I'M LEAVING ON A JET PLANE!

April 18, 2016

I thought that I would have a lot of animo to send a really nice long email to yall today...... buuuutttt well I will see you SO SOON!!!!! So Ill just have lots to say when Im there!!!! Im so excited to see you all!!! Ill be there in the airport at 1155 wednesday night..... sooooooo dont be late!!

This last weekend was so great!!! Alejando got baptized. And it was the best way to end this chapter of my life.

I have never been so happy in my life. I have learned so much and for that I am eternally grateful. The mission is the best thing that has happened to me! 

Yo se que la iglesia es verdadero. Yo no tengo ninguna duda que la iglesia ha sido restaurado nuevamente aqui sobre la tierra. Yo se que Dios nos ama y tiene un gran plan para cada uno de sus hijos. Les amo mucho. Nos vemos!!!

Hermana Nelson

Revelation is real

April 11, 2016

Wow. It has been a great week!!! I mean, I'll keep this one short cause well..... yeah, we don't like talking about the leaving part yet ;)

But this week was great!!! We had a really cool experience this week with one of our investigators. Her name is Maria Fernanda and she is the 22 year old daughter of a recent convert family but she has always felt the pressure from her family and for that reason has not been baptized. But this last week we invited her to conference and told her that if she came she should come with a question in mind and promised her that her question will be answered. So she went out of her own free will and had her little sticky note in her hand with her question. This last week we passed by to visit her. We sat down and before we even started the lesson she looked at us and said. ¨Hermanas. It's true that we can receive revelation. Hermanas, He answered my question.¨ We really can receive revelation from our Father in Heaven cause he really does hear and answer us.

Also this week we had a really cool experience. We are teaching this hermana named Leyla. We contacted her about 3 weeks ago but we kept missing her and after the first lesson could never really find her in her house again. But then that was when the miracle happened that she came to conference!! So we went and visited her this week and she told us her whole story. She is the neighbor that everyone has and that everyone said that she never wanted anything. But she told us that how for the last 5 or 7 years members from the ward have been inviting her to church. They have left her folletos [pamphlets] and a Book of Mormon and everything but she had never set foot in the church. Well this Sunday she came again and this time with all of her kids. In gospel principles class she spoke up at the very end and said, ¨ Bishop can I say something? I know that this class was prepared before but I know that what you were saying was just for me. Everything that you were saying was just for me.¨ The bishop continued to explain how God knows us perfectly and even though there were many people there, He speaks to us individually.

I have so much more to say but I have to run! I love you all so very much!!! The church is true the book is blue and I will see YOU soon :)

Hermana Nelson

Miracles!!

April 4th, 2016

Miracles miracles. God has really worked Miracles here in Roble Oeste!! This week was General Conference... wasn't it so good?? Meaning, if you didn't watch general Conference yet, you GOTTA GO WATCH IT.

But first off I wanted to start with telling you about Familia Alvarado. Do you remember them? We had a FHE [Family Home Evening] with them last week and we watched the Restauration with them! And she gave the most sincere prayer? Well this week Hno Maradiaga (where we had the FHE) told us that Sunday after church Hna Mayra (the esposa [spouse] of Fam Alvarado) went to go chat with Hna Maradiaga for like 4 hours asking questions about the great apostasy and the life of Joseph Smith and how it was restored. She said that it was so great and spiritual! So we went back this week with the bishop and his whole family! And we gave a cute little dynamic about strong family relationships (using an egg drop... all you gotta do is tell them they have 5 minutes to cushion the egg from any harm... the only catch is is that they can't talk and can only use one hand. They have cups napkins and tape. after the 5 minutes you trade eggs with the other team and drop them outside. I don't know how, but every time I've done this, the member family's egg always stays in one piece and the investigator's egg breaks. So then you talk about how they felt that it broke and start to relation everything. O sea [in other words], wouldn't it have been so much easier if you could've talked (o sea... you gotta have good communication in your marriage!) or wouldn't it have been easier if you  could have used both hands?(you gotta put ALL your strength and love into your marriage) And then we talked about how Satan is always out there attacking the family in any way he can.)) Then the Bishop touched on the touchy subject with them about getting married. And they practically accepted it (they told us that they had important news to tell us this Tuesday). SO good news we hope!!! Then when we got to the conference on Sunday, they were already there sitting front row!!! They are so great!!! And remind me to tell you a really cool story about now that they are following the commandments of God the husband got healed of an infirmity that he has been dealing with for 10 years!!

God worked so many miracles... He just waits for a little faith! In conference this weekend we had 12 investigators including 3 families! Even some contacts that we had made came. All the members got so excited cause apparently everyone knows her and her family and apparently before she didn't want anything to do with the church! She brought her 2 girls and she said that next week she'll be bringing her husband so that he can learn how to become the ¨man of the household!¨ haha

The church is true! I wish I also had time to tell you all about the things that I learned in conference but I don't... Just know that the spirit testifies and the Lord helps those who want and have the desire to be helped.

 I love you all!

Hermana Nelson

Heres Han Cristina. Our lovely forever investigator. but shes so cute :) Her sons on a mission in Mexico!

WE are all luaghing so hard in this foto cause the cute little lady that was taking it was trying to take the pic backwards.... So we almost got a really nice foto of her eye! haha

(we were giving service and setting up all of her rat traps!!)

I ran into some jovenes from Flores!!

Some conference selfies :)

I mean just dont zoom in and look at the faces.... but some trampoline jumping!!