The Adventures of Hermana Nelson: All the JOY!!!

December 7th, 2015

Hi family!! We have seen so many miracles this week!!

So Hna Craner's goal and mine have been to have 10 good solid lessons a day. What does that mean? We are literally RUNNING from cita to cita [appointment to appointment]. But we started the week wanting to find a lot of new investigators so we went up started up in Las Mercedes. Its sooo pretty up there (I'll have to show you videos when I get home!) But on Saturday we had made a few contacts up there so we went back to them all and found their family, and let's just put it this way: The 90 year old grandpa.... had 14 kids. and they had a lot of kids.... who had a lot of kids.... annnnd a lot of them still live up there in Las Mercedes. So we just make it from one house to the next. Apparently the missionaries haven't passed by in at least 14 years to this family (actually it could be more.... we can't figure out if the ¨pastors that passed¨ were Elders or really just pastors. hahaha)

But one of them, his name is Jose Almilkar. And dud ud dudududuDA he's married!!!! And the cutest old man ever... (well he's the son of the 90 year old grandpa sooo middle age :)) Our first meeting all he wanted to understand was the apostasy and he was so excited to receive a Book of Mormon! And the 2nd appt went something like this... ¨Hermanas... I've been thinking... I think we should just get started with the commandments. Cause if what you are telling me is true, I gotta start living them starting now! So what's the first one.... what's the most important one.... how many even are there!¨ haha we got so excited I think we just flooded his brain for informacion [information]. but then we slowed down a little and started one by one. Well first things first Hermano... You gotta pray, read and go to church. The first most important commandment is to love God. And when you love God you are literally willing to do whatever he asks of you. He told us that he was going to pray and we went back that Saturday.

He was talking out side his house to his dad. But he just went straight inside to pull out a chair for us to sit down. He started off with. Hermanas.... I'm not sure if I can come to Stake conference tomorrow. My boss told me that if there's good sun I have to go harvest the beans. So hermanas just pray that there's rain and clouds!! But then he got scared.

¨If I don't come to church tomorrow.... will you still come back and visit me? I can't do this by myself hermanas!¨

Yes hermano. We´ll be here. But most importantly.... we'll see you at church tomorrow!!

So sunday morning came... AND THERE WERE ONLY CLOUDS TO BE SEEN! And since he doesn't have a phone we couldn't call him to verify but we were standing in the carretera [highway] hoping that he would come. (We were all waiting by the highway cause he were going to get on a prepaid bus to go to Comayagua to go to Stake Conference... which was awesome by the way!!) When all the sudden we see someone on their bike making their way down the side of the highway. ¨¨Hermanas! I'm here! The bus wasn't coming in time and you know what I say... you gotta be punctual!¨ Apparently he was sitting waiting for the bus (but since they aren't always that dependable) he got sacred that he was going to miss it ¨¨ SO I ran back and got my bike... and now I'm here!¨¨ Lets just say it's not that close to the building. But he felt the DESIRE to go and so he hopped on his bike and put his FAITH in God.

Stake conference was SO GOOD!!! Elder Alonzo came from the seventy! And the spirit was SO strong there! The basis was.... sharing the Gospel isn't hard work... it's not tarea (homework?) either... Sharing the gospel is a JOY.

And I'm going to share it because I KNOW IT IS TRUE. I HAVE A TESTIMONY OF THE GOSPEL so why wouldn't I want to shout it from the rooftops? It's a blessing that each of us can have in our lives if we allow it to enter. I mean you haven't heard about the fact that a prophet of God had the awesome opportunity to uncover all the registers from all the prophets of old here in the Americas and put it all together and from that we have ANOTHER testament of Jesus Christ. A book that has ALL the answers for EVERYTHING that we could ask for. And we have this book through PROPHETS that have been called of GOD to lead and guide us in these latter days? And TODAY we have the WAY we can return to live with God again? Who would want to reject that message? Sadly.... there are people who do.... but that's why we just gotta keeping helping them realize all the JOY the Gospel of Jesus Christ brings!

I love you all!! Have the best week ever! And remember this season to GIVE THANKS for the JOY you have in your life :)

Hermana Nelson

PS - the foto below is of Hna Angela.... remember the Hermana who was so sick and we all thought that was close to death. She was the one who couldn't bear the thought of not paying her tithing one fast Sunday and it fell out of her hymnbook. She is feeling a lot better and even came to church last week. I love her so much!