smoke right in your face and everybody's house reeks of cigarettes. but really the best part of missionary work is seeing the small tender mercies of the Lord. me and my comp were really struggling teaching with unity and we have finally figured out how to teach together. and we were having a hard time finding people to teach. we can find people but then they never show up. its just a hard. but then people like our friend from Romania make it all worth it, you know?

love,

sis neilson

one of the cathedrals...